Category: Jeffrey Tucker

You can buy it here for $14

This is very interesting and creative: a event that combines technology and media training for Catholics with serious liturgy. It is administered by Fr. Ryan Humphries of the CatholicUnderground podcast, and includes speakers such as Fr. Z and Matt Warner from the NCReg. The date is August, 26-28, 2011, and it takes place in Houston, Texas. It is only $35!

Unlike some other conferences out there, they are putting particular emphasis on the Sacred Liturgy and recognizing it as the primary form of communication that the Church has to offer. I’m thrilled to see this sort of event taking place. We need much more of this type of thing that combines training and teaching with a focus on digital media.

This is an interesting interview on Vatican radio with Msgr. Andrew Wadsworth. Here is the landing page, and there MP3 itself. He answers many questions you might have.

This is so interesting and exciting: a wonderful example of how this forthcoming Missal in English has inspired such happy anticipation. Here is Richard J. Clark of St. Cecilia’s in Boston singing Credo I. Many people who have sung through both I and III in the Missal agree that Credo I is the best one for congregations. I look forward to the day when all Catholics know this by heart.

There are still plenty of people, left and right, who are putting down this Missal and grumbling about various aspects of the music (notation, melodies, etc.). When I speak to these people at length, I can sort of understand their perspective. There are things I would change (no one asked). But then when you back up a bit and look at the big picture (which involves both the musical meltdown of the last decades and the warm embrace of chant in this Missal), you can see that all this griping really misses the point.

The point is that these chants have given hope to an entire generation that the sung Mass of the Roman Rite can really be reclaimed.

This is the order of sung Mass, printed out and stable. You can get yours here. I can’t believe that this will be ours this November. I’ve dreamed of this for a long time.

Here is yet another opportunity for learning Gregorian chant this summer!