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Sacred music and tradition

With the Virgin Mary in Rue du Bac

Liturgy and the Virus

In praise of church music professionalism

The good guys will (not) save the liturgy

An important liturgist: Adrian Fortescue/1

Remembering Saint Cecilia

Modena, the Bishop Speaks

Again on the choir of the Modena Cathedral

‘A real Renaissance man’: A master of sacred music, Tom Savoy’s legacy will live on

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The meaning of the Sollemnity of All Souls

Statement of the Musical Chapel of the Modena Cathedral (North Italy)

The danger of liturgical americanism

Between Religious and Liturgical

Intellectual property and sacred music

You told us

Quote of the day

How to get rid of liturgists (at least the bad ones)

A new music podcast!

Music in the New Testament

A Musical History of Vatican II

On habits of talkative priests

Other three ways of going to hell (despite going to Mass every given Sunday)

Domenico Bartolucci’s O Sacrum Convivium

Quote of the day

Three reasons I hate pop liturgical music… and why you should too

Gospel acclamation october 2022

Summer liturgy

Roman Catholic Liturgy’s Decadence

A Future in Tradition

Three ways of going to hell (despite going to Mass every given Sunday)

Quote of the day

What Is an Altar? Defining the Christian Altar

Holy, good, universal

Mexican faith in Rome

Dogs in church

Coetus Internationalis Patrum and Vatican II

Academics who dismiss musical literacy have confused recreation with study

Dialogues on the Liquid Church

Guitars in Church

The Decline and Fall of Catholic Music

A Look at Beneventan Chant: a conversation with prof. Thomas Forrest Kelly

Unwritten transmission

Sacred Music and Religious Music, a Distinction

“The style of interpretation by Solesmes’ school is not authentic”. An interview with prof. Jacques Viret

Church Musician, look at your Tradition

“Active participation” in Chant

The Shameless Archbishop . . . Weakland's Self-Revelations Are A Cautionary Tale

Summer break

Ave verum

Prelates and Liturgy

Have you read The Catholic Mass?

A Hymn for the Holy Shroud

Churches in the Summer

The big question (22)

The salty dew of tears

Concentus omnis Virginum

Songs for the Eucharist

A Beach Mass

Ave verum

Catholic Identity?

The big question (21)

Not resignation, not rebellion, but courage and audacity

Gloria Patri

What is the most neglected liturgical song?

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Traditionis Custodes?

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Night and day: spaces for prayer and singing

Agnus Dei (Missa brevis)

History of sacred music after Vatican II (6)

Choir and technology

Sanctus (Missa Brevis)

Video lesson on Ecce Panis Angelorum

The big question (20)

Music: Genuine apologia of faith

Kyrie eleison

History of sacred music after Vatican II (5)

Digital organ are real organ?

Preghiera

On Beauty

The big question (19)

The ritualism that empties the rite

Versetto

History of Sacred Music after Vatican II (4)

The precious blood of Christ

Stay with us, Lord

Folk music and education

The big question (18)

Words and the Word

Erit sanguis agni

Pagan and Religious Music

What it means improvising at Mass

Preludio in re minore

New book on liturgy and sacred music

The big question (17)

In and Out of the Liturgy

O salutaris Hostia

The fountain-head of genuine Christian devotion

The month of the Sacred Heart

Entrata

How musical is the child?

The big question (16)

Welcoming G-o-d to welcome neighbor

O salutaris hostia

History of Sacred Music after Vatican II (3)

Gravely offending against Christian piety

O sacrum convivium

A video for you

The big question (15)

Singing and baptismal dynamics

Nos cum prole pia

Singing of sequences

Veni sancte spiritus

Postludio

History of Sacred Music after Vatican II (2)

The big question (14)

The union of hearts: Condition and effect

Veni, Domine Iesu

Text and space: Allegri’s Miserere

Corpus Domini is coming

Ave gloriosa

History of Sacred Music after Vatican II (1)

The big question (13)

Liturgy and prayer - liturgy is prayer

Elevazione

Why modern churches have to be ugly?

Communio

Introduction

The big question (12)

Liturgy of the heart

Alleluia in the first mode

The Role of Lay Groups in the Promotion of Sacred Music

Choral music and Languages

Allegretto

What neuroscience can teach us about choral music?

