This year February 2nd, the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord (aka Candlemas), falls on a Sunday, replacing the 4th Sunday in...

In 1884, Pope Leo VIII wrote the prayer to St. Michael the Archangel, to be recited at the conclusion of Mass. Several years ago I...

As a burgeoning Catholic music director, I was taught to choose hymns that match the readings. That worked fine. There's nothing really...

I'm pleased to share my newly composed "Peregrine Mass", a simple English Chant setting of the Mass Ordinary.  It is based upon the...

Friends, if you have never done a "Rorate Caeli" Advent Mass, it's not too late to schedule one.  It is a fantastic Advent tradition. ...

I'll get straight to the point. Antiphonrenewal can create a high-quality custom hymnal supplement for your parish containing whatever...

Antiphon Renewal’s mission statement is “making it easy to recover the Church’s sung texts.” To this end, I am pleased to announce a new...

Below is a comprehensive list of antiphons recommended by Antiphon Renewal. "What must be sung is the Mass, its Ordinary and Proper, not...

In the Sacred Music forums I frequent, it seems people are always asking about Fr. Weber's Proper of the Mass. Mostly, they can't find...

(With a list of Luke's favorite resources at the bottom) For years I've dedicated my ministry to helping my parish and others recover the...

If you are a musician, you may have dabbled in music notation software. I learned to do this with musescore, a free program I still use...

As a Catholic Music director, you will some day be asked to program a sung Evening Prayer. As Vatican II taught, the Liturgy of the...

For around the last thousand to 1200 years, one of the most well-known of all Gregorian chants has been the "Requiem Aeternam," the...

Fr. Columba Kelly's St. Meinrad Entrance and Communion antiphons in English are an absolute treasure. I've used them plenty of times and...

In my last post I identified 10 modern Catholic songs that sound sacred. As expected, it turned out to be a bit controversial. For this...

If you’re reading this, you may, like me, care about restoring sacred music to the liturgy at your parish. Catholicism has an incredibly...

About 11 years ago, I introduced sung communion antiphons for the first time at my current church, using Andrew Motyka's...

In a local diocesan survey, it was revealed that about 50% of parishes in my diocese use either the Breaking Bread Missal by OCP or...

Many Catholics don’t realize that the Mass has its own official music book, called The Roman Gradual, or “Graduale Romanum.” When...

At AntiphonRenewal.com I have a blog where I review and promote different settings of the Proper Antiphons of the Mass. I have been...