Sacred Music and Liturgy After Vatican II: Significant Works of Monsignor Richard J. Schuler in Sacred Music

Sacred Music and Liturgy After Vatican II: Significant Works of Monsignor Richard J. Schuler in Sacred Music

  • by Virginia A. Schubert, editor

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Publication Date: April 21, 2024

On a Mission to Preserve Our Worship of the Divine

Sacred Music and Liturgy After Vatican II recounts the important role that Monsignor Schuler played in the post-Vatican II Church. It was his heroic commitment, through countless writings in Sacred Music magazine, and through the authentic implementation of the Council's Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy at the Church of Saint Agnes in Saint Paul, Minnesota, that has helped keep the patrimony of Catholic sacred music and liturgy alive against all odds in the United States.

With the dawning of the 17th century came a "flowering of religion...a spreading of Catholicism in Europe and in the newly discovered western hemisphere. The cause of all this was the Council of Trent and those who put it into effect. When it was finally put into practice, a great age dawned. So also will it come about in these times when the Second Vatican Council is finally given a chance and is put into practice." —Monsignor Richard J. Schuler

The material presented here from Sacred Music magazine is unaltered from its originally published version.
All material from Sacred Music in this publication is used with permission of the Church Music Association of America.
All photographs reprinted in this publication are used with permission.

Size: 6 x 9

302 pages

With 8 colour pictures

ISBN: 978-1-990685-85-9 (pbk) | $27.95 USD
ISBN: 978-1-990685-86-6 (hc) | $39.95 USD

"Everyone who knew Monsignor Schuler experienced the sharing of the depth of his commitment to the sacred liturgy. Now this book offers his wisdom to a much wider audience." —Professor William P. Mahrt, Stanford University

A Fine Tribute

Dr. Virginia Schubert has once again created a fine tribute to Monsignor Schuler's life's work in preserving the sense of the sacred in our relationship with God. With meticulous care, she gathered several of his many writings explaining sacred music and liturgy. All that's needed is to read his words and act on them for the salvation of souls. —John B. Manos, Vice President, EWTN

Virginia Schubert

Virginia A. Schubert sang in the soprano section of the Twin Cities Catholic Chorale since its inception and is currently President Emerita of the Board of the Chorale. She assisted Monsignor Schuler when he was editor of Sacred Music magazine and is a member and former officer of the Church Music Association of America. She is the author of To Sing with the Angels: A History of the Twin Cities Catholic Chorale. (2015)

After graduating Phi Beta Kappa with a B.A. from the College of Saint Catherine (now Saint Catherine University) in Saint Paul, Minnesota, she studied under the auspices of a Fulbright Scholarship at the University of Poitiers in France. She earned M.A. and PhD degrees in French Literature from the University of Minnesota.

Dr. Schubert is a professor emerita of Macalester College in Saint Paul, Minnesota, where she taught French, chaired the French Department and also served as an Associate Provost during a thirty-seven-year career. She was decorated by the French government as an Officer in the Order of Academic Palms. She is a Dame Commander in the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem.

Dr. Schubert is a member of Saint Agnes Parish and the Parish of the Nativity of Our Lord, both in Saint Paul, Minnesota.

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