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A place-holder for preparing a booklet of music for the Mass for the Dead.

A rambling summary of what I’ve started with a bit of background on life.

Working with the legendary Psalm Tone Tool I find these bits of text handy. Here’s the couplet that replaces the Glória Patri in the Office of the Dead: Réquiem aetérnam * dona eis Dómine.

What are Indulgences? “An indulgence is a remission before God of the temporal punishment due to sins whose guilt has already been forgiven, which the faithful Christian who is duly disposed gains under certain defined conditions through the Church’s help when, as a minister of redemption, she dispenses and applies with authority the treasury of the satisfactions won by Christ and the saints” (Indulgentarium Doctrina 1).

First steps towards showing you how to sing the Office of the Dead in Latin.