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by bcadmin | Oct 23, 2022 | Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis, Catholic News Service, Catholic-Lutheran dialogue, Church in the US, Minnesota, News, Refugees, sacred music | 0 |
After creating an interfaith choir to mark the 500th anniversary of the Reformation at the Vatican in 2018, the Together in Hope Project choir has a new project that explores major faiths’ traditions of welcoming the refugee, immigrant and outcast.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 1, 2022 | Featured, hymns, Music, News, sacred music, Sophia Excerpts | 0 |
In today’s installment, I humbly offer a solution to temptations against purity and a solution to bad church music. What Are They Thinking? • Saint Aloysius Gonzaga (d. 1591), as a young man, would become embarrassed when friends at the dinner table told lewd stories. (Today, such stories are paradoxically labeled “adult content.”) The young […]
Temptations To Good. Any thoughtful theologian will recognize the maxim: “Grace builds on nature.” One of my favorite saints, Father John Vianney, often echoed that idea in his sermons. The Curé of Ars would forcefully remind his congregation: “even the heathen admits the beauty of the Christian life.” Despite what we read in the newspapers […]
by bcadmin | Jul 3, 2022 | Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Missouri, News, sacred music | 0 |
A fellow member of the Our Lady of Lourdes Parish Choir in Columbia, Missouri, approached Kate Basi after practice.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 11, 2022 | Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Latin Mass, News, sacred music, Tennessee | 0 |
Truth, goodness and beauty.
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 25, 2022 | Abortion, blogging, Books, Broadway, G.K. Chesterton, George Orwell, News, Nigeria, Philosophy, sacred music, solidarity, Subsidiarity, The Dispatch, University of Dallas, War in Ukraine? | 0 |
The Leaked Decision – “The leaking of Justice Samuel Alito’s abortion decision caused leftist journalists and celebrities to erupt in hate-filled attacks on Supreme Court justices” Journos and Celebrities RAGE Over Supreme Court Abort…
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Those who underestimate the efficacy of sound do so at their own peril. Filmmaking students are quickly introduced to this maxim: “What the ear hears is more important than what the eye sees.” This may come as a surprise. After all, isn’t a video primarily about what people see? But the truth remains: a pristine […]
by bcadmin | Feb 25, 2022 | Associated Press, California, Diocese of Orange, News, sacred music | 0 |
The Hazel Wright organ — just “Hazel,” to her admirers — was removed piece by piece in 2013 from Christ Cathedral’s shimmering sanctuary in Southern California’s Orange County, and shipped to Italy for repair.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 9, 2022 | Alice von Hildebrand, Black Catholics, Chicago, church vandalism, Dietrich von Hildebrand, freedom convoy, Joe Rogan, Martyrs, Mississippi, Neil Young, News, Pope Pius XI, roundup, sacred music, The Dispatch | 0 |
• The 26 Martyrs of Nagasaki: The air was electric with a holy silence, all Nagasaki dumb with grief, as the parade of martyrs marched past toward the hilltop where their crosses waited. The Galleon, […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 21, 2021 | Archdiocese of Washington, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, News, sacred music | 0 |
he sounds of a Bach fugue and several other musical works filled the sacred space of the church at the Franciscan Monastery of the Holy Land in Washington’s Brookland neighborhood as Gabriel Galdo played the monastery’s Lively-Fulcher organ.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 21, 2021 | Archdiocese of Washington, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, News, sacred music | 0 |
he sounds of a Bach fugue and several other musical works filled the sacred space of the church at the Franciscan Monastery of the Holy Land in Washington’s Brookland neighborhood as Gabriel Galdo played the monastery’s Lively-Fulcher organ.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 1, 2021 | Catholic Church, Holy Week, lead, News, sacred music, St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican | 0 |
At a time when enjoying choir music in churches is banned almost everywhere in the world due to COVID-19 restrictions, two young German tenors recorded a series of songs inspired by Christ’s passion and his resurrection in an empty St. Peter’s Basilica, with new songs being released every day from Wednesday until Easter Sunday.
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