Grand Rapids, Mich.
  • CGM
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    Anyone here from Grand Rapids? A friend of mine, a super-solid mezzo, may be moving to the area next year, and she'd like to get back into the "Sunday dose of chant and polyphony" circuit. Who should she talk to?
  • TJR
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    Jonathan Bading
    Director of Sacred Music At Sacred Heart in Grand Rapids.
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  • irishtenoririshtenor
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    Sacred Heart is where it's at in Grand Rapids. St. Mary's in Muskegon would be another good option.
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  • ServiamScores
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    And if she feels like a drive, St. Augustine cathedral in Kalamazoo. (Although we are working our way up to a better program and are still in the earlier stages. But we do have Chang every week and sing Latin constantly.)
  • StimsonInRehabStimsonInRehab
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    Look, I love Chinese food as much as the next guy - but why brag about eating out at P.F. Chang's every week?
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  • trentonjconn
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    More of a Panda Express man myself...
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  • Mattspmusic0320
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    We have a place in Kentucky that simply is named "Asian Place."
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  • francis
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    Latin and Chinese in the same liturgy Serviam? Multiculturalism strikes again.
  • ServiamScores
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    lol! I totally missed that typo.

    FWIW, our ordination was last weekend, and the worship aid had FIVE languages in it: Greek, Latin, English, Spanish, and… wait for it: BURMESE. A real doozy.
  • ServiamScores
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    Here it is.
    Paul Thuantho • Priestly Ordination 5-31-2025 • FINAL PRINT EDITION BLUE SM.pdf
    15M
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  • trentonjconn
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    If only there were...a universal liturgical language we could use...you know? (Purple)
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  • Cmanfro
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    Ecce Panis and eggrolls…. yea, I can see it.
  • francis
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    The enemy is all about division… he takes people’s differences and tries to make division. Skin color, nationality, language, culturalism… and the tower of babel goes on.

    Some of the “liturgical conferences” heavily promote this stuff. I’m OK you’re OK. Has nothing to do with unity and very focused on human differences.
  • ServiamScores
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    Trenton—I’ve been banging that drum for years. The last year I’ve more/less standardized Gregorian ordinaries at all diocesan functions. It’s a step in the right direction.

    (And the irony is that the immigrants that we seem so desperate to accommodate have an EASIER time with the Latin than us anglos… because their language is so much closer to the Latin. So far from making mass more difficult for them, it makes it easier!)
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  • a_f_hawkins
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    If only there were...a universal liturgical language we could use...you know?
    For nearly four centuries we had that, until Constantine's establishment of the imperial capital at Byzantium caused a political/cultural revival of Latin.
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  • Jeffrey Quick
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    we had that, until Constantine's establishment of the imperial capital at Byzantium caused a political/cultural revival of Latin

    What could that possibly be? It's Greek to me...
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