ALTARE DEI N. 2 – JANUARY 2017

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ALTARE DEI n. 2, January 2017

 

CONTENTS

1. Editorial

Aurelio Porfiri

 

TOP STORY

3. In defense of the Organ Postlude

Peter A. Kwasniewski

 

LITURGICAL THEOLOGY

8. What is the Mystery of the Liturgy

David W. Fagerberg

 

LITURGY

11. Toward Holier Communions: A simple suggestion

Thomas M. Kocik

 

15. On Celebration Ad Orientem

Joseph Shaw

 

WITNESSES

21. Jean Nicolas Grou

 

MUSICAL INSERT

22. AVE MARIA (Solo, SATB and Organ) Mauro Visconti
23. MAGNIFICAT (SATB and Organ) Colin Mawby
24. EASTER ALLELUIA (SATB) Aurelio Porfiri
25. QUEM TERRA, PONTUS, SIDERA (2 Equal voices and Organ) Valentino Miserachs
26. INTERLUDE (Organ) Aurelio Porfiri
27. SALVASTI NOS, DOMINE (2 Equal voices and Organ)Aurelio Porfiri
28. EXULTATE IUSTI (Acclamation for the Rosary, SATB and Organ) Alberico Vitalini

 

CATECHISM ON THE MASS

34. Part 2

Enrico Zoffoli

 

PROFILES

35. Priestly dignity according to Blessed Antonio Rosmini

Enrico Finotti

 

SACRED MUSIC

39. The earliest Catholic Choir school

David  M. Friel

 

42. Sacred Music from St. Pius X to our days

Valentino Miserachs

 

46. Gregorian Chant for the First Sunday of Lent: The Sunday of Temptation

Fulvio Rampi

  

CATHOLIC CULTURE

50. A Church on her knees (and not in a good sense)…

Aurelio Porfiri

 

57. “Only a blind man can deny that

there’s now in the Church great confusion…”

Interview with Cardinal Carlo Caffarra (From Il Foglio)

 

EVENTS

67. “Miracle” in Trieste: Bach’s celebrated

monumental B minor Mass after at least 50 years

Alberto Carosa