Richard Morris
Richard Morris
Richard Morris, was an English philologist and priest of the Church of England...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionClergyman
Date of Birth8 September 1833
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Record stores have whole sections devoted to the chant.
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Ironically, we live in times that are awash in authentic sacred music.
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It bothers me when I hear it in a car commercial or some such. But for the most part, it's better than seeing sacred music relegated to the scrap heap.
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You can count on one hand the number of Novus Ordo churches in this country that feature a fully Catholic music program of any quality, consistent with the Roman rite tradition.
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To understand the threat to music education posed by the seemingly minor change of mind, one needs to go back in time to the enactment of the Education Reform Act in 1988.
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When the truth is that there would be no great Western music, and certainly no decent choral repertoire, without the Catholic faith.
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Thus the slogan should be reversed: Catholics taught the world what music is supposed to sound like, and, more importantly, what it is supposed to mean.
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The democratic and pedestrian character of the new Mass itself seems to invite the ditties that pass for hymns these days.
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For two thousand years, the Church has guided the development of music, carefully legislating to fuse artistic talent and aesthetic beauty with the demands of the Faith.
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Catholic liturgical music, it would seem, is everywhere but in the Catholic Church itself.
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But nowadays hymns are the norm, because people don't have much else to sing.
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At St. Francis de Sales in Atlanta, we do not have an organ. We do not have rehearsals during the week. We do not have a professional choir.
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Music had always been the handmaid of the Roman liturgy.
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There's nothing stupider than bursting into song for seven seconds and then falling silent again.