Category: Liturgy and Music

On Tuesday at 11, at Boston’s Cathedral of the Holy Cross, the choir (with soloists and volunteers from other groups) will be singing these and other works:
Which one is not like the rest?
(a) Ecce sacerdos magnus, Leo Abbott (music director)
(b) Juravit, William Cdl. O’Connell
(c) Melodic Gloria, James Chepponis
(d) Responsorial Psalm and Gospel Acclamation from Mass for the Chrism, Robert Twynham
(e) Sanctus from Mass for the City, Richard Proulx
(f) The Lord Is My Shepherd, Thomas Matthews
(g) Laudate Dominum, Mozart
(h) Pan de Vida, Bob Hurd, arr. Kingsbury

Fantastic! Bishop Slattery of Tulsa, unlike most bishops, is doing something about Church music: he’s urging the clergy and musicians to actually read what the recent Council wrote on the subject! What a good example!
(Hat tips to Fr. Keyes, to Gerald Augustinus, and to Fr. Zuhlsdorf.)

Fr. John Zuhlsdorf has turned his fine Wanderer column on the subject of translations into a weblog: “What Does the Prayer Really Say?”
Welcome to the ‘net, Father!
(Hat tip to Ephrem.)

Amy Welborn‘s got a fun thread about that Schutte song: apparently most parishes sang it reflexively according to the Scripture reading for the day.

One day, when composers feted,
overdone and overrated
will repent the kitsch we hated
We’ll forswear our casus belli
and forgive their peccadilli–
(Read the rest at Bettinelli.)