Solemn High Christmas Midnight Mass • Hollywood

Jeff Ostrowski · December 18, 2014 ·

ELP SPREAD exciting news! On the night of Christmas Eve—that is, early Christmas morning—a Solemn Mass with Deacon & Subdeacon will take place at midnight in Hollywood.

The Celebrant will be Fr. James Fryar, FSSP, who is in the process of establishing a Los Angeles Apostolate of the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Peter.

CHRISTMAS MIDNIGHT MASS • 2014
Solemn Mass with Deacon & Subdeacon
Saint Victor Church
8634 Holloway Drive
West Hollywood, CA 90069

Please come and support this effort (FSSP.la) at its inception!

Thank you so much!

About Jeff Ostrowski

A theorist, organist, and conductor, Jeff Ostrowski holds his B.M. in Music Theory from the University of Kansas (2004), and did graduate work in Musicology. He serves as choirmaster for the new FSSP parish in Los Angeles, where he resides with his wife and children.

“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

“Theoricam practicamque”

In a book printed by Solesmes Abbey in 1902, “Kyrie Rex Genitor” is also called Theoricam practicamque. Can anyone explain why?

And how does that translate into English? “Theoricam practicamque vitam regens Deus Pater.”

—Jeff Ostrowski

Discussion on Facebook