Tag: Music
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Spiritual, Religious, Media, and Music
“The combination of passivity, consuming, quality, and place has combined to help the phenomenon of the “destination church” emerge.”
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Do It Rite: Cantors, Get off the Mic!
Fr. Anthony Ruff shares the proper role of the Cantor in this installment.
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Martin Luther: “A Mighty Fortress Is Our God”
Now let the Word stand secure.
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Unnecessary Impoverishments: The Psalter/Part 2 (The Entrance Rite)
We always overlook scripture at our own peril. Perhaps it would be to our benefit to be informed by the texts of the entrance antiphons and their psalms as well as those of the Lectionary when doing our music planning, and realize we don’t always have to be driven only by the Lectionary texts.
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What Are You Singing This Lent?
Lent must also lead us to experience, celebrate, and live out the grace of God’s mercy, to reveal and see in ourselves the goodness that God sees in us, as in all creation.
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NPM President Search
In the spirit of the Second Vatican Council, NPM fosters the art of musical liturgy.
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Music for the Church’s Worship 2: Luke Mayernick “Ever Ancient, Ever New”
The collection “Ever Ancient, Ever New” contains twelve compositions by Luke Mayernik (including seasonal variants) and two “Thanksgiving Psalms” by Henry Seymour.
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Local Workshop Events
We’re opening this thread at Pray Tell for our readers to share news of what’s going on around town where they live. Any workshop events or seminars relating to liturgy, liturgical music, preaching, environment and art for worship, catechesis for worship, etc, are welcome.
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Refresh my heart: Awake, O organ and guitar!
The celebrant at Mass last night reminded us to keep an eye open, during Lent, for “thin places,” places where the barriers between us and the kingdom seem fragile, as if we might break through and see creation as God does at last.