Here is an interesting and thought provoking talk by Jeffrey Ostrowski. It deals with the quality and style of music that is truly suitable for liturgy.
Thursday, May 27, 2010
What is Dignified Music
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The Offertory Jubilate Deo, Universa TerraGregory DiPippo
Shout with joy to God, all the earth, sing ye a psalm to his name; come and hear, and I will tell you, all ye that fear God, what great things the Lord hath done for my soul. allelúja. V. My mouth hath spoken, when I was in trouble; I will offer up to thee holocausts full of marrow. This recording of the Offertory of the Fourth Sunday after Easte...
A History of the Popes Named Leo, Part 2: Saints Leo II, III and IVGregory DiPippo
This is the second installment of a series on the thirteen papal namesakes of our new Holy Father Leo XIV; click here to read part 1.St Leo II reigned for less than 11 months, from August of 682 to June of 683. The most important deed of his pontificate was the confirmation of the acts of the Sixth Ecumenical Council, the third to be held in Consta...
The Feast of Saint John NepomukGregory DiPippo
May 16th is the feast of St John Nepomuk, a priest of the Archdiocese of Prague who was martyred in the year 1393. His family name is variously written Wölflein or Welfin, but he is generally called “Nepomuk” or “Nepomucene” after the town where he was born between 1340-1350, about 65 miles to the southwest of Prague. As vicar general of the archdi...
Latin Mass Society Faith and Culture Conference in London, June 14Gregory DiPippo
The Latin Mass Society, an association dedicated to the traditional Latin liturgy of the Catholic Church, has announced details of their upcoming Faith and Culture Conference. The conference, which forms part of the celebrations to mark The Society’s 60th anniversary, will bring together leading figures from the Church, the arts, and public life to...
The Ambrosian Feast of Mid-PentecostGregory DiPippo
Even though it was called by a different name, the Ambrosian Rite originally had a feast which was the equivalent of the Byzantine Mid-Pentecost, which I wrote about yesterday, borrowed from that tradition. This article is mostly a translation of notes about it by Nicola de’ Grandi. In the Ambrosian Rite, the Wednesday between the third and fourth ...
The Byzantine Feast of Mid-PentecostGregory DiPippo
In the Byzantine Rite, today is the feast of Mid-Pentecost (Μεσοπεντηκοστή in Greek; Преполовенїе in Church Slavonic, literally, “mid-way”), the twenty-fifth day after Easter, and thus the half-way point between it and Pentecost. This feast is very ancient, older even than the great Marian feasts which the Roman Rite borrowed from the East at the e...
Driving on Liturgical Interstate 80Peter Kwasniewski
Grand Teton, WY (source) - you won’t see this from Route 80Metaphors are often the best way to grapple with that which is too large or too complex for pure conceptual analysis, or where a full account risks being tedious in its details. A well-chosen metaphor cuts to the heart of the matter. When I first read Graham Greene’s novel The Power and th...
Interesting Saints on May 13thGregory DiPippo
May 13th is now occupied by two different feasts on the general calendar, one in the Ordinary Form, and one in the Extraordinary Form. For most of the history of the Roman Rite, it was not occupied by any feast of general observance at all, but an interesting collection of local feasts and observances is kept on this date. St Robert Bellarmine, t...
Eastward Ho! How the Western Church Looked to Eastern Iconography For Inspiration in Sacred ArtDavid Clayton
If I had been writing about sacred art 100 years ago for a Catholic readership, I would have ignored entirely any reference to traditional Byzantine art. Until the middle of the last century, the Roman Catholic world was largely unaware of or, at the very least, uninterested in Byzantine iconography. Anyone who knew about this style was as likely a...
A History of the Popes Named Leo, Part 1: Introduction, and St Leo I Gregory DiPippo
The ancient Romans had a saying, “Nomen est omen – a name is a sign”, i.e., a presage about the person who bears it. Of course, this is not always or in all ways true; during my very sleepy teenage years, my mother used to joke that Gregory, which derives from the Greek word for “watchful”, was about as inappropriate a name as they come. But it is ...
