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 some senseless decree were to order the total or partial destruction of basilicas or cathedrals, then
obviously it would be the educated — whatever their personal beliefs — who would rise up in horror to oppose such a possibility.”
Can AD ORIENTEM be excluded from the Novus Ordo? Vatican says: “Negatively, and in accordance with the following explanation.”
Do churchgoers of my generation—who, largely, have no experience of Latin in the liturgy at all—even recognize the gift that has been lost?
Inspiration for enkindling a love of the Mass in the next generation from a booklet over 50 years old.
Here is a truth of human nature: When we can’t have something we want it. When something is forced upon us, we often reject it.
His Holiness mentions St. Thomas More, St. John Fisher, and others.
Have you ever wondered what a Novus Ordo High Mass might look like? Read on…
Speak now, or forever hold your peace!
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Must those that have something to do with liturgical music be good persons?
St. Paul says, “If you be risen with Christ, seek the things that are above, not the things that are here below.” Do we really believe that?
Are you bothered by the VANDALISM done to Lectionary Sequence translations?
The Vatican II Hymnal Website will continue to house free online hymns.
Love of liturgy—and, specifically, employment of its traditional forms—is not clericalism.
Our little choir usually psalm tones the Offertory. Until now.
