Personal Issues Manifested in the Mass
Personal tensions can rise to the highest boiling point during Mass and no other place.
Why is this? As it turns out, there’s a pretty interesting reason.
“If we do not love those whom we see, how can we love God, Whom we do not see?” Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
Personal tensions can rise to the highest boiling point during Mass and no other place.
Why is this? As it turns out, there’s a pretty interesting reason.
“I did my best to give utterance to all those black notes in the missal.” —Fulton J. Sheen
At the end of the audition, most of the students experience a great sense of accomplishment and really consider it an honor to be accepted into the choir!
Only the blind can avoid facing this reality: the biggest liturgical crisis is in Rome.
The recessional is bright, happy, and beautiful.
Recently, I came across a video of a Anglican boys’ choir singing Dan Schutte’s “Here I am Lord”…
“We strongly resent the implication that we and our children are not sufficiently intelligent to understand the simple Latin of the Mass…” —Manifesto of the Catholic Laity (1943)
“Women forced to sell their bodies in desperation and fear” —From a 2013 GIA hymnal
The thing that stands out is the enormous breadth of the Church Universal. Through all times, all places, all languages this Mystical Body of Christ is alive and drawing men to God. What other religious tradition can even come close?
A collection of English Eucharistic motets published by Heath Morber and Ben Yanke
Amazing! Verdelot’s cadence here sounds quite modern!
The organist will play softly at the Offertory.
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