Church Music in Britain
May 19, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 3S are discountenanced in the lives of the Tertiar ies, Dr. Pise was also a...
...and the majesty of his a norm laid down imperatively for adjudging the message is proved by the fact that, thirty-five years orderliness of the modern economic scheme...
...No matdent in the recent presentation of The House of ter how many harsh things Spenser was ready to Wisdom at the Pius X Hall in New York City...
...that both look to the government for contingent upon accidental happenings or upon "human some assistance ; and that both of them advocate conature...
...The following year saw his appointment to the he says, "is the part played almost everywhere by the pastorate of the Church of Saint Charles Borromeo children...
...We ourselves have miceived his education in Georgetown College,and was grated from a nasal Gounod in church-with the banjo for a while a member of the Society of Jesus...
...The work is one of great charm...
...Wherever "the worker is entitled to a living wage" The `delicious uproar of infancy' at the national con- is not accepted as a definition of economic order, there, gress never fails to excite enthusiasm...
...He in social reform, regardless of their religious affilia- wrote, in five volumes, a History of the Catholic tions, to observe the convention attentively when it Church (1829) and Father Rowland (1829) Aletheia meets in October...
...Pise was also a poet of considerable ability, and whose rule imposes as a special obligation the sanctify- his song, The American Flag, should be in the memory ing of home life...
...The mutter when the thought of "Rome" obsessed him, he House of Wisdom is a cantata written by Theodore was as fond of cloisters and holy singing as is that Heinroth, one of the instructors at the Pius X Insti- contemporary bandit of beauty, Mr...
...Pope Leo XIII once remarked: (1845) Saint Ignatius and His First Companions "My reform is the Third Order...
...Now the great modern ganized labor, or that organized labor accepts everyproblem is this : in what respects are the suffering and thing in Catholic social teaching...
...Later and bells attachments of the thoroughly up-to-thehe taught at Mount Saint Mary's College, where John minute organ going full force-to a sonorous and Hughes, who became the great Archbishop of New full-throated Gounod, with that addition of coloratura York, was among his pupils...
...And the fact that the anniversary The 50,000 children who will sing the "Mass of the of Pope Leo's encyclical will be observed in an apAngels" at the Eucharistic Congress will blend the propriate way by workingmen, is encouraging proof pure freshness of their voices with a melodic score that respect for reasoned principle has not given way that incorporates the best of Catholic liturgical feel- to fantastic championing of anarchistic theories...
...rent Dublin Review, are more than relatively estimable...
...THE extraordinary work which is being accomplished CHURCH MUSIC IN BRITAIN by Mother Stevens at the College of the Sacred Heart in the musical training of children was splendidly evi- T HE English mind is enamored of ritual...
...But the nineteenth-century Englishman was really It was written in honor of Saint Madeleine Sophie a clumsy ritualist in practice...
...Sarah Brownson...
...Far be it from Barat, the foundress of the Society of the Sacred us to repeat the irate commentaries on Victorian Heart, and was performed under the composer's direc- Established services supplied by so many of the judition by the students of the College of the Sacred Heart cious and notable, when the struggling Catholic manand the Pius X School...
...done credit to any of the established choral and orches- The Motu Proprio of Pope Pius X was a blow felt, tral institutions, and was a superb example of what is equally as much in Salisbury as in Paris...
...and Reverend J. C. Harrington, strives to render the instrument worthy of the song...
...and to make his point he has elabor- Obviously, no one who realizes that norms of social ated a number of philosophies, among the most im- justice are the only safe guarantees of economic peace, portant of which are those of Marx and Sorel...
...Maginty also implies-a definite contribution...
...In some of the 8oo missions where they can in Sydney Place in Brooklyn, where he served religion have a Mass to themselves they sing folk-Masses, after with the highest dignity and virtue until his death...
...He re- mighty and lingering one...
...This, as the encyclical plainly shows, is the tively seldom abandoned for purely selfish and brutal truth that labor must make life possible...
...Their first duty States Senate...
...George Grey tute of Liturgical Music, to the words of Mother Barnard...
...and therefore of the general welfare, will refrain from Now what is the position of the Church in regard to desiring that the friendliness of Church and labor the controversy...
...recognition of such service to nation and Church...
...charming personality...
...President William Green, of the American but also to the unsleeping moral watchfulness which Federation of Labor...
...Produced and brought together Catholic Welfare Conference in a commemorative by careful teachers, their achievement will be a memo- program which includes addresses by Reverend John rial not only to the power faith has to create beauty A. Ryan...
...Sooner or later- (1845) and Christianity and the Church (185o) . As who knows?-the world may come to agree with the a general contributor to the magazines of his time he great, far-seeing Pontiff...
...In commenting upon the event, the bulletin of the social action departJUSTICE AND ECONOMICS ment says "The meeting indicates the mutual respect and ~- THE economic order is the most fundamental re- friendship of American labor and Catholic social quirement of social welfare...
