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“Every hour of worship should represent at least two hours of structured preparation at a time and place apart from the congregation.”
I am dead. And now here I am viewing my funeral. The people in attendance are not aware that I am looking at them.
The biggest problem in Roman Catholic liturgical music is the prevailing misunderstanding of its very purpose.
Rigorous and Resplendent Review of the Jogues Illuminated Missal.
“Everything in God’s good creation is hierarchically ordered, and the virtue of each part is to belong to the whole in the right way…”
Someone might exclaim: “You also are doing this. We’ve seen your settings of the responsorial psalm!”
We need to avoid profanity “not only in itself, but in the manner in which it is presented by those who execute it.”
Most bishops will talk about everything from global warming to the latest cure for cholesterol, but they leave the issue of liturgical music to priests who think that saving people means dying with them…
We’ve teamed up to create an 8-part series on Archbishop Sample’s momentous 2013 letter. Today, Jeff Ostrowski introduces the series.
An Interview with Matt Williams
“We should consider it a real privilege and honor to be able and allowed to honor and praise the Holy Trinity.”
As Gregorian Chant was arguably “dead” during much of his pontificate, Pope Saint John Paul II’s strong words on Gregorian Chant are therefore quite notable.
Why aren’t the Propers from the Roman Gradual identical to the Mass Propers printed in the Roman Missal? • “Recent research … has made it clear that the antiphons of the Order of Mass were never intended to be sung.” — Bishop Donald Trautman (2007)+
Fr. Joseph Terra, FSSP, was also seriously wounded in this burglary-turned-murder.
True art affirms the Catholic Faith—and represents a spiritual sacrifice pleasing and acceptable to the Lord.
