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“For Immediate Release” • Re: Society for Catholic Liturgy Conference in Los Angeles

Corpus Christi Watershed · September 22, 2016

HE MOST REVEREND Archbishop José H. Gomez, Monsignor Andrew Wadsworth (ICEL’s Executive Director), Father Andrew Menke (USCCB Secretariat of Divine Worship, Associate Director), and Bishop Elias Zaidan (Maronite Catholic bishop) are just a few of the speakers you’ll hear at the Liturgical Conference coming to Los Angeles from 29 September through 1 October, 2016.

But a change has been made.

The website of Dr. Anthony Lilles (St. John’s Seminary in Camarillo) informs us that Thursday and Friday will still be at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, but Saturday has been moved to USC Caruso Catholic Center (844 West 32nd Street, Los Angeles, CA 90007).

Saturday includes the PLENARY SESSION with Fr. Andrew Menke of the USCCB, who will review the current status of various liturgical projects taken up by the US Bishops.

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Saturday morning at 8:00am, a Solemn High Mass will be offered with Sacred polyphony & Gregorian chant. The priests and choir are from the new Los Angeles Apostolate of the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Peter.

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Surprising Popularity!

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.

—Jeff Ostrowski

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.

—Jeff Ostrowski

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