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The Mass Is Source and Summit of a Catholic Campus
Many of you may be following the Sacra Liturgia conference in Rome (Jeffrey has been writing more about it). The following is an exerpt of an article by one of the scholars present at the conference....
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Program for the Fota VI International Liturgy Conference in Cork, Ireland,...
The St. Colman's Society for Catholic Liturgy will be holding its sixth annual liturgical conference this coming weekend; the focus of the conference this year is on Sacrosanctum Concilium, the Second...
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The Contribution of Catherine Pickstock to Liturgical Renewal
Strolling through St. Peter's Basilica in Rome, 7:00am when the priests are saying their Masses, I saw something very instructive. I counted among the side altars at least 4 extraordinary form Masses...
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Traditional Confirmations in Vancouver
At Holy Family Parish in Vancouver, which has been covered here before, a confirmation was celebrated in the Extraordinary Form. Prayers from the NLM for the newly confirmed.
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Everything Sounds Better When Sung by 100 People
even when they have been recorded by my dinky little hand-held camera. This is the fifth antiphon of First Vespers of Ss. Peter and Paul, sung with Psalm 116, and followed by the Chapter.Aña: Thou...
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Benediction at St. Isidore, Grand Rapids, Michigan
I was truly taken aback last night. I thought I was attending a quiet and small Benediction service last night at St. Isidore, Grand Rapids, a parish I had never been too. I walked in to find 300 plus...
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The Transformation of Traditionalism
I always look forward to Fr. Christopher Smith's posts. He has a keen eye. I was at this conference but I learned from his post, which I reprint here. A conference like Sacra Liturgia 2013, from which...
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Lectures at the Sacred Music Colloquium 2013
There are some amazing recordings of music at the Colloquium. Consider this offertory chant from the first day. It is English. It is the liturgical text. It was not difficult. All of these singers met...
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Steal these recordings and use them
I'm going to post all of this amazing music from the colloquium and invite you to take it and use it as you want to. It is all part of the common culture. Remember that these are volunteer singers who...
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A beautiful Salve Regina from the Sarum Processional
Whilst at the Musica Sacra Colloquium in Salt Lake City last month, another member of the faculty, Jeffrey Morse, told me about this lovely and unique Salve Regina, with five tropes, from the Sarum...
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Holy Ghost, Tiverton, Rhode Island
It is always edifying to experience a Novus Ordo liturgy that manages to be what the Second Vatican Council actually had in mind. I recently had the pleasure of concelebrating such a Mass — a...
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The Sung Liturgy
As some of you who know me have seen in the past, I am a passionate advocate for the sung liturgy (a position supported by Vatican II, Jesus own chanting of the psalms as a faithful jew). Dr. Kurt...
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What are those strange squiggles in the Graduale Triplex?
Sacred Music is the name of the quarterly journal of the Church Music Association of America. In the most recent issue, I have an article entitled 'The Solesmes Chant Tradition: The Original Neumatic...
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What Can the Mathematics of Beauty and the Liturgy Offer to Scientists?
Readers may remember a recent article In which I wrote about how when one considers both the repeated cycles of the liturgy and that of the scales and harmonic intervals in music one sees in both the...
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Images from Sacra Liturgia 2013
I wouldn't even know where to begin in posting from the 1,000 plus images from Sacra Liturgia. So many are just breathtaking in their quality and in the moments they so beautifully evoke. I would only...
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The Pope Emeritus makes a rare appearance
Pope Francis was joined by Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI today for the blessing of a statue of St. Michael the Archangel and for the consecration of Vatican City to the protection of the saint. The...
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Is Traditionalism Really Transformed?
Fr. Christopher Smith responds to his critics: A few days ago I posted an article on Chant Café entitled Sacra Liturgia 2013 and the Transformation of Traditionalism. It was meant to be more a report...
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Evangelization vs. Copyright
Brandon Vogt really liked the new papal encyclical but noted that the Vatican only made it available in HTML. So he worked to convert it to PDF, epub, Mobi, and more, and then he gave away these...
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A First Mass and a "New" Salve Regina
This past Wednesday, Fr. Juan Tomás, a newly ordained priest of the Fraternity of St. Peter. celebrated his first solemn Mass in the Borghese Chapel of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome. Palestrina's Mass...
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Cathedral Renovation in Steubenville, OH
According to the June 21 edition of the The Steubenville Register, the diocesan newspaper of the Diocese of Steubenville, OH, there are currently plans to renovate Holy Name Cathedral, the cathedral...
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