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A PRAYER FOR PRIESTS

Mahabaging Panginoon! O

Almadrones
TAKE PITY UPON US, O ye people in whom we hope, and in this cavern where we dwell, help us!
Listen ye, sinners moved with pity, help us and shew us compassion, that God mayeth take us and
bring us to Paradise. You who yet walk the earth, in that vale of tears, halt and heed us, for we are
sorrowing, and you shall help us. We are in purgatory, this ery chamber of immeasurable chastisement, where the Beatic Vision eludeth us, we are cleansed and it would be to nought if God should
not succour us. O just God, we are miserable! Alas, what formidable light! Alas, what obedient mercy!
Alas, what beating compassion! Alas, what everlasting justice! When shall we rest?
The Mo Holy Sacrice of the Son to His
Father is the mo ecient means to take us out
of this isolation, as well as the defence and wisdom of the saints! Pray for us to the Lord, and
oer Masses for our sake, so that these tribulations would soon be complete, and we shall
enter into the realm of Gods glory, and your
reward shall not be forgotten.

O Virgin of Dolours, who in thy sorrows,

thou ha become our Advocate. If thy intercession be peerless to the juice of God, let the
people come to our aid! Ye Chriians, heed our
supplications: forsake your sins and vices, and
obey the Lord, so we will not be further purged,
help, pity, and re, for we will shed our tears.
Pray for the Holy Souls in purgatory!

J, Eternal Prie,
keep all Thy pries
within the shelter of Thy
Sacred Heart, where none
may harm them.
Keep unained their
anointed hands which daily
touch Thy Sacred Body. Keep
unsullied their lips purpled
with Thy Precious Blood.
Keep pure and unearthly
their hearts sealed with the
sublime marks of Thy glorious
priehood.
Let Thy holy love surround them and shield them
from the worlds contagion.
Bless their labours with
abundant fruit, and may the
souls to whom they have miniered be here below their joy
and consolation and in Heaven their beautiful and everlaing crown. Amen.
O Mary, Queen of the
clergy, pray for us; obtain for
us a number of holy pries.

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December

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Month of the Incarnation of the Son of God

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4 | On the munus chorale
Jesson G. Allerite
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5 | Honras and monumentos
Jesson G. Allerite

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Three provinces of the realm

Maurice Joseph M. Almadrones

P K: I T,
as I, the Militant, supplicate for the Suering Three are the provinces
of the Kingdom of God: Heaven of the Church Triumphant, Earth of
the Church Militant, and Purgatory of the Church Suering. Under
the Rule of the Almighty, Chri our Sovereign King do these provinces exi, connected to each other in harmony of prayer and aid.

The cemetery, ground sanctied by

the Church for burial, is a reminder and
sign of contradiction to the living. With it
we persi in our hope to share in the resurrection of Chri, and be crowned with
the diadem of eternity. When we visit a
cemetery, we see, feel, and experience at
the same time these three provinces of the
kingdom of God!
Unlike those who in their pride and
ignorance left the Church Militant, we
who cleave to Her, visit Her hallowed
grounds, mo especially in the r days
of November, and even on a regular basis.
Whether it be the forgotten crypt in the
parish, or the old cemetery across town,
we honour and pray for the deadfor the
Church Sueringespecially those dear
to us, and those who have no one to pray
for them.

Ah! these blessed souls already at the

gate of Heaven!, these poor souls suering greatly in the temporal punishment of
their sins in life! Death and Judgment are
certain, yet Heaven is not yet a settled
end. On these hallowed days of November, let us reect on the Joy of Heaven,
and rive to work and pray, that we may
be worthy to see the Beatic Vision.
Holy souls purged as gold in the res
of Gods love are deined to the Church
Triumphant. We are called militants and
activis in our realm, because we militate
for the suering. Let us aid them with
Masses and indulgences, and, once they
enter heaven, they will intercede for us. In
a cemetery, there is sky, and heaven let us
look up to, with lips parted, murmuring
our solemn prayer for those who suer in
Purgatory, these holy and poor souls.

