“Win or Lose, a Fight Worth Fighting!” • (Email Received from a Priest)
We owe a tremendous debt of gratitude to Jeffrey Tucker, who prevented a non-Christian company from securing a monopoly on the (mandatory) English psalm translation!
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“Music List” • 5th Sunday (Ord. Time)
Readers have expressed interest in examining the “music list” I prepared for this coming Sunday.
PDF Download • “Communion Refrain” (Polyphony) for Three Voices — with Psalm 117
This injunction from Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen is crucial for artists.
PDF Download • “Psalm Comparison Chart”
This PDF chart will be of interest to Catholic musicians!
Antiphons Don’t Match?
The short answer is: the “Adalbert Propers” were never intended to be sung.
PDF Download • “Entrance Chant” for the 5th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year C)
I would argue we must renew our good resolution and stand firm.
“Music List” • Presentation (2 February)
Readers have expressed interest in examining the “music list” I prepared for this coming Sunday.
“Entrance Chant” • Presentation (2 Febr.)
This English adaptation imitates the authentic Gregorian Chant version in a splendid way.
PDF Download • Intensely Rare 1898 “Roman Gradual” — (Released for the First Time in History)
I carefully scanned all 642 pages in (color) high resolution.
2 February • “Communion”
I would say: “Somewhat dark, yet beautiful”
Thoughts on the “English” Method of Hymn-Printing
Protestants sometimes say: “One must never omit verses of a hymn, because hymns tell a story.”
Breaking! • “Cardinal Roche Vs. Bishop Paprocki” (Development on 23 Jan. 2025)
On 23 January 2025, Arthur Cardinal Roche attempted (?) to overrule the Vatican’s “Committee on Canonical Affairs.”
Photograph • Mass at Dachau Concentration Camp
Is that a tiny pipe organ?
PDF Download • 3-Voice Arrang. by Helen Drost
You owe it to yourself to listen to this ‘live’ recording.
“What Are the Urbanite Hymns?” (4-Page PDF)
“No one who knows anything about the subject now doubts that that revision of Urban VIII was a ghastly mistake, for which there is not one single word of any kind to be said.” —Father Adrian Fortescue