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Is the Sign of Peace a Problem?
Fr. Jan Larsen of Seattle offers the following thought on the Sign of Peace: The greeting of peace is still a part of our liturgical prayer, really a kind of blessing that we exchange with those...
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The Sign of Peace (part 2) - A Liturgical Commentary Set to Music
Just for fun, friends. You might need give the video a few moments to get started. Thanks to Mr. David Williams, the creator of this montage. (Click on these links for explanations of very British...
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Power Ballads or Hymns?
Glad to see the American Spectator comment on a controversy in Christian worship. The article is long on what's wrong but short on what's right. But that's ok; that's our job. When the power ballad...
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St. Joseph's Name Added to All the Canons
Fr. Zuhlsdorf reports that an official decree has been issued by the Congregation for Divine Worship, adding the name of Saint Joseph to the Second, Third and Fourth Eucharistic Prayers, as it was...
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Beauty Comes in Threes - From Assisi to the Basilica of St Francis of Assisi...
Look at this photograph of St Clare's in Assisi, which is top in the series of photographs below, and at the Basilica of St Francis of Assisi in Santa Fe New Mexico, which is second. The first is 13th...
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Five Ways to Ruin the Mass
I'm at the Sacred Music Colloquium this week, and this article from Crisis today is the fruit of a few conversations. I limited my list to five but it could of course be expanded. Still, fixing these...
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Photos of the Opening Mass of the CMAA Colloquium
Here are some photographs of the Opening Mass of the Church Music Association of America's Colloquium at the Cathedral of the Madeleine in Salt Lake City earlier today. The Celebrant was the Reverend...
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Charles Cole's Organ Recital Last night
Last night's organ recital by Charles Cole (NLM blogger!) was truly a revelation. The organ at the Cathedral of the Madeleine in Salt Lake with Cole (London Oratory) at the helm provided an experience...
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Music of the Ordinary Form (It only took 50 years to stabilize)
After so many years of working in the world of Catholic music, I finally experienced what I had long hoped and prayed for: a complete, ready-to-sing package of chanted music for the ordinary form of...
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Msgr. Andrew Wadsworth on a Life of Liturgy and Music
Here is the talk from yesterday by the executive director of ICEL from the Sacred Music Colloquium. It covers lots of biographical material and concludes with an update on the new translation of the...
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Archbishop Sample's brilliant (and historic) talk at the CMAA Colloquium
Archbishop Sample gave a lecture to the CMAA Colloquium this afternoon. You can hear the audio here. (Photo: Charles Cole)
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Pontifical Mass celebrated by Archbishop Sample at the Cathedral of the...
Photographs of the Pontifical Mass celebrated by Archbishop Sample at the Cathedral of the Madeleine in Salt Lake City, Utah today during the CMAA's Colloquium. (Photos: Charles Cole & Joseph...
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Come to Our Blognic in Rome!
Since three of the writers of NLM will be in Rome during the Sacra Liturgia conference next week, (our new editor, Jeffrey Tucker, David Clayton and myself) we thought it would be fun to get together...
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Extraordinary Form Requiem Mass in Salt Lake City
Here are photographs of Thursday's Requiem Mass in the Extraordinary Form for deceased CMAA Members at the Madeleine Cathedral in Salt Lake City. Monsignor Andrew Wadsworth, Executive Director of...
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What the Requiem Mass Meant to Me
"Catholicism is the only religion to die in," wrote Oscar Wilde in a private letter to a friend. And, sure enough, he did. His final words on this earth were from the Act of Contrition. He received the...
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Christ Carrying the Cross - Painting from the Russian school of art in...
Following on from an earlier posting about the Russian school in Florence, Italy which teaches the academic method as it was practiced in Russia in the 19th century, I would like to draw readers'...
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Friday's Extraordinary Form Mass at the CMAA Colloquium in Salt Lake City
More photographs from the Sacred Music Colloquium in Salt Lake City: on Friday the Memorial of St Aloysius Gonzaga was celebrated in the Extraordinary Form by CMAA's Chaplain Fr Robert Pasley at the...
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Vespers in the Extraordinary Form in Salt Lake City
Vespers in the Extraordinary Form was sung on Friday at the Sacred Music Colloquium at the Madeleine Cathedral in Salt Lake City. The two men's and women's Scholas sang the psalmody and a polyphonic...
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Fr. George Rutler on Liturgical Narcissism
FROM THE PASTOR June 23, 2013 By Fr. George W. Rutler Any young man called to the priesthood must be like St. Paul: “It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me” (Galatians 2:20). This is...
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Saturday at the Sacred Music Colloquium in photos
These photographs were taken on Saturday at the Madeleine Cathedral in Salt Lake City during the CMAA Sacred Music Colloquium. The Reverend Jonathan Gaspar celebrated a Votive Mass of the Blessed...
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