Category: Liturgical Texts

Mass for the Election of a Pope

Few Masses are rarer for the schola to sing than the Missa pro Eligendo Pontifice,the Mass for choosing a Pope, though we joke sometimes that...

Salva Nos: Perimus (Save us, we perish!)

Christ Calms the Storm The Mass propers for today are taken from the Fourth Sunday after Epiphany. When Easter is early, these propers are moved...

Brother Maurus, run fast!

Maurus Rescues Placid from the Waters In Chapter VII of the Second Book of the Dialogues, Saint Gregory the Great recounts the most famous episode...