Archives for February 2015

Veronica Brandt · February 28, 2015

Solfege? There’s an app for that.

“Excuse me, I have to go work on my green belt.”

Richard J. Clark · February 27, 2015

Singing the “Exsultet” can be intimidating! Six pages of endless notes and words? Here are some helpful tools.

Jeff Ostrowski · February 27, 2015

You can hear Padre Pio singing the Mass.

Jeff Ostrowski · February 26, 2015

The “Gloria in excelsis” is not said from Septuagesima Sunday until Easter, except on Holy Thursday, Holy Saturday, & some special feasts.

Jeff Ostrowski · February 26, 2015

A reader from Indonesia kindly sent us these…

Jeff Ostrowski · February 25, 2015

Who wouldn’t welcome this fresh & contemporary piece for Easter?

Andrew R. Motyka · February 24, 2015

The practical end of formal approval.

Dr. Lucas Tappan · February 24, 2015

This year one, a seminarian from our parish is being ordained. He requested that we sing the Propers for his first Mass.

Jeff Ostrowski · February 24, 2015

Many of these melodies cannot be easily found in any other book.

Jeff Ostrowski · February 23, 2015

“Devout people are the ones who will be most disturbed by the new liturgy.” —Pope Paul VI (11/26/1969)

Andrew Leung · February 21, 2015

When the GIRM says “four options”, they really mean four preferences…

Veronica Brandt · February 21, 2015

How modernism effects music and babies. And how UNICEF is like the Catholic Church.

Jeff Ostrowski · February 21, 2015

The “Gloria in excelsis” is not said from Septuagesima Sunday until Easter, except on Holy Thursday, Holy Saturday, & some special feasts.

Richard J. Clark · February 20, 2015

“Tacit approval” alone isn’t getting the job done. It is abdicating authority to composers and publishers, pastors and liturgists.

Jeff Ostrowski · February 19, 2015

The book is 1,479 pages. The monastery of Solesmes certainly had a staggering output!