...AN anniversary that should be important to every "Famous as they may be as the idols of the tonal American interested in the history of Catholic culture in craft, the men of the Viennese school, Weber and his our country occurs on May 26, the sixtieth anniversary ilk, belonged to that race of spiritual court-jesters emof the passing away in 1866 of "the founder of ployed by the richer princelings of the continent to Catholic literature in America," with Dr...
...But Baltimore Cathedral, and in Saint Patrick's Church, Mr...
...He also officiated in the cadence that left one breathless, at a music hall...
...When, for any rea- teaching...
...Elsewhere they 36 THE COMMONWEAL May ig, 1926 provide music for Holy Week, for week-days, for a which it still refuses, in a large measure, to consider nuptial Mass, for the Requiem...
...the accompaniment of a grand organ at Westminster...
...And out of consideration when crises like the recent so it goes on...
...that both recognize and adis integral and acclimated...
...The career of this cultivated gentleman was to convert the Mass into a matinee musicale, at of the past illustrates the success of a brilliant and which the best procurable musicians should assist...
...On ing...
...Church is pledged...
...that both advocate the establishment of collecsuch definite relationship, and in making social ills tive bargaining...
...the model of those heard at Cologne...
...It is salutary to remember also that the 50,000 May 16, 17, and 18, Minnesota labor will combine did not leap up from the ground, like so many wild with the social action department of the National and perfect flowers...
...But the afterpossible in musical instruction when it is carried out effects, as we judge from a spirited paper on the subby such teachers as Mother Stevens and her coad- ject, contributed by Edward A. Maginty to the curjutors in the Pius X School...
...The point should never be left occasionally throng the piazza at Saint Peter's...
...It will pay those who are interested of every student of our Catholic institutions...
...It was a after its appearance, men rally to it with increasing norm which that system had not reckoned with, and conviction and trust...
...If there be a definite relation practice a continuous and completely irreconcilable between the two, then it is apparent that "disorder" class-struggle in industry...
...Quite as fortunate is the understanding of labor in Toward this future the United States is making- this country for the doctrine of justice to which the as Mr...
...professor in the St...
...Obviously, then, the Pope was anti-conservaseveral thousand of them sang a Gregorian credo to tive in the most important part of his pronouncement...
...Maginty, though savory in his recollection of old, Washington...
...The whole effort of the vocate certain standards of work which are a man's conservative is expended, therefore, in denying any right...
...and for one year, 1848, he was pastor unhappy things, is pleasantly hopeful...
...economic system...
...It is really one of America's sidering the doctrines of Pope Leo XIII's Rerum greatest blessings that, within its realms, respect and Novarum as converging formulae for a single prin- love for abiding principles of conduct are comparaciple...
...of Saint Peter's Church on Barclay Street, New York "The most healthy liturgical feature of our time," City...
...The basis of friendwastage, evident on all sides, consequences of the ex- ship is that both of them condemn in theory and isting economic system...
...Both the singing of the choir ner suggested to Cardinal Manning that the great and the playing of the little orchestra, most of whose blunder had been to permit sung Masses in churches members are still in their early 'teens, would have where musical ambition was anything but a virtue...
...Charles while away the tedium of a Sunday morning by means Constantine Pise, the only priest of the Church in all of compositions which were, as they were meant to our history to fill the post of chaplain to the United be, in a twofold sense, distractions...
...That is quite as the great Pope, tion that "the worker is entitled to a living wage," is Leo XIII, would have wished it...
...Meanwhile America will was distinguished and forceful...
...The future abides with those to whom British strike occur...
...May 19, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 3S are discountenanced in the lives of the Tertiar ies, Dr...
...Paul seminary...
...These little in the opinion of the Church, disorder exists either ones bid fair to rival the multitude of children who really or potentially...
...This is not to say that Catholic social teachson whatever, it becomes disorder, suffering and loss ing approves of all that is done in the name of orare immediate and inevitable...
...ranean Rome...
...The answer can be found by con- shall gain in intensity...
...It would seem only have had the opportunity to observe the nobility of the fitting that some of our Catholic societies and authors' Franciscan ideal and to see something of its effect upon guilds should unite in erecting a public monument in millions of ordinary, struggling, busy folk...
...The anti-conservative, on the other hand, operation between employers and employees in indusargues consistently that discord is ingrained in the trial management...
...it naturally belongs-little ones, growing boys and Fortunately, the year 1926, which marks the thirtygirls, trained to distinguish between a psalter and a fifth anniversary of the proclamation of Rerum hymn-book, growing unconsciously into the beauty and Novarum, finds American industry generally ready to the nobility of the choral singing which, centuries ago, admit that prosperity which submerges the worker bloomed from the consecrated obscurity of subter- below the level of decency is dangerous and unjust...
...The declara- policies of class war...
...A short time ago binding...
...Pise was born at The grip of these masters of profane melody was a Annapolis, Maryland, on November 22, 18o1...
Vol. 4 • May 1926 • No. 2
