ORDO WEEK 3 FRIDAY MORNING PRAISE

 1:0600:00 Homemade Lemonade

02:52 Lemonade ASMR

06:01 What we need to record Sunday Vespers

15:15 Why increase chant literacy? (so you can sing at baptisms)

27:43 Baptismal Chants

34:03 Why we are singing a whole office: a story

44:20 Recording the office live. Notation onscreen. 

1:56:43 Editing the audio.

3:30:02 Pray this office, it's airing on Sunday night (3.1.26)

00:23 There's a new beverage on set

03:03 Video from the Sing the Hours Rome pilgrimage

06:49 Editing

1:47:23 It's finally done.

1:48:44 Beauty and Vocations

1:50:25 1 in 500 people used to be a Catholic nun

1:51:11 What it means to be a nun.

1:53:17 The Elves in Lord of the Rings and the Wounded Modern Mind

1:54:19 The Purpose of Your Existence

2:00:53 Vocations Numbers

2:11:15 We're going to talk about AI on Monday 

2:11:39 Join us in California! June 26, 2026 

00:00 Welcome, my lords, to Isengard. 

Brief Discussion of His Reluctance to talk about AI

It's too early in the development

Analogy to the early criticisms of the printing press.

Risks looking silly when viewed in the future

01:30 Obligatory Beverage Tasting - A Sparkling Water Taste Test

10:21 Soda Stream Product Placement (not an official sponsor)

11:01 Bubble ASMR

12:32 Too many bubbles

13:50 San Pellegrino in a plastic bottle is like Mass with bad music

Part 2: California Pilgrimage

14:53 California Pilgrimage

16:16 Do you want to schedule a group, staff, or business pilgrimage? Reach out to Charlie. 

17:18 Pilgrimage Route

24:20 Stays and Liturgies on the Pilgrimage (some are open to the public!)

40:56 Why go on this pilgrimage?

Presents his case for singing the Hours

Vatican II Decree on Liturgy

83. Christ Jesus, high priest of the new and eternal covenant, taking human nature, introduced into this earthly exile that hymn which is sung throughout all ages in the halls of heaven. He joins the entire community of mankind to Himself, associating it with His own singing of this canticle of divine praise

Part 3: Chant Bot or Not?

51:16 Why AI Bot Music is not real liturgy

52:07 What do you think? Are these chant channels real chant or bot made?

55:05 Brief intermission on the new canticle translations

1:01:23 Back to it: Bot or Not?

1:02:40 Everything that's wrong with this AI chant

1:13:37 Check out these bot channels

1:16:58 Watch Paul make AI Slop

1:24:02 AI voice replication is so problematic (the commodification of the human person)

1:25:24 What should we listen to then? Floriani, Neums and Tunes, Sing the Hours

1:25:51 Another Channel: Bot or Not?

1:32:33 One way to check if it's AI

1:33:35 Another Channel: Bot or Not?

1:36:11 AI is incapable of praying real Catholic prayer

1:37:05 The Collect Prayer from Mass

1:38:12 AI is blinding us

1:39:13 Another Channel: Bot or Not?

1:44:35 Effects of Baptism. You can't baptize AI.

1:47:15 Can you bless AI?

1:49:25 Support real Catholic musicians

1:50:15 Scandal: The State of Music in the American Catholic Church

1:51:35 Non-Catholics and Catholic Music

1:53:57 Let's Sing Scripture: Entrance Antiphon

 1:57:29 Scandal 2: Hymn Factories Funding Controversial Agendas

 1:59:35 The Actual, Musical Prescription for the Mass (USCCB Citation)

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