PDF Download • “Mass Propers for Weekdays, Commons, and Saints” (1,294 pages)
Useful links as a “follow-up” to Mæstro Clark’s article about Fr. Weber’s plainsong settings.
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Useful links as a “follow-up” to Mæstro Clark’s article about Fr. Weber’s plainsong settings.
Indispensable and accessible: these antiphons possess sublime elegance that grace the Novus Ordo Mass with simple, yet proper reverence and solemnity.
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A website exists to disseminate Fr. Samuel Weber’s sacred music resources
Musicians are naturally attracted to beautiful things; and a beautiful chant book encourages singers to make use of the book.
If I were to use English settings of the Propers of the Mass, this would be my go-to book!
We have the treasury of sacred music to steer us. We have computers to help adapt scores to suit our choirs. And now we have an excellent resource which provides ready made adaptations of the Propers.
That this resource—and a flood of new ones—are becoming available, points to a new awakening in the Church.
Fr. Samuel Weber is undoubtedly one of the modern masters of setting English chant.
This 1,292 page book is much thinner than I had anticipated.
You will notice that Fr. Weber’s version sounds quite similar to the authentic Latin chant.
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We’re under tremendous pressure to transfer our website to a “subscription model.”
We don’t want to do this. We believe our website should remain free to all. It’s annoying to have to search for login credentials (e.g. if you’re away from your desk).
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* Thirteen Men & Coins (Holy Thursday Appeal)
Traditionally on Holy Thursday, the priest washed the feet of thirteen men. Theologians held various opinions regarding whom the “13th man” represented. Before the liturgical changes of Pope Pius XII (which changed the number from thirteen to twelve), the priest washed each man’s feet, kissed his foot, and gave him a coin.
This “coin” business seems providential—inasmuch as our appeal begins on Holy Thursday this year.
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