Tuesday, January 14, 2025

Call for Participation - Special Issue of Sacred Music Dedicated to Dr. Mahrt

Call for Participation - A Special Issue of Sacred Music Journal, Dedicated to Dr. William Mahrt

The editorial team of the Church Music Association of America’s journal Sacred Music will dedicate the upcoming first issue of 2025 to the life and work of its recently deceased editor, Dr. William Mahrt. Submissions from readers are welcome, and may be of a varied nature:

  • Short stories about Dr. Mahrt, his teaching, scholarship, or life
  • Articles about a particular aspect of Dr. Mahrt’s life or work
  • Articles dedicated to Dr. Mahrt about any topic suitable for the journal, though not necessarily citing his work.

The length may range from 500 words to 6,000. Submissions must follow the journal’s style sheet, available here. Submissions must be made as a Word document, with embedded footnotes (if applicable) via email to: submissions@musicasacra.com.

Deadline for submission: February 15, 2025.

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“The Office of the Holy Spirit” Prayed by the Bridgettine Nuns
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Call for Participation - Special Issue of Sacred Music Dedicated to Dr. Mahrt
Call for Participation - A Special Issue of Sacred Music Journal, Dedicated to Dr. William MahrtThe editorial team of the Church Music Association of America’s journal Sacred Music will dedicate the upcoming first issue of 2025 to the life and work of its recently deceased editor, Dr. William Mahrt. Submissions from readers are welcome, and ma...

Romanesque Sculptures in a Swiss Abbey
Following up on two recent posts, we continue with some more of Nicola’s photos of the abbey of St John in Müstair, Switzerland. The first part showed the surviving frescos from the Carolingian era, and the second those of the Romanesque period; here we will see a number of Romanesque sculptures.  The marble front of this altar is a piece...

Anglican Sarum Mass in London on Candlemas Eve
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The Baptism of the Lord 2024
Seeing our enlightenment, that enlightened every man, come to be baptized, the Forerunner rejoices in spirit, and trembles with his hand: he shows Him, and says to the people “Behold Him that ransoms Israel, that delivers us from corruption. O sinless one, Christ our God, glory to Thee! (The first sticheron of Vespers of the Theophany in the Byzan...

Durandus on the Sunday after Epiphany
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The Relics of the Magi in Cologne and Milan
In some liturgical books of the Use of Cologne, Germany, today is noted in the calendar as “Obitus tertii regis – the death of the third king”, but it appears that this feast was never in general use within the archdiocese. (It is missing from many books altogether, especially the post-Tridentine editions, and in others is relegated to an appendix....

The Suscipe Sancte Pater
Lost in Translation #116After the Creed, the priest begins the so-called Mass of the Faithful with the Offertory Rite. In the traditional Missal this rite consists of several prayers that were added to the liturgy of Rome from Gallican-transalpine sources around the fourteenth century. The style of these prayers is more florid and poetic than what ...

Romanesque Frescos in a Swiss Abbey
Following up on a post of two days ago, here are some more pictures which Nicola took in the abbey of St John in Müstair, Switzerland. The previous post showed the remains of the original fresco decorations of the Carolingian period; here will will see the Romanesque frescos in two of the churches three apses. (Unfortunately, the central apse is cu...

Pope St Gregory the Great on the Gifts of the Magi
The wise men brought gold, frankincense, and myrrh. Gold becometh a King, frankincense is offered in sacrifice to God, and with myrrh are embalmed the bodies of the dead. Therefore, by these mystical gifts did the wise men preach Him whom they adored; by the gold, that He was King; by the frankincense, that He was God; and by the myrrh, that He wa...

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