PDF Download: Hymns of the Dominican Missal & Breviary • Fr. Aquinas Byrnes (1943)
Containing literal and poetic translations, author biographies, meter explanations, and much more!
Articles
How Well Did Your Parents Know The Mass?
PDF Download: Order of Mass (Latin & English) printed in THE CROWN HYMNAL of 1911.
Catholic Line Art, Black and White • Installment #62
Today’s installment is a rare image of the Last Supper.
Risuoni La Mia Bocca
Liturgical song composed in honor of Saint Cecilia and performed in Rome.
“The Gloves Are Off” — Jonathan Gruber & The Traditional Mass
“The faith of many was quite infantile, I would say.” —Paul Inwood, talking about preconciliar Catholics
Knitted thuribles and other toys
Something I unvented (thank you Elizabeth Zimmerman) and also something else.
“The Experience After The Council Was So Strong And In Some Cases Violent…” —Cardinal Burke
6 December 2014 interview with Raymond Leo Cardinal Burke by GloriaTV.
Musical Resources • 3rd Sunday of Advent
Including “Creator Alme Siderum” with English Translation by Rev. Adrian Fortescue.
Saint Paul’s Choir School ~ Top 5 on the Billboard Charts
“Christmas in Harvard Square” opened on the No. 2 spot on Billboard Magazine’s Classical Traditional Chart and has remained in the top 5 since.
The Importance of Singing Carols
Let us make a point of singing good carols as much as we can throughout the whole Christmas season, rather than imitating a world that stops celebrating on December 26th.
What They Didn’t Tell You About Psalm Tone VIII
Even the “Liber Usualis” omits critical information about Tone VIII.
Review: An English Gradual (Belmont Abbey, 2013)
For myself, I prefer the liturgy entirely in Latin or entirely in the vernacular. Others will disagree.
Any Hope For Modern Catholic Hymnody? Yes!
Major publishers include Haugen’s verse “not in some heaven, light-years away”—what can be done about it?
The Polyphonic Piece Your Choir Has Been Desiring!
As an added bonus, the score contains solfege markings!
A Meeting With Angela Ambrogetti
In Rome, Aurelio Porfiri interviews a respected Vaticanist about the Pope, Curia, and more.
