PDF Download • “Communion Antiphon” (with organ accompaniment)
An exciting new project gives me great hope for the “musical future” of the Catholic Church!
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Roman Missal Third Edition
PDF Download • “Saint Edmund Arrowsmith Mass”
The fourth installment—“Mass settings that work well, even with a single cantor + organist.”
PDF Download • “Saint Edmund Jennings Mass”
Today comes the third setting. A total of five Masses will be released.
PDF Download • “Saint Anne Line Mass”
I will release five (5) Mass settings which come off well with a single cantor & organist; today is the 2nd installment.
PDF Download • “Saint Ralph Sherwin Mass”
Over the next few weeks, I will release five (5) different Mass settings which can be sung with a single cantor & organist.
The Magnificat Institute of Sacred Music
A new undertaking of composer Paul Jernberg
The New Spanish Missal as Opportunity
Seizing the Moment to Sing a Truly New Song to the Lord
The Preface of the Holy Cross
An eloquent liturgical text worthy of prayerful reflection
Strong with God’s Strength 1
Celebrating Saints Peter & Paul
The Hallowed Name 1
To Use or Not to Use?
New Collection of Propers from GIA
The growing market for Mass propers is a sign of promise.
Repetition in the Roman Missal
A Literary Approach in an Adoremus Bulletin Article
The Phrasing of the Sanctus
The Difference a Comma Makes
Is the 1998 ICEL Missal Translation Worth Another Look?
When reading certain publications, one gets the sense that every Catholic in the world is up-in-arms about the present translation.
The Key for Singing an OF Mass for the EF Musician
It’s almost 5 years since the new translation came out, but some EF musicians still haven’t caught up. Here are some pointers for the musician who has been hiding under a musical rock for a decade.
Basking in Beauty’s Glow
Taking the Time to Ponder
Three Years Later
Blessings of the New Translation of the Roman Missal, Third Typical Edition
What Will ICEL Do Next?
Msgr. Andrew Wadsworth gives details on what ICEL is doing now that the Roman Missal project has been completed.
Those Selfless Ordinary Form Priests
Yesterday evening—on his day off, after another Mass he’d offered—I observed an OF priest saying the 1962 Missal in his private chapel.
Weddings: Some Practical Advice – The End of the Beginning, Part 2
Finally getting through the Introductory Rites of the Nuptial Mass.
Assumption Mass
Msgr. Andrew Wadsworth will celebrate a Solemn High Mass in the Extraordinary Form this Friday evening in Philadelphia.
Inaccurate Statements About Translations Of The Mass Propers (A Pet Peeve)
The quickest way to make this clear to a skeptical priest or liturgist is to request that they bring you some Offertory antiphons from MR3. (They don’t exist!)
Strong with God’s Strength
Saints Peter & Paul
Pentecost: Babel, Tongues, & Latin
Do churchgoers of my generation—who, largely, have no experience of Latin in the liturgy at all—even recognize the gift that has been lost?
Mass in Honor of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Star of the Sea
Michael Olbash’s “Mass in Honor of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Star of the Sea” demonstrates the mandate of Pope Saint Pius X that music for the liturgy be Sacred, Beautiful, and Universal.