PDF Download: 1896 “Liber Usualis” • Extremely Rare
The book is 1,479 pages. The monastery of Solesmes certainly had a staggering output!
“Is it not true that prohibiting or suspecting the extraordinary form can only be inspired by the demon who desires our suffocation and spiritual death?” —The Vatican’s chief liturgist from 2014-2021; interview with Edw. Pentin (23-Sep-2019)
The book is 1,479 pages. The monastery of Solesmes certainly had a staggering output!
Your more advanced singers will love this piece by Palestrina!
“It contains about two hundred hymns—all from approved sources—and covers every phase of Catholic devotion.” —Foreword by the Bishop of La Crosse
“We feel that the selection of hymns leaves little to be desired…” —From the 1942 Foreword
“Yet zephyrs vainly fan me, and flow’rs to groves invite…”
This extremely rare Catholic hymn book is here made available for the first time ever as a PDF download.
Can you imagine singing all those vernacular hymns while Mass is happening?
I bet you don’t own this important historical hymn book!
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Download the entire book for free or purchase the beautiful book (spiral-bound).
“The law of the Church plainly declares that, whenever High Mass is celebrated, the Proper of the Mass must be sung or at least recited.” — Fr. Labouré (1922)
Download the entire book for free or purchase the beautiful book (spiral-bound).
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