Category: Music: Hymns
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Podcasts: ACU’s Speaking of Liturgy
STAFF — Marty Haugen and Cathy Murrowood explore the use of instruments in the liturgy and discusses how they can color and enhance the rites.
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Liturgical Music at the University of Portland
EDITOR — Explore this exciting opportunity to study liturgical music with Michael Prendergast and distinguished guest speakers in hybrid or in person this Fall!
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O Come, O Come, Emmanuel
MICHAEL PATELLA — The O Antiphons give us a peek into the way the early Church, and by extension, Catholics especially before the twentieth century, learned and applied the Bible to their daily lives.
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Upcoming Hymn Fest at Saint John’s Abbey
EDITOR — Join the Saint John’s Abbey community in person or virtually for their Easter hymn fest featuring master organ improviser Tom Trenney.
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The Divine Office Hymnal: a few initial reactions
FRITZ BAUERSCHMIDT — Some thoughts after using the Divine Office Hymnal for a few moths.
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Addendum to “New English-language Hymns for the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe”
Since my recent posting about two English-language hymns for the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe that appear in The Divine Office Hymnal (2023), Stephen Kasperick-Postellon, the music director-liturgist at St. Paul’s Benedictine Monastery in Oakdale, MN, has provided a great deal of information that I had not been able to find prior to the…
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New and Noteworthy: Heralds of Hope
I’m pleased to draw your attention to an excellent new book by Jennifer R. O’Brien concerning three Advent hymns of the Roman Office: Conditor alme siderum, Verbum supernum prodiens, and Vox clara intonet. Many of our readers will recognize the name of Jenny O’Brien from her insightful contributions to the Sixty Second Sermon series at…
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New English-language Hymns for the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe
One of the happy surprises contained in the new Divine Office Hymnal (Chicago, IL: GIA Publications, Inc, 2023) is the inclusion of two English-language hymns intended for use on 12 December, the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe in the USA. Almost all the hymns in this publication are translations from Latin originals, usually set to both metrical-chorale…
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REPOST: New hymn, “Never Silent in Your Praises”
Commissioned for the blessing of the expanded Saint John’s Abbey pipe organ.