Liturgical Music Education


How We Use Gregorian Chant


Read Fr. Ley’s article below. Photo: First public appearance of the Schola Cantorum of the Pacific, men and boys, at the St. Joseph Day Fiesta Mass in Father Serra’s Chapel, Mission San Juan Capistrano, California, March 19, 1977, first “home church” of the Schola. The full Schola of men, women, boys and girls, initiated the following month, has continued to this day.

How we use Gregorian chant

Schola Essays in Liturgical Music


This series of essays on liturgical music is writtenby Fr. Ted Ley, SM (Marianist), ChM, DMA, the founder of The Schola Cantorum of the Pacific®.

INtroduction and topic no.1: a muSIcal INVItatory to maSS

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