Why Praise & Worship Music is Praise & Worship

A few days ago, a Fr. Smith posted this article on the Chant Cafe blog: “Why Praise & Worship music is praise, but not worship.” Here’s my response: @font-face { font-family: “Cambria”; }p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0in 0in 10pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: “Times New Roman”; }div.Section1 { page: Section1; } To begin my response [...]

A Post for Chant Advocates

Greetings and blessings! I know that it has been a long time since my last blog post, but as I’m sure you know, life gets busy!  In this blog post, I would like to layout something that’s been on my heart lately.  As many of you know, I am a follower of the Chant Cafe [...]

Reflection on Piano at Mass (taken from CCWatershed)

Our friend Jeff O. at CCWatershed posted this reflection a few month’s back here. The conversation continued via the musica sacra forum, check it out! Original article: In my experiences as a Catholic Church musician, the following conversation has often occurred: “Jeff, why don’t you ever play the piano at Mass? Why do you play [...]

Robert Feduccia Interview

Check out the AUDIO page to download the interview with Robert Feduccia. I apologize for poor audio quality, but I still wanted to get this out! Tweet This Post

A Letter to Praise & Worship Musicians

Greetings & Blessings all! Upon surfing around one of my favorite sites, “The Chant Cafe”, I found a letter from the Cafe’s founder Jeffrey Tucker addressed to Praise & Worship musicians. I’d like to share it with you. I plan on “commenting” to give my own reception of the letter (since I do consider myself [...]

29th Sunday in Ordinary Time Communion Antiphon

Well, here we go again! The Teen Worship Team has the “Teen Mass” on Oct 17th at the 10:30am, and the pastor has been giving us permission to incorporate the “Propers” of the mass. This is my attempt to bring out this “treasure” of the liturgy. Note: the hymnal we use, “Breaking Bread” by OCP [...]

25th Sunday Ordinary Time Communion Antiphon

Hey all! As many of you know, I’m embarking on a journey to re-discover the Church’s “propers” of the Liturgy. That is, I’m trying to figure out how a singing of the “Entrance Antiphon”/Introit and “Communion Antiphon”/Communio could be done using both Psalmtone chants as well as a “Praise & Worship” “hook” that would be [...]

Learning Worship Guitar (Pt. 2)

In part two of my review of the Musicademy product “Intermediate Worship Guitar,” which can be found at www.musicademy.com, I want to give you the highlights of disc two and three, and then take a deeper look at the backing tracks which the DVD has to offer. Disc two is very much just a continuation [...]

The Decade’s best Praise & Worship Songs

Found this blog post on Catholic Youth Ministry.com by Matt Smith, thoughts? http://www.catholicyouthministry.com/the-decadesbest-praise-worship-songs-part-1 Tweet This Post

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