Word: proprio
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Whether or not Sister Mary Elaine's mass eventually receives official approval for liturgical use, it is Father Lord's "hunch that Pope Piux X [whose Motu Proprio on Sacred Music is the definitive authority] would have approved most enthusiastically of this transference of a great series of musical themes to the greatest of musical purposes...
...Benedictine monks of Solesmes, France; 2) the "modern," which in liturgical circles includes all church music written since the beginning of the 18th Century - including Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Verdi. Since 1904, when Pope Pius X pronounced on the subject of sacred music in his famed encyclical Motu Proprio, the use of "modern" music by the Catholic church has been sharply restricted.** But Palestrina's 16th-Century creations (best performed recently by the Sistine Chapel Choir of Rome, the Westminster Cathedral Choir of London and Father Finn's choristers) are regarded by Catholic authorities as liturgically flawless...
...Throne remarked sadly that there has been fighting on the last six Christmas Days - in Ethiopia, Spain and Europe, not to mention the Far East.* But the Pope did not send a circular telegram to Adolf Hitler, Winston Churchill and other heads of warring States. He issued a motu proprio or letter of instruction to Roman Catholic Bishops...
...motu proprio of the Supreme Pontiff permitted, for the first time in the recorded history of the Church, an alteration in the time of celebrating the High Mass usually performed at midnight Christmas Eve. In localities where a blackout is enforced His Holiness permitted this Mass to be celebrated as early as the afternoon of Dec. 24. Those who partake of the Host may do so, by exceptional Apostolic indulgence, after having fasted for four hours...
Pius XII went only so far as to say in his motu proprio: "It is fair to hope and trust that at least on that holy night and on that holy day all belligerents will declare a truce...