“Singing With The Girls”
The version by Father Victoria is also quite beautiful, although the ranges for some voices are challenging.
“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)
The version by Father Victoria is also quite beautiful, although the ranges for some voices are challenging.
“I had never directed for the TLM before this semester, and your resources have been beneficial…”
When the congregation isn’t moved, such a musician will reply: “Well, that’s just because they’re uneducated philistines who don’t know anything.”
This one was put in a “brighter” mode—owing to its text—based on the somewhat peculiar place the original came from.
Readers have expressed interest in looking over the “music list” I’ve prepared for this coming Sunday.
Forcing the entire congregation to assume various postures has a rather sordid history.
I’ve been patiently waiting to release this since the summer!
The Tenor line is particularly pleasant, the way it rises with stepwise motion and then descends.
A few years ago, I attended Mass at Westminster Cathedral in London…
Veronica Moreno shares a ‘quick thought’ regarding the topic of the sacred liturgy.
I just got off the phone with a very high ranking official at the USCCB…
This one’s in Mode 3, imitating the authentic Gregorian chant.
With a digression on a 1971 film called “Fiddler on the Roof.”
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