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
- 4 min
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, 2022
- 4 min
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, 2022
- 2 min
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, 2022
- 2 min
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, 2022
- 3 min
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, 2022
- 3 min
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
- Sep 27, 2022
- 2 min
Ways to use Antiphon Hymns for Advent
Advent, as the start of a new liturgical year, is a great place to start using antiphons at Mass. I always recommend introducing them...
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lmassery
- Aug 10, 2022
- 2 min
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, 2022
- 3 min
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, 2022
- 1 min
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, 2022
- 2 min
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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