Polyphony (SATB) By Verdelot • With Optional Hymn “Christe Supreme”
Amazing! Verdelot’s cadence here sounds quite modern!
The “Little Rock Nine” & Sacred Music
How could closing down all the schools be a good plan?
Musical Resources • 9th Sunday after Pentecost (Extraordinary Form)
The organist will play softly at the Offertory.
Fr. Carlo Rossini Is Wrong About “EU”
You can sleep soundly at night, knowing how to correctly pronounce “hagióque pnéumate.”
Fr. Robert E. Barron To Be Made A Bishop!
Three new auxiliary bishops for Los Angeles!
Is Renaissance Music Too Expressive For Holy Mass?
“To thee do we send up our sighs, mourning and weeping in this valley of tears.”
“Sacred Vs. Secular Music” • Fr. John C. Selner
“…like man, Mary, you are IN—really cool among women.”
Church Needs “Disposable Art” Created To Last “Not Centuries, But Weeks (Or Hours).”
Fr. Robert W. Hovda argues that “Little Green Apples” can be sung during Mass.
Is Latin Impossible For Choirs?
When priests came into Bishop Trautman’s office asking permission, he would start speaking Latin to them.
Musical Resources • 8th Sunday after Pentecost (Extraordinary Form)
“The master in this Gospel is praising, not the wrongful act of the unfaithful steward, but the peculiar astuteness with which he makes friends who will be useful when things go amiss.” (Maredsous N. T.)
“Asperges Me” • Gregorian Chant
In the Extraordinary Form, the “Asperges Me” is only used on Sundays.
1951 Solemn Pontifical Field Mass • With 100-Voice “Palestrina Cathedral Choir”
Following the Mass, Archbishop Joseph H. Schlarman was made an honorary Indian chief.
The Day Fulton J. Sheen Made A Mistake
“Sheen told a friend of mine that anything he’d ever said of significance was taken from either Knox or Chesterton.” —Fr. George Rutler
SATB “Kyrie Eleison” • Henri Durieux
It’s extremely short and not difficult—yet fresh & gorgeous.
“You Will Now Feel These Interior Sentiments…”
Can you imagine a liturgical commentator standing at the front of Church declaring something like that?