What the Ordinary Form Could Be: The Vienna Oratory
Have you ever wondered what a Novus Ordo High Mass might look like? Read on…
Articles
Can You Name These Five Hymns?
Speak now, or forever hold your peace!
Catholic Line Art, Black and White • Installment #53
I will be releasing hundreds of these B/W religious line art drawings for free and instant download. These beautiful Catholic “woodcuts” were done with magnificent skill. “Download Free Traditional Catholic Clipart”
Between Ethics And Reality: The Liturgical Musician
Must those that have something to do with liturgical music be good persons?
Homily: Ascension
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?
Problematic Sequence Translations In Our Current Lectionary
Are you bothered by the VANDALISM done to Lectionary Sequence translations?
The Vatican II Hymnal • Old Website
The Vatican II Hymnal Website will continue to house free online hymns.
Liturgy & Clericalism
Love of liturgy—and, specifically, employment of its traditional forms—is not clericalism.
A simplified Offertory for Pentecost
Our little choir usually psalm tones the Offertory. Until now.
Artist Lecture Series at Thomas More College
If you are in New England July 25 – August 1, you don’t want to miss this!
Mass in Honor of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Star of the Sea
Michael Olbash’s “Mass in Honor of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Star of the Sea” demonstrates the mandate of Pope Saint Pius X that music for the liturgy be Sacred, Beautiful, and Universal.
Simple English Choral Propers by Jon Naples
Free polyphonic offertories for the Simple English Propers.
Living for Heaven
The Ascension as Our Model
The Danger of Being Arbitrary in the Liturgy
Traditional practices form a coherent whole, as they developed organically together. In many ways the liturgical reform was mechanistic and ideological.
The Truth Re: Latin And The Second Vatican Council
Certain parts of the Mass (such as the Canon) must remain in Latin, while others, especially those directed to the people (such as the readings and the restored «Oratio fidelium»), can take place in the vernacular.