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Veronica Brandt · May 2, 2020
My children are pretty adept at finding mindless entertainment on the internet. It takes a bit more effort to find more edifying material. Fortunately some of our local priests have been offering videos for children.
FSSP Parramatta has created videos to serve for their regular Thursday afternoon Catechism Classes. This video is especially poignant, describing different saints who were deprived of the Sacraments for different reasons. Fr Wallace is fantastic.
Check the rest of their channel for a meditation on the Crucifixion through a beautiful painting and the life of St Louis de Montfort plus daily Mass and more.
Bishop Columba from the Wilcannia Forbes Diocese has made a few short videos especially for children. Here is one I particularly like about St Isidore of Seville, patron saint of the Internet.
Visit the rest of his channel for a similar video about St Rita and more.
Lastly, Fr Brendan Murphy of Our Lady of the Rosary Parish, St Marys, held a storytime for an older audience about Fr John Therry: Father of the Church in Australia.
As I prepared this article I found that of course these are not the only priests to take this initiative. Please join in the discussion on Facebook to add in your recommendations.
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About Veronica Brandt
Veronica Brandt holds a Bachelor Degree in Electrical Engineering. She lives near Sydney, Australia, with her husband and six children.—(Read full biography).
"Tonus Solemnior" • How old is it?
In the 1962 Missal, a section called "præfationes in tono solemniore" contains ornate melodies for the Preface. An article posted on the blog of the Church Music Association of America claims the tone comes from "the late 19th century" and said its elimination "is one of the very few good things which the post-Conciliar reform did for Gregorian chant." The author said: "The Roman solemn preface tone is already beautiful enough, there was no need to give a more Romantic feel."
Some have asked us whether the tonus solemnior comes from "the late 19th century." It does not. Their author was wrong by at least 400 years. I have seen this tone in MSS from the 1400s—and it may go back even further. Here is an example from 1494AD. And here's another from the 1400s. The FSSP priests use these tones on high feasts, and the effect is unforgettable.
6 January 2022 • Quick!
A short version of the INTROIT for the feast of the Epiphany has been added to the Saint René Goupil Gregorian Chant Website.
Confusing Feasts of Christmas
Whether one considers the Missale Vetustum or the post-conciliar calendar—or even the 1908 calendar—the feasts which follow Christmas are very confusing. Last year I created this comparison chart. I hope you find it helpful. As far as I can tell, my chart is the first effort to carefully detail the changes made to post-Christmas feasts (unless we also count the rather basic one by Lauren Pristas).
"Only against this background, of the effective denial of the authority of Trent, can one understand the bitterness of the struggle against allowing the celebration of Mass according to the 1962 Missal after the liturgical reform. The possibility of so celebrating constitutes the strongest, and thus (for them) the most intolerable contradiction of the opinion of those who believe that the faith in the Eucharist, as formulated by Trent, has lost its validity."
— Cardinal Ratzinger, 2001
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