Parishes everywhere are updating their liturgical music with just a few clicks...and you can too. Browse, purchase, and download affordable music in minutes. Never pay licensing fees again AND have lifetime access for printing and sharing with Simply Liturgical Music. SLM offers psalms, hymns, Mass settings and other ritual music composed by a growing network of composers.

Ministry Monday listeners can receive $10 off Lent or Easter music when using code YEARC2022. Explore our digital catalog of liturgical music at SLMusic.org. Simply Liturgical Music - Reimagining the Industry!

This week begins a 3-part series on the Exsultet. The Exsultet, the sacred chant sung at the start of the Easter Vigil, is such a distinct moment in the Triduum journey: covered in darkness, punctuated by candlelight, the Exsultet is a 9-minute chant prefacing what is about to happen in the Easter Vigil liturgy: Christ, returning "from death's domain", grants us all eternal life through His resurrection. It is to begin. Today Fr. Paul Turner provides a historical, biblical and liturgical context from which to prepare the Exsultet this Lent. When was the Exsultet first sung? How did it find its place at the start of the Easter Vigil? Why are deacons so often chosen for the role? And what about the role of bees in the newest translation?

Parishes everywhere are updating their liturgical music with just a few clicks...and you can too. Browse, purchase, and download affordable music in minutes. Never pay licensing fees again AND have lifetime access for printing and sharing with Simply Liturgical Music. SLM offers psalms, hymns, Mass settings and other ritual music composed by a growing network of composers.

Ministry Monday listeners can receive $10 off Lent or Easter music when using code YEARC2022. Explore our digital catalog of liturgical music at SLMusic.org. Simply Liturgical Music - Reimagining the Industry!

Today on the podcast I have the pleasure of speaking to Dr. Mickey Thomas Terry.

Dr. Terry is a lecturer at Howard University in Washington, DC and Dr. Terry has also taught on the faculty of Georgetown University in Washington, DC. Dr. Terry speaks about the presence - and, until recently, the absence - of classical organ music by Black composers, particularly among published works for organ.

Today on Ministry Monday we speak to Paul Radkowski, Director of Music at the Church of St. Edward the Confessor in Granville, Ohio. Paul discusses the ways that pastoral musicians can support couples as they prepare for the Sacrament of Marriage: how can they best plan their ceremony music? what if a loved one wants to sing in the wedding? What if the couple wants to include secular music in the wedding? Paul addresses these questions and more.