Wrapped in the Liber Usualis
A scarf adorned with pages from the Liber Usualis. Why not?
“Is it not true that prohibiting or suspecting the extraordinary form can only be inspired by the demon who desires our suffocation and spiritual death?” —The Vatican’s chief liturgist from 2014-2021; interview with Edw. Pentin (23-Sep-2019)
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Weddings, with all of their challenges offer an important chance to evangelize. God calls us to be fishers of women and men. That’s the most important catch of all.
Who wouldn’t welcome a brief-but-beautiful piece like this?
I realize what I propose seems like moving forward at a snail’s pace, but considering how long the average parishioner has been in the liturgical and musical desert, anything more would cause the musical equivalent of refeeding syndrome.
Here are some thoughts, but I can’t promise they make sense.
Is the “Reform of the Reform” dead? Bishop Serratelli and many others disagree!
Exciting New Collection of Simple English Propers!
There was a standard commonly accepted, so what was strange and of out of place felt that way.
Perhaps the recent commercial success of sacred music is indicative of humanity’s natural hunger for transcendent union with the Divine.
Some EF communities will celebrate the “External Solemnity” of the Most Sacred Heart on Sunday.
3 common “Liturgical Battles” that we see in the Church nowadays
Including a special version of the “Tantum Ergo” by Fr. Adrian Fortescue.
I suspect that in a long melisma it’s hard to know “where you are”…
Considering the great gift Mother Teresa had been to the world, I had to wonder why her sisters chose something as dubious as “Shepherd Me, O God” to be sung at her funeral?
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