The Halpin family returned to their Southern California home to find it in ashes, and sang the Church’s Easter song. Singing in the Ashes The post Hope amid the ashes appeared first on Chant Caf ..read more

An outstanding article on an important topic by Richard J. Clark, the Boston Archdiocesan Director of Music. The post Our Children and Sacred Music appeared first on Chant Caf ..read more

As part of the 750th anniversary of St. Thomas Aquinas’ passing from this life, his major relics are temporarily on tour. Currently the relics are visiting priories of the Dominican Province of St. Joseph. Here is the schedule: The post A visit from St. Thomas Aquinas appeared first on Chant Caf ..read more

Bells of Notre-Dame ring out for first time since 2019 fire | AFP   The post The Bells of Notre Dame Ring Out Today appeared first on Chant Caf ..read more

The Church Music Association of America commissioned a new Mass Ordinary setting in preparation for the 2024 Sacred Music Colloquium, held in Champaign, IL this summer. Daniel Knaggs‘ Misa Santiago was performed for the first time this summer. Here is a video recording of the Señor, ten piedad (Kyrie) from that Mass as sung by … The post Misa Santiago by Daniel Knaggs appeared first on Chant Caf ..read more

Seton Route National Eucharistic Pilgrimage: Eastern Seton Route Travels on Boat with the Eucharist (youtube.com) Juan Diego Route National Eucharistic Pilgrimage: Pilgrims on Southern Juan Diego Route Process in Texas Heat (youtube.com) Marian Route (34) National Eucharistic Pilgrimage: Northern Marian Route Gathers Thousands to Encounter Christ – YouTube Serra Route National Eucharistic Pilgrimage: Western Serra Route Brings Eucharist across Golden Gate Bridge (youtube.com) The post More on the early days of the Eucharistic Pilgrimage appeared first on Chant Caf ..read more

The 4 Eucharistic Revival Processions are in full swing, fulfilling the Year of Parish Revival. (31) 2024 National Eucharistic Pilgrimage Kicks Off | EWTN News Nightly – YouTube Here are highlights from each of the routes. Serra Route: Opening Mass from the Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption in San Francisco (31) NATIONAL EUCHARISTIC PILGRIMAGE OPENING MASS FROM SAN FRANCISCO – 2024-05-19 – YouTube Marian Route: Opening Mass in the Diocese of  Crookston (31) Star of the North Eucharistic Congress 2024 – YouTube Seton Route: The Procession begins National Eucharistic Pilgrimage – Seto ..read more

Occasionally in classic Latin hymns we find texts that don’t fit the poetic meter perfectly but have an extra syllable, and these are often notated so as to draw attention to the discrepancy, as here (“digitus”) in the Veni Creator Spiritus: Some choir directors adjust these “hypermetric syllables” to fit the meter: that is, they may “elide” syllables by omitting the vowel of one syllable and combining the rest of that syllable with the next (or the previous one!). For example, in the doxology at the end of a long-meter hymn, the phrase “cum Patre et almo Spiritu” can be sung in eight syllabl ..read more

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