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Learn more at realestateforlife.org. Hello and welcome to Catholic Answers live. I am Cy Kellett, your host. Thanks so much for being here with us on this Thursday afternoon. Second hour, Tim Staples will be here, and we'll have all the usual Tim Staples fun. First hour, we have got a very special guest. Somebody we've been looking forward to talking with. Paul Rose is our guest. Sing the hours. That's where you know him from. You're like, I've heard that name, Paul Rose. Sing the hours. We're going to talk about music.

We're going to talk about chant. We're going to talk about liturgical music. And if you've got questions about faith and music, anything on the intersection of faith and music, you are welcome to call 8883187-884, triple-8-384. We had the good fortune of getting to have a chat with Paul before about music

and about his efforts with Sing the Hours. And it was during one of the pre-shows that we do.

And we were like, man, Paul, please come on the live show. So I'm very excited that he's here.

It's an important topic for the church. I mean, if we're in an age that where we, I think we all know, the church still is in a moment of renewal and in real need of renewal. And we're working at it. I think a lot of people just love the church so much and want that renewal.

But getting music right is a big part of that. So let me welcome Paul Rose. Paul, thanks for being here with us.

My plage.

Is it your plage? Oh, this is going to be a very casual interview.

That's good. I'm glad because I think a lot of people think, oh, Gregorian chant or chant, it's so stuffy. Is it stuffy?

So I think one of the culprits for that sensibility is the Sanktuce that people are familiar with.

Oh, really?

Now, bear with me here. So I'm sure we're all familiar if you go to Catholic

Mass with the Holy or the Sangtu, Sangtos, Sangtos, Sangtos, Dominguez above. Interestingly enough,

in the Roman gradual or the Graduali Romanum, which is the chant book for the Novos Ordo Mass,

the current Mass that we celebrate.

That songtus is prescribed for weekdays in Advent and Lent, penitential seasons, and weekdays.

Sundays has to be a little more festive, and for Requiem Masses, for Masses for the Dead. That is the most dower, sad

songtuce in the whole thing in all of the chant repertoire. Many of them are so

sublimely beautiful like, you know, of course Mass 8, some of you might know,

song to songtoes, songtoes, that's so much more, I, it's not dower at all. That's not stuffy at all. That's like, that's charismatic. That's like R&B. I never even taught that one. Like, well, think, think about how many notes are there. That's only, you know, six syllables, sung to, sanctus, sunkus, and that was like 20 plus notes. Okay. That's like rhythm and blues.

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