Society of Saint Gregory

At the risk of double posting: I think we can accept that we are the Latin Rite, and that the Council certainly requested that the people be able to sing the Creed and Lord's Prayer in Latin 'set to simple melodies,' and this list was extended over the years to include most of the Ordinary. The prov...

Hymns for Prayer and Praise is a worthwhile collection for saintly feasts. It doesn't cover all of them, and it would be wonderful if we had some modernish translations of the Liber Hymnarius to help us. But yes, the EH is a very worthwhile collection - I love RVW's preface... 'The average congrega...

My instinct on this one is of sadness. Of course we must consider and be sympathetic to communities where celebrating Holydays on weekdays constitutes a serious burden. It seems that the solution to this could be by means of dispensation where necessary. Any change to the National observance of this...

As I see it, the basic problem with Amazing Grace is theological: if we teach the inviolable dignity of the human person as part of our createdness, it is a disservice to sing 'a wretch like me.' Wretchedness, 'alien grace', is something Luther would have embraced. One can also find the beginnings o...