Priest Releases 11th Gospel CD
A Mariannhill Missionary priest is releasing a new album of gospel songs, addressing a range of social issues. Fr Lawrence Mota CMM has released ten well-received gospel CDs. His 11th album is entitled...
Category: Religious Music
Catholic Hymns Now on Free Audio Streaming
By Mark Pattison – Catholics hear hymns in church and on Catholic stations, but rarely on commercial airwaves. Now they can augment their weekly diet of hymnody through a new free audio streaming service called Great Catholic...
Great Organ Music Must Not Die!
By Ilze Sidney, Cape Town – With reference to the articles “Teen organist plays for God’’ and “Young talent’s passion is the organ”, I am pleased to see that these two young and upcoming...
Mikyle Adams’ Passion is the Organ
By Theo Lawrence & Mary Leveson – Cape Town’s St Mary’s cathedral is fast becoming fertile ground for young organists. Its resident organist, Dale de Windt, is a teenager, and lately another young Catholic with...
Teen Organist, Dale de Windt, Plays for God
A teenager from the Cape Flats serves as resident organist of a great cathedral and has dreams of taking his talent into the world. ERIN CARELSE spoke to Dale de Windt. Few cathedrals in the...
Mariannhill Priest Releases Tenth Gospel Album
By Mauricio Langa – Far from celebrities and buzzing city life, Mariannhill Father Lawrence Mota composes music in his humble, secluded room at Mariannhill monastery in KwaZulu-Natal. The view overlooking the monastery’s iconic arched...
Hear the Ancient Voices of Women
Sometimes we don’t know what we don’t know. I realised this recently at the “Amaz!ng” National Arts Festival in Grahamstown. I was thus drawn to a musical programme that was advertised as featuring works by only female composers. The one name I did recognise was St Hildegard of Bingen…
New SA hymn written for Our Lady
Ryan Papenfus and Santoro Arikum from the band Candela have created a unique new hymn dedicated to Mother Mary called “Our Lady”. A copy of the song, which has captured the hearts of parishioners both young and old, has been sent to Pope Francis in the hopes of getting it sanctioned in hymn books.
Via Lucis – Way of Light Hymn
Monsignor Vincent Hill composed this beautiful hymn for the Via Lucis Stations of the Cross. It fits the tune of “Easter Glory fills the sky” by James Quinn SJ. We have included a video...
