Instruction on Sacred Music by Bishop John Doerfler
Introducing a Five-Year Plan for the Future of Sacred Music in the Diocese of Marquette
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Introducing a Five-Year Plan for the Future of Sacred Music in the Diocese of Marquette

The Difference a Comma Makes

Allowing Adolescents to Choose Their Faith & the Wide-Open Permissions of the GIRM

Propers for Lent and their relationship with RCIA and the scriptures

There is such richness in the scriptures we sing in Advent. This is the kind of thing I find exciting! I am grateful to have discussed the propers with Dr. Pascual, Director of Music at St. Patrick’s Cathedral.

World Library Publications has published settings of Communion propers for Advent. Listen here to beautiful recordings directed by Paul French.

Fourteen (14) practical ideas for how a priest might transform his celebration of the Ordinary Form

if we do not sing the antiphons proper to the day—and the corresponding Psalm verses—we risk having a narrow view of the Psalms.

Starting a collection of easier propers for the Extraordinary Form. A pair of Alleluias and two Offertory antiphons to start the ball rolling.
Who Should Pick the Readings?

Let’s not minimize the role of the psalms in the mass to the Responsorial! Plus a FREE download of the Epiphany Communion antiphon.

“Adventus Dona” in the Diocese of San Diego
Two Contributions from CCW Bloggers
The Glories of A Single Proper

On air discussion with Dr. Jennifer Pascual, Director of Music at St. Patrick’s Cathedral – the youth-propelled chant movement, the new economic model of publishing, and how these are reshaping the liturgical landscape…and broadcast of the “Mass in Honor of Pope Saint John Paul II”.
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