zDOLni – Episode Six: A Benedictine, a Jesuit, and a Dominican look at the liturgy 11 June 2020 Although it starts like a good joke, this conversation is pretty serious. The three religious share their diverse experience of liturgical life, talk about what helps and what does not help in praying the liturgy, and discuss the needs of liturgical music in Poland. ...
zDOLni – Episode Five: Where Does the Liturgy Come From? With Fr. Dominic Jurczak, OP 5 June 2020 In this episode we’re asking about the origins of Christian liturgy, whether I can evolve, and who’s in charge of the potential changes. Fr. Lukasz’s guest is the former DLC president, currently a liturgy professor at two Roman universities, the Anselmianum and the Angelicum, Dr. Dominik Jurczak, OP. ...
Dawid Kusz’s OP “Jutrznia Paschalna” (Pascha Lauds) – premiere concert on Sunday 29 May 2020 One of the leading composers of liturgical music in Poland, a Dominican father Dawid Kusz will present his newest pieces created to resemble Lauds, for the ending of the Easter period. The concert is taking place on Sunday 31st of May at 10:00 a.m. CEST on YouTube channels Liturgia.pl and Dominikanie.pl. ...
zDOLni – Episode Three (in English): On Polish Dominican music and the Theology with Julie Bellefeuille 21 May 2020 In the third episode of “zDOLni”, Fr. Łukasz is crossing the Atlantic. So far we’ve learned about the roots of the Polish Dominican music and how it continues forming new generations of Poles; but have you known that these liturgical chants adapted into English by the Polish dominican friars serving in the U.S. have also been present in American parishes for over...
zDOLni – Episode Two: about new music and workshops with Ula Rogala and Fr. Dawid Kusz, OP 14 May 2020 In the second episode of our new series Fr. Łukasz is inviting you to meet two young composers who grew up in the Dominican liturgical tradition. Ula Rogala and Fr. Dawid Kusz, OP, are just two among many names associated today with the Polish Dominican hymnal and liturgical music recordings produced by the Dominican Liturgical Center of Kraków. ...
zDOLni – Episode One: about Liturgical Music of the Dominican Friars of Poland with Fr. Mirosław Pilśniak, OP 14 May 2020 In the first episode of our new series Fr. Łukasz Miśko, OP, is interviewing his fellow Dominican, Fr. Mirosław Pilśniak, OP, one of the most important figures in the Dominican liturgical renewal that started in Kraków, Poland, in the 1980’s. ...
zDOLni – an introduction to a new video series by the Dominican Liturgical Center 1 May 2020 An encounter. Crisp thoughts. Inspirations. Teatime conversations (coffee would be quite fitting as well), chats about people and ideas that you as the friends of the Dominican Liturgical Center may find intriguing. ...
“These Newborn Lambs” – an extraordinary paschal journey 14 April 2020 The popular song from the Dominican community in Kraków, composed in fact by Jacek Gałuszka, has sources in liturgical chant going back more than thousand years. This hymn was part of the liturgical and fraternal renewal of the Polish Dominicans and more generally of the pastoral work beginning in the 1990s. ...
Liturgy in the times of COVID-19 9 April 2020 Undoubtedly, these times of a pandemic are difficult times: not so much for the liturgy itself but for the way we are used to participating in it. The liturgical routine which has worked out for us until now, in these present times of the spread of the coronavirus requires an adequate rethinking and a rapid adaptation to the new circumstances. ...
Seattle’s New Recording of Liturgical Music 13 January 2020 At the beginning of this year, over twenty musicians — including Dominican friars from three different provinces — convened at Blessed Sacrament church in Seattle, WA, to record a unique project of liturgical music. ...
Codex Occo Music Workshop in Kraków 13 January 2020 We invite you to join a special project in which we follow Marcel Peres in exploration of the world of renaissance polyphony. We sing the music from the Occo Codex (beginning of the XVI c.), including Missa Pange Linge of Josquin des Pres. ...
Kraków: Extraordinary Music Workshops Ended Last Sunday 13 August 2019 Here is a snapshot of this year’s event: four Masses, three phenomenal concerts, seven lectures, six workshops, and many hours of independent musical coaching. Over 300 participants attended. (more…)
