Ordination

Richard J. Clark · May 26, 2017

Pastorally Imperative: They are all we have.

To sing in prayer and with joy is pastorally imperative for they are all we have.

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Music List • “Ascension of the Lord”

Readers have expressed interest in examining my “music list” for this coming Sunday.

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PDF Download • “For Pentecost Sunday”

There’s a triple ‘allelúja’ and I just love the chord at the end of the 2nd iteration.

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PDF Download • “Organ Accompaniment”

The following declaration will probably smack of “blowing my own horn.”

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“Thee” + “Thou” + “Thine”

Regarding approval for the “Revised Standard Version (Catholic Edition).”

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“Reminder” — Month of May (2026)

Since a new month has arrived, it’s my pleasure to remind you that…

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Simplified Version • “Canon in D” (Pachelbel)

I don’t care what people say; I love this piece!

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“In chronological order, [Dom Pierre Combe] traces the Gregorian reform from its beginnings under Dom Guéranger in 1833, to the problems of the Vatican Commission on Sacred Music in the first decade of the 20th century. As one reads the topic headings and development of their content, one wonders how such an innocent and un-warlike subject such as Gregorian chant could have been the focal point of such an intense and continuing battle among scholars and churchmen for so many decades.”

— Dr. Theodore Marier (1968)

Ordination

Pastorally Imperative: They are all we have.

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