File this under “Only in the U.S.:” OCP offers contemporary/modern musical settings of the entrance and communion antiphon – the introit and communio – for the
Read moreAuthor: Anthony Ruff, OSB
Fr. Anthony Ruff, OSB, is a monk of St. John's Abbey. He teaches liturgy, liturgical music, and Gregorian chant at St. John's University School of Theology-Seminary. He is the founder of the National Catholic Youth choir. He is widely published and frequently presents across the country on liturgy and music. He is the author of Sacred Music and Liturgical Reform: Treasures and Transformations, and of Responsorial Psalms for Weekday Mass: Advent, Christmas, Lent, Easter. He does priestly ministry at the local county jail and the neighboring community of Benedictine sisters in St. Joseph.
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Advanced Gregorian Chant Seminar Online
Where scholarship and musicality come together.
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Italian Missal: “For you and for all,” 3-Year Collects
The latest on “pro multis.”
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A Blast from the Past: When Affirmation of Vatican II Was a Given
The Synod of Bishops affirmed the letter and the spirit of Vatican II in 1985.
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