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## [Singing Praise in the Darkness](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/blog-post/2016/06/30/singing-praise-in-the-darkness)
Published by [Anthony J. Oleck](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/blog-post/author/anthony-j-oleck)
> Christ’s peace must reign in your hearts, since as members of the one body you have been called to that peace. Dedicate yourselves to thankfulness. Let the word of Christ, rich as it is, dwell in you. In wisdom made perfect, instruct and admonish one another. Sing gratefully to God from your hearts in psalms, hymns, and inspired songs. Whatever you do, whether in speech or in action, do it in the...
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[June 30, 2016](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/blog-post/2016/06/30/singing-praise-in-the-darkness)
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## [The Mass for Millennials: Doxology and Amen](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/blog-post/2016/04/26/the-mass-for-millennials-doxology-and-amen)
Published by [Carolyn Pirtle](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/blog-post/author/carolyn-pirtle)
Every Eucharistic Prayer concludes with the Doxology and the Great Amen. In this solemn, powerful moment, the presider holds aloft Jesus himself, truly present in the Eucharistic species, and proclaims:
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[April 26, 2016](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/blog-post/2016/04/26/the-mass-for-millennials-doxology-and-amen)
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## [Music of Holy Week: Easter Sunday](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/blog-post/2016/03/27/music-of-holy-week-easter-sunday)
Published by [Carolyn Pirtle](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/blog-post/author/carolyn-pirtle)
Having witnessed to the light of the risen Christ at the Easter Vigil with the singing of the Exsultet, the Church proclaims on Easter Sunday that the tomb is empty in the singing of the Easter Sequence, *Victimae Paschali Laudes*.
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[March 27, 2016](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/blog-post/2016/03/27/music-of-holy-week-easter-sunday)
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## [Music of Holy Week: The Easter Vigil](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/blog-post/2016/03/26/music-of-holy-week-the-easter-vigil)
Published by [Carolyn Pirtle](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/blog-post/author/carolyn-pirtle)
*The Exsultet*
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[March 26, 2016](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/blog-post/2016/03/26/music-of-holy-week-the-easter-vigil)
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## [Music of Holy Week: Holy Saturday](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/blog-post/2016/03/26/music-of-holy-week-holy-saturday)
Published by [Carolyn Pirtle](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/blog-post/author/carolyn-pirtle)
*[Recessit Pastor Noster](http://www1.cpdl.org/wiki/images/5/58/Recessit_Pastor_Noster_Victoria.pdf)* (1585) by Tomás Luis de la Victoria (1548–1611)
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[March 26, 2016](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/blog-post/2016/03/26/music-of-holy-week-holy-saturday)
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## [Music of Holy Week: Good Friday](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/blog-post/2016/03/25/music-of-holy-week-good-friday)
Published by [Carolyn Pirtle](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/blog-post/author/carolyn-pirtle)
On this Good Friday, as we recall the Passion and Death of Jesus, we gaze upon the Cross. On the one hand, we recoil from the Cross in horror as the instrument of torture and execution, the gibbet on which the Savior of the world hung in agony and breathed his last. On the other hand, we rejoice in the Cross as the means by which Jesus Christ accomplished our salvation and the salvation of the who...
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[March 25, 2016](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/blog-post/2016/03/25/music-of-holy-week-good-friday)
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## [Music of Holy Week: Holy Thursday](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/blog-post/2016/03/24/music-of-holy-week-holy-thursday)
Published by [Carolyn Pirtle](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/blog-post/author/carolyn-pirtle)
Today we enter the most solemn days of the liturgical year: the Sacred Paschal Triduum. From St. Peter’s in Rome to the humblest of parishes, the Church will watch and pray and sing together, recalling the wondrous mysteries of our salvation in Christ Jesus.
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[March 24, 2016](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/blog-post/2016/03/24/music-of-holy-week-holy-thursday)
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## [Music of Holy Week: Wednesday](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/blog-post/2016/03/23/music-of-holy-week-wednesday)
Published by [Carolyn Pirtle](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/blog-post/author/carolyn-pirtle)
*At the Name of Jesus*; Tune: King’s Weston (1925) by Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958); Text: Caroline M. Noel (1817–1877)
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[March 23, 2016](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/blog-post/2016/03/23/music-of-holy-week-wednesday)
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## [Music of Holy Week: Tuesday](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/blog-post/2016/03/22/music-of-holy-week-tuesday)
Published by [Carolyn Pirtle](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/blog-post/author/carolyn-pirtle)
*Nos Autem Gloriari* (1997) by Grayston Ives (b. 1948)
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## [Music of Holy Week: Monday](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/blog-post/2016/03/21/music-of-holy-week-monday)
Published by [Carolyn Pirtle](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/blog-post/author/carolyn-pirtle)
*Eripe Me* (1584) by Orlando di Lasso (1532–1594)
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[March 21, 2016](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/blog-post/2016/03/21/music-of-holy-week-monday)
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