Traditional Latin Mass in Maryland

American Papist >> Contrast: "No honorary degree for Obama from Arizona State" www.Chiesa.com (Sandro Magister) >> Pope Ratzinger's manifesto: "In this way the transformation of the world can begin to take place" FIRST THINGS: On the Square >> Between Market and State (Jordan J. Ballor) Meeting Christ in the Liturgy >> "God has made him both Lord and Christ" The Catholic Thing >> The Judges Do Iowa (Hadley Arkes) RORATE CÆLI >> Another priest expelled from the SSPX RORATE CÆLI >> A place at the table The Anchoress >> More on Susan Broyle The Recovering Choir Director >> “Maine-taining” the tradition of Gregorian chant

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RORATE CÆLI >> 40 years of Missale Romanum and the new Roman Rite - IV - A liturgical tale in three acts Standing on My Head >> Chaplain to NARAL The New Liturgical Movement >> Compendium of the 1955 Holy Week Revisions of Pius XII: Part 4.2 - Good Friday, The Adoration of the Cross and the Rite of the Presanctified The New Liturgical Movement >> More Gregorian Chant - Italia! The Way of the Fathers >> Season Your Psalter WDTPRS >> Audio Stations of the Cross: Ratzinger & St. Alphonsus (I posted this link before but it never hurts to post it again) WDTPRS >> VIDEO: Litany of Saints in Rome - around the piazza and into church

For some time, I've wondered how to integrate a calendar into this blog that would be of use for Special Events or non-recurring events . Usus Antiquior or Tridentine Masses scheduled weekly can be assembled in a menu ( SEE RIGHT MENU NAVBAR, for example ) and linked to Parish websites. However, what of the occasional special Mass, colloquium or musical event ? So many of these are missed when posted here unless someone knows of it in advance. The New Liturgical Movement has found a solution using a calendar embedded into their blog page . Events are self-reported and require approval by the moderator. This is a huge blog, however, affiliated with the CMAA, receives millions of "hits" and handles international events. So, the local may be lost in the shuffle. In the header to this blog, you will now see the following: Special Event Usus Antiquior Calendar for MD, DC, VA, DE, PA and WV (opens New Window) This calendar is one I've created for TLM events in t

Damian Thompson: Holy Smoke >> Pope revealed to be Catholic, shock horror FIRST THINGS: On the Square >> The Ghost of Christmas Past (Joseph Bottum) Meeting Christ in the Liturgy >> O Emmanuel (Seventh Antiphon) Standing on My Head >> Gregorian Chant The New Liturgical Movement >> The legal issue that the USCCB needs to face (this story is NOT simply going away!) The New Liturgical Movement >> Introit on Christmas: Puer natus The New Liturgical Movement >> New Translation of Durandus, On the Clergy and Their Vestments

I have had visitors searching for Retreats or Workshops for priests on Gregorian Chant and other such topics. I would advise anyone seeking help in Sacred Music to first visit Musica Sacra. Here is one example--a Workshop on the Sung Mass in April, 2009 . Here is a list of upcoming events . Here is the ad for the Sacred Music Colloquium . Please bookmark MusicSacra . It is THE place to search first.

Jeffrey Tucker has some fine commentary on the story in the Toronto Globe and Mail that was posted too by Aristotle A. Esguerra in an earlier post (see below). Mr. Tucker goes into a bit more detail in his commentary. It seems that the Vatican Choir is in excellent hands!

Jeffrey Tucker has part of an interview with a one of the monks from the Viennese monastery whose Gregorian Chant CD has hit the top of the chart. The interview is from the San Francisco Chronicle . It is easy to learn chant if you practice 3 and one half hours per day!

I often get searches labeled "Jubilate Deo Chants" or some such. For more info on anything musical, I'd point you first to the MusicaSacra website , the premier website with regard to sacred music. The "Jubilate Deo" book of chants from 1974 and from 1987 is covered nicely by Adoremus here . Note that this link has MP3 versions of some of these chants for you to download. Adoremus has a hymnal with many of these chants available as described here . Some are also Anglicized. Note that G.I.A. Publications has not only the Jubilate Deo Hymnal, but also the entire library including the Graduale Romanum, Graduale Simplex, etc. To examine this series, check this link for G.I.A .

