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Tag: “Roman Rite (Extraordinary Form; Usus Antiquior)” (90 posts)

“These choices and options are not liberating; they are oppressive.”

July 11, 2010 by Aristotle A. Esguerra — 3 comments.

JT on preparing the CMAA Colloquium’s Ordinary-Form Mass: We’ve found that in preparing the colloquium, the largest share of work goes to one Mass: [Ordinary Form] in English. The complications are endless. It takes forever. These choices and options are not liberating; they are oppressive. The politics are excruciating. It takes too many mornings, days, [...]

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Tags: Church Music Association of America; Jeffrey Tucker; Liber Usualis; Roman Rite (Extraordinary Form; Usus Antiquior); Roman Rite (Ordinary Form); Sacred Music Colloquium.

“The Priest as Mediator: A Conversation with Rev. Allan J. McDonald”

February 5, 2010 by Aristotle A. Esguerra — 0 comments.

The NLM’s Arlene Oost-Zinner recently conducted an interview with Fr. McDonald, the current pastor of St. Joseph Catholic Church in Macon, Georgia and author of the Southern Orders blog. Among the topics touched on are: his seminary formation in the 1970s, his longtime lack of access to music proper to the Roman Rite, a thoughtful [...]

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Tags: Arlene Oost-Zinner; Fr. Allan J. McDonald; Roman Rite (Extraordinary Form; Usus Antiquior); Roman Rite (Ordinary Form); St. Joseph's Church (Macon).

The CMAA Colloquium XIX Documentary

January 24, 2010 by Aristotle A. Esguerra — 1 comment.

SACRED, BEAUTIFUL, & UNIVERSAL: Colloquium XIX from Corpus Christi Watershed on Vimeo. See also the Sacred Music Colloquium FAQ.

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Tags: Arlene Oost-Zinner; Church Music Association of America; Corpus Christi Watershed; Fr. Jeffrey Keyes CPPS; Horst Buchholz; Jeffrey Tucker; Kevin Allen; Loyola University; Mary Ann Carr-Wilson; Roman Rite (Extraordinary Form; Usus Antiquior); Roman Rite (Ordinary Form); Sacred polyphony; Scott Turkington; Wilko Brouwers; William Mahrt.

Solemn Pontifical Mass in NYC for the Feast of the Annunciation

January 20, 2010 by Aristotle A. Esguerra — 0 comments.

Via Fr. Zuhlsdorf: I had this nice piece of news in my mailbox today: His Eminence Edward Card. Egan, Archbishop Emeritus of New York, accepted the invitation of the Agnus Dei Council of the Knights of Columbus in New York City to celebrate a Solemn Pontifical Mass in the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite [...]

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Tags: Edward Cardinal Egan; Knights of Columbus; New York City; Pontifical Mass; Roman Rite (Extraordinary Form; Usus Antiquior).

R.I.P. Joyce Linton

January 13, 2010 by Aristotle A. Esguerra — 1 comment.

Thanks to Art Bryan Manabat, a member of the schola I used to lead at the Saturday afternoon Extraordinary-Form Masses at Holy Innocents Church in midtown Manhattan, for bringing to my attention the death of one of our ad-hoc choristers, Joyce Linton, the “lady with the voice”. Her funeral Mass, celebrated as an Extraordinary-Form missa [...]

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Tags: Art Bryan Manabat; Funerals; Holy Innocents Church (New York City); New York City; Roman Rite (Extraordinary Form; Usus Antiquior).

Music planning in the simplified Roman Rite: an e-mail exchange

November 5, 2009 by Aristotle A. Esguerra — 0 comments.

Here’s an e-mail exchange concerning daily-Mass propers in the Ordinary Form between me and a volunteer at my new position. Permission was granted for me to post this. Volunteer’s remarks are in bold. (For entertainment purposes only; trust, but verify. Corrections and clarifications welcome!) Here’s a question for you: for daily Masses, where do you [...]

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Tags: Graduale Romanum; Humor; Propers; Roman Missal; Roman Rite (Extraordinary Form; Usus Antiquior); Roman Rite (Ordinary Form).

Selected audio from the All Souls Day Pontifical Mass in NYC

November 4, 2009 by Aristotle A. Esguerra — 2 comments.

Below are selected audio files from Monday’s Pontifical Requiem Mass in the Extraordinary Form, celebrated by James C. Timlin, Bishop Emeritus of Scranton at

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Tags: Amy Justman; Archie Worley; Bishop James C. Timlin; Bruce Rameker; Charles Sprawls; Chris Rosselli; David Adam Smith; Gregorian Chant; Gregory Purnhagen; Holy Innocents Church (New York City); Jamet Pittman; Katie Geissinger; Margery Daley; Marty Kruger; Pontifical Mass; Roman Rite (Extraordinary Form; Usus Antiquior); Sacred polyphony; Silvie Jensen; Tomas Luis de Victoria.

Fr. McAfee – “I can describe the liturgy in one word…”

September 27, 2009 by Aristotle A. Esguerra — 5 comments.

…Amid the chorus of angels, there is but one word spoken… One solitary word, which the cherubim and seraphim utter before the majesty of the cosmic liturgy of the glorified Lamb once slain, but now risen. And that word, that simple word, that glorious, triumphant word…is… So begins the conclusion of Fr. Franklin McAfee’s homily [...]

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Tags: Fr. Franklin M. McAfee; Roman Rite (Extraordinary Form; Usus Antiquior); Solemn High Mass (Missa Solemnis).

Gregorian chant and polyphony from the CMAA Pilgrimage to the National Shrine

September 27, 2009 by Aristotle A. Esguerra — 21 comments.

Below are the chant and polyphony files from yesterday evening’s Solemn High Mass according to the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite, celebrated in honor of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the Crypt Church of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C. at the conclusion of the CMAA Fall [...]

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Tags: Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception; Church Music Association of America; Fr. Franklin M. McAfee; Fr. John Fritz; Fr. Paul Scalia; Gregorian Chant; Palestrina; Peter Latona; Roman Rite (Extraordinary Form; Usus Antiquior); Scott Turkington; Solemn High Mass (Missa Solemnis); Washington D.C.; William Byrd.

The Liber Usualis for iPhone and iPod Touch

September 23, 2009 by Aristotle A. Esguerra — 0 comments.

This announcement definitely isn’t for those who want to turn the clock back…all the way, anyway :¬) From an e-mail to Fr. Zuhlsdorf: My name is Michael Drake. Over the past months I have been working on an application that combines an electronic version of the 1961 Liber Usualis with the Roman Calendar (also 1961), [...]

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Tags: Apple (electronics); Divine Office; Fr. John Zuhlsdorf; Gregorian Chant; iPhone; iPod Touch; Liber Usualis; Liturgy of the Hours; Michael Drake; Roman Rite (Extraordinary Form; Usus Antiquior); Sung Mass (Missa Cantata).