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My New Assignment—Part 2

Andrew Leung · October 15, 2015

CTL Good Pastor FEW WEEKS AGO, I posted about my new assignment. Well, I made it to Ohio and I am now serving Blessed Sacrament Parish in Wintersville, OH. The bishop assigned me to this parish so I will have some pastoral experience before I enter the seminary next fall. I am very blessed to be able to serve and live at this parish! There are three priests-in-residence here, and all three of them are musicians. My pastor, who is also the Vicar General of the diocese, is a Monsignor who plays the organ. The Parochial Vicar, who is also the Vocation Director, plays the guitar and saxophone. The third priest, who is retired and my spiritual director, was an organist and he says the Traditional Latin Mass privately almost everyday. And the congregation here sings out loud for the hymns. I really thank God for sending me here!

My new duties are very different from the ones I had as a music director. I am still involving in music, just not as focus as a full-time musician. I was also asked to serve as an acolyte at Masses. I am teaching a Religious Education class for some children in Steubenville and helping with the parish RCIA program. My other duties include visiting the sick and bringing them communion. I am also serving the poor through the Society of St. Vincent de Paul.

I have been enjoying these new ministries that I am involve in. They are all important parts of the life of a priest. The picture above is my former pastor at St. Pius X, Fr. Randy Mattox, and me. It is impossible to have good Sacred Music without the support of wonderful priests. One of the things I learned this past year was to maintain good relationships with pastors. Communicate with them on the Liturgy and the music. The collaboration between priests, musicians and liturgists is necessary for the Reformation of the Roman Liturgy. Please keep praying for me as I continue on my formation.

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About Andrew Leung

Andrew Leung currently serves the music director of Vox Antiqua, conductor of the Cecilian Singers, and music director at Our Lady of China Church.—(Read full biography).

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One of our most popular downloads has proven to be the organ accompaniment to “The Monastery Hymnal” (131 pages). This book was compiled, arranged, and edited by Achille P. Bragers, who studied at the Lemmensinstituut (Belgium) about thirty years before that school produced the NOH. Bragers might be considered an example of Belgium “Stile Antico” whereas Flor Peeters and Jules Van Nuffel represented Belgium “Prima Pratica.” You can download the hymnal by Bragers at this link.

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15 February 2021 • To Capitalize…?

In the Introit for the 6th Sunday after Pentecost, there is a question regarding whether to capitalize the word “christi.” The Vulgata does not, because Psalm 27 is not specifically referring to Our Lord, but rather to God’s “anointed one.” However, Missals tend to capitalize it, such as the official 1962 Missal and also a book from 1777 called Missel de Paris. Something tells me Monsignor Knox would not capitalize it.

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15 February 2021 • “Sung vs. Spoken”

We have spoken quite a bit about “sung vs. spoken” antiphons. We have also noted that the texts of the Graduale Romanum sometimes don’t match the Missal texts (in the Extraordinary Form) because the Mass Propers are older than Saint Jerome’s Vulgate, and sometimes came from the ITALA versions of Sacred Scripture. On occasion, the Missal itself doesn’t match the Vulgate—cf. the Introit “Esto Mihi.” The Vulgate has: “Esto mihi in Deum protectórem et in domum refúgii…” but the Missal and Graduale Romanum use “Esto mihi in Deum protectórem et in locum refúgii…” The 1970s “spoken propers” use the traditional version, as you can see.

—Jeff Ostrowski

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“From the responses received, it is thus clear that by far the greater number of bishops feel that the present discipline [Communion on the tongue and not in the hand] should not be changed at all—indeed, that if it were changed, this would be offensive to the sensibility and spiritual appreciation of these bishops and of most of the faithful.”

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