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Archives for June 2014

Dr. Peter Kwasniewski · June 12, 2014

Art as Affirmation and Sacrifice

True art affirms the Catholic Faith—and represents a spiritual sacrifice pleasing and acceptable to the Lord.

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Jeff Ostrowski · June 12, 2014

Newly-Ordained Priest Murdered in Phoenix

Fr. Joseph Terra, FSSP, was also seriously wounded in this burglary-turned-murder.

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Jeff Ostrowski · June 12, 2014

Antiphons in the Gradual don’t match the Roman Missal, 3rd edition?

Why aren’t the Propers from the Roman Gradual identical to the Mass Propers printed in the Roman Missal? • “Recent research … has made it clear that the antiphons of the Order of Mass were never intended to be sung.” — Bishop Donald Trautman (2007)+

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Guest Author · June 11, 2014

Review • Saint Isaac Jogues Illuminated Missal, Lectionary, & Gradual

“This publication is sorely needed to help reignite a Catholic imagination.” — Christine Sarti

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Kevin Allen · June 11, 2014

Kevin Allen • “Recovering the Sacred”

Kevin Allen will be presenting a beautiful conference in Malaysia.

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Aurelio Porfiri · June 10, 2014

On the Issue of Participation

Have you ever experienced “participationism” ?

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Jeff Ostrowski · June 9, 2014

Is There Truly “Versus Populum” Celebration? Vatican Says No.

Can AD ORIENTEM be excluded from the Novus Ordo? Vatican says: “Negatively, and in accordance with the following explanation.”

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Jeff Ostrowski · June 9, 2014

The Famous “Agatha Christie” Indult

“If some senseless decree were to order the total or partial destruction of basilicas or cathedrals, then
obviously it would be the educated — whatever their personal beliefs — who would rise up in horror to oppose such a possibility.”

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Guest Author · June 9, 2014

Homily: Pentecost

A Homily by Fr. Valentine Young, OFM.

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Fr. David Friel · June 8, 2014

Pentecost: Babel, Tongues, & Latin

Do churchgoers of my generation—who, largely, have no experience of Latin in the liturgy at all—even recognize the gift that has been lost?

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Veronica Brandt · June 7, 2014

Teaching kids to Pray the Mass

Inspiration for enkindling a love of the Mass in the next generation from a booklet over 50 years old.

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Richard J. Clark · June 6, 2014

Rebellion in the Liturgy

Here is a truth of human nature: When we can’t have something we want it. When something is forced upon us, we often reject it.

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Dr. Peter Kwasniewski · June 5, 2014

What the Ordinary Form Could Be: The Vienna Oratory

Have you ever wondered what a Novus Ordo High Mass might look like? Read on…

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Jeff Ostrowski · June 5, 2014

Video • Pius XII Speaking Fantastic English To Troops Who Liberated Rome!

His Holiness mentions St. Thomas More, St. John Fisher, and others.

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Jeff Ostrowski · June 4, 2014

Can You Name These Five Hymns?

Speak now, or forever hold your peace!

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President’s Corner

    “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
    PDF Download • “Rubric Challenge”
    The feast of Corpus Christi is special for TLM altar boys. On that day, two of us thurifers got to walk backwards while using the THURIBLE. (That American custom, if memory serves, is not strictly described in the rubrics.) A few weeks ago on the CCW Facebook Page we posted this screenshot from a 1915 Roman Catholic hymnal. The challenge is to guess what the rubric says, which we blocked from view with a red box. So far, nobody has guessed correctly. Feel free to guess! Our email address is listed at the bottom of each page. UPDATE: The answer has been revealed as of 8 June 2026.
    —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

“Prohibiting or suspecting the extraordinary form can only be inspired by the demon who desires our suffocation and spiritual death.”

— Robert Cardinal Sarah (23-sep-2019), chosen by Pope Francis to be the Vatican’s chief liturgist

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