PDF Download • Communion for Sunday
Such a shame it only comes every three years…
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Archives for April 2026
“Translating the Bible” • Msgr. Ronald Knox (1953)
There’s no question Knox sometimes enjoyed “pushing the envelope” or stepping outside the box.
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Season’s End Repertoire
I’m trailing the timeline and need to close the distance.
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PDF Download • “Funeral Procession”
Funeral Procession drawn by Simon Bening, a mediæval artist who died in 1561.
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Re: The “Correct” Way To Sing Gregorian Chant
A choir member’s visit to find Dom Pothier in Normandy’s Abbaye Saint-Wandrille de Fontenelle. She finds beauty and peace.
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PDF Download • Ascension “Entrance Chant”
More than once, Father Valentine told me: “When I sing this beautiful Introit, I can almost see the apostles standing there.”
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Every Artist Needs a Refuge
Every artist must enter into the interior life. In doing so one becomes a finer musician and a better servant of God and of each other.
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Simplified Accomp. • Schubert’s “Ave Maria.”
A simplified keyboard accompaniment for Franz Schubert’s “Ave Maria.”
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“The Unselected Hymn” • Do You Recognize It?
I fought for this one—but lost the battle.
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2026 Sacred Music Pilgrimage (Washington DC) • With Richard J. Clark
This choir pilgrimage is more than a trip—it is a sacred journey.
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“Reminder” — Month of April (2026)
Since a new month has arrived, it’s my pleasure to remind you that…
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“Gregorian Chant Isn’t a Platform for Your Personal Theories, Jeff” • (A Letter We Received)
“My desire, Leroy, is to answer your question in a rigorously straightforward way.” —Jeff Ostrowski
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Request From Australia
“This is an exquisite setting and I know my singers would very much enjoy singing it.” —Mary
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PDF Download • “Anima Christi”
I received a request for this organ accompaniment…
PDF Download • “Rarer Than a Blue Moon” — Side-by-Side English Translation (Pius XII Psalter)
Very Rev’d Father Charles J. Callan called it “the most recent critical edition of the Hebrew Massoretic text.”
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