"What earlier generations held as sacred, remains sacred and great for us too…" Pope Benedict XVI (7 July 2007)
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Corpus Christi Watershed · July 1, 2020
Monsignor Georg Ratzinger Has Died
He died on the Feast of the Most Precious Blood (at least according to the EF calendar) at age 96.
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Ratzinger's 1987 Letter to a Former Catechism Student
The Pope Emeritus presents church music as something central to life.
Fr. David Friel · January 17, 2016
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An International Conference on Liturgical Formation in Light of the New Evangelization
Whose Responsibility Is It To Establish New EF Communities?
We must respect the vision of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI.
Fr. David Friel · June 1, 2015
Sacra Liturgia 2015 — Update I
Cardinal Sarah reveals the instructions he received from Pope Francis upon his appointment as Prefect of the CDW.
Fr. David Friel · April 12, 2015
Sacra Liturgia USA 2015
Fr. David Friel · March 22, 2015
Adoremus & the Way Forward
Continuing the Work of Helen Hull Hitchcock
Praise of God Demands Song
Impromptu Address of His Holiness Benedict XVI to the Members of the Pontifical "Sistine" Choir
Jeff Ostrowski · January 7, 2015
Rare Photograph: Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen With Father Joseph Ratzinger in 1965
Archbishop Sheen said nary a word about any liturgical reforms following the Council.
Aurelio Porfiri · August 4, 2014
Modernity Impact
For me tradition is not going to the past, but going to the origins.
6 January 2021 • Anglicans on Plainsong
A book published by Anglicans in 1965 has this to say about Abbat Pothier's Editio Vaticana, the musical edition reproduced by books such as the LIBER USUALIS (Solesmes Abbey): "No performing edition of the music of the Eucharistic Psalmody can afford to ignore the evidence of the current official edition of the Latin Graduale, which is no mere reproduction of a local or partial tradition, but a CENTO resulting from an extended study and comparison of a host of manuscripts gathered from many places. Thus the musical text of the Graduale possesses a measure of authority which cannot lightly be disregarded." They are absolutely correct.
—Jeff Ostrowski
2 January 2021 • Temptation
When I see idiotic statements made on the internet, I go nuts. When I see heretics promoted by people who should know better, I get angry. Learning to ignore such items is difficult—very difficult. I try to remember the words of Fr. Valentine Young: "Do what God places in front of you each day." When I am honest, I don't believe God wants me to dwell on errors and idiocy; there's nothing I can do about that. During 2021, I will strive to do a better job following the advice of Fr. Valentine.
31 December 2020 • "COMITES CHRISTI"
The feasts for Saint Stephen Proto-Martyr (26 December), Saint John the Evangelist The Disciple Whom Jesus Loved (27 December), and the Feast of the Holy Innocents (28 December) seem untouched by any liturgical reforms. These are very powerful feasts—I believe they once possessed octaves—and I believe they could sometimes "overpower" a Sunday feast. The rules for octaves in the olden days are extremely complex. These feasts are sometimes referred to as a single entity as: Comites Christi ("Companions of Christ"). This is just a guess, but there seems to be a triple significance: STEPHEN martyred after Christ lived, JOHN was a martyr who knew Christ personally, and the HOLY INNOCENTS were martyred before Christ's birth.
When you consider that the greatest hymns ever written—the plainchant hymns—are pushing the age of eight hundred and that the noble chorale hymn tunes of Bach date from the early eighteenth century, then what is the significance of the word "old" applied to "Mother at Thy Feet Is Kneeling"? Most of the old St. Basil hymns date from the Victorian era, particularly the 1870s and 1880s.
— Paul Hume (1956)
"Homily for the 2nd Sunday after Epiphany" (EF) • Father Valentine Young, OFM
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