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Instructions for deacons learning to sing the Gospel during the Catholic Mass.

The priest who rejected my submission was very professional, polite, and encouraging.

Here’s a comparison of several complete musical settings of the Mass Propers by Fr. Guy Nicholls, Fr. Paul Arbogast, and others.

“How can I get rid of those stupid multirests in Sibelius?”

How to Respond

The staples in my bag for teaching Gregorian chant to an informal group of homeschoolers.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

Sheen’s book “Life of Christ” is such a treasure.

The priorities of what we should sing at mass are full of surprises for some. I hope in the end that the greater “surprise” will be in how our prayer is formed by what we sing. I hope this will be the most pleasant surprise of all.

“The singing of the Proper texts rather than the endless substitution of songs and hymns, are only now being seriously considered and implemented.” — Executive Director of the International Commission on English in the Liturgy (ICEL)

Could there be room for legitimate changes to the Missal of 1962, the last typical edition of the traditional Roman Rite of Mass or the “extraordinary form”?

“The Church asks those who will lead and shepherd her communities of Faith to give up the possibility of marital love as a prophetic witness that there is something even more important to our happiness than even beautiful intimacy possible in Christian marriage.” — Archbishop Naumann, 18 May 2013

Rev. Fr. Guy Nicholls, an internationally-renowned expert on Gregorian chant and Renaissance polyphony, speaks about the Mass Propers in a “live” phone interview.

The notion that the texts are there “to remind us that we should be singing something else” could not be further from the truth.
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