1851 Hymnarium Vesperale (Lambert)

Corpus Christi Watershed · March 19, 2013 ·

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* * 1851 Lambert Hymnarium Vesperale (PDF)

• Hymnarium Vesperale : organ accompaniments for the whole of the hymns of the Roman Vesperal ; with an appendix, containing the three festal sequences of the Roman Gradual. • John Lambert, member of the Pontifical Congregation of the academy of St. Cecilia at Rome. • xiv, 79 pages • 1851 London : Burns and Lambert, 17, Portman Street, Portman Square. •

Anger at mistakes?

I have a bad habit of getting frustrated when choir members take a long time to learn a particular interval or entrance. But this can be “cured.” It was cured a few weeks ago, when I made a mistake. I was supposed to go down a minor third, but instead I went down a perfect fifth. It reminded me that errors do happen—and we must be patient with our singers! Because of this, I will never again lose patience with singers.

—Jeff Ostrowski

“The old man carried the Child, but the Child led the old man.”

The Antiphon for First Vespers of the Feast of the Purification (February 2nd) is beautiful: “The old man carried the Child, but it was the Child who was guiding the old man. The Virgin bore the Child, and after child-bearing was virgin still: whom she bore, him she adored.” —Senex púerum portábat, puer autem senem regébat: quem Virgo péperit, et post partum Virgo permánsit: ipsum quem génuit, adorávit.

—Jeff Ostrowski

A quote from Fr. Valentine Young

I had one brother who was out of the church for quite a few years. When my mother was asked, “Did she worry about him?” I remember her answer: “I don’t worry about him; I just pray for him.” She left that in God’s hands. My mother did not live to see her son return to the Church; but he did, and I was able to celebrate his funeral Mass.

—Jeff Ostrowski