Outside the Priory of Our Lady of Ephesus in northwest Missouri, The Benedictines of Mary, Queen of Apostles, in an effort to fulfill the many orders coming in through their website, take in delivery of their ADVENT AT EPHESUS CD. It’s available worldwide on November 20, 2012 from De Montfort Music/Decca. – Photo Credit: The Benedictines of Mary, Queen of Apostles ...read more

Before we let go of the year completely, Salt + Light Radio revisits some of the best music featured on the show in 2011. If you’re hanging out at home, at a get-together with friends and family or if you find yourself out driving on New Year’s Eve, tune in for S+L Radio’s New Year’s ...read more

I’ve made a point for the last 20 or so years to acquire a new Christmas album every year. It sort of happened by accident first; I bought some albums that I had grown up with (Bing Crosby’s “White Christmas” among them) and then I continued adding to my collection. It means that today, I ...read more

Are you a mother trying to cope in today’s hectic world? This week on S+L Radio we speak with Dorothy Pilarski about her new book “Motherhood Matters“. And if you’re wondering about the purpose of your life, we’ll also speak to Ken Yasinski, founder of Face2Face Ministries. He tells us about his book “The Fullness ...read more

Are you ready for the new translation of the Mass? In case you’re wondering, there is a new app to help you make the change. This week on S+L Radio we’ll be speaking with Cale Clarke, creator of the New Mass iPhone app. We also we meet pianist, singer and composer Fr. Robbie MacDougall and ...read more

Last week on Perspectives: The Weekly Edition, we spoke about some of the changes we can expect when the new Roman Missal goes into effect on November 27th (the First Sunday of Advent). This week, Pedro asks the question: What does the new translation teach us about music in the liturgy? Pedro speaks with Fr. ...read more

Fr. Geoffrey Angeles is the composer of one of the three new Mass settings commissioned for Canada, to be used with the revised Roman Missal. Many of you have already been singing Fr. Angeles’ Mass. Here he is in a conversation with S+L’s Pedro Guevara-Mann at the meeting of the National Council of Liturgical Music ...read more

Last year I learned about a talented singer, Sarena Paton, in relation to a Remembrance Day Concert. Recently I heard that Sarena was going to be performing a the Lower Ossington Theatre in Toronto on Friday, June 10. We don’t usually blog about these things, but Sarena was our featured artist on S+L Radio last ...read more

I remember as a kid watching Christmas music videos on December 25th.  Among those videos was one tune that I couldn’t believe was considered a Christmas song.  To me the singing was bizarre: a kind of slurred, harsh barking; contrasted by a more melodious female voice.  The content of the song, hardly struck me as ...read more