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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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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But nowadays hymns are the norm, because people don't have much else to sing.
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Catholic liturgical music, it would seem, is everywhere but in the Catholic Church itself.
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Music had always been the handmaid of the Roman liturgy.
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Never have so many recordings of the great Masses and motets been in wider circulation.
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Record stores have whole sections devoted to the chant.
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I was pretty healthy when I was a kid. When I started gaining weight after college, I was as surprised as everyone else.
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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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It confirms what the Societe has said all along, which is that the Societe is the owner of the copyright and that any reproduction or even possession of plasters, molds and bronzes is a copyright violation,
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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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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 pastor of a parish will typically have no education in the chant or in music, and he will hire the first music director who walks through the door.
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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.