When Dr. Calabrese Addressed Me Personally
Including a ‘live’ recording of the Church’s oldest Latin Eucharistic Hymn, which comes from a 7th-century Irish manuscript.
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Including a ‘live’ recording of the Church’s oldest Latin Eucharistic Hymn, which comes from a 7th-century Irish manuscript.

Including a splendid harmonization of “Holy God, We Praise Thy Name.”
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That changed last week!

Some of them became “obsessed” with this SATB arrangement—𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡’𝑠 𝑜𝑘𝑎𝑦!

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The Church is a living body, that has grown from a seed to a full grown tree. It can never return to the seed.

Diekmann believed all the saints over the last 1,200 years—as well as the fathers of Vatican II—were dead wrong about the liturgy.

Perhaps it is time to have another “Resucitó” for our Spanish-speaking Catholics…

Quizá podemos tener más de un “Resucitó”. Compartimos una canción pascual con un refrán hermoso y versos como este: “Brille tu lámpara, brille con fuerza tu llama / Cesen tus lágrimas al contemplar su mirada.” ¡No se la pierdan!

I’ve participated in some recent conversations about chant that might be of interest to our readers.

Including a hymn suitable for a Catholic wedding (“Nuptial Mass”).

With a digression on Cardinal Antonelli and the feast of “Saint Joseph the Artisan” (1 May).

I wouldn’t argue if somebody made the claim that Sebastian Bach was “the most musical person who ever lived.”

“What follows are a few tricks that have greatly aided students with me from a young age…” —Dr. Tappan

According to Monsignor Franz Stemmer, the famous hymn “Praise to the Lord” originally came from the 𝘚𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘭𝘴𝘶𝘯𝘥 𝘎𝘦𝘴𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘣𝘶𝘤𝘩 (1665).
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