The big question (11)

On the anvil of everyday life

Iesu dulcis memoria

Simplifying the complex

The problem with choir conductors (not only in church…)

Largo

Online courses

The big question (10)

Mystical path

Nos cum prole pia

The gaze fixed on God

Why I lost my patience with some Bishops!

Laetetur mons Sion

Saint Cecilia

The big question (9)

G-o-d present and absent

Ave Maria

The Foundation of the Roman School

Angel’s voice. Remembering Alessandro Moreschi, the last castrato

Versetto

Light and Darkness

The big question (8)

Happy Easter!

Good music for good friday

O Salutaris Hostia

Meditazione su Cristo risusciti

The big question (7)

Non laboratory, but oratory

Lauda anima mea

The Soul and the Flesh

The seven sorrows of Mary

Ascendit Deus

Veni, Iesu Domine

The big question (6)

The power of the Spirit

Ego sum pastor bonus

An History of Catholic Sacred Music

One thing some priests don’t get about sacred music

Versetto

Remembering Cardinal Domenico Bartolucci

The big question (5)

Liturgy and Play

Data est mihi

We count on you

The Gift of Synthesis

Today’s Consecration and the Decline of the West

Iubilate Deo

Laetare Sunday

Sacred Music and Tradition

Liturgy and life - Liturgy is life

Haec Dies

Moving away from the centre

Church singers from centuries ago…that I met

Sicut cervus

Less is more

The big question (4)

Liturgy: The presence of G-o-d in everyday life

Hymn for the Veneration of the Cross

Praising the Choir Gallery

The church where is always Lent

Antiphon for Maundy Thursday

The return of music

The big question (3)

The experience of silence

Antiphon for Palm Sunday

Roman School and the Universal Church

The Pope should grant priests from the FSSPX permission to celebrate Mass legitimately

Communion Antiphon for the Fifth Sunday of Lent

The History of Lent

War and sacred music

Veterum Sapientia

Da Pacem Domine

The Virile Character of Church Music

Gregorian chant in empty churches…

Communion Antiphon for the Fourth Sunday of Lent

Tibi silentium laus

The big question (2)

Private Masses

The big question (1)

Sacred Music and Rome

Music and Theology

Communion Antiphon for the Third Sunday of Lent

On Accent

Liturgy, the Law of Prayer

Optimists & Pessimists

Communion Antiphon for the Second Sunday of Lent

The necessity of tradition

A Music Prince: Gesualdo da Venosa

Communion antiphon for the first sunday of Lent

A question…

Liturgical music that hurts

What we lose if music is not real prayer?

A short Prelude for Organ

The real enemy of sacred music? Mediocrity!

The Catholic Mass

Easter Alleluia

Father Columba Kelly: “Gregorian chant? Better unaccompanied”

Sacred music: holiness, goodness and universality

New Psychological Crimes – “Bocellophobia”

Agnus Dei (from Missa Quaresimalis)

John XXII and liturgical chant

Do you think the kids can sing?

Sanctus (from Missa Quaresimalis)

Don Enrico Finotti: “The Sign of Peace Should be the Object of an Attentive Evaluation and Verification”

Permission needed to replace the Propers?

Traditionis custodes? The future of the Traditional Latin Mass

Kyrie eleison (from Missa Quaresimalis)

The Decline of Sacred Music? Four reasons why we need to be patient with the clergy…at least now and then

Gloria (from Missa Summorum Pontificum) by Aurelio Porfiri

Showing off during Mass?

Special offer for january!

A new book about liturgy

The verge of the abyss

Music, missionaries and a Lesson from Perth and Macau

The semiologist and the unbeliever…up to a point

A simple and joyful Alleluia

The impact of modernity and liturgical music

The downside of dialogue

Basic steps to improve music at your parish…if you can

Abbot Philip Anderson: “Liturgical tradition is the trasmission of prayers and rites of the Church from the Last Supper until this day”

Father Enrico Zoffoli and the Passion of the Lord

I am not a contemporary!

Why nobody did inform me that Latin was abolished?

The 7 “S’s” of good liturgical compositions

Remembering cardinal Virgilio Noè

Appropriate Sacred Music

Coming soon