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Musical Resources • Holy Thursday (1962 Missal)

Jeff Ostrowski · March 24, 2016

Everything must be done according to the RUBRICS of Pius XII 1955 Holy Week.

RESPONSES FOR HIGH MASS

PDF Score (Singer) • printed on a single sheet

INTROIT • Sung during the procession

PDF Score (Singer) • Practice Audio (Singer)

KYRIE ELEISON

The new “Kyrie” is #3661 and #3579 and is mixed with this score.

GLORIA IN EXCELSIS

Today the organ is played only at this moment—and we sing #3610.

GRADUAL

PDF Score (Singer) • Practice Audio (Singer)

CREDO

No Credo on Holy Thursday.

WASHING OF THE FEET

Antiphon III

PDF Score (Singer) • Video

CONCLUSION • WASHING OF THE FEET

PDF for Singers & Celebrant

OFFERTORY ANTIPHON

PDF Score (Singer)

OFFERTORY HYMN

Palestrina: REFRAIN and also the VERSES

SANCTUS & HOSANNA

We have been singing the “Hosanna” section from #3496

AGNUS DEI

Today, the response each time is: miserere nobis.

The current setting lacks rehearsal videos.

Please be learning #3379.

COMMUNION ANTIPHON

PDF Score (Singer) • Practice Audio (Singer)

Extra Verses for soloist

COMMUNION POLYPHONY

“Jesu Dulcis Memoria” is number #4428.

With added verses.

PROCESSIONAL HYMN — Pange Lingua • starting pitch = E

#178 in Campion Missal

PDF Score (Singer) • YouTube

PRAYER WITH THE CHOIR (taken from the CAMPION HYMNAL) :

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About Jeff Ostrowski

Jeff Ostrowski holds his B.M. in Music Theory from the University of Kansas (2004). He resides with his wife and children in Los Angeles.—(Read full biography).

List • Responses by each bishop!

This incredible website gives each bishop’s response to the recent MOTU PROPRIO Traditionis Custodes, a decree by Pope Francis which seeks to reduce the number of celebrations of the “Extraordinary Form” (Traditional Latin Mass): traditioniscustodes.info

—Jeff Ostrowski

Tomorrow is Sunday…

When you were in school, you would have gotten in trouble if you wrote the Roman Numeral “9” as viiii. You were supposed to write: IX. But look how an ancient manuscript writes “9” as a Roman Numeral. That’s the Introit Ecce Deus for tomorrow’s feast in the Extraordinary Form: The 9th Sunday after Pentecost.

—Jeff Ostrowski

24 July 2021 • “Two Teams”

Anyone familiar with the so-called “Traditionalist Catholic” movement knows that (like every other group) it contains some bad apples. Anyone can self-identify as a “Traditionalist Catholic”—even those who are mentally ill, those who beat their wives, and even folks who are emotionally disturbed. All of us know TLM Catholics who are so arrogant they make Narcissus look like the most humble guy who ever lived. However, I believe Traditionis Custodes will exacerbate the situation. Under B16, we were “all on the same team.” But this new decree by Pope Francis makes it seem like there are two opposing “teams” in the Church.

—Jeff Ostrowski

“From six in the evening, his martyrdom had continued through the ghastly night until nine o’clock in the morning. After fifteen hours of torture rarely if ever surpassed in the bloody annals of the Iroquois, the soul of Gabriel Lalemant was freed from its charred and mutilated prison and summoned to join his comrade Jean de Brébeuf in the radiant splendor of God. March 17th, 1649, was the date; for Brébeuf it had been the sixteenth.”

— ‘Fr. John A. O’Brien, speaking of St. Gabriel Lalemant’