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PDF Download • SAB Setting of “Jesu Rex Admirabilis”

Guest Author · September 9, 2015

316 Rick Wheeler Church O MANY OPINIONS, so many choices; how does one format a Liturgy with so much music available? Well, in Littleton, Colorado, we have a pre-set format when it comes to chant—the Liber Usualis—and the rest is determined by a simple formula. That being said, Our Lady of Mount Carmel’s website/choir page is not a blog, but a place where soon all copyright-free music scores that the church offers (and we can edit for electronic transfer) will be available for musicians to download and use. I wanted to make sure word got out, and thanks to CCW that’s going to happen.

Before I go any further, here’s a brief sample of what Sacred music is like at our Colorado parish. As a bonus, you get a wonderful Palestrina score for SOPRANO-ALTO-BARITONE that might come in handy!

    * *  Mp3 Audio • “Jesu Rex Admirabilis”

    * *  PDF Download • “Jesu Rex Admirabilis”

I’m so very appreciative of the plethora of great traditional blogs that are online now. Some are quite radical, but many are helpful and show a great spirit of unification (real charity) in the church regarding not only in the EF but also in the post-conciliar Masses. I’d like also to offer my thanks to CCW for the great articles and blogs offered there. Many churches now resound with music due to the dedication of bloggers and musicians, all helping the faithful to raise their souls to God and Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament. Now, what that means is being faithful to rules regarding music for the Liturgy and there is where disagreement seems to begin.

There are lots of ideas online regarding what it takes to restore sacred music and I’ve found a great deal of those opinions helpful in planning any given Sunday. Our Lady of Mount Carmel decided to go with a very simple focus. Under the patient and holy direction of Fr. James Jackson we decided that a percentage focus on Chant/Polyphony/Hymns was necessary. Since the processional and recessional was sufficient to cover the hymns portion of the liturgy, we usually leave the hymnody to that place. Our Schola Cantorum sings the Gregorian Propers every Sunday unless there are polyphonic Propers that are part of the Mass of the day. Our Parish is supported by the wonderful priests of the Fraternity of St. Peter which means we get to have the EF Mass all the time and use the Liber Usualis for our calendar. During Holy Week we have full Gregorian Tenebrae in addition to the liturgies of Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, and Holy Saturday Vigil. Soon, we’ll be adding the Matins of Christmas. Recently we’ve acquired the rare and beautiful chants for that ceremony, and will soon post those for anyone to use. The treasures of the church are to be shared—we at OLMC firmly believe that—and so all our music editings are completely copyright-free, with only a Creative Commons request at the bottom. We have even had polyphony written for us in the late Renaissance style, and a CD of the live recording will be ready soon.

Here’s the choir of Our Lady of Mount Carmel singing an Ave Maria setting by Parsons:


So, chant 70% of the time, polyphony 20-25% of the time, and hymns at the ends and possibly 5% of the time during Mass. As the Second Vatican Council has asked…. chant (primacy of place) then/polyphony/hymns as commanded by Pope Pius XII and many other popes.

Our Lady of Mount Carmel is located at:

5612 S. Hickory Street
Littleton, CO 80120


We hope you enjoyed this guest article by Rick Wheeler.

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    “Music List” • 5th Sunday of Easter (Year C)
    Some have expressed interest in perusing the ORDER OF MUSIC I prepared for the 5th Sunday of Easter (18 May 2025). If such a thing interests you, feel free to download it as a PDF file. The Communion Antiphon was ‘restored’ the 1970 Missale Romanum (a.k.a. MISSALE RECENS) from an obscure martyr’s feast. Our choir is on break this Sunday, so the selections are relatively simple in nature.
    —Jeff Ostrowski
    Communion Chant (5th Sunday of Easter)
    This coming Sunday—18 May 2025—is the 5th Sunday of Easter, Year C (MISSALE RECENS). The COMMUNION ANTIPHON “Ego Sum Vitis Vera” assigned by the Church is rather interesting, because it comes from a rare martyr’s feast: viz. Saint Vitalis of Milan. It was never part of the EDITIO VATICANA, which is the still the Church’s official edition. As a result, the musical notation had to be printed in the Ordo Cantus Missae, which appeared in 1970.
    —Jeff Ostrowski
    “Music List” • 4th Sunday of Easter (Year C)
    Some have expressed interest in perusing the ORDER OF MUSIC I prepared for the 4th Sunday of Easter (11 May 2025). If such a thing interests you, feel free to download it as a PDF file. I don’t know a more gorgeous ENTRANCE CHANT than the one given there: Misericórdia Dómini Plena Est Terra.
    —Jeff Ostrowski

Quick Thoughts

    Antiphons Don’t Match?
    A reader wants to know why the Entrance and Communion antiphons in certain publications deviate from what’s prescribed by the GRADUALE ROMANUM published after Vatican II. Click here to read our answer. The short answer is: the Adalbert Propers were never intended to be sung. They were intended for private Masses only (or Masses without music). The “Graduale Parvum,” published by the John Henry Newman Institute of Liturgical Music in 2023, mostly uses the Adalbert Propers—but sometimes uses the GRADUALE text: e.g. Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul (29 June).
    —Corpus Christi Watershed
    When to Sit, Stand and Kneel like it’s 1962
    There are lots of different guides to postures for Mass, but I couldn’t find one which matched our local Latin Mass, so I made this one: sit-stand-kneel-crop
    —Veronica Brandt
    The Funeral Rites of the Graduale Romanum
    Lately I have been paging through the 1974 Graduale Romanum (see p. 678 ff.) and have been fascinated by the funeral rites found therein, especially the simply-beautiful Psalmody that is appointed for all the different occasions before and after the funeral Mass: at the vigil/wake, at the house of the deceased, processing to the church, at the church, processing to the cemetery, and at the cemetery. Would that this “stational Psalmody” of the Novus Ordo funeral rites saw wider usage! If you or anyone you know have ever used it, please do let me know.
    —Daniel Tucker

Random Quote

I am convinced that if the Church is to prosper in the present age, it cannot hesitate to embrace and support traditional Catholics, traditional liturgies and traditional moral values. “Do not conform yourself to this age,” St. Paul warned followers of Christ. (Rom 12:2)

— Most Rev. Thomas Tobin, Bishop of Providence (12 August 2022)

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