Latin Mass Society

Iota Unum Talk 1 : Gregorian Chant and Prayer - Matthew Ward in Conversation with Joseph Shaw

What is the relationship between Gregorian Chant and prayer.

Matthew is the Director of Music at Mayfield School and a Regional Director of Schola Gregoriana of Cambridge. A Cambridge graduate, with a doctoral thesis on twelfth-century chant, he was involved in singing Gregorian Chant at the Catholic Chaplaincy, Fisher House, and has since then done much to support chant in both Forms of the Roman Rite, with singing and training as well as lectures around the country.

Anyone wanting to hear more of Matthew can listen to a series of podcasts featuring on Radio Maria England: "The Rosary in Music" (search here).

Those interested in Gregorian Chant can find a huge amount of material on the website of the Church Music Association of America, MusicaSacra.com (resources page).

Fr Michael Mary of the Transalpine Redemptorists addresses the LMS Conference on ‘The Traditional Mass and Spirituality: “That we may relate it in another generation” (Ps. 47:14)’

The superior of the Sons of the Most Holy Redeemer (the Transalpine Redemptorists), based at Golgotha Monastery on the Orkney island of Papa Stronsay. A completely Traditional Order, their canonical status was regularised after having reconciled with the Holy See following Summorum Pontificum, having previously worked for many years with the SSPX.

Chris Hodkinson speaks on ‘Liturgy, Culture and Evangelisation’ to the LMS Conference in May 2014

Chris Hodkinson is the director of the Schola Gregoriana of Cambridge, one of the leading influences in the revival of Gregorian Chant in England in recent years.

Bishop Athanasius Schneider speaks about ‘The Renewal of the liturgy according to the perennial sense of the Church’ to the LMS Conference in May 2014

From Kazakhstan, Bishop Schneider is well known as the author of Dominus Est - It is the Lord! - a defence of the traditional manner of receiving Communion.

Professor Thomas Pink of King's College London speaks on ‘Church and state after Vatican II’ at the 2014 LMS Conference

Professor Thomas Pink is a lecturer at King's College, London, and is known for his work on the fraught topic of religious liberty.

Joseph Pearce speaks on ‘The liturgy and the Second Spring’ at the LMS Conference, May 2014

The critically acclaimed author of several biographies of Catholic literary figures, including Chesterton, Belloc, Tolkien and Oscar Wilde, as well as Literary Converts - the conversion stories of a string of early 20th century English writers who were received into the Catholic Church. He has recently written his autobiography 'Race with the Devil' - the story of his conversion from a papist-hating member of the National Front to a devout Catholic.