How many writers, educators, and opinion formers, urgently wishing to convey the thoughts and feelings that inspire them, have found themselves confronted with the cry "that's not relevant?"
"The Stuffed Owl" is an amusing anthology of bad verse, first published back in 1930.
"The greatest gift we can give to our students in a Benedictine School is the gift of prayer and the sacred liturgy."
"All your praises they shall ring, if it be your will to let me sing."
This summer I taught a week-long music course for high school students.
Ludwig van Beethoven, Johann Sebastian Bach, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart form the great trinity of Western classical composers.
The maxim that the greatest art is to have no art means that the aim of an accomplishment is to give the impression of effortlessness.
This may be a surprise to most Catholics who attend Masses in the Ordinary Form, but we aren't supposed to be singing hymns exclusively or predominantly at Mass. We are supposed to be singing the Mass.
For the first time in the history of the world, there was a reliable way to hand music along from one generation to the next.
