Tag: “Catholic Church” (46 posts)
“The Good, the Bad and the Ugly”
March 14, 2009 by — 1 comment.
Fr. Dwight Longenecker, a convert from Anglicanism, provides this reflection on church music. While not claiming to know everything there is about it, he does make some points that have been made by others before him. What we must do is trying to choose liturgical music is sort out some basic questions: First of all, [...]
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Contemporary Religious Music; Devotional Music.
Fr. Dwight Longenecker on Gregorian chant
December 23, 2008 by — 0 comments.
Fr. Dwight Longenecker, a convert to Catholicism from Evangelical Protestantism, reflects on his first encounter with Gregorian chant when he was a student at Bob Jones University (my emphases in bold): I was suddenly transported both back in time to a more mystical, monastic and medieval age. It was easy to feel romantic about it [...]
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Spirituality.
Three recent posts on reviving Gregorian chant, juxtaposed
June 12, 2008 by — 1 comment.
Chironomo poses the question: Can Catholic laity save sacred music? He answers his own question thusly: The answer may be “yes”, but then the question becomes “how long will we be willing to keep trying”. Even the most fanatical advocates will draw the line at some point if their efforts aren’t acknowledged and rewarded. My [...]
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"What the Church Can Learn from Modern Media"
April 10, 2008 by — 1 comment.
The priestly blogger at Adam’s Ale compares the Catholic Church with UPS (no, really): Look at a news program talking about something bad happening in the Church. The images they throw up on the screen scream, “CATHOLIC CHURCH!” Listen to what is in the background. Is it guitar playing, bread and wine drinking, vaguely heretical [...]
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A tale of two church music journals, in their own words
January 22, 2008 by — 0 comments.
Recently the Church Music Association of America released most of their Sacred Music journal archives from 1975-2007 in PDF format. Some months prior to this, the National Association of Pastoral Musicians made their Pastoral Music journal archives, of basically the same time period, freely available in the same format. I was beginning to write a [...]
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Relevant Reading.
Mediator Dei ¶4-6: The Liturgical Revival
November 25, 2007 by — 0 comments.
Paragraphs 4-6 of Mediator Dei recall the grassroots origins of the Liturgical Movement that took root in the late 19th century and continued throughout the 20th century, right through the publishing of this encyclical. These paragraphs serve to emphasize the good fruits that resulted in the actions of the Liturgical Movement. (My emphases in boldface).
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Four cents’ worth of comments on P&W music
November 17, 2007 by — 0 comments.
There was a letter to the editor of Zenit recently concerning an article that highlighted the PIMS director’s favor for the establishment of a curial office for sacred music. The author of the letter desired that the role of “praise and worship” music* be affirmed for church services (based on my colored reading of the [...]
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Catholic Punditry; Contemporary Religious Music.
What could well be the ultimate Catholic WordPress plugin
November 15, 2007 by — 0 comments.
I don’t remember exactly how I stumbled upon this plugin, but Catholic Reference Extension by Pistos at Catholicism Computes has the potential to become the Catholic WordPress plugin of the millennium. I’m using it now to allow readers to view the Douay-Rheims translations of the propers and readings of the Mass within the page with [...]
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Plugins.
"NAPM Convention held in Milwaukee" – thoughts, critiques and ideas
July 9, 2005 by — 30 comments.
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