General Instruction of the Roman Missal (PDF)
Download: “Institutio Generalis Missalis Romani”
“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)
A short film by Watershed which features live footage of the “Sacred Music Colloquium” (Church Music Association of America).
A short film by Watershed which features live footage of the “Sacred Music Colloquium” (Church Music Association of America).
A short film by Watershed which features live footage of the “Sacred Music Colloquium” (Church Music Association of America).
“On 26th September, 1964, it was decreed as follows: In celebrating the divine office in choir, clerics are bound to preserve the Latin language.” — Pope Paul VI, 15 August 1966
(Winooski, Vermont) — “An 87-year-old choirmaster who has not missed a Sunday Mass for more than 64 years will receive an honor from His Holiness Pope Pius XII.”
“In the reforms as they were introduced after the Council, a fundamental misunderstanding took place. Namely, this was that the reforms were undertaken with the idea there had been a rupture …” —Raymond Cardinal Leo Burke
“Could I have imagined at that time that I was sitting and conversing with the future Pope? Not in a million years!” — Fr. Christopher G. Phillips
“Those who worship are not passive, for instance, when listening to the readings or the homily, or following the prayers of the celebrant, and the chants and music of the liturgy.” — John Paul II
Pope John XXIII said that if we cease to value Latin, “poor mortal creatures may well become like the machines they build — cold, hard, and devoid of love.”
The 2nd Edition of the Campion Missal will soon be available, but here’s something far more important!
What does a young stylist from L.A. think about the Mass Propers?
St. Jerome had access to ancient Hebrew and Greek manuscripts of the 2nd and 3rd centuries which have since perished and are no longer available to scholars today.
Henri Potiron’s 1935 organ accompaniments for Vespers (270 pages) for free download!
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