Hymnography Unbound has been added to the blogroll of a very promising young blog called Sir Monocle: Views of an Organist and a Gentleman. Although we differ on the very important issue of argyle socks, for men, I can see already that I will be looking forward to his posts. Check out this one, which inaugurated the blog (ignore the last paragraph of the post if you're shy). It's not easy to capture so well the mix of affection and frustration of liturgical music-making, a doomed art, in which mortals attempt to make lasting praise to the infinite God. We haven't a prayer of worshipping rightly, but does that stop us? Never! Exhorted by the Corpus Christi sequence, we try all the more: Praise him as much as you can, for he is beyond all praising and you will never be able to praise him as he merits.
Now if this blog had a blogroll, Sir Monocle would be joining my old favorites Scelata, Sacred Miscellany, and Hymnody.
Meanwhile, The New Liturgical Movement continues to provide excellent resources and opportunities for reflection. Here, for example, is yet another of Jeffrey Tucker's gifts to the world, in which he makes known web-available resources for liturgical music and chant. And here is my friend and colleague Michael Lawrence, with some post-Solemnity reflections on beauty and the Divine.
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Thank you, both for the honor you do me by reading my blog, and for the favor of the heads up on the new blog!
(Save the Liturgy, Save the World)
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