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.”
If the ICEL chants (or another Gregorian setting) are used at all the masses in a parish, it develops unity. It also helps a parish refrain from being multiple communities under the same roof.
The Pope Francis Hymn Book consists of all the hymns from the Vatican II Hymnal, plus an additional forty-five new hymns
“One of the most common canards now broadcast is that Pope Francis cares but little for the sacred liturgy…”
“The request freaked the Deacon out, and, through sweat, he answered that the Council had abolished Latin.”
The reason we have a choir in the church is for our entertainment at Mass, right?
Boy … what a difference a true leader makes!
People should always be valued more than systems, and so it was with this gathering.
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How to Experience Colloquium XXIV Belatedly and From Afar
“Hundreds of millions of Catholics can now pray to God in their own languages and not in meaningless sounds…” — Annibale Bugnini
If you think that he did not care, as many prelates, about who and what was playing, you would be “hugely wrong.”
“The wonderful thing about Jesus and His teaching is that it is within the grasp of everyone.”
“A community is calling into question its very being when it suddenly declares its holiest and highest possession to be strictly forbidden … Can it be trusted any more about anything else?”
Not one shred of iconographical evidence contradicts the alb as being a priestly vestment.
Is the Trapp Family priest saying Mass “facing the people” in the 1930s?
