kevinf

well, you should be doing it because it's a calling, and we don't pay our other volunteers",

More bullshit. You get what you pay for.

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You need a DOM because you have 4 mini-parishes. That is the problem.

Thanked by 5LauraKaz mattebery Chant_Supremacist trentonjconn CHGiffen
Please, I love propers and hymns. Its about balance.

Thanked by 3Kathy CHGiffen StimsonInRehab
While it is customary to not speak ill of the dead, the Romans also have the "damnatio memoria". Francis made one hell of a mess and the next Pope will have much to deal with, that is,if he…

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Sadly the main street media has canonized him. Pray for his soul because we should for anyone who has died.

Thanked by 6LauraKaz monasteryliturgist CHGiffen OMagnumMysterium CatholicZ09 tomjaw
If the liturgy spoke solely for itself as it is given to us, through the Proper texts, precious few of these arbitrary rules would survive.

Arbitrary is an understatement.

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The B16 Center in San Francisco now publishes Cantate! A Sacred Music journal online.
Latest issue:https://substack.com/@cantate

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While Fr. Ruff has done a good bit of scholarship on chant, after reading him, I realized (and was reminded in this thread) that he has sold out to the modernists. The best thing to do is to not read…

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Contemporaryworship92-

I find your arguments internally consistent if I assent to the following principles:

Things are not as they seem. If 1 is not higher than 4, then …

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This is such good news. My grandmother was baptized at the parish. Catholic Nashville is my lineage. I did not know Bishop Spaulding can celebrate the tlm. Is he just sitting in choir? I know him fro…

Thanked by 2tomjaw MatthewRoth
Since I was the one who posted, let me say: The times are changing and younger clerics are more clear and want better music. Salaries are significantly better (I know a fine job right now paying 90k)…

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By and large, priests and committees don't know what they are looking for. End of sentence.......

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So, you can support GIA,which has some good things but also materially cooperates with evil (the David Haas affair and other things) or not.

I have not ordered from GIA (and OCP) since…

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The fact the John Baldovin had anything good to say about chant is shocking, since he is a dinosaur from when I was in grad school in the 1980's. No biological solution yet!

As …

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