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Archives for November 2013

Cynthia Ostrowski · November 12, 2013

Catholic Line Art, Black and White • Installment #41

I will be releasing hundreds of these B/W religious line art drawings for free and instant download. These beautiful Catholic “woodcuts” were done with magnificent skill. “Download Free Traditional Catholic Clipart”

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Corpus Christi Watershed · November 12, 2013

Cardinals Who Don’t Know Latin

This short video talks about Cardinals who didn’t understand the Pope’s resignation speech.

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Jeff Ostrowski · November 11, 2013

The Archer Loves The Arrow And The Bow

If you tend to cry a lot, don’t read this poem.

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Veronica Brandt · November 11, 2013

Funerals and Last Things

Having stable, familiar, unchanging plans in place can be very reassuring, rather than the pressure to be original and creative.

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Corpus Christi Watershed · November 11, 2013

Two Upcoming Lectures on Sacred Art

The Beauty of the Liturgical Year: Advent

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Jeff Ostrowski · November 11, 2013

When Rome Gets It Wrong

“Many a pope has gone through his entire pontificate without making a single infallible statement.” — Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen

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Corpus Christi Watershed · November 9, 2013

Liturgica Website Reprints “Rituale Romanum”

“All illustrations were painstakingly edited and partly redrawn.”

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Dr. Peter Kwasniewski · November 7, 2013

The Fear of the Lord

Do we rightly fear the Lord?

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Gwyneth Holston · November 7, 2013

Feast of St. Cecilia – November 22nd

One of the Most Venerated Martyrs from Christian Antiquity

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Corpus Christi Watershed · November 7, 2013

Now Available! Online Latin Lectionary For Masses In The Ordinary Form

Sometimes “seeing is believing.”

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Andrew R. Motyka · November 6, 2013

Juggling Holy Days of Obligation

How the peculiarities of the calendar affect Immaculate Conception this year.

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Jeff Ostrowski · November 6, 2013

“For the kingdom, the power and the glory are yours”

A mystery! The 1970s ICEL seems not to have included these words, even though they were in the official Latin …

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Corpus Christi Watershed · November 6, 2013

Jesuit Martyrs of North America by John A. O’Brien

A free PDF download of this entire book is provided, courtesy of the St. Jean de Lalande Library of Rare Books.

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Jeff Ostrowski · November 5, 2013

What’s So Great About The Mass Propers?

“If the world is progressing intellectually, should not the existence of God have been defined in the 1st century and the nature of the Trinity in the 19th?” — Fulton J. Sheen

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Jeff Ostrowski · November 5, 2013

Black Vestments & Wisdom From Wives

Following the Second Vatican Council, black vestments aren’t usually worn because they’re considered too “spooky and scary.”

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    “Hidden Chant” • For the Ordinary Form

    Not even “GregoBase”—which is incredibly comprehensive—knows that music for this antiphon was published by the Vatican in the 1930s.

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    —Jeff Ostrowski
    “Citation Needed” • Dom Foote of ICEL
    Father Basil Foote, OSB, was organist at WESTMINSTER ABBEY MISSION (British Columbia, Canada). In 1984 he published an article called “Chanting in the Vernacular.” Twenty years later, it was republished by ADOREMUS—and that’s how it came to my attention. In that article, Dom Foote makes a claim I consider somewhat outlandish. At the very least, his statement with regard to the Latin accent needs some sort of citation. He has served on the Music Sub-Committee of the International Commission on English in the Liturgy (ICEL).
    —Jeff Ostrowski
    Music List • “Corpus Christi” (Year A)

    The 28-page Singers’ Booklet is included. Our children’s choir will join us for this Mass.

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    —Jeff Ostrowski

Quick Thoughts

    Time and Again We Are Asked…
    John Baptist Singenberger (d. 1924) was a central figure of Catholic Church music. In this utterly fascinating excerpt (Single-Page PDF), Singenberger writes: Time and again we are asked: “Is the Gregorian chant to be accompanied by the organ?” As a young student in Saint Gall, Singenberger befriended SEBASTIAN GEBHARD MESSMER, the future Archbishop of Milwaukee (Wisconsin). The two graduated together in 1861. The school they attended (Saint George’s Seminary) was a “seminary”—but in the older European sense. In other words, it provided a classical education without necessarily leading to ordination. Singenberger remained a layman his whole life, but Messmer was eventually made archbishop—by Pope Saint Pius X—of the very archdiocese in Wisconsin where Singenberger would spend his American career, giving him a powerful ecclesiastical ally.
    —Jeff Ostrowski
    “Reminder” — Month of June (2026)
    On a daily basis, I speak to people who don’t realize we publish a free newsletter (although they’ve followed our blog for years). Since we were founded in 2006, not one of our board members has ever accepted any remuneration whatsoever—not a penny. We have no endowment, no major donors, no savings, and refuse to run annoying ads. As a result, our mailing list is crucial to our survival. It couldn’t be easier to subscribe! Just scroll to the bottom of any blog article and enter your email address.
    —Jeff Ostrowski
    “Thee” + “Thou” + “Thine”
    Few musicians realize that various English translations of Sacred Scripture were granted formal approval by the USCCB and the Vatican for liturgical use in the United States of America. But don’t take my word for it! Here are four documents proving this, which you can examine with your own eyes. Some believe the words “Thine” and “Thou” and “Thee” were forbidden after Vatican II—but that’s incorrect. For example, they’re found in the English translation of the ‘Our Father’ at Mass. Moreover, the Revised Standard Version (Catholic Edition) mentioned in those four documents employs “Thine” and “Thou” and “Thee.” It was published with a FOREWORD by Westminster’s Roman Catholic Archbishop (John Cardinal Heenan).
    —Jeff Ostrowski

Random Quote

Jeffrey Tucker: “What are your thoughts on what passes for sacred music in most Catholic parishes today?” Richard Morris: “There’s nothing sacred about it. The tunes, rhythms, and messages are drawn mainly from secular culture. When it isn’t aesthetically repugnant and downright offensive to the Faith, it is utterly forgettable.”

— James Richard Morris (concert organist)

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