Which Hymns Are Appropriate After Christmas?
How many Catholics realize how closely the feast of the Epiphany is tied to the Holy Eucharist and Calvary?
“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)
How many Catholics realize how closely the feast of the Epiphany is tied to the Holy Eucharist and Calvary?
“Thou light, thou radiance of the Father, thou undying hope of all, pay heed to the prayers that thy servants pour forth throughout the earth…”
Including several hymns eminently suitable for the feast of Christ the King.
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“Each day Father Knox would write for his students a Latin poem describing events of the previous day.” —Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen
Bishop Brennan selected the version by Fulton J. Sheen. He began weeping (towards the final station) because of their beauty and poignancy.
As late as 1924, Dom Mocquereau mentioned Dom Desrocquettes “whose beautiful and discreet accompaniments I hear every day at Solesmes.”
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Musicians can have a stronger voice than even the legendary Fulton J. Sheen!
Fulton J. Sheen told a story about a man who bumped into Abraham Lincoln yelling: “Get out of my way, you big ugly lummox!”
Dr. Luca Ricossa has made a YouTube recording of this Sequence!
If there’s a more beautiful setting of this text, I don’t know what it could be.
Fulton J. Sheen reminded us: “Many a pontiff goes through life without making a single infallible decision … not one.”
A USCCB statement: singing psalms at Mass “may create problems” … ?
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The Fulton J. Sheen Missal (1961) does something rather puzzling…
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