Jul 09 – Homily: Jesus Wants to Heal Us
Jul 09 - Homily: Jesus Wants to Heal Us Homily #120709 ( 04min) Play - In today's Gospel we see the power eminating form Jesus - from His person. We need to be healed of all our sins - of all our...
View ArticleLumen Christi Missal Cantor Scores – Free Downloads Now Online
Cantor scores with pointed psalm verses for the antiphons of the Lumen Christi Missal are now being posted online for free download. Be sure to bookmark the Illuminare Score Library and check back...
View ArticleKill the Organ?
Well, The Boston Globe has done it, run a piece by Jennifer Graham calling for an organ drop to destroy them all and end to the noise. She writes: "I cringe at the Responsorial Psalm, ancient and...
View ArticleThe Lumen Christi Missal: Bold, Brave, Brilliant
Musician Adam Bartlett has been super busy for the last twelve months on a project I suspected was extremely important to the future of Catholic liturgy. He tried many times to engage me and talk to me...
View ArticleLumen Christi Missal Propers: Immaculate Conception and Advent 3 & 4
The English propers of the Lumen Christi Missal have now been posted for: THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY THIRD SUNDAY OF ADVENT FOURTH SUNDAY OF ADVENT These "cantor scores"...
View ArticleLumen Christi Missal Antiphons: Epiphany of the Lord
The digital score library at Illuminare Publications continues to grow with free offerings that support and surround the Lumen Christi Missal. These scores are drafts for the cantor/choir edition of...
View ArticleEnglish Propers: Ash Wednesday
Cantor scores that accompany the Lumen Christi Missal have now been posted for Ash Wednesday. This includes the Entrance, Offertory, and Communion antiphons of the "Simple Gradual", the Responsorial...
View ArticleEnglish Chant Antiphons for the Washing of Feet
Those who use the Simple English Propers notice something striking when Holy Week rolls around: it appears at first that many of the needed chants and antiphons are missing! What appears to be an...
View Article10 Steps to the Gradual
Here's a possible program to help a parish transition from a hymn-based program to the complete Gradual over just a few years. What do you think? Is it too ambitious, or too slow? What resources have I...
View ArticleJun 02, About Today for CORPUS CHRISTI
Sunday after Trinity Sunday The Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ Solemnity “I will take the cup of salvation and call on the name of the Lord.”[1] Today’s Responsorial Psalm gives a beautiful glimpse...
View ArticleThe Mass We Make
Many thanks to Arlene Oost-Zinner for raising the question anew of the value of worship aids at Mass. Personally I love them because they can act as a vehicle for all of the propers to be written out....
View ArticleA Tale of Two Cantors
I've been attending Sunday Mass at St. Mary Major lately. The all-men choir is just tremendous and the preaching by the canons is top-notch. The Dominican confessors wait for penitents in the wooden...
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