Announcements
PDF FILE OF THE ADVENT AND CHRISTMAS SCHEDULE
Click on the pdf thumbnail to access a schedule of rehearsals and Masses for this Advent and Christmas seasons. I will hand out printed copies during warmups before Masses on the weekend of November 16-17.
NEW ARTICLE ADDED TO THE "ARTICLES" PAGE
What is the role of liturgical music in an apostolic age?
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This article refers to the short book from The University of Mary that I have posted under Book Recommendations: From Christendom to Apostolic Mission: Pastoral Strategies for an Apostolic Age. The author advocates that the way we celebrate liturgy must offer a compelling Christian vision and sacramental experience of the supernatural in contrast to the materialist worldview of Western culture. "The liturgy is the primary locus for the formation of the minds and souls of the faithful in a fully Christian and supernatural imaginative vision of the world."
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"Liturgical music in the apostolic age must be sacred music. It must draw us into the prayer of the Church, into the scriptures and the Psalms, and into the musical tradition that since the earliest centuries of the Church has made sensible for us the sound of the heavenly liturgy."