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Veronica Moreno • Article Archive

Veronica Moreno is married to a teacher and homeschools five children. While at UCLA, she earned an undergraduate degree in Ethnomusicology and then went on to study special education at Cal State LA. She has been cantor at her local Catholic parish for over a decade.—Read full biography (with photographs).

Veronica Moreno · May 12, 2025

Chants That Crowds Roar With Burning Hearts

Something special happens when your Pope intones a chant and everyone sings with full hearts. Neurons, neurotransmitters, and hormones work together to bind people together. This is why sacred music transforms hearts!

Veronica Moreno · May 6, 2025

We (Will) Have A Pope!

Veronica shares a children’s book about the Conclave. Let’s all chant the Veni Creator!

Veronica Moreno · March 23, 2025

PDF Download • Palestrina “Alleluia” (SATB) for the Ordinary or Extraordinary Form

Last week, a major bombshell was dropped with regard to two major publishing companies of Catholic hymnals.

Veronica Moreno · January 29, 2025

Finding the Choir in FSSP-Lyon

“For twenty years I sang in the front of a Novus Ordo parish despite wanting to sing in the back.” —Veronica Moreno

Veronica Moreno · January 20, 2025

A Full Choir in FSSP-Caen

A choir member visits the FSSP in Normandy, France and is overjoyed to hear the full choir raining down chant and polyphony throughout the Church building. She recommends Sunday Mass if you’re on pilgrimage.

Veronica Moreno · November 13, 2024

PDF Download • “Polyphonic Enhancement” for the Lord’s Prayer (Mass in English)

As the congregation sings their part, the choir “enhances” them with polyphony. This is genius!

Veronica Moreno · October 26, 2024

PDF Download • “Seasonal Index” for the Brébeuf Hymnal

It’s been downloaded more than 4,000 times, so it seems useful.

Veronica Moreno · October 16, 2024

A Story of Success!

Veronica Moreno shares a ‘quick thought’ regarding the topic of the sacred liturgy.

Veronica Moreno · September 28, 2024

Communion Antiphon • “For Any Mass?”

Rehearsal videos are included—and they’re pretty fantastic!

Veronica Moreno · September 17, 2024

PDF Download • “Communion Antiphon” by Father Edgard de Laet — For Any Mass!

A musical setting for “An Alphabet of Right-doing” (as Monsignor Knox famously called it).

Veronica Moreno · July 20, 2024

720,000 Views … and Counting!

In last Friday’s Eucharistic Conference, Corrinne May underscored that Silence is an integral and essential part in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass.

Veronica Moreno · July 2, 2024

We Were Where Peter Is

Our contributor and her family are greeted by Pope Francis on the Feast of Saints Peter and Paul. May their faithful prayers be heard.

Veronica Moreno · June 21, 2024

Jeff Was Our Choir Director

A choir member from Jeff’s choir reflects on singing for the long-term and expresses gratitude to the Ostrowski family.

Veronica Moreno · May 5, 2024

Time for Another RESUCITÓ, Canta Con Júbilo

Perhaps it is time to have another “Resucitó” for our Spanish-speaking Catholics…

Veronica Moreno · May 5, 2024

Es tiempo para otro RESUCITÓ, Canta Con Júbilo

Quizá podemos tener más de un “Resucitó”. Compartimos una canción pascual con un refrán hermoso y versos como este: “Brille tu lámpara, brille con fuerza tu llama / Cesen tus lágrimas al contemplar su mirada.” ¡No se la pierdan!

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President’s Corner

    14th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year C)
    Our choir is on break during the month of July. However, on the feasts website, the chants have been posted for the 14th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year C), which is this coming Sunday: 6 July 2025.
    —Jeff Ostrowski
    Bugnini’s Statement (6 November 1966)
    With each passing day, more is revealed about how the enemies of the liturgy accomplished their goals. For instance, Hannibal Bugnini deeply resented the way Vatican II said Gregorian Chant “must be given first place in liturgical services.” On 6 November 1966, his cadre wrote a letter attempting to justify the elimination of Gregorian Chant with this brazen statement: “What really gives a Mass its tone is not so much the songs as it is the prayers and readings.” Bugnini’s cadre then attacked the very heart of Gregorian Chant (viz. the Proprium Missae), bemoaning how the Proprium Missae “is completely new each Sunday and feast day.” There is much more to be said about this topic. Stay tuned.
    —Jeff Ostrowski
    Luis Martínez Must Go!
    Sevilla Cathedral (entry dated 13 December 1564): The chapter orders Luis Martínez, a cathedral chaplain, to stay away from the choirbook-stand when the rest of the singers gather around it to sing polyphony—the reason being that “he throws the others out of tune.” [Excerpt from “The Life of Father Francisco Guerrero.”]
    —Jeff Ostrowski

Quick Thoughts

    Pope Pius XII Hymnal?
    Have you ever heard of the Pope Pius XII Hymnal? It’s a real book, published in the United States in 1959. Here’s a sample page so you can verify with your own eyes it existed.
    —Corpus Christi Watershed
    “Hybrid” Chant Notation?
    Over the years, many have tried to ‘simplify’ plainsong notation. The O’Fallon Propers attempted to simplify the notation—but ended up making matters worse. Dr. Karl Weinmann tried to do the same in the time of Pope Saint Pius X by replacing each porrectus. You can examine a specimen from his edition and see whether you agree he complicated matters. In particular, look at what he did with éxsules fílii Hévae.
    —Corpus Christi Watershed
    Antiphons Don’t Match?
    A reader wants to know why the Entrance and Communion antiphons in certain publications deviate from what’s prescribed by the GRADUALE ROMANUM published after Vatican II. Click here to read our answer. The short answer is: the Adalbert Propers were never intended to be sung. They were intended for private Masses only (or Masses without music). The “Graduale Parvum,” published by the John Henry Newman Institute of Liturgical Music in 2023, mostly uses the Adalbert Propers—but sometimes uses the GRADUALE text: e.g. Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul (29 June).
    —Corpus Christi Watershed

Random Quote

“I am now old but I was young when I was received into the Church. I was not at all attracted by the splendour of her great ceremonies—which the Protestants could well counterfeit. Of the extraneous attractions of the Church which most drew me was the spectacle of the priest and his server at Low Mass, stumping up to the altar without a glance to discover how many or how few he had in his congregation; a craftsman and his apprentice; a man with a job which he alone was qualified to do.”

— Evelyn Waugh (7 August 1964)

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