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Cardinal Cupich: "The Gift of Traditionis Custodes"
From the article: ...because the word “reform” means something, namely that we leave behind a former way of celebrating the sacraments and adopt a new form. Seems to me the good cardinal and I have different dictionaries. I thought when one reform…

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Cardinal Cupich: "The Gift of Traditionis Custodes"
This. If he's right, then breaking with earlier forms (which derived from the unchanging deposit of faith) is.... staying with them? I remember a great many people (including the good Cardinal) saying things like "The whole point of the co…

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All Souls 2021
As a footnote, I suspect contemporary secular culture has something to do with it too. We are now a very death-obsessed culture.

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All Souls 2021
Why does All Souls seem to be bigger than All Saints when All Saints is a Holy Day of Obligation and All Souls isn't? Most of us know many people who have died. Few of us know saints personally. I'd also note that one is a celebration…

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Gloria incipit
Whether St. Pius X intended for TLS to bind the universal Church or not, it needs to be kept in mind that he began making exceptions almost immediately, starting with Vienna It is clear from what you've quoted above (thank you) that TLS was ind…

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Rewriting Words of Polyphony
And just so we are clear here, as it’s being referenced again in the article that I literally have in my lap at the moment, here is the official decree that was included as a part of the decree “concerning things to be observed and avoided in the ce…

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Rewriting Words of Polyphony
I will say that it is documented in the discussions and various remarks by bishops that they didn’t like when secular motets were adapted into masses since the material upon which they were based was profane. So I wouldn’t adapt some secular motet …

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Rewriting Words of Polyphony
I’m not sure where you got that idea about Trent. I’m currently in the middle of my fourth JSTOR article about Trent and sacred music and there’s an acknowledgement that words should be intelligible, but I’ve yet to see a single reference about not…

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Gloria incipit
Fr. Anthony Ruff's Sacred Music and Liturgical Reform Well I went yahoogling and so far, no preview. Even the KINDLE version is $75. yeesh.

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Gloria incipit
"An exception does not a rule break." I'd like to know more about these exceptions, though. Is there anything you can point me to?

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Gloria incipit
While I am feeling provocative - TLS is not universal legislation. It was written in Italian precisely because it is an instruction for the diocese of Rome, from the bishop to his episcopal vicar. It does not claim to be liturgical law except for th…

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Dies Irae as a sequence on All Souls on the Novus Ordo
Caleferink, I don't think that anyone is arguing that lack of prohibition means cart blanche. That's certainly not how I approach the liturgy. My observation, better articulated by Chris, was that if it was immemorial custom (and was in …

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French hymn writer
Goodness me— #9 is even better! Au fond des btrûlants abîmes, loin de Dieu nous gémisons, pour la peine de nos crimes, que de larmes nous versons. Priez pour nous! Pour sauver tant de victimes, Frères, tombez à genoux! At the bottom of the burning …

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French hymn writer
I love #5 from the collection linked by the OP: À la mort, à la mort, pécheur tout finira. Le Signeur à la mort te jugera. ... Viens, pécheur, près du cercuil, viens con fondre ton fol orgueil; ce que ton cœur estime tant s'évanouit dans u…

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Editions of the Roman Gradual
The additional signs in the Triplex also eat up the space volunteers need to pencil in their personal notes (“look up”, “faster”, “hold”, “not loud”, that sort of silly thing). Very true. It's a very cluttered layout. The editors should ha…

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Dies Irae as a sequence on All Souls on the Novus Ordo
The principle is, actually, IF it has been lawfully permitted in the past, over a long period of time and in continuous use, then it can not be implicitly banned. Chris, you hit the nail on the head. Thank you for articulating this more clearly t…

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Dies Irae as a sequence on All Souls on the Novus Ordo
Lack of inclusion as “ordinary” is not necessarily the same thing as “suppressed”. One is passive, one is active. Sequences, while not the norm, are not “suppressed” per se, are they? I’ve never heard of such a decree. Clearly some were retained…

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Bishop Provost - Lake Charles - Letter on Traditionis Custodes
Thank God.

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Editions of the Roman Gradual
Just to be clear: are you novus ordo or vetus ordo? If novus, then I'd recommend the gregorian missal since it includes some translations which are very useful for laypeople. I have the novum; it's OK, but not my favorite. I despise t…

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Dies Irae as a sequence on All Souls on the Novus Ordo
Here's a link for a google translation of the italian: https://www-vatican-va.translate.goog/content/benedict-xv/it/bulls/documents/hf_ben-xv_bulls_19150810_incruentum-altaris.html?_x_tr_sl=it&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=nui

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Dies Irae as a sequence on All Souls on the Novus Ordo
In the missal of 1970, there is a footnote that says, On this day, any Priest may celebrate three Masses, observing, nevertheless, what was established by Benedict XV in the Apostolic Constitution, Incruentum altaris sacrificium, August 10, 1915. T…

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Coffee table book on pipe organs
Pipe Organs of the Rich and Famous is an excellent tome with wonderful old photographs: https://www.amazon.com/Pipe-Organs-Famous-Rollin-Smith/dp/1494966069/ref=asc_df_1494966069/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=312166025508&hvpos=&…

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"Hail, Jesus Truly Present," a Eucharistic hymn in honor of Bl. Carlo Acutis
Anna, not only do I love the text, but the music is a cut above. The Chistus Vincit refrain was very clever and an excellent choice.

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Your favourite Masses
Not to derail the thread again, but I happened to be trawling around for a nice quote about sacred music for the worship aid this week and I stumbled across this line in De Musica Sacra et Sacra Liturgia (1958) which jumped out to me in light of wha…

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Your favourite Masses
I positively love Christoph Dalitz’s Missa Tribus Vocibus. There are recordings of each movement on my Serviam Scores YouTube channel. It is wonderful; it is composed in the vein of the renaissance masses of yore but it is short enough and comes i…

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Truth or Lies
I don't think the records keeping is as accurate as we would all like. In oodles of cases it is deliberately dishonest. We aren't talking clerical errors here... we are talking agendas. #endrant

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Truth or Lies
Looks more like 2% to me, It is well known and widely reported that oodles of people have been marked as "covid deaths" even though they were not. It is so bad that people dying in car wrecks are being listed as covid deaths after being t…

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Regina Caeli
I would say so. Straight descending runs like that are often intended to imitate a peal; in my mind there is sufficient enough of a trope here to be reasonably obvious.

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Article: Why the Novus Ordo Needs Gregorian Chant
We had our first reappearance of an EMHO just the other day and I was soooooo disappointed. I just don’t get it. I grew up with priests who would alternate line a, line b, line a, etc. and it worked just fine. In fairness to my pastor, it was bec…

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Article: Why the Novus Ordo Needs Gregorian Chant
More use of the vernacular since there never was anything particularly sacred about Latin. Exorcists have much to say about this. There was nothing special about water until Jesus instructed that everyone should be baptized. Similarly, the latin…

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