Sacred Beauties

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...

Review: Echoes of the Ancient – A concert of emerging Catholic composers

On the evening of September 28th, heading out from the conclusion Catholic Art Institute conference in Washington, DC, I was alerted by...

A Review of Frank La Rocca’s Missa Pange Lingua 

Missa Pange Lingua is a musical work that leads the worshippers into the depth and beauty of the Mass itself. The processional...

Sacred Artists for the Eucharistic Revival

Picture it (above): The St. Edmund’s Sacred Art Institute located in Mystic, CT has issued a call to U.S. artists for entries...

Spoiled

After the painting The Massacre of the Innocents by Léon Cogniet Once we cradled close in the corner of our room, folded...

Dana Gioia: Songwriter

On June 20, 2023, Fiat Lux, an oratorio-like liturgical work for singers and orchestra by the Scottish Catholic composer James MacMillan, world-premiered...

Hymn: Cathedral of Light

Upon this rock Our cross and spire,     built in a land of quake and fire. Fragile as glass, bright as the air,...

Tradition Renewed: A Feast of New Music for Corpus Christi

Tradition is a river, and without its quickening streams, life dries up, withers, and eventually, perishes.— Sir James MacMillan In a culture...

Fiat Lux: A Luminous Oratorio by Sir James MacMillan and Dana Gioia Comes Home

On June 20, in the glass-walled light-filled Christ Cathedral, I witnessed the birth of a modern Catholic masterpiece: Fiat Lux (“Let there...

Renewing Sacred Liturgy: Patriarch Sarto Shows Us How

As it is in our own day, so it was at the turn of the twentieth century: the situation of church music...

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