Recently added articles from Pastoral Music:
From the President
Feb 01, 2009; ... We hear a lot about borders today. The issue of border security in our own country turned out to be a major stumbling block to immigration reform during the most recent session of Congress. Much of the conflict in the Middle East is experienced most intensely at border checkpoints, especially ...
Association News
Feb 01, 2009; ... 2009 Convention Just What Is an NPM Convention? In September 2008, the NPM Board of Directors approved this formal description of what an NPM convention is and accomplishes: An NPM convention is a gathering of NPM members-pastoral musicians, clergy, liturgists, and other ...
Chrysogonus Waddell, OCSO 1930-2008
Feb 01, 2009; ... At the end of Tuesday night rehearsals, we turn off the lights, sit in darkness, and light candles on each side of the icon of the Madonna and Child. The piano softly offers the chord, and we intone, "Oh, hail, holy Queen . . . ." The first few notes hang in midair, painting a d-minor triad on ...
Multicultural Liturgy at St. Rita
Feb 01, 2009; ... A single highway traces through the middle of Benin, West Africa. It carries much of the country's goods- yams, cotton, gasoline, and cement-back and forth between the port city of Cotonou and the inland hub of Parakou. The village I serve as a Peace Corps volunteer is on that highway, and its ...
The Two Shall Become One/Ya no serán dos, sino uno solo
Feb 01, 2009; ... When a couple enters into marriage, they give their consent, they take vows of fidelity, and they understand that there will be good times and difficult times and, along the way, sacrifices to be made. They choose to take two completely different backgrounds and put them together to live one ...