SAINT FRANCIS OF ASSISI CHOIR
Announcements
NEW VIDEO ABOUT THE CURRENT LITURGICAL MUSIC LANDSCAPE
When you press "play" you can skip ahead to the 4-minute mark and avoid the introductory pleasantries. At about four minutes is when the conversation begins to address the topic.
This is a conversation with Dr. Myrna Keough, who is a seminary professor of liturgical music. She talks about her work teaching seminarians and also doing parish music. Although the conversation lacks specifics, I think it offers good general commentary about the challenges facing parish music directors, the importance of pastors and music directors being on the same page, pastorally sensitive strategies for reshaping a parish music program, how many seminarians these days desire more traditional music at Mass, including chant, and how the music publisher OCP might be responding to and adjusting to what is changing in the liturgical music landscape from prior decades.
LENT, HOLY WEEK, AND EASTER SCHEDULE
I will hand this out at choir rehearsals. It is the schedule of rehearsals and liturgies for Lent, Holy Week, and Easter season.
VIDEO BY FR. MIKE SCHMITZ
Fr. Mike Schmitz gave a 35-minute talk about death, heaven, and purgatory at a young adult conference during the first week of January. I thought it was quite good, so I'm providing a link for you to watch it.