CharlesW

Priest Leaves Parish
I have a priest friend who likes to observe that saving children from abortion is only part of the problem: we should be trying to save their souls. One can not (reasonably) separate care for the liturgy from pastoral care of the parish. Was just d…

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Priest Leaves Parish
Some "priest" work can be depressing over time. Doing beautiful liturgy has to be more pleasant than witnessing disease and death. I could see how that could wear a priest down. Seems to me both liturgy and ministry are important, but s…

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Oh no....the guitarist is back! ;-)
Our God is an awesome God!....." I prefer the dyslexic version, "our dog is an awesome dog." Some of the teenagers here have adopted the saying, "praise dog" when something goes well. Then there's the yooohooo song …

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Francis: "God Cannot Be God without Man." Yes, he really said that.
Many people find Pope Francis unsettling, if so avoid reading the news and do something fruitful. One of my good Eastern Catholic friends has decided to join Orthodoxy. Her reasoning is that having no pope is a better arrangement.

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Oh no....the guitarist is back! ;-)
LOL. Exactly. Given current conditions, that lack of authority might not be such a bad thing. ;-)

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Old Solesmes, anti-Solesmes, New Solesmes: The Eternal Question
Both, if you take a Jesuitical approach.

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Oh no....the guitarist is back! ;-)
It stems back to when I was making the transition from East to West; I was still steeped in the a cappella Liturgy of St. John of Chrysostom, ... Left the true faith for the Latins? Is both heresy and outrage!

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Old Solesmes, anti-Solesmes, New Solesmes: The Eternal Question
Dont strain at a gnat and swallow a camel. But then there would be no Latin theology left.

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That odd upside down generation gap, currently affecting young pastors
The only "high" mass anymore is when the priest and servers have been smoking weed.

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Old Solesmes, anti-Solesmes, New Solesmes: The Eternal Question
As one priest said about chant, "I hate that music. It makes my toes curl."

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Old Solesmes, anti-Solesmes, New Solesmes: The Eternal Question
Unfortunately, I encounter far too many people who say, "I hate chant." They don't distinguish between, or have any interest in, types of chant. They just hate it, period.

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Priest Leaves Parish
Sorry to intervene but this story is much more complicated than the article professes. The media has failed to tell all of the story. Where do we find the rest of the story?

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Priest Leaves Parish
I have met this priest and thought well of him. This is sad.

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Doing it all and how to do it well
The Methodist job could very well be God simply providing for your needs. If Catholic churches don't value their musicians and pay them fairly, perhaps God can open another door for them in another church, even if it is Protestant. The dark si…

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Reed Organ (Harmonium)
Yes, they have a couple of instruments in my city. They both seem to be in buildings that don't work that well with the instruments. One is in a Presbyterian church that is, in reality, a concrete rectangular box. The organ drowns out the ch…

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How is following the Agnus Dei rubrics even possible?
Feel free to use it at your parish. You're welcome. LMAO! They would crucify me. Hahaha

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Unleash the Gospel... but Respect the Liturgy
I agree, but the culture seems an easy target to blame for everything. It played its part, but had willing fools helping it along.

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Unleash the Gospel... but Respect the Liturgy
One of the things has helped cause the need for the gospel is goofy priests and prelates who haven't done a very good job of living it or proclaiming it. Everything bad can't be blamed on the culture. Many of the Catholic Church's w…

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Doing it all and how to do it well
but what does happen if they get lost? That hasn't happened so far. What they usually do is start to drag, so I put my left hand up and beat time for them. Oh yeah, anyone know much about handbells? I played handbells in college - the Indi…

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Doing it all and how to do it well
I do both and it seems to work out, but I think divine intervention often saves us. I avoid many problems by rehearsing heavily. The choir knows what comes next and there are never any surprises thrown at them. A DM at a neighboring parish once a…

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How is following the Agnus Dei rubrics even possible?
For how many parishes does the Fraction take longer than the Agnus Dei, sung 3 times? It doesn't in ours. I have never had to repeat it.

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Non-catholic substitute organists and hired instrumentalists
I think it is a mistake to assume cantors must be in front because of "regulations," because those regulations also state that another suitable place is acceptable. My cantors are in the loft. I can't communicate with a cantor who i…

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Reed Organ (Harmonium)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvWTbSR3vC0 I think I would rather have this instrument than the digital I have at home.

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Propers AND Hymns? Propers OR Hymns?
I have used Introits as preludes before the entrance hymns. We have no announcements until the end of the mass. The other Propers can be fitted into the mass. However, those hymns are not going anywhere but are here to stay.

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Sometimes I forget to practice for weddings...
I love this. I sent a link sometime back to a friend so he could hear it. He said it sounded like an elderly local organist who should have had the wisdom to quit playing. :-)

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Reed Organ (Harmonium)
My church had a reed organ from 1926 until 1953 when they raised enough money for a pipe organ. Not unusual, since those early years were spent raising funds for buildings and a school. "Reedies" were common in churches, homes, and even F…

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Reed Organ (Harmonium)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RMgTJE9N7I You might enjoy this. They were not bad instruments. This is a Mason & Hamlin American reed organ.

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Non-catholic substitute organists and hired instrumentalists
With only 70,000 Catholics in our entire diocese, subs are quite likely going to be Protestant, if not pagan or worse. The best thing to do is teach a couple of them the order of the mass, then use them as subs. I have had better luck teaching Epi…

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"On Eagle's Wings" at National Memorial Day Concert
Beagles wings. Snort...LOL

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ASCENSION LITURGIES: MMXVII
Dionysius Exiguus, or Dennis the Little, who created the Christian calendar in the 6th century, may have had records modern scholars would die for. But if they existed, they have been lost and are not available today to substantiate his conclusions…

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