Prayer of St Michael Hymn
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...
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lmassery
Jun 222 min read
A Method of Choosing Entrance Hymns for Mass
As a burgeoning Catholic music director, I was taught to choose hymns that match the readings. That worked fine. There's nothing really...
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lmassery
Jan 122 min read
A New Simple English Chant Mass
I'm pleased to share my newly composed "Peregrine Mass", a simple English Chant setting of the Mass Ordinary. It is based upon the...
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lmassery
Nov 30, 20231 min read
How to Plan a Rorate Caeli Mass
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. ...
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lmassery
Nov 25, 20232 min read
Custom-Made Pew Supplements
I'll get straight to the point. Antiphonrenewal can create a high-quality custom hymnal supplement for your parish containing whatever...
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lmassery
Oct 8, 20235 min read
A new collection called "Last Verse Introits"
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...
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lmassery
Aug 18, 20232 min read
Complete Collections of Proper Antiphons
Below is a comprehensive list of antiphons recommended by Antiphon Renewal. "What must be sung is the Mass, its Ordinary and Proper, not...
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lmassery
Aug 7, 20233 min read
ALL links for the Fr. Weber Propers
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...
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lmassery
Mar 21, 20237 min read
The Ladder Toward Propers
(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...
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lmassery
Feb 21, 20234 min read
Beginner's Guide to Creating Gregorian Notation
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...
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lmassery
Oct 24, 20224 min read
How to do Sung Vespers at your parish
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...
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lmassery
Oct 16, 20222 min read
Putting the "Requiem" back in a Requiem.
For around the last thousand to 1200 years, one of the most well-known of all Gregorian chants has been the "Requiem Aeternam," the...
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lmassery
Oct 7, 20222 min read
7 things you didn't know about the St. Meinrad antiphons.
Fr. Columba Kelly's St. Meinrad Entrance and Communion antiphons in English are an absolute treasure. I've used them plenty of times and...
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lmassery
Oct 4, 20223 min read
8 More Modern Catholic Songs That Sound Sacred
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...
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lmassery
Sep 28, 20223 min read
10 modern Catholic songs that sound sacred
If you’re reading this, you may, like me, care about restoring sacred music to the liturgy at your parish. Catholicism has an incredibly...
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lmassery
Aug 10, 20222 min read
The first proper antiphons I used at new parish
About 11 years ago, I introduced sung communion antiphons for the first time at my current church, using Andrew Motyka's...
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lmassery
Aug 2, 20223 min read
A Resource That Could Supplant Breaking Bread
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...
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lmassery
Jul 12, 20221 min read
An Awesome English Collection for the Entire Gradual
Many Catholics don’t realize that the Mass has its own official music book, called The Roman Gradual, or “Graduale Romanum.” When...
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lmassery
Jun 19, 20222 min read
A User-Friendly Collection of Chanted Antiphons
At AntiphonRenewal.com I have a blog where I review and promote different settings of the Proper Antiphons of the Mass. I have been...
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