Spanish traditional hymns - MusicaSacra Church Music Forum
There are tons and tons of Catholic Spanish hymnbooks back in the stacks. Tons. Tons and tons and tons. A lot of them come from way back, and then there's another chunk from the forties and fifties. Most of these seem to be indigenous and translated Latin hymns, not translations of English-language hymns.
The 10 Worst Catholic Songs of All Time - MusicaSacra
Many folks are trapped in a mind set that is very difficult to cut through. In the last church my wife worked was a protestant church where a family member of ours said that they still sang traditional hymns but that when the older folks died off it would all go contemporary. The theology is going that way now as they shop for a new pastor.
A Festival of Lessons and Carols: How to Plan Your Own (live …
2023年9月30日 · Tune your parish into the spirit of the Christmas season with this popular alternative to the traditional Christmas concert. 60-minute live, online lecture by Dr. Horst Buchholz. One of the most popular alternatives to your traditional Christmas concert during the Advent season is a Festival of Lessons and Carols.
Misconceptions - Hymns for Offertory and Communion
Please help me with this. I am responsible for choosing the songs/hymns that we sing at Sat. eve Mass once a month. I am stuck using Breaking Bread - OCP 2010. I have always chosen songs that are in the OCP guide but since reading many posts on this site and catholic.com I have found that I have no idea what I am doing. I would like to get it ...
Hymns at funeral masses - MusicaSacra Church Music Forum
They choose the songs they remember from when they used to attend Mass because (1) the songs are nostalgic and comforting to hear during a time of grief, and (2) it's just about the only Mass music that they know about to choose from.
Hymns every school child should know by the time they leave …
There is a wealth of Latin hymns that is waiting to be discovered by the young of the greater Church. There are too many hymns from after the Reformation and the English speaking Church needs to come to grips with the fact that vernacular hymns are not integral to Latin Rite worship (notwithstanding the Ordinariate, which is its own case).
150 Indispensable Catholic Hymns? - MusicaSacra Church Music …
Which 150 hymns do you want to have in the pews of your parish? Based upon consistency with Catholic doctrine and Church teaching, sound tradition, beauty, dignity, effectiveness, and so on and so forth, which hymns should every Catholic be familiar with and be comfortable singing? Here is my current working list at my parish. What is missing?
Glossary of Sacred Music Terminology - MusicaSacra Church …
This 1,900-page book contains most versions of the ordinary chants for the Mass (Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, and Agnus Dei), as well as the common chants for the Divine Office (daily prayers of the Church) and for every commonly celebrated feast of the Church Year (including more than two hundred pages for Holy Week alone).
Favorite Communion hymns? - MusicaSacra Church Music Forum
The first three Sundays of Easter all have Mode VI Communios. If you desire to have congregational singing during Communion, why not do the very familiar threefold Mode VI Alleluia as a refrain, sing the antiphon (in Latin or English) as the first verse, then repeat the Alleluia, then sing other verses of a Psalm and continue repeating the Mode VI Alleluia.
What makes some songs acceptable for use in church, and others …
The principle that the use of the church must not offend the sacredness of the place determines the criteria by which the doors of a church may be opened to a concert of sacred or religious music, as also the concomitant exclusion of every other type of music. The most beautiful symphonic music, for example, is not in itself of religious character.