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Guest Author · January 29, 2015

How Important Is The Poetic Value Of A Hymn?

“If Christians want me to believe in their god, they will have to sing me better hymns.” —Nietzsche

Cynthia Ostrowski · January 28, 2015

Today’s installment is a third picture of the Epiphany—different than the two we’ve previously posted.

Jeff Ostrowski · January 28, 2015

In my youth, I recall singing some of these same songs at Mass, but I refused to do the hand gestures.

Aurelio Porfiri · January 27, 2015

“Immanentism means there is no reality beyond what we know…” —Aurelio Porfiri

Jeff Ostrowski · January 27, 2015

Your more advanced singers will love this piece by Palestrina!

Jeff Ostrowski · January 26, 2015

“My Roman collar is my television uniform.” —Fr. Richard McBrien

Fr. David Friel · January 25, 2015

The results are in.

Veronica Brandt · January 24, 2015

Your one-week-to-go guide to preparing for Candlemas.

Jeff Ostrowski · January 24, 2015

“It contains about two hundred hymns—all from approved sources—and covers every phase of Catholic devotion.” —Foreword by the Bishop of La Crosse

Richard J. Clark · January 23, 2015

I am at daily mass, but through no virtue of my own. God has a way of drawing us toward him even when we resist.

Jeff Ostrowski · January 23, 2015

Hymns can be implemented into the Latin High Mass with great effect.

Jeff Ostrowski · January 22, 2015

Historically, “liturgy” referred to a service done for the people, not by them.

Jeff Ostrowski · January 21, 2015

“We feel that the selection of hymns leaves little to be desired…” —From the 1942 Foreword

Jeff Ostrowski · January 20, 2015

“Yet zephyrs vainly fan me, and flow’rs to groves invite…”

Aurelio Porfiri · January 20, 2015

“Many years ago I had a spiritual director that gave me a lesson that I have never forgotten…” —Aurelio Porfiri