CARDINAL BURKE : FULL FILM
The sound of Immaculate Heart Parish
There are many reasons that I am blessed to be involved in Immaculate Heart Parish. Before I converted to Catholicism I had the pleasure of being involved in music making in the Anglican tradition and in my last post I inherited a strong choral tradition and had a beautiful three manual Mirlees pipe organ to play.
Continue reading “The sound of Immaculate Heart Parish”Chant Analysis: The Feast of St Therese
Still basking in the graces of the visit of the relics of St Therese to Scotland, we arrive today at her feast day (traditional calendar). As someone who has a particularly liturgical prayer life, I often look to the Mass and the Office for insights into the spiritual complexion of a feast.
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Sunday 6 October 2019 – XVII Sunday after Pentecost II Cl
Continue reading “Music List: XVII Sunday after Pentecost”Do you know Credo IV?
A straightforward video post today. Here is the beautiful Credo IV performed by Schola Una Voce a few months ago. I first heard this setting of the creed in an album recorded by Westminster Cathedral Choir and particularly loved the organ accompaniment. There is just something heavenly about a major subdominant in mode I!
Pope Francis in line with Tradition on Sacred Music
Pope Francis addressed the 140 year old Italian Association of St Cecilia on the 28th of September.
Continue reading “Pope Francis in line with Tradition on Sacred Music”Feast of St Michael the Archangel, Office Hymn
The hymn for Matins and Vespers on the feast of St Michael the Archangel was originally written by Rabanus Maura in the early 9th century. The text was revised in the 1600s and indulgenced by Pope Pius VII in 1817.
Continue reading “Feast of St Michael the Archangel, Office Hymn”Monastic Compline- Finem Perfectum
For many years now, even from my Anglican days, I have incorporated the Divine Office into my prayer life. Praying the breviary opens us up to more of the Church’s liturgy and intensifies our affinity with the mind of the Church through the pattern of psalms, canticles and antiphons.
Continue reading “Monastic Compline- Finem Perfectum”Schola Una Voce: Whet your appetite…
For those who are planning to attend the Pontifical High Mass at the Throne offered by Cardinal Burke on the 14th, here is something from his last visit to whet your appetite!
Schola Una Voce is the choir of Una Voce Scotland and unites singers from the Latin Mass communities around Scotland.
Music List: Cardinal Burke, Pontifical High Mass at the Throne
Below is the liturgical music that will be performed at the Pontifical High Mass at the Throne offered by H.E. Raymond Leo Cardinal Burke on the 14th of September 2019- The Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross. This will be the 12th anniversary of the day on which Summorum Pontificum came into effect.
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