O Death!, how bitter is thy memory! Butalas!O Immortal God!, how incomprehensible are
Thy justications!Don Flix Valenzuela, magisterial canon of Manila

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OUR TAKE ON THINGS
A friend of ours, a janitress from
the provinces, commented: To
die in Manila is to die an empty
death. She used the word hunghang, which means utterly and
interiorly empty in the Visayas.
Why? amused, we asked. There are no prayers
oered during the wake. Nobody leads the prayers, and people ju come and go, eat and run,
prattle and gamble. Is this one of the reasons why
many ill elect to be buried in their hometowns?
Are they, at lea, certain that their surviving relatives and friends in the provinces would commend
their souls to the surage of the saints?
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Which really inspires us to ask
after the public prayers for the
dead, which our anceors once
intoned with the whole town.
Have we consigned to oblivion
the solemn novenas once oered
for the dead? Yea, it is easy to forget these
things when even the nimas have ceased to toll
from our augu belfries. Have we forgotten the
Passion Rosary which we ought to use to pray
for the souls in purgatory? These decenaries
were once sung in Intramuros. Maero Marcelo Adonay bequeathed us a moving setting of
the Passion Rosary to be sung with a small
orchera during novenas for the dead. Alas,
how could we countenance ignorance even of
the lugubrious lamentations declaimed during
these novenas!
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How can some of us be so ignorant to the point of singing Webbers Pie Iesu in weddings! Ah,
how we also mourn the absence
of good music in many of our
churches! Saint Cecilia, help us!
Why have we permitted sacred music to hit this
deep trough in the hiory of the liturgy! Do we
confuse giving to God what He set forth be rendered to Him with giving to Him what we think
He deserves? Do we sing crappy music because we
think it pleases God or because it pleases us?
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God created the world, but why
do we sing Him on a guitar?
Could we not spare Him the
greate of all inruments fashioned by the hand of man? (Its
the organ to the clueless.) He
redeemed the world, but why do we sing Him a
gormless folksong? Have we diminished God as
to sing only to Him that which our nite human intellect could underand? The Liturgy is
our worship of God, not of ourselves.

Image above: .Interior view of the Roman Catholic cemetery of Paco, ca. 1870. Photo from the album Filipinas of the National Library of Spain.

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Dialogue on the munus chorale

Jesson G. Allerite & Rolan B. Ambrocio

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chorale, is not a trivial oce. The Fir Provincial Council of Manila in
set forth that lay cantors mu be religious and commendable in
the integrity of character. Yea, for the oce was once reserved to the
clergy, that the same Council commanded that the irreligious and the scandalous mu not be admitted into the choir.

Almadrones
OREMUS.
Concde nos fmulos tuos,
Dmine, perptua mentis et
crporis sanitte gaudre : et
glorisa betae Marae semper
Vrginis intercessine, a praesnti liberri tristtia et aetrna
prfrui laettia. Per Dminum.

Suppose we have a chorier who compromises her otherwise exemplary maery

and skill in the province of music with her
indulgence in her lesser avocations which provokes her to absent herself from the choir from
time to time. Suppose those avocations are as
profane as bird watching, or mountain climbing, or island hopping, or what-have-you that
requires no interaction with our churchy and
oftentimes reticent lot. Suppose also our choir
had been appointed to sing at an important
fea, say the fea of the Espousals of the
Blessed Virgin, and we would nd ourselves
extremely disadvantaged should she fail to

come, but that we have received her noncommittal word that she might miss choir because
of a spontaneous whim to go trekking abroad,
notwithanding her broadca devotion to the
Blessed Virgin. Hoping again hope, we have
thus already written her o the denite choriers for said fea, knowing from experience
that she always elected her avocations over the
choir, however it pained her to approach a
choice that involved her beloved hobbies. A
bad ankle, however, eventually prevented our
chorier from going away, and has of late
dropped hints she would be showing up. SupDialogue | continued on p. 10

Redactores Anamnesis scriptoresque

D. MICHALI IOSEPHO
e praeclara & perillure Dioecesi Cubaonsi
qui ter septenos cum annos adimplet
presbyter ordinatus

Tu es sacerdos in aeternum secundum ordinem Melchisedech.
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L. D. V. Q. M.

Images by Almadrones, Janiola, & Allerite

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THE PASSION ROSARY

Honras and monumentos

Jesson G. Allerite

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funeral honours accorded to a deceased Catholic. Typically, in rclass funerals in Spanish times, the cadaver was brought to church
and the vigiliavespers, matins and lauds of the deadwas celebrated, followed by the oracin panegricaa sermon in the form of a eulogyspoken
by the prie, and concluded by the ve absolutions.
If the honours were impeded on the
day of burial, they were moved to another
day. During this time, a monumento was
erected in the church. We usually see a
catafalque now in the mid of the nave
during Requiems. A monumento, grander
than the catafalque, is a gigantic cenotaph
with many tiers, decorated with trompelil owers, and lit with many candles.

