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The Summa of St. Thomas Aquinas
Charles ^^^^

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"Deep" question
A secondary (IMO) purpose of the choir is to support the congregation’s singing. Of course, if the choir embraces no liturgical “identity” of its own, then singing with the congregation becomes the choir’s primary function … though, at that point, o…

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The Summa of St. Thomas Aquinas
CharlesW I wonder where you might have run across that thinking... do you have any idea?

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"Deep" question
From newadvent.org: Schola Cantorum A place for the teaching and practice of ecclesiastical chant, or a body of singers banded together for the purpose of rendering the music in church. In the primitive Church the singing was done by the clergy, b…

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Prepping for pandemic.
Social Security checks and pensions in hand Don't put them in the bank...

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The Summa of St. Thomas Aquinas
Thanks Gregory. Excellent analysis! This is one of the questions in my son's home school religion course. The questions were based on this encyclical. http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/leo_xiii/encyclicals/documents/hf_l-xiii_enc_04081879_aet…

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Books that all composers need: Suggestions.
RR I just read your post after I posted my list... right on.

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Books that all composers need: Suggestions.
The Art of Fugue The Musical Offering Goldberg Variations Well Tempered Clavier If you read those (at the keyboard), at least 100 times for each one, and simultaneously study the vertical and horizontal theory, you will be able to compose in a simi…

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The Four Ends of Mass
melo are you the organist?

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The Four Ends of Mass
ronkrisman Especially the first one.

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Catholic Musicians in Protestant Churches
Catholics cannot worship (or work) in a Protestant (that includes Episcopal) church. It is a cause for scandal. Especially as a musician.

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Thinking of Resigning
Been there, done that. If you want to keep your job, just become the piano player (and the guitar player). It's hard to swallow your pride, but that's the way it goes. Intimidation and usurping your responsibilities is the first way that p…

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Our response to "Rebuilt"?
More phrases in the article that... make me think, wince, wonder, cry and pray, "God forgive them, they know not what they do" As Rebuilt makes clear, the “weekend experience” They are quite explicit that the style of music itself is sec…

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Nec omne quod splendet aurum est …
Pleraque fulgentibus aurum non

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All Are Welcome!.. Really?
SIR A true priest. God bless and protect him.

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All Are Welcome!.. Really?
rollingrj We are going to create a very "nu" kind of hymnal! :0

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All Are Welcome!.. Really?
O give me a home Where the scholas do roam Where there's beer and the organists play Where seldom is heard Any Haugen or Hurd Where a person can actually pray. Faith, Hope, Charity O when will you come back to me? When the dogma comes back Fro…

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All Are Welcome!.. Really?
So flee the cash foundation And join the motley crew Who live in caves down under And drink th'authentic brew They sing the chant of ages And live the bygone rules That Nu-Church has relinquished In favor of the fools.

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All Are Welcome!.. Really?
So I turned in the keys and purchased a Ford A vehicle that I can trust!

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Our response to "Rebuilt"?
MJO Never said anything about a monopoly on beauty. Just making a point about where you are more likely to find it.

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Our response to "Rebuilt"?
I think most of that attention to detail thing is found in those EF people.

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Our response to "Rebuilt"?
Adam: Don't give the novelty crowd ideas! Next we will be seeing the Electric Mass!

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Communion Meditation At Today's Mass
The waste, The waste To pour the wine Into the murky flow To watch the joy Of all men's hearts Go lapping down the Gorge. The pain, The pain To see the beer Head bobbing down the Rhine Like murdered victim dumped for dead My precious, What a c…

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Communion Meditation At Today's Mass
MJO The waste, the waste, the waste, the crime, the crime, the crime.

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Communion Meditation At Today's Mass
Also, he was playing a tune without knowing what he was playing. This guy was playing a tune to remind us of a joke about throwing all the booze in the world into a river. Also, I never mentioned the problem that it would be a crime to dump expensi…

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Communion Meditation At Today's Mass
Noel: If the the deacon had said something serious about Gathering at the River, it would have been a completely different situation. That fact that the organist PLAYED off a joke and did this during communion meditation is just unbelievable. It is…

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Communion Meditation At Today's Mass
ryand To whom are you directing the last comment?

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Organ Recital Oddities -
Allan: At that point I would stop playing in the middle of the piece, take off one of my organ shoes and holding it up to the camera man while pointing inside, ask, "Tell me. Does this smell funny?"

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Communion Meditation At Today's Mass
I will tell you what is appropriate: Either the Te Deum or the Anima Christi or something with the same sentiment. That is all.

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Communion Meditation At Today's Mass
MJO: I believe all of it borders on sacrilege if it hasn't fallen over the edge.

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