Three Painless Ways To Begin Singing Propers … Without Losing Your Job
A peritus of the Council once suggested that certain parties detest the Mass Propers because they’re almost impossible to “hijack” with heterodox theology.
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Basic Steps To Improve Music At Your Parish — Part 4
Importing singers is the quickest way to get good music into your parish, even if it is only for one occasion.
Diary of Cardinal Antonelli (1964): “How Exactly Should The Vatican II Mass Look?”
If Pope Pius V or Gregory the Great were to come back, they ought to see that the Mass after Vatican II has substantially remained the same.” — Secretary of the Consilium
Inaccurate Statements About Translations Of The Mass Propers (A Pet Peeve)
The quickest way to make this clear to a skeptical priest or liturgist is to request that they bring you some Offertory antiphons from MR3. (They don’t exist!)
Basic Steps To Improve Music At Your Parish — Part 3
Turn off the microphones. This can be a challenge when many parishes and even some cathedrals are enamored of carpeting – to say nothing of seat cushions!
PDF Download: “Propers” by A. Edmonds Tozer and “Propers” by Father Theodore Labouré
“The law of the Church plainly declares that, whenever High Mass is celebrated, the Proper of the Mass must be sung or at least recited.” — Fr. Labouré (1922)
Basic Steps To Improve Music At Your Parish — Part 2
I have been asked to recommend some ways in which any parish in the United States could improve the music used at Mass. Some parishes may already have taken the following two steps, in which case my advice will be nugatory for them, but if your parish has not yet done so, now’s the time to begin.
Fr. Enrico Zoffoli and the Passion of the Lord
“And so, for Jesus – and for us – the Passion is everything, the Passion decides everything.” — Fr. Zoffoli
Basic Steps To Improve Music At Your Parish — Part 1
Simple steps to start moving from the “average” Catholic music program to a more reverent liturgy.
Confession 2.0
“You know I will never betray you, lol.” How many Hail Marys would this kind of sin deserve?
I Am Not A Contemporary
Job searching is tough, you say? Try searching as a Church musician who is not “contemporary.”
Homily: 15th Monday in Ordinary Time (St. Kateri)
St. Kateri grew up in very unlikely circumstances of ever becoming a saint. But she did.
Benjamin Franklin Composed A String Quartet
Why must the music at Wedding receptions be blasted at such a deafening volume? What can be done?
Catholic Line Art, Black and White • Installment #30
All the vestments used in the Campion Missal were more than 200 years old.
The Real Trouble With Missalettes
Did you catch that last quotation? “Unless proper readings are given.” What does that passage mean?