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Music had always been the handmaid of the Roman liturgy.
Never have so many recordings of the great Masses and motets been in wider circulation.
Record stores have whole sections devoted to the chant.
The tunes, rhythms, and messages are drawn mainly from secular culture.
Then suddenly the Roman liturgy disappeared as we knew it.
You can read about it all you want, but there is no substitute for just doing it.
And this speaks to the larger problem that no one wants to talk about: the restoration of the Roman rite is a precondition for a long-term fix for... →
For two thousand years, the Church has guided the development of music, carefully legislating to fuse artistic talent and aesthetic beauty with the... →
It bothers me when I hear it in a car commercial or some such. But for the most part, it's better than seeing sacred music relegated to the scrap... →
The pastor of a parish will typically have no education in the chant or in music, and he will hire the first music director who walks through the... →
Thus the slogan should be reversed: Catholics taught the world what music is supposed to sound like, and, more importantly, what it is supposed to... →
You can count on one hand the number of Novus Ordo churches in this country that feature a fully Catholic music program of any quality, consistent... →