St. Cecilia Was Here

Lent and Latin, Latin and Lent Latin is still, on paper at least, given pride of place in the Roman Mass. Yet except for an occasional Lati...

CS Lewis Anticipates the Style Wars. Sort of. Thanks to Dave Simmons for enlightening me... -j- "There are two musical situations on w...

Poor St. Cecilia Trumped by a turkey this year. Ah well, sing something nice. Have some cranberries. Jay

Five Masses, four parishes, one weekend I don't think I'll try that again, but it was fun. About 250 miles on the car though. Onl...

Goodbye, Karen Marie http://markshea.blogspot.com/2007_08_01_archive.html#5655768003579042594 I didn't know Karen well, but she opened h...

More on the Motu Proprio http://www.commonwealmagazine.org/article.php3?id_article=1977 Given the series of concessions that have already be...

New Motu Proprio http://whispersintheloggia.blogspot.com/ Chiding both sides in the furious debate over the wider availability of the 1962 M...

Pentecost 5C at St. Paul's Episcopal, Romeo, MI Entrance - In Christ there is no East or West (McKEE) Gloria / Kyrie - Gloria (Mass for ...

The awesome power of prayer For those of you who are inclined to discount this kind of stuff, you'll find plenty of reasons to do so thi...

Apologies... ...to those of you who have left me comments over the years. My new layout ate your comments. Hopefully, the new comment engi...

From the Tiber to the Thames A small Episcopal Church near my recently departed parish gave me a call. Their director, a colleague of mine, ...

"Once and Future" Once Again I was sacked last week, without warning, via FedEx: "You are hereby terminated". Classay.....

Wishful thinking, but I hope they're right EUROPE'S top human rights body, the Council of Europe, said today the death penalty in th...

Chrysostom on the Real Presence: I'm guessing Arinze hasn't seen this. Or was unmoved.

Happy St. Cecilia Day! Sing something! C'mon, I'm waiting...

Through the Past, Snarkily - a digest of my gear experiences, as told to musicplayer.com - a first - a cross-post between my two blogs. Bu...

Still here. Haven't had much to say. But here's something. Choir started up this week - we sing during the summer, but don't r...

Bye, Mom. Mom passed away this past November, after a brief illness, at the age of 78. She would have turned 79 last week. She spent the l...

USCCB vs. CDW? www.eriercd.org/liturgy.asp Liturgiam Authenticam rightly stresses exactness in rendering liturgical and biblical texts into ...

Evidence of God in the back yard Exactly 8 ducks on the pond this year (make way for ducklings!), plus an occasional crane and a pair of can...

More on the Style Wars I think some people will never be "fed" by traditional music, or choral music. Bob Batastini, late of GIA,...

The Power of Prayer So, I almost died. Subarachnoid brain hemorrhage, Dec. 23rd. Thanks to some talented doctors and the prayers of thousa...

Recycled pre-blog bits: entry #2, from 3/4/2001 The Desert Island Game - For Real This Time Most of us have seen some variation on "the...

Recycled pre-blog bits: entry #1, from 4/26/2001 Cantor: Make a Joyful cacophony unto the Lord! Assembly: Make a Joyful cacophony unto the L...

Notes from the Music Guy XVII I don't know about you all, but I sure missed the alleluia. We're singing a lot of them this weekend, ...

Notes from the Music Guy XVI Once a year, we all sing Psalm 22. We echo Jesus on the cross: " My God, why have you abandoned me? ...