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A new CD you don’t have yet full of beautiful music raising funds for bringing more beautiful music to Tasmania.

Sacred Music: “Curse the darkness…or light a candle?”

“O God, Who seest how we are destitute of all strength…”

Such musical exhortations are not new, but the tone and visibility are.

Fifty Years Later – Strengths, Weaknesses, and Progressive Solemnity

Fr. Christopher Smith has created a 7-part series on Vatican II.

Point us once again to God Who is Beauty Itself!

Yesterday, I used the text on page 366 to create an SATB Hymn for Lent.

The Sights and Sounds of St. John’s Apocalypse

A stepping stone towards singing this motet with a small choir – a recording for the middle voice of Fr Friel’s 3 part motet.

“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?

“At the crowing of the cock, hope returns…”

“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
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