Preparing for Candlemas
Your one-week-to-go guide to preparing for Candlemas.
Pope Saint Paul VI (3 April 1969): “Although the text of the Roman Gradual—at least that which concerns the singing—has not been changed, the Entrance antiphons and Communions antiphons have been revised for Masses without singing.”

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Some people accept a job as choir director and say, “I have five singers who don’t read music, so I guess that’s how it will always be.”

Today’s installment is a third image for 8 September—totally different than the two we’ve posted in the past.

Impromptu Address of His Holiness Benedict XVI to the Members of the Pontifical “Sistine” Choir

Starring the almost two year old darling of the family along with miscellaneous siblings egging her on.

Good-hearted and talented people respond quite positively to the philosophy of service to God and others.

This extremely rare Catholic hymn book is here made available for the first time ever as a PDF download.
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