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Views from the Choir Loft

Breathtaking Images from Poland

Jeff Ostrowski · August 16, 2016

ACK IN 1978, Fr. Joseph Gelineau wrote: “We must say it plainly: the Roman rite as we knew it exists no more. It has gone.” 1 On 28 January 2007, Fr. Reginald Foster—a high-ranking Vatican official for more than 40 years—declared categorically that Pope Benedict XVI would never authorize the traditional rite:

“He is not going to do it. He had trouble with Regensberg, and then trouble in Warsaw, and if he does this, all hell will break loose.” Then Fr. Foster added: “It is a useless Mass and the whole mentality is stupid. The idea of it is that things were better in the old days. It makes the Vatican look medieval.”

Those priests obviously never read Yogi Berra, who once quipped: “It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future.” Consider the following images, kindly sent by a reader. They were taken during a spectacular liturgical conference held in Poland last week:

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To Fr. Gelineau and Fr. Foster, I can only say: “Rumors of the traditional liturgy’s death have been greatly exaggerated.”

By the way, there are more amazing images at this website, and those who can understand Polish will want to visit their splendid homepage.

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I can’t understand Polish, but I’d like to know more about the singers. It seems the music was was sung by Robert Pozharsky, Marcin Bornus-Szczyciński, Konrad Zagajewski, Jan Golaski, Joanna Eagle, Paulina Kukiz, Magdalena Krzywda-Krzysteczko, and Bogumil Kazmierczak.



NOTES FROM THIS ARTICLE:

1   Gelineau said this even though paragraph 50 of Sacrosanctum Concilium declared: “the rite of the Mass is to be revised in such a way that the intrinsic nature…may be more clearly manifested, and that devout and active participation by the faithful may be more easily achieved.”

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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).

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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.

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