The oracin panegrica is also known

as the oracin fnebre. We are blessed to
have a ne and moving example from the
see of Manila, pronounced on July
by the magierial canon of the cathedral chapter, Don Flix Valenzuela, in
honour of the deceased archbishop. We
reproduce the text of the preamble in its
full Latin glory:

The following decenary is said in honour

of the holy souls of Purgatory.
Make the sign of the cross, and say the
act of contrition. Afterwards, say the following prayer:
PRAYER
BEFORE THE PASSION ROSARY

pen, O Lord, our lips to bless Thine Holy

Name: cleanse our hearts from all vain,
perverse and alien thoughts; shine upon
our understanding, iname our aection, that
worthily, attentively and devoutly we may recite
this Rosary of Thy most sacred Passion, with the
most bitter sorrows of Thy Most Holy Mother, and
we may merit to be graciously heard before the
face of Thy Divine Majesty: Who livest and
reignest through the ages of the ages.
R. Amen.

uid mentis acie complecteris in tam inopinato eventu, nobilissima Civitas Manilana ? quid sapientissimi Religiosorum Coetus, de summo moerore, qui in ore vestro animadvertitur, iudicatis ?
Et tu Ecclesia Metropolitana, sponsa delissima tui Pastoris, qui ultimam vitae periodum clausit !
quid etiam loqueris in lacrymarum imbre, poenarumque colluvie immersa ? Vere enim in te
sacra illa sententia in lib. Thren. impleta esse videtur : Ego plorans et oculus meus deducens aquas, quia
Honras | continued on p. 7

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Almadrones
Then, make the following oering for the
soul of the faithful departed:
OFFERING FOR THE SOUL
OF THE FAITHFUL DEPARTED

Almadrones

1 Monumento raised in the cathedral of Manila for

the honras fnebres of King Alphonsus XII of Spain
in the . 2 Funeral memento before the interment of the deceased in the s. 3 Funeral
entourage processing from the church to the cemetery in the s.

my sweetmost Jesus, Who to redeem the

World, didst deign to be nailed to the
Cross, we beseech Thee, O Lord, by Thine
most sacred Passion, deliver the soul of N. from
the torments of hell, and bring him (or her) to
rest in Thy most hallowed glory.
R. Amen.
On the large beads where the Pater
noer is said, the following is said:
my most merciful Jesus, look with benignant eyes upon the souls of the faithful
departed for whom Thou didst die and
receive the torment of the cross.
R. Amen.
Passion Rosary | continued on p. 9

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&

Rev. Fr. Michell Joe Zerrudo

Saint Ambrose of Milan

New year and anniversary

- versary as a prie coincides this year with the Fir Sunday of Advent. To me, twenty-one is the number of adulthood. In the ordinary reckoning of years, a boy becomes a
man on his twenty-r year. This tells me today that I am no
longer a teenager prie. [] As a prie, I enter today into a new
phase of the miniry: one that is denitely pa the honeymoon
age but, hopefully, a miniry that is more mature. []
In the Holy Gospel, the Lord speaks of Himself as a man
travelling abroad who leaves home and places his servants in
charge, each with his own work, and orders the gatekeeper to be
on the watch. These works spoke particularly to me. They reminded me of who I am as a prie: a servant of the Maer who
has left home to travel abroad. [] He left me home with a
charge, a responsibility to full. Now, is this not true, that the
tendency of servants is to take things lightly when the maer is
away? Which we say that: when the cat is away, the mice go out
to play. And so, the prophet Isaiah laments: Why do you let us
wander, O Lord, from your ways, and harden our hearts so that
we fear you not? There is always the temptation to be complacent, to think that the maer is taking too long in returning.
And I mu admit to you: twenty-one years in the priehood, I
have been tempted so many number of times to become complacent. And complacency leads to that kind of tepidity that the
Lord detes. In the Book of Revelations, the Lord says: You are
New year | continued on p. 11

