Choir Members Can’t Get Enough of This Piece
An English translation of “Veni Creator Spiritus.”
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.”
If you were arrested and charged with being a Christian, would there be enough evidence to convict you?
This SATB setting by Father Francisco Guerrero is brief but magnificent.
Including a ‘live’ recording of the Church’s oldest Latin Eucharistic Hymn, which comes from a 7th-century Irish manuscript.
Including a splendid harmonization of “Holy God, We Praise Thy Name.”
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Some of them became “obsessed” with this SATB arrangement—𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡’𝑠 𝑜𝑘𝑎𝑦!
The Church is a living body, that has grown from a seed to a full grown tree. It can never return to the seed.
Diekmann believed all the saints over the last 1,200 years—as well as the fathers of Vatican II—were dead wrong about the liturgy.
Perhaps it is time to have another “Resucitó” for our Spanish-speaking Catholics…
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!
I’ve participated in some recent conversations about chant that might be of interest to our readers.
Including a hymn suitable for a Catholic wedding (“Nuptial Mass”).
With a digression on Cardinal Antonelli and the feast of “Saint Joseph the Artisan” (1 May).
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