The First Violet (verse)
Louis, Sister Mary
46 THE COMMONWEAL May 19, 1926 is a very good motto. I know that it is good because ...
...Both statements contain a number of petering out by the way in which the middle one had errors...
...There is no official and unique liturgical lanimages of stone have mouths but cannot speak and guage or liturgical musical text of the Catholic Church for the cannot clamor their gutterals...
...Ward has found, through saddening experience, that "Oh, sir, you are kindly met"- Catholic young men are quite hopeless so far as liturgical (What tears were in her eyes...
...writes: "It cannot be too often repeated that the Gregorian "If you like," said the Angel, without enthusiasm...
...A more accurate name would be I shall not say another word," nor did he...
...Justine Ward's no longer and said, "Hurry up...
...is the official music of the Catholic Church as Latin is her In fact, he might have seen for himself that I was official language...
...Grenville Vernon in his article, Choirs for a filled with vanity in spite of my rebuffs, and also warm- New Age (The Commonweal of March 24...
...I asked, being now made by Mr...
...46 THE COMMONWEAL May 19, 1926 is a very good motto...
...Moreover, so many of the younger members of the congrega(Never princess so forlorn, tion have been or are pupils of the Pius X School, that the Gold and purple gay...
...Roman plainsong...
...I know that it is good because COMMUNICATIONS I feel at the back of my mind that I copied it from CHOIRS FOR A NEW AGE somewhere...
...This act of the Cardinal ought to affect able to make up any more mottoes for sundials...
...far as a man, through the effect upon him of divine praise, is I have asked one or two friends who have been in lifted upwards toward God, by so far is he w:Lhdrawn from the place since...
...The choir of the Pius X School is composed of girls belonging to the Church of the AnnunciaThe First Violet tion who are taught by the religious of the Sacred Heart, "Pardon, little stranger, and at present it sings the Mass each Sunday at that Church...
...Then," said he, "if you have no more Roman rite because it leads persons to imagine that Saint mottoes for sundials, I have no more use for you and Gregory was the composer of the text of the Vatican kyrial, gradual and antiphoner...
...Gregorian" is a misnomer for the plainsong of the not fitted in...
...I had no more mottoes for sundials...
...Pius X School seems certainly can speak and do so on occasion, yet those to be predominantly-though not exclusively, of course-a feminist activity...
...the canonical liturgical languages of the Roman he remained dumb, nobly illustrating the sentiment of Church are Church Latin and old Slavonic (in Glagolitic the psalm, In Exitu, wherein it is thundered out that characters...
...Doubtless this is in accord with Mrs...
...munity...
...Have you lost your way...
...I gave it up as a bad Eucharistic worship of Catholicism is performed under Roman, job and left him for the night so that he might have Byzantine, Alexandrine, Antiochene, Armenian, and Edessene time to recover his temper, but when I went back the forms in the following languages: Church Latin, old Slavonic next morning before taking my train, to see whether (in Cyrillic and Glagolitic characters) modern Rumanian, he was in a more genial mood, he still remained offen- modern Arabic, Church Greek, old Armenian, old Syriac (two dialects) Gregorian, modern Magyar, Coptic, and Geez...
...So I left him for worldlings but Saint Thomas's saying remains true: "So to it, and was gone...
...SISTER MARY LOUIS This policy, in my estimation, has two possible dangers...
...Moreover, it is impossible historically I still addressed him, with irony, with solicitude, to prove that Saint Gregory the Great ever was a Benedictine...
...Vernon ing to my work as poets will after the first half hour...
...Dom Gajard, and an alumnus of the Pius X School of Liturgical Music, I should like to criticize some statements "Shall I make you yet another...
...I told him that it opening paragraph of Gregorian Chant : "Gregorian Chant was hopeless...
...diate present...
...I believe those who say I suppose the members of the movement that has its dynamic they have not, partly because it makes me proud to centre in the Pius X School of Liturgical Music, already apthink I was the only man with whom he exchanged preciate the disadvantages of their method, but it is only fair words during that long space of seven centuries, and to voice what a number of persons think to be the weaknesses partly because I thought I knew, of course, that statues of Mrs...
...less a figure than Cardinal O'Connell invited the girls' choir That conversation with the Angel was held nearly of the Pius X School to sing at High Mass in the Cathedral a month ago, and during all that time I have not been in Boston...
...congregation itself now joins in the singing...
...music and the Latin language constitute the official public So I again thought for some time, remaining silent prayer of the Church-a universal music and a universal lanand attempting to compose...
...Some say they have spoken with him, those who are in opposition to God...
...others say they have not...
...But if you T O the Editor:-As a former member of Solesmes comdon't like it, as I say, you can leave it...
...singing is concerned...
...the future of music...
...For this reason, she limits her activities "I must have tumbled out of bed to children and looks to the future rather than to the immeLast night in paradise...
...Verses that are traditional and copied from somewhere unconsciously are always better than Garrison, N. Y. your original, sudden, uncooked stuff...
...a pupil of Dom Mocquereau, Dom Gatard, and "I will," said the Angel...
...Vernon tells us: "Only last week, no occasions are exceedingly rare...
...Ward's method and school...
...At last he could bear it guage...
...Very likely Mrs...
...But and Italian...
...with insult, with affection, with command, in all the The official court languages of the Holy See are Latin, French, seven moods which inflect the Basque vocative...
...sively and pig-headedly silent, carrying his ironical "The proper execution of Gregorian Chant and music writsmile in a fixed, exasperating manner which showed me ten in the Gregorian spirit" may be "extraordinarily difficult" that he knew all about the great world...
Vol. 4 • May 1926 • No. 2
