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“Hymn To Saint Joseph” • (Rec. 4/2/2022)

Jeff Ostrowski · April 2, 2022

ERE IT NOT for the “shared tunes” in the Brébeuf hymnal, I would have most likely died from a heart attack by now. I don’t need to explain to our readers the enormous difficulties of our vocation. As Father Skeris used to say: “The life of a choirmaster is a life of sacrifice.” And May 1st is a typical example, because this year “Good Shepherd Sunday” is replaced (in the EF) by the feast of Saint Joseph the Worker. Where can one find hymns to Saint Joseph the choir knows? Well, the Brébeuf has several excellent hymns to Saint Joseph. And since my choir has already been singing #220 during Lent, they already know #790 because it’s a “shared tune” as you can see:

Rehearsal videos for each individual voice await you at #790.

The full hymn—#790 in the Brébeuf hymnal—is twelve (12) verses long, and some of the verses relate Saint Joseph to the SANCTISSIMUM:

5. His ancient namesake to prepare
against the famine wisely strove
and, precious grain preserved in trove,
he thus provided saving fare.

6. The later Joseph kept the bread,
the manna true, divinely sent,
whose living flesh is nourishment
to those he rescues from the dead.

The rhyme scheme is one favored by poets such as Ronald Knox: it’s in ABBA.

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Filed Under: Articles, Featured Tagged With: Saint Joseph The Worker, The Catholic Hymnal Last Updated: April 2, 2022

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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).

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    Vespers Booklet (4th Sunday of Lent)
    The organ accompaniment booklet (24 pages) which I created for the 4th Sunday of Lent (“Lætare Sunday”) may now be downloaded, for those who desire such a thing.
    —Jeff Ostrowski
    Vespers Booklet, 3rd Sunday of Lent
    The organ accompaniment I created for the 3rd Sunday of Lent (“Extraordinary Form”) may now be downloaded, if anyone is interested in this.
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    Weeping For Joy! (We Hope!)
    Listening to this Easter Alleluia—an SATB arrangement I made twenty years ago based on the work of Monsignor Jules Van Nuffel—one of our readers left this comment: “I get tears in my eyes each time I sing to this hymn.” I hope this person is weeping for joy!
    —Jeff Ostrowski

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“There are no hymns, in this sense, till the fourth century; they were not admitted to the Roman office till the twelfth. No Eastern rite to this day knows this kind of hymn. Indeed, in our Roman rite we still have the archaic offices of the last days of Holy Week and of the Easter octave, which—just because they are archaic—have no hymns.”

— Adrian Fortescue (25 March 1916)

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