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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.
“May this Communion, O Lord, cleanse us from sin…”
Truth is stranger than fiction.
To match the ancient acrostic, Erasmus changed the first line to “Herodis Hostes.”
A very helpful recording for anyone singing this in English for the Ordinary Form.
Fr. Áureo Castro’s setting alternates the chant melody and the choral parts.
Every so often, we stumble across true excellence. Here’s a prime example.
How to make polyphony work for your Ordinary Form Choir.
I think we can slay the current and popular belief that by making the liturgy, and by extension liturgical music, “relevant” to people we will somehow bring them back to God.
Please let me know your thoughts in the FB combox…
This feast has been moved *four times* since it was created in 1893…but that’s not my problem.
Communion anthem: “Jesus went down with them, and came to Nazareth and was subject to them.”
To Use or Not to Use?
It’s incorrect to say new Churches must be constructed with table altars.
“Gregorian Chant in Pastoral Ministry and Religious Education” — March 10 & 11, 2017
