Jacobus de Kerle Preces Speciales Primum Responsorium Pro Concilio

[@marinapegrisch1305]

Incredible Beauty - uplifting!😇

[@theonlyvarese]

I've got two CDs of the music de Kerle composed winging their way to me as I type this as a result of you posting this; many thanks for providing such gems!

[@YNikolich]

I love de Kerle. Thank you so much for uploading this rare and refined artist.

[@adrianolombardo9622]

Wonderful Jacobus de Kerle

[@canisium1975]

Thank you for upload and especially for the detailed explanation. The connection between music and liturgical actions and meaning is stunning. It's unbelievable that this incredible treasure was lost in merely 50 years (1970 to present), even more unbelievable if one considers that Sacrosantum Concilium (1962) constitution expressely recommendend latin and gregorian chant being at the center of liturgy. What treasure has been stolen from us!

[@markatkins8807]

I would add to your point by saying that even before Vatican II, these types of sacred liturgical treasures were already very much in the process of being taken away, piece by piece. The Council of Trent itself set the standard for later reforms, as the Vatican began exercising greater and greater centralized bureaucratic control over the sacred liturgy. If you take a look at the earlier liturgies in common use all throughout Europe before that time (like the uses of Sarum, Paris, Benevento, Augsburg, etc), it immediately becomes apparent that medieval worship was far more musically rich, ritually symbolic, and theologically substantive than what the Roman Rite would become after the reforms of Trent. This ongoing obsession with "reform" in the Catholic Church continued at a steady pace all the way up to the modern era, culminating in the Novus Ordo liturgy and all of its generic committee-approved banality.

[@Krlos5303ify]

Un mákina