Category: Chant

Contemplative Chant What should the contemplative chant be? This chant is distinguished precisely by the spirit of prayer, or at least by the aspiration which...

The Primacy of Gregorian Chant The Holy Father’s Letter to the Pontifical Institute of Sacred Music (13-5-11) has prompted me to share with the readers...

Father Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange’s remarkable teaching on liturgical prayer in The Three Ages of the Interior Life is a suitable complement to yesterday’s post on psalmody....

Thanks to Carl Dierschow and Adam Wright, I am able to present to the readers of Vultus Christi recordings of my three lectures at the...

I am happy indeed to be participating in the Sacred Music Colloquium XX. The week is very promising. Now, if only Jane Fulthorpe were here!...

Here are the classes that I will be teaching: What is Liturgical Theology? I. What is it? (Tuesday) This session will approach the Sacred Liturgy...

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Pope Benedict XVI Collège des Bernardins, Paris 12 September 2008 The Holy Father’s discourse today at the Collège des Bernardins (a familiar way of referring...

In te speravi, Domine: dixi: Tu es Deus meus, in manibus tuis tempora mea. The Offertory Antiphon for the Mass of the Nineteenth Sunday Per...

What is Useless “A Church which only makes use of ‘utility music’ has fallen for what is, in fact, useless. She too becomes ineffectual. For...

My doctoral dissertation — it seems so long ago — focused on the Proper Chants of the Paschal Triduum in the Graduale Romanum. The chants...

Monday of Holy Week Isaiah 42:1-7 Psalm 26:1, 2, 3, 13-14 (R. v. 1a) John12:1-11 But After I Shall Be Risen The bright eighth mode...