DOMINE NOSTER NAZARENE,

NAZARENE,
RESPICE NOS FAMULOS TUOS,
NOMEN TUUM BENEDICENTES
TEQUE DEUM FILIUM CONFITENTES

The good of death

T, O L J,
that we may obtain to be summoned, for
without Thee nobody ascendeth. For Thou
art the way, the truth, the life, the possibility, the faith, the reward. Look upon us as Thou art the way,
rengthen us as Thou art the truth, enliven us as Thou art the
life. Open wide that good thing of Thine which David desired to
see, dwelling in the house of the Lord; therefore, he said: Who
sheweth us good things? (Ps. , .). And elsewhere: I believe to
see the good things of the Lord in the land of the living (Ps. ,
). For thither the good things are, whither life eternal is, life
without sin. Elsewhere likewise he said: We shall be lled with
the good things of thy house (Ps. , ). He therefore did repeat
it, that thou mighte underand from here that good thing to
have transformed philosophers, which they have set as the highe good. Truly open wide, therefore, that good thing of Thine,
that divine thing, wherein we live, we are, and we ir (Act. ,
). We ir as we are in life, we are as we are in truth, we live as
we are in life everlaing (Jn. , ). Shew unto us that good
thing, which is the same to itself, always indissoluble and immutable, where we may be everlaing in the knowledge of all things
good, as thy vessel of election, who is Paul, hath witnessed, saying: For perhaps he therefore departed for a season from Thee
that Thou mighte receive him again for ever (Philem. , ).
Writing to Philemon, he therefore said to the everlaing minGood of death | continued on p. 8

REGINA POLORUM, ORA PRO NOBIS

OMNIBUSQUE CHRISTIADIBUS
PERSECUTIS SUB FLAGELLO
MAHOMETANO SARRACENOQUE
SARRACENOQUE

The Anamnesis expresses its gratitude to Mr Enrique Macadangdang, Sr. and Mr Jos Marie Olloren for recording the homilies and sermons of Fr. Zerrudo.

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Good of death | p. 6
ier of God, whose faith in the knowledge of all
things good, which are in the hallowed things,
he demanded to become more evident in Jesus
Chri. In what good thing is pure re, immortal light, perpetual grace, pious inheritance of
souls, and secure tranquillity not subjected to
death, but rescued from death, where there are
no tears, no weeping. For whence is weeping
there, where nobody is dead. Where thy saints
are absolved from errors and solicitudes, foolishness and ignorance, fear and dread, cupidities and eshly impurities and passions, where
the realm of the living is. And so that we may
attach authority with this assertion, the prophet sayeth of this good thing: Turn, O my soul,
into thy re: for the Lord hath been bountiful
to thee: for he hath delivered my soul from
death: my eyes from tears, my feet from falling.
I will please the Lord in the land of the living (Ps. , ). I will please, he saith, not
I please; that is, he pleaseth in a future time to
himself. For future things are contrary to preGood of death | continued on p. 10

Anamnesis

Legimus in Genesin : Dixitque Cain ad Abel fratrem suum : Egrediamur foras. Cumque essent in agro, consurrexit Cain adversus fratrem suum Abel, et interfecit
eum (4, 18). Primum mortuum Abel super terram eum plorabant Adam Hevaque
parentes. Apostolus ait : Sicut enim per inobedientiam unius hominis, peccatores
constituti sunt multi (Rom. 5, 19). Tum : Regnavit peccatum in mortem (Ibid. 21).

Honras | p. 5
longe factus est a me consolator. Proh dolor ! stupens certe concutitur dolore
animus, vox faucibus haeret, lingua balbutit, prae lacrymis caligant oculi,
scinduntur saxea licet pectora, protinus ac tam infausta recordatio subit Exmi.
Illmique. in Christo Domini Frat. Iosephi Aranguren Dignisimi huius Ditionis
vel Dioeceseos Praesulis. Quid ergo, Auditores optimi : in tanta amaritudine

eloquar, an sileam ? Quid enim cunctari oportet in tanti Praesulis praeclaris

dotibus extollendis, ornamentis optimis exaggerandis, ut moerorem vestrum
in sui protraham absentia, quando nuda sui obitus memoria vos omnes tanta
aecit tristitia, ut video ? Quid enim habeo, Exme. Praesul, quod melius faciam, quam tibi lacrymas pro tua morte rependam ? Ast urget praeceptum
quod violare nefas est, et quasi piaculum immorari.

Los escritores de la Anamnesis se unen

a todo el pueblo lipino en rendirla culto
a la .
O Virgen la ms pura,
O Madre Inmaculada,
erella que ilumina de la vida
la senda del dolor.
Aurora de hermosura,
hija del Dios amada,
t sola entre millares escogida,
O Madre del amor.

