Tag: “Second Vatican Council” (27 posts)
Russian Orthodox theologian: How is the Catholic Church’s reform experience useful for us
May 20, 2009 by — 1 comment.
Archpriest Maksim Kozlov (Максима Козлова), a Russian Orthodox theologian and commentator on Catholic-Orthodox relations, shared his thoughts on the life of the Roman Catholic Church after the Second Vatican Council in this interview posted on the website of the Russian Patriarchate. An English translation of this interview was provided by Oleg-Michael Martynov to the blog [...]
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Archbishop Weakland and the rise of the “hootenanny Mass”
May 13, 2009 by — 6 comments.
The following excerpt (with emphases added) is taken from p. 22–23 of the PDF edition of Cum Angelis Canere: Essays on Sacred Music and Pastoral Liturgy in Honour of Richard J. Schuler. Robert A. Skeris, ed., St. Paul MN: Catholic Church Music Associates, 1990, Appendix—6, pp. 349–419. Originally published in Sacred Music in seven parts. [...]
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Participatio actuosa and the next generation of church musicians
April 28, 2009 by — 1 comment.
Here’s a thoughtful post from Mara Joy, who with others in her generation will be responsible for parish music programs in the near future. Reproduced below with footnotes, links, comments, and emphases: In addition to my usual interest in all things liturgical and musical, I have recently decided that I am going to back to [...]
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“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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Singing the Mass versus singing at Mass – the last word?
April 23, 2009 by — 4 comments.
An article from Susan Benofy, published in the November 2007 edition of the Adoremus Bulletin with the title “Singing the Mass: we cannot say that one song is as good as another”, is making the rounds at the MusicaSacra Forum and the New Liturgical Movement. Read the article here. The focus of the discussion centers [...]
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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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“Maine-taining” the tradition of Gregorian chant
April 14, 2009 by — 0 comments.
George Myers, Jr. of the Kennebec Journal interviews Jay Violette, a Catholic layman promoting the spirituality of Gregorian chant in central Maine (links, footnotes, emphases, and comments added): Gregorian chanting helps renew his faith WATERVILLE — Jay Violette shares the Holy Spirit in a way that few can nowadays. [But that is changing through personal [...]
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“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 [...]
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Program notes for music selected for the March for Life bus trip
January 28, 2009 by — 2 comments.
Below are some program notes for the Gregorian chant compilation CD I put together for our parish’s March for Life bus trip last week–you know, the event (what event?) you only hear about in the blogosphere (what blogosphere?). All errors are my own. The full program is downloadable in PDF format after the jump.
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Two devalued cents on the SSPX situation and those who would comment on it
January 25, 2009 by — 1 comment.
Pundits and would-be pundits who don’t have a grounding in the liturgical angle of this decision are missing a big part of the picture. I would even go so far as to say that pundits and would-be pundits who would weigh in on this decision without considering its liturgical angle — in light of the [...]
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