Creative Minority Report >> I Want Mass to Have Top Ten Music Whispers in the Loggia >> Orlando Redux (If "gibbet" was good enough for St. John Fisher...) FIRST THINGS: On the Square >> No One Sees God (Michael Novak discusses his new book) RORATE CAELI >> Patriarch of Constantinople: Homily, Creed, and Blessing together with the Pope LatinMassNetwork >> Saint the Baptist The Precursor - 32 Traditional Latin Mass Propers in English >> The Birthday of Saint John the Baptist The Way of the Fathers >> The Oracles: "Hell-Tourism" and More The Way of the Fathers >> Greek to You

The New Liturgical Movement >> Video from the first Solemn Mass at Ss. Trinita dei Pelligrini, Rome (Video of the Introit & Kyrie and Offertory by Shawn Tribe) The Recovering Choir Director >> Three recent posts on reviving Gregorian chant, juxtaposed

First, two personal notes. If anyone tried to contact "FIRST THINGS: On the Square" over the weekend, you noticed the link would not function. First Things lost control of its domain, but things are now up and running again. So, all should be functioning again. Second, anyone who has followed this blog knows that I am a creature of "accretion." I love putting more new things up in the right menu. However, if I may be excused, I found a marvelous Latin Liturgical Calendar from the F.S.S.P. and Our Lady of Guadalupe Seminary ; it is now in the right menu for your use. Ars Catholica >> Internet "Censership" The New Liturgical Movement >> To Be Trained to Sing Chant (Jeffrey Tucker) Traditional Latin Mass Propers in English >> Saint Margaret, Queen of Scotland Whispers in the Loggia >> On Communication (are Curial changes afoot?)

AmericanPapist >> Latin Mass celebrated on a Navy supercarrier (photo of the TLM being celebrated aboard CVN-71, the U.S.S. Theodore Roosevelt) WDTPRS >> CWN: Orthodox bishop shares Communion with Catholics FIRST THINGS: On the Square >> Cloning Without Conscience: The New British Embryology Bill (Christopher Tollefsen) LatinMassNetwork >> Lex Orandi, Lex Credendi ( Reverend Anthony J. Manuppella) The Recovering Choir Director >> Learning Gregorian chant with the help of GNU Solfege - interval recognition Traditional Latin Mass Propers in English >> Saint Augustine of Canterbury Whispers in the Loggia >> The New Breed (article on vocations)

Jeffrey Tucker posts a link to an article by Daniel Burke which appeared in the Kansas City Star but is syndicated widely . Here is just a bit: After a public relations push by Pope Benedict XVI, who wants Gregorian chant restored to its “pride of place” in the liturgy, a plainsong renaissance is percolating among U.S. Catholics as well. Nearly 200 scholas — choirs that sing plainsong — have popped up around the country, many in the last five years, according to the Church Music Association of America, or CMA. Sacred music seminars that once drew 40 to 50 people now lure hundreds of Catholic musical directors, organists and singers. And priests-in-training in seminaries across the country are increasingly asking to be educated in the intricacies of Gregorian chant, said William Mahrt, CMA president and sacred-song expert. Please go to the New Liturgical Movement for more .

LatinMassNetwork >> Fatima Prayers The New Liturgical Movement >> The Pope on the Liturgy as Cosmic Praise The New Liturgical Movement >> Why is Chant Making a Big Comeback?

The New Liturgical Movement >> Teenagers and Ad Orientem Ars Catholica >> I'm registered, are you? (A new blog from someone who loves Chant and Flannery O'Connor...what's not to like? I'm placing the link in the Blogroll)

Whispers in the Loggia >> Roman Triptik The Recovering Choir Director >> "Gregorian chanting 'can reduce blood pressure and stress '" Catholic World News >> Archbishop answers critics on Communion for politicians

Jeffrey Tucker of The New Liturgical Movement has a piece on music that is very insightful . I'll let you read it and ponder your feelings on the matter.

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Standing on My Head : Fr. Dwight Longenecker has a "New Poem" and it is marvelous ! Whispers in the Loggia : Address of Pope Benedict XVI to the United Nations Organization The New Liturgical Movement : High-Voice Gregorian Chant Video First Things: On the Square >> Friday of Good Shepherd Sunday (commentary by Fr. Richard John Neuhaus)