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Sacred Music: “Curse the darkness…or light a candle?”
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Musical Resources • 2nd Sunday of Lent 1
“O God, Who seest how we are destitute of all strength…”
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Pope Francis, Sacred Music, and the Biggest Stage
Such musical exhortations are not new, but the tone and visibility are.
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Revisiting Musicam Sacram
Fifty Years Later – Strengths, Weaknesses, and Progressive Solemnity
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Vatican II • What You Were Too Embarrassed To Ask
Fr. Christopher Smith has created a 7-part series on Vatican II.
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Let Everything That Hath Breath Praise the Lord!
Point us once again to God Who is Beauty Itself!
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PDF Download • “Antiphonale Romanum” (1949)
Yesterday, I used the text on page 366 to create an SATB Hymn for Lent.
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Is There Music in Heaven?
The Sights and Sounds of St. John’s Apocalypse
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O Crux Ave, partial recording
A stepping stone towards singing this motet with a small choir – a recording for the middle voice of Fr Friel’s 3 part motet.
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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.”
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Did You Forget This Fabulous Lenten Hymn?
The psalm verses are optional—making this piece as long or short as you desire.
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Choirmasters, Your Job Is Hard Beyond A Doubt
What does sacred music have to do with the O. J. Simpson murder trial?
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EF Divine Office Resource • Daily Recordings of Lauds
“At the crowing of the cock, hope returns…”
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Giacomo Cardinal Lercaro (1891-1976)
“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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The Purpose of Art
Considerations from Tolstoy
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