PDF Download • “Entrance Chant in English” (19th Sunday in Ordinary Time)
Including twelve (12) different versions!
Rev Fr Adrian Fortescue Liturgy
PDF Download • “Entrance Chant” for the 17th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Years ABC)
Including ten (10) alternate versions!
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.
Documentation • “In the Olden Days, Was Vernacular Sung During Liturgical Services?”
Including a splendid harmonization of “Holy God, We Praise Thy Name.”
Update (25 April) • “Forthcoming Spanish Hymnal”
“When our people have the courage to break resolutely with a bad tradition, there are unworked mines of religious poetry in the old hymns that we can use in translations.” —Father Adrian Fortescue
“Strangest Of All…” • (Fortescue)
In his illustrious 1912 tome—The Mass: A Study Of The Roman Liturgy—Father Adrian Fortescue spoke of sequences, writing: “Strangest of all were the vernacular sequences in France and Germany, or those partly vernacular and partly Latin.” Our volunteer choir experimented with that on Holy Thursday, mixing Latin verses with an English refrain. For the record, […]
“Victimæ Paschali Laudes” • Thirty-One (31) Different Versions — Including Organ Accompaniments
This version by Father Adrian Fortescue is fascinating!
Josquin Des Prez Was A Vandal • (Not Kidding)
Also included: the day my life changed forever.
“Ite, Missa Est” • What Does That Actually Mean?
Bishop Ambo’s assertion that Mass was attended—for centuries—by a single woman (and nobody else) is bizarre.
Must We “Love” All Gregorian Chant?
Where “Parce Dómine” (the famous song for Lent) came from.
PDF Download • “Hymn for the Feast of All Saints” (Released for the First Time in History!)
“Each day Father Knox would write for his students a Latin poem describing events of the previous day.” —Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen
“Seventy-Three (73) Changes” • Which Pope Pius XII Made to Holy Week
If we feel compelled to condemn these changes, let’s at least spend time learning what they are!
Eleven (11) Rare Lenten Hymns You’ve Not Sung!
“Our hymnbooks know nothing of such a treasure as this, and give us pages of poor sentiment in doggerel lines by some tenth-rate modern versifier.” —Father Fortescue
Sequence For Martin Luther? • (Sung to the melody of “Victimae Paschali Laudes”)
Dr. Luca Ricossa has made a YouTube recording of this Sequence!
“Victimæ Paschali Laudes” • Nineteen (19) Organ Accompaniments
Including a remarkable musical setting by Father Adrian Fortescue (d. 1923).