Vesting Prayers • Part 2 of 9
The Hand Washing
“Is it not true that prohibiting or suspecting the extraordinary form can only be inspired by the demon who desires our suffocation and spiritual death?” —The Vatican’s chief liturgist from 2014-2021; interview with Edw. Pentin (23-Sep-2019)
Printing copies of the propers is very handy for singers not yet confident with the Liber and other books.
Can you imagine a liturgical commentator standing at the front of Church declaring something like that?
As musicians, what sustains us? Certainly, good music is a requirement. Not just good music, but beauty itself.
The organist will play softly at the Offertory.
Report on the sixth (last) day of the Sacred Music Colloquium in Pittsburgh
Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI received two Honorary Doctorates on Sacred Music last Saturday
My mother was present during that Mass and recorded some brief snippets on her iPhone.
Have you noticed that contemporary music was not forced upon congregations the same way contemporary architecture was?
This piece by Fr. Antonin Lhoumeau will knock your socks off!
Medieval manuscripts were normally created by (at least) two monks: one drew, one wrote.
Over the coming weeks, I will present a series of reflections on the vesting prayers.
It may feel like forever, but children do grow up. The days are long but the years are short. Today’s toddlers are tomorrow’s altar servers and choir members. Then we can look back and whisper a “Thanks be to God.”
The organist will play softly at the Offertory.
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