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...
Church / Letter of the Week / Religious Music
by Letters Editor · Published October 1, 2018 · Last modified September 29, 2018
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...
Liturgy / Mass / Religious Music
by Jael SC · Published September 22, 2018 · Last modified September 20, 2018
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...
Church / Erin Carelse / Religious Music
by Erin Carelse · Published September 18, 2018 · Last modified September 17, 2018
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...
by Kilian SC · Published September 15, 2018 · Last modified September 12, 2018
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...
Church / Raymond Perrier / Religious Music / Saints / Women and the Church
by Raymond Perrier · Published July 17, 2018 · Last modified July 16, 2018
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…
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.
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...
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