Motet for Three Voices: “O Crux Ave” 1
This piece is ideal for use as a motet during the veneration of the Holy Cross at the Good Friday liturgy.
Jesus said to them: “I have come into this world so that a sentence may fall upon it, that those who are blind should see, and those who see should become blind. If you were blind, you would not be guilty. It is because you protest, ‘We can see clearly,’ that you cannot be rid of your guilt.”
This piece is ideal for use as a motet during the veneration of the Holy Cross at the Good Friday liturgy.
This is perhaps my favorite collection to date.
By Rev. Laurence J. O’Connell, and *published in English* in 1943.
These rubrics are official; so when does your church begin the Introit?
Our choir is 100% volunteers—and many don’t read music.
A tip for sight-reading chant – start with a Do La Fa to anchor your ear and find the starting note from the tonic.
Cardinal Ratzinger’s English is *fantastic* (as this video shows).
Fr. Gaspar eloquently emphasis key words and phrases, underscoring the beauty of the sacrament.
Keep God as the center of the choir and direct our music towards Him.
“These renderings are accompanied by beautiful photos so even the novice should be able to follow the Mass rather easily.”
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Children can and should be taught Gregorian chant by hearing and repeating—but this binds them to singing only what they have memorized.
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