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Archive for January 20th, 2011

In keeping with the embrace of tradition

Chant Cafe has an interesting setting of an English Gloria – use it while you can, it has a shelf date of 11/20/2011. I like the notation, and I think this is a good example of the ‘hermeneutic of continuity’ in action.

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“Music Ministry Alive!” – July 26-31 in St. Paul, Minnesota

Music Ministry Alive is a 5-day summer liturgical music institute for high school and college age youth under the direction of David Haas.

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The Chattering Classes Are Us

by George Weigel at First Things.
“Catholics once had an intuitive understanding of sacred space: To enter a church, especially in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament, was to enter a different kind of environment, one of the hallmarks of which was a reverent silence.”

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And with your spirit

by Fr. Dwight Longenecker.
“We seem to have exchanged the banal and dumbed down version from the seventies with stuff that sounds like an eighth grader trying to write Shakespeare.”

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Sacred music in crisis?

Zenit posts an interview with Cardinal Domenico Bartolucci, long time director of the Sistine Choir who was recently made cardinal by Pope Benedict.

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