As a timely follow-up to the previous post on the urgent need to recover our Catholic liturgical heritage, here's important information for an upcoming workshop...
It's November and a very long winter is on the way. It's two weeks after payday and the account is dry. The car needs work. Mourning and weeping is all well and...
Lately I've been enjoying Greek and Russian Orthodox sacred music, and it has undoubteldy been a much-needed source of beauty for me in the midst of this contem...
Saint Cecilia and the Angel, Jacques Blanchard.
Spreading the word on the art of the proper celebration of liturgy, the ars celebrandi, is one of the princi...
Tomás de Victoria's tribute to the Virgin Mary. Take this one in.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffnj9-Mrpf4
From the Saturday Chorale:
One aspect of th...
Making the rounds online is a short video of Don Pepe, an elderly Spanish priest who dances Flamenco in his church with an elderly female partner. Predictably, the media narrative accompanying the story is all about how the dancing priest schtick is bringing people back to church. Now, I'm not in Spain, so I could just be speaking for myself, but an elderly man dancing a few feet away will send me running in the opposite direction. Apparently, the older women of the parish feel differently....