In the frenzy of the Papal visit, I received several notifications of the sudden appearance of 34 videos from last year's Sacred Music Colloquium, but couldn't focus on just what this meant. Now with a bit distance to all the activities, I've had chance to look at what's up here. A participant had videotaped vast amounts of what was going on--mostly ordinary form Masses plus one extraordinary form--and has just now uploaded them. I'm just amazed by this and excited that all of these are available now as examples of Catholic sacred music. Though the events took place nearly one year ago, it is more than worth the wait.
There is too much to link here so you just have to look through them yourself.
Here is one that I just stumbled on: Dies Irae in the ordinary form Requiem Mass. I like these shots because you see the two directors--Scott Turkington on the far end and William Mahrt closer to the camera--and their respective approaches to the chant done alternating between low and high voices. Here is a very intimate look at the production of sacred music, for an astonishingly beautiful sequence.
Monday, April 21, 2008
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Tenebrae: The Church’s “Office of the Dead” for Christ Crucified Jennifer Donelson-Nowicka
The Catholic Institute of Sacred Music cordially invites you to the final event of its 2024–2025 Public Lecture and Concert Series.Tenebrae: The Church’s “Office of the Dead” for Christ CrucifiedLecture by James Monti (Dunwoodie, New York)Saturday, April 12, 10:00 a.m. PDT (1 p.m. EDT)From at least as far back as the sixth century, the Church has b...
The Twentieth Anniversary of the Death of Pope St John Paul IIGregory DiPippo
Today marks the twentieth anniversary of the death of Pope St John Paul II, whose reign of almost 26½ years is the third longest in history, after those of St Peter (traditionally said to be 32 years, one less than Our Lord’s earthy life), and Blessed Pius IX (31 years and nearly 8 months.) In the days leading up to his funeral, roughly 4 million p...
On the Sanctification of TimePeter Kwasniewski
In “Processing through the Courts of the Great King,” I spoke of how the many courtyards and chambers of the King’s palace prior to his throne room, or the many precincts and rooms of the Temple leading up to the Holy of Holies, could be a metaphor of a healthy Catholic spiritual life that culminates in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, but surrounds...
“Now About the Midst of the Feast” - Christ the Teacher in the Liturgy of LentGregory DiPippo
Today’s Gospel in the Roman Rite, John 7, 14-31, begins with the words “Now about the midst of the feast”, referring to the feast of Tabernacles, which St John had previously mentioned in verse 2 of the same chapter. And indeed, the whole of this chapter is set within the context of this feast.The Expulsion of the Money-Changers from the Temple, th...
The Apple of Her EyeDavid Clayton
“The Lord God planted a garden in Eden, which is in the east, and there he put the man he had fashioned. From the soil, the Lord God caused to grow every kind of tree, enticing to look at and good to eat, with the tree of life in the middle of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.” (Gen. 2, 8-9) This 17th century painting...
The Exposition of the Holy Lance at St Peter’s BasilicaGregory DiPippo
The YouTube channel of EWTN recently published a video about the exposition of the Holy Lance at St Peter’s basilica on the first Saturday of Lent. This was formerly done on the Ember Friday, which was long kept as the feast of the Holy Lance and Nails, but since this feast is no longer observed, the exposition of the relic has been transferred to ...
The Feast and Sunday of St John ClimacusGregory DiPippo
In the Byzantine liturgy, each of the Sundays of Lent has a special commemoration attached to it. The first Sunday is known as the Sunday of Orthodoxy, because it commemorates the defeat of iconoclasm and the restoration of the orthodox belief in the use of icons; many churches have a procession in which the clergy and faithful carry the icons, as...
The Story of Susanna in the Liturgy of LentGregory DiPippo
In the Roman Rite, the story of Susanna is read as the epistle of Saturday of the third week of Lent, the longest epistle of the entire year. This episode is not in the Hebrew text of Daniel, but in the manuscripts of the Septuagint, it appears as the beginning of the book, probably because in verse 45 Daniel is called a “younger man”, whic...
A New Edition of the Monastic Breviary Available SoonGregory DiPippo
The printing house of the Monastère Saint-Benoît in Brignole, France, Éditions Pax inter Spinas, is pleased to announce the re-publication of the two volumes of the last edition (1963) of the traditional Latin Monastic Breviary.The Breviary contains all that is necessary to pray the complete Monastic Divine Office of Matins, Lauds, Prime, Terce, S...
A Mid-Western Saint from Rome: Guest Article by Mr Sean PilcherGregory DiPippo
Thanks once again to our friend Mr Sean Pilcher, this time for sharing with us this account of the relics of a Saint from the Roman catacombs, which were brought to the cathedral of Dubuque, Iowa, in the 19th century. Mr Pilcher is the director of Sacra: Relics of the Saints (sacrarelics.org), an apostolate that promotes education about relics, and...
