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25th Sunday in Ordinary Time

O Bone Jesu
Where Charity and Love Prevail
Tu Solus
Gustate et Videte
Ubi Caritas
Oh God Our Help in Ages Past

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Chant Workshop 2005!!

After last year's tremendous success, the St. Cecilia Sacred Music Workshop will reconvene February 19, 2005, 8:00am to 6:00pm. St. Michaels parish, Auburn, Alabama. Our special guest conductor will be Scott Turkington, the director of the Stamford Schola Gregoriana. Registration is $30 per person. More details coming.

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Fr. Robert Skeris on why the chant movement failed in the US during the interwar years:

"The chant became too precious and difficult to perform because of the theories of interpretation. Too often choirs imitated rather than learned the chants. School chil­dren in the Midwest sometimes sounded like members of a French choir instead of the children of immigrants from east­ern Europe. Parish choirs found it too difficult to achieve the special effects demanded by the experts, and the result, unfor­tunately, was a reluctance to use chant, especially in parochial choirs and in congregations The chant was intended to be the song of the people, but unfortunately it became an art form whose rendition was beyond the abilities of all except the specially trained."

("A Chronicle of the Reform," in Cum Angelis Canere: Essays on Sacred Music and Pastoral Liturgy in Honour of Richard J. Schuler. Robert A. Skeris, ed., St. Paul MN: Catholic Church Music Associates, 1990, Appendix—6, pp. 349-419, with this quotation from p. 355).

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The Tu Solus was just spectacular and fit beautifully in what was a nicely integrated liturgy. This week we are settling on a few communion chants that we can do every second week, simply because we do not have the additional 30 minutes that it would otherwise require to make these chants flow as they should. Also we need the time to renew attention on the Ego Sum, as well as start work on "A New Commandment" by Thomas Tallis. You can download that version or wait for the 4-page version (same thing w/o keyboard line.)

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23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time, in order:

Ave Verum (Byrd)
Take Up Thy Cross
Kyrie Orbis Factor
Tu Solus Facis (Josquin)
Vovete et Reddite
Let All Mortal Flesh
God Father Praise and Glory.

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