Sir Colin Mawby Composes Special “Ave Maria” For Kansas Choristers
Mr. Mawby emailed me two weeks after sending the music, saying he’d already purchased his plane ticket and would see us in Rome!
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.”
Mr. Mawby emailed me two weeks after sending the music, saying he’d already purchased his plane ticket and would see us in Rome!
This blog post is about a four-year-old who behaves at Mass and how the Extraordinary Form allows a father to learn to behave better at Mass.
Sometimes it takes decades to appreciate the genius of this or that Gregorian chant.
“Christianity is the perfect development of the Jewish religion…” —Fr. Leslie Rumble
“Arise in thy strength, we beseech thee, O Lord, and come…”
Whether this rumor is accurate makes no difference, because the rules for Friday abstinence were changed in the 1960s.
The liturgy suffers under the weight of the culture of mediocrity and instant gratification. Most distressing is a false sense of liberty that promotes a sense of entitlement, placing the preferences and opinions of the individual above all else.
I never dreamed that so many people love this stuff…and are willing to fight for it!
The program seeks to broaden the knowledge of already well trained musicians so that they can become well trained liturgical musicians.
“This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.” —Leonard Bernstein
Some of the old Catholic hymnals were dreadful, but this one is splendid.
This special Solesmes book contains another version of the “Chants Abrégés.”
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