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1936 Graduale (Dr. Franz Xavier Mathias)

Corpus Christi Watershed · March 19, 2013 ·

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* * 1936 Dr. Franz Xavier Mathias Graduale (1 of 3)

VOL (1) : : Adventus, nativitatis, Epiphaniae usque ad Dominicam vi. post Epiphaniam. • Pages 1-139 •

* * 1936 Dr. Franz Xavier Mathias Graduale (2 of 3)

VOL (2) : : A septuagesima usque ad feriam VI. post octavam ascensionis. • Pages 141-355 •

* * 1936 Dr. Franz Xavier Mathias Graduale (3 of 3)

VOL (3) : : A vigilia Pentecostes usque ad Dominicam ultimam post Pentecosten. • Pages 357-490 •

• Organum Comitans ad Proprium de Tempore • quod JUXTA EDITIONEM VATICANAM HARMONICE ORNAVIT Dr. Fr. X. Mathias, Regens seminarii et professor musicae sacrae in academia wilhelma argentinensi • Fr. Xavier Mathias • 1936 Editio Quarta • Ratisbonae : Sumptibus Friderici Pustet •

A quote from Fr. Valentine

Speaking of “nihil solliciti estis,” Fr. Valentine recently said: “I’ll bet that most people, including myself, have suffered more from things that never happened than from things that actually did happen.” Wise words!

—Jeff Ostrowski

Circle is complete

This is interesting! We have made it all the way around the liturgical year for Vespers organ accompaniments—which means all we have to do now is fill in the “holes,” such as Candlemas.

—Jeff Ostrowski

Fr. Valentine is very sick

I beg you to pray for Fr. Valentine Young, OFM, who I am told is dying (or may possibly have died already). He’s one of the most faithful & generous priests I know. There would be no CCWatershed without Fr. Valentine.

—Jeff Ostrowski

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On 12 March 1908, Feast of St. Gregory the Great, the complete publication of the “Graduale” was issued by the Vatican Press. That very day, Dom Pothier solemnly presented the first copy to the Holy Father. Pius X wished to be the first to see the new book; he opened it at random, at page 128 of the supplement “pro aliquibus locis”—the Introit of the new Feast of Our lady of Lourdes. The Pope sang it with perfect taste to the last note.

— A witness of the papal audience writing circa 1915