Where I am now -- St. Joe's "Chant Camp"

Sorry for the lack of recent posts, my friends. I am presently attending the Gregorian Chant Institute at Saint Joseph's College in Rensselaer, Indiana. We are working through the Graduale Triplex for Advent and Christmas this year. It is a fine experience, proving to be as much a retreat for me as an academic course. The director, Fr Larry Heiman, is a leading authority on chant after the traditions of the earliest manuscripts. (Fr Heiman has been teaching at St. Joseph's since 1940, and is now a spry 88 years old!) We are working primarily from late ninth and early tenth century Messine and St. Gall manuscript traditions. Marvelous. I will return home to Texas next Tuesday, and resume regular posts at that time. God bless.