Sacred, Beautiful, Universal - Music in the Catholic Church

SACRED, BEAUTIFUL, & UNIVERSAL: Colloquium XIX from Corpus Christi Watershed on Vimeo.

Mass in the Extraordinary Form in Philadelphia, June 28th @ 3:00 PM

Update: I won't be able to make it. My wife and I are going up to Newport, RI that weekend for our second anniversary.

Well, Fr. Carey is hoping to have more of these in the future.

A traditional Latin Missa Cantata (Mass in the Extraordinary Form) has been scheduled for 3:00 PM on Sunday, June 28, 2009 in anticipation of the Feast of Sts. Peter and Paul at the Church of St. Paul, on Christian St. between 9th and 10th Sts. in South Philadelphia. (map)

Parking will be available across the street from the church. The church, which is very close to the 9th St. Italian Market, is readily accessible via SEPTA.

The music director for this TLM will be Nicholas Beck who is Music Director at Mater Ecclesiae in Berlin, NJ. Robert Ridgell will be the organist.

Father Gerald Carey, the Pastor of St. Paul Parish, will celebrate the Mass. The proper of the Mass will be sung in Gregorian chant. The Mass setting will be the familiar Missa de Angelis sung by the choir and the congregation.

Special polyphonic motets will be sung at the Offertory and at Holy Communion.

Our Sovereign Pontiff Pope Benedict XVI has made available a Plenary Indulgence for those who celebrate this Jubilee Year of St. Paul by participation in such a solemn celebration in connection with the Feast of Sts. Peter and Paul.

It's been a while since I've been to the E.F. I strongly encourage people to come and pray!

Epiphany Music: Tribus miraculis

This comes to you via The New Liturgical Movement. The St. Gregory Society, the "grand fortress of traditional Catholicism in Connecticut", has a CD available for sale; one of the free tracks is Tribus miraculis, a polyphony piece by the great Palestrina. It is absolutely beautiful... I've listened to it about five times this afternoon.

You can listen to it below. You can also see the music for this motet in a PDF (courtesy of the Choral Public Domain Library).

Here's the MP3 (3:48):

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(Recycled from November 27, 2007)

So much sacred music!

In the past month, I have received as gifts a few excellent CDs of sacred music. I'd like to share them with you.

From Branson, for whom I am an RCIA sponsor, I received "Stella Maris" by Trio Mediaeval as a birthday present. This CD has several 12th and 13th century polyphonic pieces (including two odes to the Blessed Virigin Mary) and a contempory polyphonic Mass setting (Missa Lumen de Lumine) by Korean composer Sungji Hong.

From the Benedictines of Mary, Queen of Apostles, I received "Echoes of Ephesus" in the mail. It has two dozen pieces of chant and polyphony (in both English and Latin), including some contemporary pieces. You can definitely detect the devotion of these women -- to God and to sacred music which praises Him and His saints!

And from the Wyoming Catholic College Choir, I received "Christmas In God's Country" in the mail. It has just shy of two dozen pieces of chant and polyphony (in both English and Latin), including one of my recent favorites, Angelus ad Virginem! The choirmaster is none other than Dr. Peter A. Kwasniewski, the author of several articles on sacred music and liturgy ("Aspects of the Liturgical Magisterium", Parts I, II, and III; "Extraordinary Ministers of the Eucharist" [since clarified as "... of Holy Communion"] at EWTN).

Consider purchasing these beautiful CDs of beautiful sacred music. I don't think you'll be disappointed.

Sacred Music in three minutes

Please take the time to watch this video. At least think about what it says!

Music: Crucem tuam Antiphon and Verse for Good Friday

[Source: NLM]

A beautiful new piece of polyphony, in the traditional style of classical polyphony, has been released just this week by Aristotle Aure Esguerra on CPDL. It's free to download and use. I listened to the MIDI (which does it no justice, of course) and it sounds beautiful.