Thirsty Thursday – 2011.11.10

Really excited about this new weekly series I’d like to start.  Perhaps you’ve heard of “Thirsty Thursday” as a time when college students can’t wait long enough for the weekend to quench their “thirst”.  Here I’d like to share with you all a few songs that are on my heart to quench your thirst for [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Missa Simplex Acoustic Arrangement

Here’s my arrangement of the Missa Simplex with Acoustic guitar accompaniment.  I’ll be posting audio for the keyboard arrangement too, God bless! Tweet This Post

Learning Worship Guitar

As worship leaders we are always trying to better ourselves and learn our art and our instruments better each and every day. While there are many resources that are well prepared, and very effective towards this end, I find they tend to fall into two categories: The first are resources that are aimed at people [...]

Can you tell the difference b/t Sacred & Secular Music?

I found this while suffering the internet.  Overall, I like it in that I think it gives  solid information regarding music in the liturgy.  The one question I have is: what exactly does this ministry define as “secular” music.  While I agree that purely “secular” music the likes of which are heard on the Billboard [...]

Check out our Audio Section!

Loaded with great content from podcasts, CW Blog artist specials, and more! Click here to listen to CW Blog AUDIO CLIPS under the “MEDIA” section. Tweet This Post

Sing to the Lord: Music in Divine Worship (Section I – Why We Worship?)

Over the next few blog posts I would like to take a look at the USCCB’s document Sing to the Lord. Over the past year or so, my diocese has been holding workshops for liturgical ministers and have referenced this document a number of times. As Catholic worship leaders I think we have a responsibility to read what the Bishops have to say regarding worship in the celebration of the liturgy.