VIVA LA PURSIMA!

Almadrones

Anamnesis

Seccin espaola Spanish section

, decamos all, de dar

acompaamiento apropiado a las melodas que otro
compuso: pudiera decirse que en el lenguaje musical,
la meloda es el verbo, el alma y el nervio, mientras que el acompaamiento podra calicarse de accidente, s, pero accidente
propio y al mismo tiempo adverbio que localiza y concreta, digmoslo as, la forma vaporosa y grcil en que se encarna la inspiracin primitiva del artia compositor.
Intencionadamente hicimos una pequea advertencia sobre
acompaamientos en el anterior Proemio (el de la edicin de
voces solas), pues temamos algo de parte de aquellos pocos organias desaprensivos que todo se lo permiten a coa del desgraciado autor que no tuvo tiempo u oportunidad para darles impreso el acompaamiento de sus obras. Los hay, que todava no saben prescindir de aquellos brillantes de antaoimitacin y
parodia servil de las oberturas de pera, en las que se pretende
anticipar una idea sinttica del reo de la obrasin darse cuenta
de que el papel de eos acompaamientos, y del acompaante
por lo tanto, es algo secundario que debe seguir a lo principal,
prescindiendo de lucimientos a deshora y dems excentricidades
que suelen cometerse en eo. El rgano, cuando acta con las
voces, no debe tratar de apagarlas y arrogarse el papel principal:
debe, s, soenerlas, llenar los vacos y salvar los puntos muertos
que pueda haber en la obra, para darle as continuidad y consiencia armnicas.

Consecuencia de los dicho es el sumo cuidado con que debe

procederse en el empleo de la regiracin conveniente a cada
uno de los casos: no es lo mismo acompaar a un coro catedralicio, varonil y numeroso, que a un reducido coro de nios. Y aunque no en indicados en ee libro los regiros que deben utilizarse en la ejecucin de los acompaamientos, con el conocimiento que tiene el organia de su propio inrumento, atendiendo, como es lgico, al volumen y al metal de las voces que
componen su coro, y con la ayuda de ciertas leyes elementales
que hay sobre el particular, cualquiera persona que tenga un
adarme de guo y acin para eas cosas, sabr obviar fcilmente las pequeas dicultades que se presenten y salir airosa de ellas.

FRAY CONSTANCIO PEA

Censor de la Orden de los Recoletos de San Agustn
Proemio a la da. edicin de la Coleccin de cnticos sagrados
del P. Domingo Carceller, Agustino Recoleto
( de abril de )

, we have said there, in providing

the proper accompaniment to the melodies that another composed: it can be said that in the language of music, the melody is the verb, the soul, and the nerve, while the accompaniment could be qualied as an accident, yea, but a proper
accident and at the same time an adverb that localises and concretises, let us say it this way, the vaporous and delicate form in
which the primitive inspiration of the arti composer incarnates.
We intentionally made a little warning concerning accompaniments in the previous prooemium (that in the edition of
unaccompanied voices), for we somewhat feared in part of those
few dauntless pulsators of the organ who permit all at the expense of the disgraced author who had no time or opportunity to
have published for them the accompaniment of their work.
There are those who ill do not know how to dispense with
those gems of yeeryearsa servile imitation and parody of
the overtures of the opera, in which an attempt is made to anticipate a synthetic idea of the re of the workwithout realising
that the role of these accompaniments, and of the accompani
therefore, is somewhat secondary that mu follow the principal
role, doing away with showiness at the wrong time and other
eccentricities that are cuomarily committed in it. The organ,
when it works with the voices, mu not attempt to smother
them and arrogate to itself the principal role: it mu, yea, support them, ll the gaps, and redeem those dead airs that it can
encounter in the work, in order to give it in this manner harmonic continuity and consiency.
A consequence of the aforementioned is the supreme care
with which one mu proceed in the use of the convenient regier in each of the cases: accompanying a cathedral choir, manly
and numerous, is not the same as accompanying a small choir of
boys. And even though those regiers that mu be used in the
execution of the accompaniments may not have been indicated
in this book, with the knowledge that the pulsator of the organ
possesses of his own inrument, paying attention, as it is but
logical, to the volume and timbre of the voices that make up his
choir, with the help of certain elementary laws that are available
in this particular province, any person who may have an iota of
tae and fondness for these things, will easily know how to obviate the little diculties that may present themselves and to
emerge elegant out of them.
FRAY CONSTANCIO PEA
Censor of the Order of Recollects of Saint Augustine
Prooemium to the nd edition of the Collection of sacred canticles
of P. Domingo Carceller, Augustinian Recollect
( April )

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REQUIESCANT IN SOMNO PACIS !

