The Institute of Catholic Culture is an adult catechetical organization, faithful to the Magisterium of the Catholic Church, and dedicated to the Church’s call for a new evangelization. The Institute seeks to fulfill its mission by offering education programs structured upon the classical liberal arts and by offering opportunities in which authentic Catholic culture is experienced and lived.
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St. John Chrysostom, Homily on Psalm 149

“A few say, to be sure, that the tambourine signifies the mortality of our flesh and the psaltery means a heavenward gaze. For this instrument [the tambourine] is played with a downward motion, not with an upward one, as is the cithara. But I would prefer to say that they [the Jews] played these in times past on account of the dullness of their understanding and so that they might be drawn away from idols. As he [God] conceded sacrifices to them, so he also allowed them this, for he accommodated himself to their weaknesses.” Chrysostom, Homily on Psalm 149, 2 (PG 55, 494). Cited in Johannes Quasten, Music and Worship in Pagan and Christian Antiquity (National Association of Pastoral Musicians, 1983).

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