“Wearing The Cassock” • A Bishop Weighs In
“I think that all of us clerics should rethink our choice of clothing…” —Bishop René H. Gracida
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Rehearsal Videos • “Jesu Dulcis Memoria”
I first sang this marvelous piece as a freshman in college, under Dr. James F. Daugherty.
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Musical Resources • 15th Sunday after Pentecost (Extraordinary Form)
“May thine abiding loving-kindness, O Lord, cleanse and fortify thy Church…”
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The Ordinary Form’s Incredible Freedom
Here’s a chart with rubrics from the 1974 “Graduale” translated into English.
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Be Amazed By This Two-Minute Clip About Cathedrals!
Astounding video about how the Amiens Cathedral was saved by a medieval “iron band-aid.”
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Musical Resources • 14th Sunday after Pentecost (Extraordinary Form)
“Reconciled for evermore to thy Church, do thou watch over her, O Lord…”
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PDF Download • Rossini’s “Canticum Novum” (1935)
A Collection of 115 Motets and Hymns, with an Easy Mass for Two Equal Voices.
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A Most Astounding “Graduale” From 1909 … On Modern Staves!
University professors don’t sit around wondering whether they should teach the music of Tomás Luis de Victoria or Marty Haugen.
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SATB “Alleluia” By Palestrina • Brief, Easy, & Sumptuous
I dare you NOT to immediately assign this piece to your choir!
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Organ Accompaniment • “Christe Supreme”
When your choir isn’t ready for polyphony…
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The Weirdest Thing About Renaissance Motets
A priest named “Reuschius”…
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Musical Resources • 13th Sunday after Pentecost (Extraordinary Form)
“We have received, O Lord, thy heavenly sacrament…”
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Chabanel Psalms … In Dutch?
The cantors do something I never thought of in this video…
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Improve Your Parish’s Liturgy … Instantaneously!
“Until we are blue in the face, we could repeat what Vatican II said about Gregorian chant…”
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PDF Download • “Mount Mary Hymnal” (1937)
All 255 pages of this famous hymn book can now be downloaded as a PDF.
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