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If in Catholic churches throughout the entire world Gregorian chant sounds forth without corruption or diminution, the chant itself, like the sacred Roman liturgy, will have a characteristic of universality, so that the faithful…may experience, with much spiritual consolation, the wonderful unity of the Church.
Pope Pius XII, Musicæ Sacræ Disciplina, 1955
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Canticum Novum Schola of Greater Washington
The Schola provides Gregorian Chant for Catholic churches offering the traditional Latin Mass (1962 Missal) by episcopal indult in the Archdiocese of Washington, DC and the surrounding region. Men interested in joining the Schola, or who would like more information, should contact the director, Richard Rice. Canticum Novum is currently the resident Schola for the Latin Mass Community at Our Lady Queen of Poland Catholic Church (Old St. John's) in Silver Spring, Maryland, where they usually sings the second and fourth Sundays of the month, plus occasional Solemnities (see current schedule below). Click here to see and hear the Schola.
Canticum Novum Schola also has an affiliated group at St. Alphonsus Catholic Church in Baltimore, Maryland, under the direction of David Sullivan. St. Alphonsus offers the traditional Latin Mass every Sunday at 11:30 am, and the Schola usually sings the first Sunday of the month.
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The Schola's Mass Schedule
Summer 2008, The Schola will maintain its regular schedule at Our Lady Queen of Poland as our various schedules permits.
On Saturday, June 7, 2008, members of the Schola were pleased to provide chant for the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter at the Mass concluding their annual pilgrimage in Washington, D.C. The Solemn High Mass (Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite) was the first celebrated in the Crypt Chapel of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in many years.
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Regional Traditional Latin Masses
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Gregorian chant resources
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Mary Mother of God (Old St. Mary's), Washington, DC
St. Francis de Sales, Benedict, Maryland
St. Lawrence the Martyr, Franconia, Virginia
St. John the Baptist, Front Royal, Virginia
St. Joseph's, Richmond, Virginia
St. Benedict Chapel, Chesapeake, Virginia
Cathedral Chapel of Saint Lawrence, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Philadelphia chapter of Ecclesia Dei, with a directory
of traditional Latin Masses in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
St. Boniface, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Mater Ecclesiae Mission, Camden, New Jersey
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The Parish Book of Chant, available through Aquinas
& More Catholic Goods, provides an extensive basic collection of Mass settings, liturgical responses (including sung Ordos for both Ordinary and Extraordinary Forms of the Roman Rite), and Latin hymns for use by parishes and beginning scholas.
A Gregorian Chant Master Class, an instructional handbook and CD from the Abbey of Regina Laudis,
in Bethlehem, Connecticut (Click on "Master Class Update").
Una Voce's chant page contains links to this site and others, including sites offering Gregorian chant tutorials
Paraclete Press distribute books and recordings from Solesmes in North America, books of Saint Meinrad Archabbey, and recordings of Gloriae Dei Cantores Schola.
The Church Music Association of America provides liturgical resources, including their quarterly journal, Sacred Music.
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