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What's wrong with this picture?
eft94530, you know that and I know that -- but the guy on the liturgy committee who doesn't think that the St Louis Jeb's Mass not respecting the integrity of the text of the Mass is any problem for using it? and whose favorite song, whi…

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St. John Cantius Chicago featured on EWTN's "On Assignment"
Interesting wasn't it? Well done. I had rehearsal with my cantors last night, so my husband recorded it for me. (I'm fairly certain, upon watching it this morning, that he is in it.) Incidentally there is an organ recital there this we…

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What is public domain
That is a remarkably useful database! (Save the Liturgy, Save the World)

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What's wrong with this picture?
"Then there is the staff. They can be some of the most uninformed and malformed Catholics when it comes to appreciating proper liturgy, but yield the greatest influence and are determined to excersize it for their own agenda!" Amen. I beg…

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haydn Mass St. Peters, Petecost
The Agnus Dei during distribution of Communion certainly is striking, if not jarring, to some modern sensibilities. (Save the Liturgy, Save the World)

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What's wrong with this picture?
Our parish is using hard-cover hymnals in dire need of replacement specifically because they don't want to spend the money, (which they can well afford, not because we're rich, but because we're very well run,) until the new translati…

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Pianist looking for his first Catholic Hymnal
Those three all have their merits. I'd also suggest looking into others (some of which are only peripherally or not at all "Roman Catholic,") the Episcopal 1940, The New English Hymnal, our own Frogman Noel's The Catholic Hymnal…

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Chant Institute at St. Joseph's in Rensselaer, Indiana
Hmm. Hmm.... (Trying to recollect what mad money might be secreted in the pages of books, or loose change under the sofa cushions, or whatever around the house...) Save the Liturgy, Save the World

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Ban on secular music in Catholic wedding ceremony--quotes, please
You'll probably have to explain what "profane" means when the Church uses the term. Musicae sacrae disciplina - "[P]rogress in the art of music shows clearly how dear to the heart of the Church it was to make divine worship more…

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Bloggers at the Colloquium
I, who have one of the original home computers, (I think it was made by Thomas Edison....or do I mean Gutenberg?) am in jealous amazement of all of you with laptops :oP, and will be forced to make do with homing pigeons, and a string and two tin can…

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Bagpipes, funeral, "quiet pipes?"
Uilleann pipes, (as opposed to "war pipes",) a gentler sounding instrument, the bag of which is inflated by a bellows kept under the other arm, are not at all oppressive played indoors, even in relatively small, low-ceilinged rooms, (assum…

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Quinceneara Liturgy
Thank you so much, very helpful, especially that PDF of the Blessing. I'm guessing then, that the OCP suggestions have no more wieght than their music suggestions. (Save the Liturgy, Save the World)

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Graphics help needed
I moved it to JPG because it's my impression that tif files are not as scalable JPEG format is much more compact. It achieves great compression by compromising fine details of the original image. For this reason, JPEG is called a "lossy&qu…

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Eucharistic theology and prepositions, adverbs, nouns, O my!
"wondering... whether critical and more accurate word substitutions would positively reinforce orthodoxy" Not really on topic, or an answer to your originally posed questions, and no judgment on any of these specific songs, but this is an…

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Mandolin music in the churches?
mjballou, I should probably warn you that the last time I made an online joke about liturgical harmonica I received inquiries from a very nice, very sincere woman looking for a gift for her husband, and I felt churlish indeed... (Have a learned my …

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Can anyone explain this?? (RESP. PSALMS)
Yes, he gets the verses pretty close, I don't object to the text as a text. But since the single verse of refrain is all that the people will sing, I think it is an unacceptable abuse of the mnemonic power of music to have them sing that in pla…

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HOUSTON (“I Want to Walk as a Child of the Light”)
I had always assumed the composer was Catholic, and had adapted the tune from the Kyrie of the Missa de angelis. The words are puerile and clunky, but wholesomely scriptural. (I've noticed that the better musicians in the cantor corps complain …

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Can anyone explain this?? (RESP. PSALMS)
Does "...another musical setting" justify " Shepherd Me O God'"? as a responsorial psalm. Whatever common practice is, I, on no authority whatsoever, and no evidence but my own reasoning, would say not. What makes it a psal…

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Can Hymns replace propers
Superb idea, Pes. (Save the Liturgy, Save the World)

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Mandolin music in the churches?
My mother's church had an associate pastor for a while who played the mandolin and from time to time when he was no celebrating he would play for Mass (which I thought was a lovely change form the mindset that one HAS to concelebrate if availab…

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Seeking hymn tune name for "Jesus, Jesus, come to me"
Completely off-topic, I loved the word "treacly" as a pejorative until I discovered that the British call molasses "treacle." I will not brook disrespect to molasses. I don't want to start a fight or anything, but I am un…

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NPM chant division
Does anyone know, is there a way for NON-members of NPM to attend a session, e.g. "B 27 Making Chant Work in the Parish Community Anthony Ruff, OSB Discover the place of Latin chant in the larger context of using the unaccompanied voice in wors…

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Chants of the Church, Modern notes
isn't there a better way to do it? With stemless notes? Depends on your music setting/printing program. I have to invent meters such as 15/1, set everything as whole notes and then fill in some of the heads with a Sharpie. (I just can't a…

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Rooms at Colloquium
Ya just HAD to talk about that on a day I'm fasting, huh, Kathy....? ;o) Seriously, onion rings must be the one item I didn't try -- I think I gained about 20 pounds that week, and I don't regret a single scone or pork chop. AOZ, Go…

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Can you help me with a small editing project
This is no aid for something you want done today, but is there a Sacred Music "style book" that would explain what format you need articles in, so that people like me (abysmally ignorant,) would be able to offer real help? (Save the Litur…

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Sing to the Lord - Authority?
SttL is basically good, but non-binding because it was not submitted to Rome for recognition, advice. (Save the Liturgy, Save the World)

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Easter triduum: Reveal any positive happenings!
WJA, don't want to drag this off topic, but why has your parish not been having the Triduum? My personal highlight was a two-parter -- glancing at the congregation's progress to gauge how much more music we needed during the Veneration on…

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Chants for Confirmation
I think for a good chunk of the liturgical year you do the readings and propers assigned for the day, and in Ordinary time you may use a votive Mass of the Holy Spirit, unless your ordinary or his OofW has decreed otherwise. (Save the Liturgy, Save…

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B-flat instruments????
I do transpositions where needful. But my best occasional trumpeter, who can transpose at sight anyway, has a c trumpet! I find odd keys is a great way of keeping certain of the musical products of the Liturgical-Industrial complex OFF MY MUSIC STA…

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How many OT readings do you use at Easter Vigil?
how many of you do all the music (including all the psalms) a-capella up to the Gloria? We do. It was a great excuse for eliminating the favored sacchro-pop psalms that had been the norm. Other than our deacon starting the "Lumen Christi" …

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