Almadrones
iv. non. nov. Requiem aeternam dona eis, Domine : et lux perpetua luceat eis. Te decet hymnus, Deus,
in Sion, et tibi reddetur votum in Ierusalem : exaudi orationem meam, ad te omnis caro veniet.

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Passion Rosary | p. 5
On the small beads where the Ave Mara is said, the following are said:
. O my Jesus, for that copious sweat of
Blood which Thou didst shed in the Garden,
R. Have mercy on the soul of N.
. O my Jesus, for that slap which Thy
venerable countenance did receive,
R. Have mercy on the soul of N.
. O my Jesus, for those cruel scourges
which Thou didst suer,
R. Have mercy on the soul of N.
. O my Jesus, for that crown of sharp
thorns which pierced Thy most holy head,
R. Have mercy on the soul of N.
. O my Jesus, for those steps which,
carrying the cross, Thou didst make in that Way
of Bitterness,
R. Have mercy on the soul of N.
. O my Jesus, for Thine most holy face
awash with Blood, which Thou didst leave imprinted upon the veil of Veronica,
R. Have mercy on the soul of N.
. O my Jesus, for that bloodstained garment which the executioners did tear away violently from Thee,
R. Have mercy on the soul of N.
. O my Jesus, for Thine most holy Body
nailed to the cross,
R. Have mercy on the soul of N.
. O my Jesus, for Thine most holy feet
and hands transxed with sharp nails,
R. Have mercy on the soul of N.
. O my Jesus, for Thine side opened by
the blade of a lance, whence did ow Blood and
water,
R. Have mercy on the soul of N.
After the Rosary, the Litany of Loreto is
said, changing all the accusative us to the
soul of N., as in Pray for the soul of N.,
as well as Spare the soul of N., O Lord.
Afterwards, make the novena in honour
of the holy souls of purgatory.

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1 At the postcommunion during a Requiem Mass. 2 At the Canon on the feast of All Saints. 3 At the
chanting of the Gospel on the First Sunday of Advent. 4 At the distribution of Holy Communion on the
First Sunday of Advent.

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Good of death | p. 7
sent things, and eternal things to temporal things. And, therefore, for thither is
the realm of the living, hither certainly is
the realm of the dead.
Can it be that this is the realm of the
dead, where the shadow of death is, where
the gate of death is, where the body of
death is? Indeed it was given to Peter, that
perhaps the gates of hell may not prevail
again him (Mt. , ). These gates of
hell are the gates of the world. Whence he
saith: Thou that lifte me up from the
gates of death (Ps. , ). Ju as it is in
the gates of juice that the saints confess
the Lord, so it is in the gates of sin that the
faithless did deny the Lord. Hear, for this
realm mayeth be of the dead, He that
toucheth the corpse of a man, and is
therefore unclean (Num. , ). For
unclean in the face of the Lord all who are
wicked. Whosoever therefore toucheth
wickedness is unclean: he who is in pleasures is dead: For she that liveth in pleasures is dead while she is living (. Tim. ,
). And they who are faithless descend to
hell while they are living: even though
they appear to live among us, but they
are in hell. Whosoever receiveth usury,
committeth plunder, liveth no life (, q.
, cap. Whosoever receiveth usury), as thou
ha in Ezechiel (Ezech. , ). For whosoever ju keepeth the judgments of the
Lord, that he may do them, life, saith he,
he shall live, and he shall live in
them (Ibid. ). He is therefore in the
realm of the living, in that realm where life
is not hid, but free; where there is no
shadow, but glory. For in this present
place Paul did not live in glory. Indeed, he
sorrowed over the body of death. Hear
him say: And your life is hid with Chri
in God: when Chri shall appear, Who is
your life, then you also shall appear with
Him in glory (Col. , & ).
Let us make hae therefore unto life.
Whosoever toucheth life, liveth. Indeed,
the woman did touch, who touched the
edge of His garment, and she was disGood of death | continued on p. 12

