Musical Resources • 15th Sunday after Pentecost (Extraordinary Form)
“May thine abiding loving-kindness, O Lord, cleanse and fortify thy Church…”
Articles
The Responsorial Psalm: What You Never Knew!
…including recent documentation from the Bishops’ Committee on the Liturgy (USCCB).
BIG NEWS • SSPX Priests can Validly Absolve
Pope Francis has granted that SSPX priests can give absolution validly and licitly during the Jubilee Year of Mercy.
SUPPORTING MATERIALS • Jogues Missal
Never purchase another Missalette: Daily Companion approved by the USCCB!
Adapting Chant To The Vernacular
“The more closely a composition approaches the Gregorian melodic form, the more sacred it becomes.”
Society for Catholic Liturgy Conference 2015
Featuring Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone, Dr. William Mahrt, and Fr. Uwe Michael Lang
The Ordinary Form’s Incredible Freedom
Here’s a chart with rubrics from the 1974 “Graduale” translated into English.
Frank La Rocca • Contemporary Music for the Sacred Treasury
If you are not familiar with the works of composer Frank La Rocca, you should be. His works move contemporary sacred music towards the realization of Vatican II.
Practising from back to front
Something of a duet of the Communion Antiphon for the 16th Sunday after Pentecost—part of preparing for Mass
Be Amazed By This Two-Minute Clip About Cathedrals!
Astounding video about how the Amiens Cathedral was saved by a medieval “iron band-aid.”
Cake or Frosting?
The Liturgy is the cake and Sacred Music is the frosting…
A Paragraph that Caught Attention
“Re-discovery of the Church’s Sacred Tradition: II Kings 22” by Fr. David Carter, JCL.
Musical Resources • 14th Sunday after Pentecost (Extraordinary Form)
“Reconciled for evermore to thy Church, do thou watch over her, O Lord…”
PDF Download • Rossini’s “Canticum Novum” (1935)
A Collection of 115 Motets and Hymns, with an Easy Mass for Two Equal Voices.
SATB “Alleluia” By Palestrina • Brief, Easy, & Sumptuous
I dare you NOT to immediately assign this piece to your choir!