Tag: “General Instruction of the Roman Missal (GIRM)” (45 posts)
“In aeternum cantabo”
April 24, 2009 by — 0 comments.
Fr. Mark Daniel Kirby, who blogs at Vultus Christi, offers what he calls a “modest contribution” to the discussion on New Liturgical Movement (and by extension the MusicaSacra Forum and this blog post) surrounding the question “Can Hymns Licitly Replace Propers?” In fact, the contribution ends up being much more valuable than how he describes [...]
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Credo I, in segmented mp3 files
April 18, 2009 by — 5 comments.
The Second Vatican Council called for steps to be taken so that the faithful may also be able to say or to sing together in Latin those parts of the Mass which pertain to them, regardless of how predominant the usage of the vernacular could and indeed has become.[1] Given the widespread musical illiteracy of [...]
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Spirituality; Uncategorized.
“Worship must not become the province of ideology”
April 17, 2009 by — 1 comment.
Benedictine Father Leo Chamberlain writes this piece for Britain’s Catholic Herald, reproduced in full below (links, footnotes, comments, and emphases added):
Clarifications were promised quite a long time ago on Pope Benedict’s Motu Proprio[1] and letter to bishops. In fact, all that is needed is to follow the whole guidance given.
A few minimise the possibilities offered [...]
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“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, what [...]
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Contemporary Religious Music; Devotional Music.
“Some thoughts on liturgical music”
February 28, 2009 by — 0 comments.
Matthew Newsome of the Western Carolina University Catholic Campus Ministry contributes this post on liturgical music as it stands today. He makes the following observation about the various options for music allowed by the liturgy:
The end result, unfortunately, of taking all of these “options” (even those we don’t really have) is chaos. You don’t know [...]
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Campus Ministry; Liturgical Reform.
Unwritten memo to composers: “Set the propers”
September 24, 2008 by — 1 comment.
In light of all of the liturgical music reform verbiage coming from diverse places like official Church organs and bloggers like myself, and as a result of reading Jeffrey Tucker’s recent reflections on William Byrd’s settings of the Mass propers, it seems that there is an implied directive to today’s and tomorrow’s composers of sacred [...]
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Contemporary Religious Music; Liturgical Reform.
A three-year parish-level liturgical music outline
August 14, 2008 by — 0 comments.
Those with the time may be interested to view the Long Range Liturgical Outline published by Jeffrey Herbert, Director of Music for the Church of the Incarnation in Sarasota, Florida. The outline is intended to cover three liturgical cycles beginning with the First Sunday of Advent 2008.
Some highlights from the 2008-2009 plan:
The Communion hymn will [...]
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Liturgical Reform; Program Planning.
The propers from one layman’s point of view
August 11, 2008 by — 0 comments.
Paul Madrid who blogs at Do Geese See God? writes the following as a lead-in to his post about church music:
Today during Mass I was reminded of an idea I had several months ago: Mass music really needs to start using the propers again.
This idea does not necessarily mean going back to the music from [...]
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Contemporary Religious Music; Liturgical Reform.
Sing to the Lord, available in print from the USCCB
June 10, 2008 by — 0 comments.
Rich Leonardi alerts us to the USCCB’s printed edition of Sing to the Lord: Music in Divine Worship. While the document was originally issued on November 14 of last year, and a PDF version is available from the website of the conference’s Committee on Divine Worship, their edition may be had for $9.95.
Rich reminds us:
It’s [...]
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Music and liturgy, musicians and liturgists – today on BlogTalkRadio
April 26, 2008 by — 0 comments.
At 5PM EDT, Host Brian “Commander Craig” invites Fr. Joseph Fessio, SJ, Todd Flowerday of Catholic Sensibility, and Jeffrey Tucker of Sacred Music to discuss liturgy and music planning for the Sixth Sunday of Easter, Year A in the Ordinary Form of the Roman Rite.
Those who wish to see what the Church generally teaches about [...]
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Catholic Punditry; Program Planning.
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