“He who sings prays twice” said St Augustine. Pope Leo XIV is showing us how it is done.

NOTE: If no piano accompaniment is needed in front of 100,000 people on St Peter, why would it be needed for cantors singing in front of a few dozens of parishioners…?

The defining technology of the Western musical tradition, staff notation, started as an aid to singers to chant the Catholic liturgy. Yet most church choirs now learn music through a cueing system, rote, but not through the music literacy the Church invented.

The defining technology of the Western musical tradition, staff notation, started as an aid to singers to chant the Catholic liturgy. Yet most church choirs now learn music through a cueing system, rote, but not through the music literacy the Church invented.

The defining technology of the Western musical tradition, staff notation, started as an aid to singers to chant the Catholic liturgy. Yet most church choirs now learn music through a cueing system, rote, but not through the music literacy the Church invented.

The defining technology of the Western musical tradition, staff notation, started as an aid to singers to chant the Catholic liturgy. Yet most church choirs now learn music through a cueing system, rote, but nor through the music literacy the Church invented.

The defining technology of the Western musical tradition, staff notation, started as an aid to singers to chant the Catholic liturgy. Yet most church choirs now learn music through a cueing system, rote, but not through the music literacy the Church invented.

Angela Westhoff-Johnson’s passion for the singing of the Entrance and Communion antiphons can be heard in these excerpts from a video recently posted by NPM (National Association of Pastoral Musicians). As she explains, many music ministers do not know about antiphons: OCP and Angela are doing their best to remedy to this problem.