Interesting, Fr is wearing the Laetare Vestments. I do understand his homily, however, the Sacred Liturgy here needs to catch-up in terms of content and beauty.

Thanks Soundingjoy....Happy New year to you too.

Hey Ira, thanks every so much!

@lukedaniel - Thank you for the responsible posting. All is understood, thanks again. To "tbswv", you need to treat the written word more responsibly!

A most excellent presentation, thanks. I reckon much more would get done at this Synod (and implemented) than other Synods I have been to in the Caribbean. In this case, in Washington DC, a better quality of Episcopal leadership perhpas? ......

@tbswv - You state such serious allegations without supporting evidence. Please be aware that you can be prosecuted for what you have written!

Lovely "Totus tuus" , I beleive it is by Gorecky. Beautiful indeed! Thanks.

Excellent performance, elegant and full of baroque majesty and beauty. Thanks!

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@ Ben - I have noticed that there is a certain 'arrested development' with regard to the male gays (among many other behavioural anomolies). This is agrivated by oppression, by hate and by militance. In other words, the more we tell them they are wrong, is the more they rebel like teenagers and go all out to show us they CAN DO as they please.

Particularly in the USA, chaps have been very vehement and almost venemous in their approach to the gay populus. Where has this got us? No where but a … [Plus]

Lovely, thanks. However, one is not quite convinced that the Renaissance styled reredos (above the altar on the Eastern Wall), complements the rather modern style of the Church itself. But having said this, lovely ceremony indeed. Thanks.

The music is gorgeous, the ceremonial quite complex though.

@philosopher - Quite!! In addition to which, psychology has not yet solved the problem of 'reinforced sexual behaviour'. So if one were a practicing gayman as a teenager, as a young twentisomething, it is not possible to stop..... but psychology, according to Fr Groeschel, would have us believe that is it possible.... Hence the problems now - sexual activity whose causes are located in rather different areas of human psychopathology; psychopathology which has NOT yet been sorted out. Better … [Plus]

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Utterly beautiful!! THIS is what was meant by "organic development from pre-existing forms" of art and music! Well done!! Gorgeous!

This reminds me of how the Renaissance used the Latin Chant and its modes to give birth the Polyphony of Josquin and then Palestrina! Now, we do the same thing, only in the vernacular. A most agreeable thing indeed. Thanks!

As was said by Walter Cardinal Brandmüller in the adjacent article, the correct liturgical reforms of the Second Oecumenical Council of the Vatican, are yet to be implemented.

Hence the unlawful reduction of the use of Latin.

Thanks much!

However, the Introit is just dreadful; compared with the Solesmes method of SINGING the chant which is so melodious and beautiful. Why do the Vatican Choirs persist in their aweful methodology?

It has been proven many times, that our ancient forefathers, SANG, they made free-rhythmic melody. In this video, the choppy, iso-rhythmic chant-singing is an unfortunate relic of the pre-Solesmes restoration. I reckon it's a Roman thing, perhaps?

Ah yes, a most balanced and well-considered article. His Emminence makes that most important distinction between the purport of the Second Oecumenical Council of the Vatican, and the Doctrinal misunderstandings that happened afterward. I would suggest this is located in the Episcopate's erroneous endeavours, which are numerous indeed!

Then His Emminence makes yet another important statement that separates the Council's main purport vis-a-vis the Sacred Liturgy, and what really happened: the … [Plus]

Terrific news about the Extraordinary Form of Mass returning to Manila in their Pontifical University. Thanks!

Now, regarding the DNA topic, I quite think that we do not know enough. This is the reason behind the polemic nature of studies, ie today genes say "X", next week, the same genes are found to say "XXY"..... So one is rather hesitant to put any value to these studies just now.

Pax et Bonum!

A valiant effort indeed!! Thanks so much for this...

However, three things stand out: 1. Lack of tempo control, one part relative to the other; 2. Lack of vocal dynamics; 3. Lack of clarity of the text.

Other than the above, a delightful performance indeed. Thanks.

@filiiSSR - Thanks for that, and understood.

Gosh.... dearest filiiSSR are there any plans for a bigger Oratory? This Chapel seems rather cramped.... Maybe something in the tradition of the great Celtic traditions, made from the Island's stone perhaps?

A most resplendent witness to all the Roman Church, that Beauty is not dead, no matter how hard the modernists have tried to kill the glorious Roman Rite.

Congratulations to The Congregation of the Sons of the Most Holy redeemer!

Laus Deo!

Beautiful.... just one thing, there is no such thing as the 'Gregorian Rite', in the West there is only the 'Latin Rite'. One may have a 'Gregorian Mass', according to the Roman Gradual Propers and Ordinaries. The Mass ordinary being sung in this video sounds much later than the Gregorian Chant! Mozart Perhaps?

@Fidelium - Quite! Like that Fr Jeffery priest, who keeps uploading a 'protestantized' Liturgy..... Just dreadful really!

This needs to be promulgated from the Roman Curia as official Liturgical Instructions! This is NOT getting down to the men in the pews on account of the biases of the Clergy....

As I said before, this priest presides over a Lex Orandi [Formal Liturgy of the RC Church] that is only the bear essentials [only just!], and is in no way the FULL Roman Catholic Liturgical praxis for Holy Mass iuxta Rubricis Missalis Romani MMXI. Yet again the lack of understanding of that old Roman Catholic Gregorian maxim Lex Credendi - Lex Orandi has produced a 'watered-down' version of Holy Mass.

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@sheenfan - Yet the priest presides over a Lex Orandi [Formal Liturgy of the RC Church] that is only the bear essentials [only just!], and is in no way the FULL Roman Catholic Liturgical praxis for Holy Mass iuxta Rubricis Missalis Romani MMXI. Yet again the lack of understanding of that old Roman Catholic Gregorian maxim Lex Credendi - Lex Orandi has produced a 'watered-down' version of Holy Mass.

On the other hand, the content of Father's holmily is quite sound. Nevertheless, one can see … [Plus]

HAR HAR HAR....