Author: John Schultz

From Fr. Jim over at Dappled Things
The Church’s external ceremonial, the quality of the material things we dedicate to divine worship, the reverence with which we approach the sacred rites, the suitability of the music, the preparation we make, the quality of the proclamation and preaching — all these things are important, not because God needs them, but because we do.

How Bishop Loverde Handles Allegations Against Priests

“Well enough about me. What do you think of me?”

We are singing the Durufle “Ubi Caritas” today at Mass. The text is perfect for the day, and the piece is basically an impressionist adaption of gregorian chant. The style is very different from most other choral music – it’s harmonic color decorating a chant melody, and because of that it’s difficult for most amateur choirs.
Steve will be helping on the tenor part and he’s also the cantor today.

We take our mutt Eva to the dog park every now and then. I call it the land of 1,000 smells – she spends part of her time just walking around the park sniffing the ground. She growled at another dog yesterday – probably because the owner had put that dog on a leash inside the park – a big no-no in dog park land. After that dog left it was back to normal.