Major Typo • This Sunday’s Introit

Jeff Ostrowski · July 31, 2017 ·

A SUPREMELY IMPORTANT BOOK—which until today I considered flawless—contains a major typo in the Introit for the Feast of the Transfiguration. Here is the Editio Vaticana (1908) which remains the Church’s official chant book, even in the Ordinary Form:

Can you spot which edition has a major error?

The 1953 Schwann edition has:

Fr. Weinmann’s 1909 version of the Editio Vaticana has:

My favorite book—“Mass & Vespers” (1957) by Solesmes—has:

The 1961 Solesmes Graduale Romanum has:

The Liber Usualis has:

If you need help, visit St. René Goupil and download the Introit for the Transfiguration.

About Jeff Ostrowski

A theorist, organist, and conductor, Jeff Ostrowski holds his B.M. in Music Theory from the University of Kansas (2004), and did graduate work in Musicology. He serves as choirmaster for the new FSSP parish in Los Angeles, where he resides with his wife and children.

A quote from Fr. Valentine

Speaking of “nihil solliciti estis,” Fr. Valentine recently said: “I’ll bet that most people, including myself, have suffered more from things that never happened than from things that actually did happen.” Wise words!

—Jeff Ostrowski

Circle is complete

This is interesting! We have made it all the way around the liturgical year for Vespers organ accompaniments—which means all we have to do now is fill in the “holes,” such as Candlemas.

—Jeff Ostrowski

Fr. Valentine is very sick

I beg you to pray for Fr. Valentine Young, OFM, who I am told is dying (or may possibly have died already). He’s one of the most faithful & generous priests I know. There would be no CCWatershed without Fr. Valentine.

—Jeff Ostrowski

Discussion on Facebook