My Response To “Should Church Singers Be Paid?”
“The labourer is worthy of his hire.” (I Tim 5:18)
Articles
A Must Have For The Choir Director’s Shelf
This book is invaluable for the church musician.
Assumption Mass 1
A Solemn High Mass in the Extraordinary Form next Friday evening in Philadelphia.
Vesting Prayers • Part 5 of 9
The Cincture
Loading Choir Binders for 2 August 2015
Once we finish revising the scores at Goupil, this will be unnecessary.
Maestro Colin Mawby—The Newest Blogger
Maestro Mawby is now a contributor for «CASTAWAY» and his articles may interest you…
Teaching chant to your children
Just a little each day. As Confucius says: “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”
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.
Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen On Gregorian Chant
“I did my best to give utterance to all those black notes in the missal.” —Fulton J. Sheen
A Few More Thoughts on the Chorister Audition
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!
“When You See Rome, You Will Lose Your Faith.”
Only the blind can avoid facing this reality: the biggest liturgical crisis is in Rome.
Musical Resources • 10th Sunday after Pentecost (Extraordinary Form)
The recessional is bright, happy, and beautiful.
The Anglican can dress anything up?
Recently, I came across a video of a Anglican boys’ choir singing Dan Schutte’s “Here I am Lord”…
A Most Devastating Change By Pope Paul VI
“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)
Why It’s Pointless To Argue Over Our Roman Missal Translation
“Women forced to sell their bodies in desperation and fear” —From a 2013 GIA hymnal