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How Does a Hymn Become a Classic?
Archbishop Cordileone’s Very Marian Advent Prayer Service Launches World Premiere of Two New Christmas Carols On December 15th, at Star of the Sea Church in
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Archbishop Cordileone’s Very Marian Advent Prayer Service Launches World Premiere of Two New Christmas Carols On December 15th, at Star of the Sea Church in
On the evening of September 28th, heading out from the conclusion Catholic Art Institute conference in Washington, DC, I was alerted by Maggie Gallagher of
Missa Pange Lingua is a musical work that leads the worshippers into the depth and beauty of the Mass itself. The processional Pange Lingua aids the faithful to serenely reflect on the true presence of God in the Eucharist, the Kyrie is heartfelt and penitential, the Gloria is resolute, the Sanctus combines passion and grace to precede the Consecration, and finally the Agnus Dei provides clarity and peace.
Picture it (above): The St. Edmund’s Sacred Art Institute located in Mystic, CT has issued a call to U.S. artists for entries of artwork for
After the painting The Massacre of the Innocents by Léon Cogniet Once we cradled close in the corner of our room, folded like prayer-hands, while
On June 20, 2023, Fiat Lux, an oratorio-like liturgical work for singers and orchestra by the Scottish Catholic composer James MacMillan, world-premiered at Christ Cathedral
Upon this rock Our cross and spire, built in a land of quake and fire. Fragile as glass, bright as the air, the angled walls
Tradition is a river, and without its quickening streams, life dries up, withers, and eventually, perishes.— Sir James MacMillan In a culture which prizes ephemeral
On June 20, in the glass-walled light-filled Christ Cathedral, I witnessed the birth of a modern Catholic masterpiece: Fiat Lux (“Let there be light), a
As it is in our own day, so it was at the turn of the twentieth century: the situation of church music was extremely wretched,