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Dialogue | p. 4
pose, to her merit, we should ignore the fact
that she has a casual disability, should we
think she would indeed come?
Well, our chorier made overtures
of coming, so she probably would be
present.
Then should that be good?
Whether or not her limp would
permit, she would come. She had made
that announcement.
Given her hiory, I am sure she will
come not because of the choir. She will come
because she loves the Blessed Virgin.
Being faithful to ones task is also
loving the Blessed Virgin.
Now, thats a dierent angle!
Is our chorier in that angle? Being
a chorier is also a minierial duty. This
has a hiorical precedent. That, I believe, you know.
Yes! Thats why in the handbook I am
writing for the choir, I call it the munus chorale or the ocium chorale.
Actually, it used to be a clerical
role. It was simply imparted to us.
Yes, and that was what Saint Robert
Bellarmine invoked when he allowed laymen
who sing in choir to wear the cassock and the
surplice! We read that in the Acts of the
Councils of Milan!

,
See! The Councils of Milan have it
that laymen can indeed wear the cassock since it was an ecclesiaical duty.
Yes! Wonderful church hiory! They
dont teach that anymore!
And, it was Saint Ignatius who introduced the practice of pries having
no choral oce in order to enter the
missionary vocation.
That is something new!
Now you see. Before, fullling the
Divine Oce in choir was considered a
high oce! The innovation to have the
Divine Oce simply recited was Saint
Ignatius, who pointed out the fact that
his pries were missionaries.
And ju marvel at what has happened
to many contemporary Jesuits!
Well, they probably misunderood Saint Ignatius. They might as
well have come to believe that when he
eased the Divine Oce, he inructed
them to become idlers. Ha!
The weight was merely but reduced, and
they all slouched and ignored the weight altogether.
Correct! Indeed, we have so much
work to do for Holy Mother Church!
I nd this an inructive discussion on the
choral oce: not sacred music itself, but our
attitude towards it!

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Cantors, where it be possible, must be clerics: however, everyone in choir may use the clerical [choral]
attire and the surplice. First Provincial Council of Milan, .

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Actually, I recently gave a seminar

about it: Liturgy, and church (,) musician.
Spreading sacred music: Heaven here on
earth!
In that seminar, I argued concerning those three termsLiturgy, church
musician, and musicianusing a phenomenological and a performance udies perspective. When is a chorier a
musician, and when is he a church musician? If he sings in church, does it
make him a church musician? Is it also
possible that the person singing in
church is only but a musician?
I gave some comment about someones
Proteant friend who gushes forth at Gregorian chant: The sublime beauty of Gregorian
chant will forever be closed to that Proteant
unless he penetrates its myagogical dimension r by converting.

True! A church musician does not

merely sing in church! He proclaims the
Faith he professes by means of that elevated speech and artful declamation,
which is singing!
One cannot enter into the spiritual dimension of sung speech, when one does not
r profess the truth the spoken words express.
Musicians only perform. They do
not have to enter into that dimension
and profess the truth of the words
simply because the focus of their performance is not to proclaim their belief
but to unravel the beauty of music. And
that is why, in the title of the seminar I
gave, Liturgy comes r, because it
determines who the church musician is.
The church musician is the handmaid of
the Liturgy.
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The music proper to the Church is that which is purely vocal. First Plenary Council of the Philippines, ; S. Pius X, Tra le sollecitudini. The music of the organ gladdeneth the sad minds of men,
[] provoketh the just unto love, sinners unto compunction. Benedict XIV, Annus, qui hunc.

