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Catholic Latin Classics (Audio CD) tagged "catholic music" 5 times

Catholic Latin Classics
Catholic Latin Classics (Audio CD)
By Richard Yeo

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54 of 57 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Burn the "Glory and Praise" hymnal!, July 21, 2003
By Darren Gauthier (Baton Rouge, LA USA) - See all my reviews
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For those who have had enough of folk masses, youth masses, and "On Eagle's Wings" - as I have, since about 1988 - this is the antidote. I resent the 1960's generation who felt the need to throw out 1500 years of beautiful sacred music and replace it with the Paul Simon-like strains of "Here I Am Lord." When I hear this music in Latin, all I can say is "DEO GRATIAS!"
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74 of 79 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Aaaaaah... that's better! ;-), September 30, 2002
By Teresa Alantua, 16 (Silicon Valley, California) - See all my reviews
Not that they didn't perhaps have good intentions, but I often feel as though those '60's generation Catholics quietly disposed of the rich and all-embracing ("catholic"!) Faith that was to be my birthright, and, beaming, set a big ol' mess of steaming pottage in front of me instead. They told me how lucky I was not to have grown up being forced to listen to Latin, be taught by real live nuns, or shock my poor tender eyes on statues or ornate high altars. Instead, I would have the privelige of attending guitar-and-maraca Masses, where the priest warbled the words of consecration in a sort of blues tune, and-... Ai! Is this really about the God "who gives joy to my youth"? Then why did they, ahem, cut that line? Trying to reconcile all this relentlessly chirpy weirdness with the Holy And Awesome Sacrifice that IS going on - it always deals me Kafka-esque trauma and a headache.

My fellow reviewer from Connecticut, you are so lucky... I can attend the Old Latin Mass only once a month. When I get out of college, I want to move somewhere where I can go every day and live a NORMAL Catholic life! Man, I must be the weirdest teenager in the Valley... ::sighs:: Eek! It's hard not to start using this thing as a message board...

Anyway, keep the Music alive in your hearts with this CD until we can bring it back to the sanctuaries! The day will come... ::smiles tearfully::

Ostende nobis, Domine, misericordiam tuam.

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21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Ne Plus Ultra, June 14, 2003
By "thamizh" (SMYRNA, GA United States) - See all my reviews
I would rate this CD as ne plus ultra for the amount of divinity that is latent within each of those great, precious, Latin hymns, which should have been my "birth-right," as the other reviewer had wonderfully put it. To give you an idea, I am an immigrant from Tamilnadu, India, with no cultural ties to the Western world or Latin. It is truly "greek and latin" to me. However, I thank God Almighty for bringing me to the US, at least that I now have better exposure to some Latin worship.

This CD is given 5 stars by me, because, not only the music is mellifluous, but the richness of Latin is apodictic, once you hear the euphonious rendition of the hymns by the singers. John Eskola's Panis Angelicus is so good, that I couldn't stop playing it again and again. This wonderful hymn, written by St. Thomas Aquinas would move any "lukewarm" soul to get nearer to the Eucharist. And to speak the truth, every time I listen to Ave Maria version of Franz Schubert, wonderfully rendered in the form of a soprano by Lorelei McDermott, tears start rolling down my eyes, out of joy and out of divine grace. Folks, this CD will move you to an extent, that you will experience multiple levels of "divine ecstasy."

I have heard and fell in love with the hymns of O Salutaris Hostia and Tantum Ergo Sacramentum, but after listening to these great benediction songs in this CD, I even more fell madly love with these songs during the benediction of the blessed sacrament. Almost all the songs in this CD are great and Jubilae Deo of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was just splendiferous.

I extremely feel helpless, that we Catholics have lost the opportunity to either attend masses of Novo Ordo or Traditional Tridentine Mass. In the name of new era, we are standing as mute witnesses to the systematic elimination of wonderful works of yesteryears.

If you are a lukewarm, orthodox, carefree, or merely a Sunday catholic: each of you do have some element of divine-touch in this CD. Again, this review comes to you from an alien who is in no way connected to the Western Culture, but instantaneously fell in love with it and Latin, the primordial reason of which can be attributed to the euphonic collections in this CD.

And, one last thing: After listening to these melodic hymns, I have listened to numerous other singers' versions of Panis Angelicus and Ave Maria, but none has surpassed my expectations as I have on this one. Kudos John Eskola and Lorelei McDermott. Kudos to all the Cathedral Singers and Richard Prolux, the Conductor, of this CD. God's blessings will surely be upon you. I may order a few copies for all my relatives in India, to enjoy the divine graces that I obtained through this CD. Great stuff.

Domine Jesu Christe, gratias!

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