About this blogger:
Jeff Ostrowski
A theorist, organist, and conductor, Jeff Ostrowski holds his B.M. in Music Theory from the University of Kansas (2004), where he also did graduate work in Musicology. On 22 January 2011, the board of directors elected Mr. Ostrowski President of Corpus Christi Watershed. He lives with his wife and daughter in Corpus Christi, TX.
Free Mass Setting in honor of St. Edmund Jennings
published 6 October 2011 by Jeff Ostrowski

The Mass in honor of St. Edmund Jennings uses the New Translation of the Roman Missal. Like all the Masses in the Vatican II Hymnal, it has been approved for Liturgical use in the United States of America by the USCCB.

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Click here to download free organ accompaniments for the entire Mass.

From the Catholic Encyclopedia:

Saint Edmund Gennings (1567 – 10 December 1591) was an English martyr, who was executed during the English Reformation for being a Catholic priest. He came from Lichfield, Staffordshire. His name is sometimes spelled Jennings.

Edmund was a thoughtful, serious boy naturally inclined to matters of faith. At around sixteen years of age he converted to Catholicism. He went immediately to the English College at Rheims where he was ordained a priest in 1590, being then only twenty-three years of age. He immediately returned to the dangers of England under the assumed name of Ironmonger. His missionary career was brief. He and Polydore Plasden were seized by Richard Topcliffe and his officers whilst in the act of saying Mass in the house of Saint Swithun Wells at Gray’s Inn in London on 7 November 1591 and was hanged, drawn and quartered outside the same house on 10 December. His execution was particularly bloody, as his final speech angered Topcliffe, who ordered the rope to be cut down when he was barely stunned from the hanging. It is reported that he uttered the words, “Sancte Gregori ora pro me” while he was being disembowelled, and that the hangman swore, “Zounds! See, his heart is in my hand, and yet Gregory is in his mouth. O egregious Papist.” Saint Swithun Wells was hanged immediately afterwards. The martyrdom of Edmund Gennings was the occasion of several extraordinary incidents, chief of which was the conversion of his younger brother John, who later wrote his biography, published in 1614 at Saint-Omer.

Edmund Gennings was canonized as one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales by Pope Paul VI on 25 October 1970. His feast day, along with that of the other thirty-nine martyrs, is on 25 October.

Comments

1 Christine M. Hosie says...

What a beautiful praise to God and Jesus, I loved hearing the voice so clear and so sacred sounding was the music. I was drawn to listening. several times. The story of the martyr is gruesome.The reformation and the opposing sides and then the martyrs …It makes me think of Christ on the Cross saying: Father forgive them for they know not what they do.

Posted at 2:12 p.m. on December 15, 2011

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