Pope Francis on musical quality: “mediocrity, superficiality, and banality”
“Sometimes a certain mediocrity, superficiality and banality have prevailed, to the detriment of the beauty and intensity of liturgical celebrations.”
“If we do not love those whom we see, how can we love God, Whom we do not see?” Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
“Sometimes a certain mediocrity, superficiality and banality have prevailed, to the detriment of the beauty and intensity of liturgical celebrations.”
The psalm verses are optional—making this piece as long or short as you desire.
What does sacred music have to do with the O. J. Simpson murder trial?
“There remains throughout the presence of Bugnini—his bias, his anger, and his prejudice—making one continuously ask the unanswerable question: why?” ~ Msgr. Richard J. Schuler
Burning CDs may seem old-fashioned, but many people still rely on their CD players. All the shortcuts, plus a free recording of Audi Benigne Conditor.
The real purpose of a Roman Catholic funeral is not what most people think.
Along the “via pulchritudinis” (the way of beauty) they will come to know Him Who is Beauty itself.
“Now this is eternal life: That they may know thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.”
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