Pathetic Beauty
Can A Pure Intention Create Objective Beauty?
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.”

A strong devotional life in the parish church will naturally support and strengthen its liturgical vitality.
Organists can no longer take for granted the dominant use—or for that matter, any use of the organ despite anything Sacrosanctum Concilium states.

This is no hybrid: it’s an elegant, accurate, modern, unified English translation of the Graduale!

The traditional liturgy, the study of St. Thomas Aquinas, and Catholic social doctrine―these three things stand or fall together.

I’m happy that people want to gain the plenary indulgence on Divine Mercy Sunday. But remember, you can also gain it on other occasions.

Free PDF downloads for “Mass of the Angels” organ accompaniments • Henri Potiron (1950), Achille Bragers (1937), Dr. Eugene Lapierre (1946), Franz Xaver Mathias (1906), Dr. Peter Wagner (1905), Monsignor Leo P. Manzetti (1906), Julius Bas (1906), and more+

Preview of the “Mass in Honor of Pope Saint John Paul II” Listen to the Gloria!

God is Truth Itself, and so faith transcends reason, and elevates it without contradicting it.
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