ronkrisman

The proposed closing of Holy Innocents in NYC
Nemo potest ad impossibile obligari (Regulae Iuris in Sexto, no. 6) That trumps anything and everything in SP.

Comment by ronkrisman June 2014 permalink
The proposed closing of Holy Innocents in NYC
The larger picture is this: in Milwaukee, sound liturgy (EF or OF) is virtually non-existent, if one takes into account the totality of praxis including music. Oddly enough, the only other reliably decent Masses can be found only 4 blocks from St St…

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Interesting thread at PTB (new hymn text)
Thanks for the heads up, Melo. I'll check it out. I've never seen the text before, but my first impression is that it appears the hymnwriter wrote it to be sung to the tune DIADEMATA (since SMD tunes and texts are rather rare). If so, I c…

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Ordination Music
Thanks, Kathy. I had a quintuple lumbar laminectomy, spinal decompression, and fusion on April 15. Then recuperation at a parish across town since Holy Saturday afternoon. Two days ago the neurosurgeon told me I did not need to use a walker any long…

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Ordination Music
http://cdn.ocp.org/shared/pdf/preview/30101325.pdf

Comment by ronkrisman May 2014 permalink
Ordination Music
Archdiocese of Cincinnati: http://www.stpeterinchainscathedral.org/upload/Priesthood Ordination 2014.pdf

Comment by ronkrisman May 2014 permalink
New Responsorial Psalms for Advent, Year B
mrcopper, your comment appears to be contrasting an apple and an orange. The Simple Gradual contains simplified proper chants for various feasts and seasons of the liturgical year. Most "sets" include a responsorial psalm or an alleluia ps…

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Thoughts on restoring vs. replacing 129 year old pipe organ
Try looking on the ABOBA website to find a builder near you. It's APOBA.

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The Ultimatum
It certainly seems to be taught in seminaries. I was never taught such in the seminary. I can't even imagine the topic coming up. (Nothing very practical is taught in the seminary.) I think it is learned on the golf course. I don't golf. …

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Ordination Music
Oh for heaven's sake, Chris. Festival Canticle, written as an alternate to the Glory to God in the Highest for the Lutheran Book of Worship, is in no way inimical to a different use at a Catholic Mass. There's no comparison whatsoever to b…

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Progressive Solemnity
If they [the clergy] bring little to the ambo and altar on Sundays other than perfunctory performance, and expect the externals to do the heavy lifting, then we'll continue to decline into irrevelancy. Quote of the day (or month, or year)? Per…

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Progressive Solemnity
Start with Thirty-Five Years of the BCL Newsletter, 1965-2000, published by the USCCB in 2004. It reprints all the monthly 4-page issues of the Newsletter from the NCCB/USCCB's Liturgy Committee during those 35 years. The first two hundred fift…

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Progressive Solemnity
Read the liturgical documents from the 1960's, read Notitiae during those years, read the Bishops' Committee on the Liturgy Newsletter from those years, and you will discover how misinformed the last two posters' statements are.

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Progressive Solemnity
As Fr. Krisman has seen fit to judge that my comments are in some way intended to perpetuate a falsehood or mislead, I have removed them. David, while it is true that I judged your previously-posted statement to be false and misleading, please be as…

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Progressive Solemnity
Wendi and Ben, Here is but one example of a general norm (and there are many) restated in SttL: In Lent, musical instruments should be used only to support the singing of the gathered assembly.88 That footnote 88 cites GIRM 313. Ben, in my earlier…

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Progressive Solemnity
SttL is not binding in any way, shape, manner or form. I would judge the above-referenced statement to be false and misleading. Besides providing pastoral guidance from the American bishops (guidance which, I would point out, does not have the autho…

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Progressive Solemnity
It is a travesty that priests are not required to be able to sing the mass as a condition of ordination. And, MJO, when you become pope and acquire the authority to impose such a condition, I will support you. I will also support anyone else who bec…

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Progressive Solemnity
David, if what you wrote is what you thought I was saying, either you or I - or both of us - need to go back to English I. Let it be stated for the record that I think ALL presbyters of the Roman rite should be able to chant all the chants of the R…

Comment by ronkrisman May 2014 permalink
Progressive Solemnity
Yes, the ability to sing should be a requirement for ordination. (But it isn't.) And this requirement should actually have been made a few hundred years ago. (But it wasn't.) And low Masses should never have been permitted. (But they wer…

Comment by ronkrisman May 2014 permalink
strong hymn texts for Saint Joseph the Worker?
Sorry to disagree with you, ghmus7, but the text you cite is quite the piece of doggerel verse: Saint Joseph was a quiet man who made things out of wood; He worked with love to guide his hand, and what he made was good. The remaining 6 lines are no …

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Detailed Notes on the English Translation(s) of the Graduale Romanum etc.
Most of the errors described above are owing to nothing other than gross editorial sloppiness. Fr. Stephen Hartegen, OFM, did a fine job putting together the 1970 USA Lectionary for Mass - fifteen years or so before the invention of the personal com…

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Is string music without organ permitted during EF?
I don't know if the EF will eventually be replaced by the OF in Latin (probably not in my lifetime), but it sure would be nice at least to have but one universal calendar for the entirety of the Roman Rite and but one set of liturgical laws/nor…

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Wicks Organ Co
Until now I had no realization that my home parish's purchase of a 7-rank Wicks in about 1960 contributed to the growing Military Industrial Complex.

Comment by ronkrisman April 2014 permalink
Magnificat Monday? - or a Pärt thereof
Interesting (?) juxtaposition.

Comment by ronkrisman April 2014 permalink
Closing Address of VII
"idiot bishops" is not ad hominem?

Comment by ronkrisman April 2014 permalink
Catholic Hymnals
What a strange comment from the good bishop. As if the damned even want to be present for the feast of redemption? As if Haugen's text even refers to the damned? Saints are mentioned in the first verse, but not the damned.

Comment by ronkrisman April 2014 permalink
Does the person who sings the psalm have to be a Catholic?
Bloch? (Ernest, not H & R)

Comment by ronkrisman April 2014 permalink
Catholic Hymnals
Yes, it would be interesting, but you won't hear it from me. And, by the way, do not assume that all, most, some, or even any of the texts in question were copyrights of GIA!

Comment by ronkrisman April 2014 permalink
Catholic Hymnals
I was hoping to uncover if the text of the hymns found in older hymnals was given greater scrutiny in days past versus the text of hymns in modern hymnals. Probably not the case. First of all, one publisher's Catholic hymnal was quite similar t…

Comment by ronkrisman April 2014 permalink
Catholic Hymnals
Chonak, this whole thing began with Noel's first comment. Responding to the OP's question, he made a wise crack about terminology, saying, in effect, "Why can't they do what they used to do?" And I answered then, and have an…

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