New year | p. 6
neither hot nor cold [] and therefore I
shall spit you out of my mouth! []
And so, the Lord warns us today:
Watch, therefore, you do not know
when the lord of the house is coming []
May he not come suddenly and nd you
sleeping. In our Epile today, Saint Paul
reminds us: It is now the hour for us to
rise from sleep, for now our salvation is
near than when we r believed. []
How I fear to be caught sleeping by the
Lord on His return! [] Does this mean
that I mu keep myself busy with activities? Does this mean that I mu drown
myself in work? The prophet Isaias prays:
Would that Thou might meet us doing
right, that we were mindful of Thee in our
ways! The Lord expects to meet me doing right. The Lord expects me to be
mindful of Him in all my ways. [] I may
be very busy with a lot of concerns but, as
the prophet Isaias says, all our good
deeds can be like polluted rags and we can
be withered like leaves, and our guilt can
carry us away like the wind. All these
because I fail to be mindful of Him in my
ways. [] And so the prophet Isaias says:
There is none who calls upon Thee, who
rouses himself to cling to Thee.
As I write this homily, my dog Fi
sits on my lap and she looks intently at
me. Suddenly, she becomes to me a sign
of what the Lord expects me to do: to
labour for Him with my eyes xed intently on Him. He rouses me today to cling to
him. The Lord reminds me that He wishes me to be mindful of Him in all our
ways, to keep him as the very object of
every labour I undertake. In other words,
the Lord wants me to labour for Him and
for nobody else. Today, I recognise the
fact that the Lord has indeed enriched me
in every way, with all discourse and all
knowledge. I recognise in my life what
Saint Paul said: you are not lacking in
any spiritual gift as you wait for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Chri. I am truly grateful for this.
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Good of death | p. 10
charged from death, to whom it is said:
Thy faith hath made thee whole. Go thy
way in peace (Lk. , ). For whosoever
toucheth the dead, is unclean; doubtless
whosoever toucheth the living, is safe. Let
us therefore seek the living. But let us
therefore realise that we cannot seek Him
among the dead, that it mayeth also be
said unto us ju as it was said to the women: Why seek you the living with the
dead? He is not here, but is risen (Lk. ,
& ). This very Lord, likewise, sheweth
us where he willed to be sought, saying:
Go to My brethren and say to them: I
ascend to My Father and to your Father,
to My God and to your God (Jn. , ).
Thither therefore we shall seek Him,
whither John did seek and nd. He
sought Him in the beginning, and he
found Him living with the living, the Son
with the Father (Jn. , ). Let us seek
Him in the end of the ages, and let us encompass His feet, and adore Him, that
He mayeth also say unto us: Fear not
you (Mt. , ); that is, fear not you the
sins of the age, fear not you the iniquities
of the world, fear not you the tides of
eshly passions, I am the remission of
sins: fear not you the darkness, I am the
light; fear not you death, I am the life.
Whosoever cometh to Me shall not see
death everlaing, for He is the plenitude
of divinity, and to Him is glory, honour,
eternity from the ages, now, and always,
and in all the ages of the ages. Amen.
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Pues himnos de puro amor

el cielo os oy cantar:
enseadnos a alabar,
Cecilia, a Dios con fervor.
Caa esposa del Seor,
que tanto os dign premiar,
rogad, podamos gozar
de la gloria el resplandor.

DIVA CAECILIA,
PRO NOBIS ORA !
Dialogue | p. 11
For Liturgy is but the oce; and music,
its faithful ourishing.
And the musician is but its handmaid.
Indeed. In fact, Fulvio Rampi is on record for having remarked along the lines of
Gregorian chant is Liturgy itself!
The church musician is given a noble role, to be a proclaimer of the unchanging and timeless truth of the
Church, by singing the Liturgy, not by
singing songs in church. That is why
being in the choir is an oce.
It is not a job; it is a vocation.
Correct! So under this premise,
how can our chorier love the Blessed
Virgin if she will not love the oce given to her by the Church, the Spouse of
the Son of Mary.
Then she will argue that it was not given
to her. She chose it.
Hahaha, then hers is not a calling.
And therefore not an oce.

Yes.
Oh, how sad.
That is why she can neglect it very
easily when the going gets tough.
There is no sacrice outside true vocation.
Yes. As a matter of fact, according
to Saint Therese of Jesus: A heart that
loves never res yet never gets tired.
Ah, the words of Saint Therese of Avila!
Of course, I am a Carmelite. And
she further said: Quench your thir
from the innite fountain of His enduring mercy. If the source of what you do
is for the love of God, how can the well
dry up? It is impossible!
Indeed, the providence of the Lord is
inexhauible.
Correct! So a church musician
should see his role and identity very
clearly. He can never be higher than the
Maer he ought to serve and Who gave
him his duty.
Verily, thus I concur.

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LATIN IN MASS
he Catholic Church has adopted
Latin as Her ocial language because She is the Universal Church. She
has been appointed to teach all nations
and, consequently, for Her, no national
barriers can exi. To say the Mass in a
national language, however convenient it
might be, would be unworkable in the
Catholic Church simply because She is
Catholic. Her oneness of faith is typied
in Her oneness in speech.
The Sanctuary Lamp, May