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“Simple English Propers” • Error this Sunday?

Jeff Ostrowski · April 27, 2025

Did the good of the Church “genuinely and certainly” require this confusing change in 1970?

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: Dominica in Albis, Low Sunday, Quasi Modo Introit, SEP Simple English Propers CMAA Last Updated: April 28, 2025

Simple English Propers Practice Videos

When all is said and done, we hope to have a complete index of all SEP practice videos.

Simple English Propers: Full PDF Download

Corpus Christi Watershed · May 7, 2014

As a bonus, several handy website links are given!

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: Graduale Romanum Roman Gradual Propers, Simple English Mass Propers Last Updated: January 1, 2020

Simple English Propers Organ Accompaniments

Guest Author · May 3, 2014

Two exciting new volumes in the field of sung propers.

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: Simple English Mass Propers Last Updated: January 1, 2020

Simple English Propers (Divine Mercy Sunday)

Corpus Christi Watershed · April 1, 2013

What would the Simple English Propers sound like harmonized as if they were Chabanel Psalms? That is, according to the principles of the Nova Organi Harmonia?

Filed Under: Articles Last Updated: September 13, 2024

Simple English Choral Propers by Jon Naples

Guest Author · May 29, 2014

Free polyphonic offertories for the Simple English Propers.

Filed Under: Articles Last Updated: January 1, 2020

Sung Propers: Various Simple Settings In English

Corpus Christi Watershed · May 27, 2013

Here’s a comparison of several complete musical settings of the Mass Propers by Fr. Guy Nicholls, Fr. Paul Arbogast, and others.

Filed Under: Articles Last Updated: January 1, 2020

Reader Question • “Extra Verses” for the Propers

Corpus Christi Watershed · December 23, 2024

Jeff Ostrowski answers a reader’s question with nine (9) statements.

Filed Under: Articles, PDF Download Tagged With: 1958 Pope Pius XII, Bugnini ORDO CANTUS MISSAE, Carl Ott Offertory, De musica sacra et sacra liturgia, De Ritibus Servandis, De Ritibus Servandis in Cantu Missae, Extra Verses Communion, Karl Ott Offertory Book, No Communion During High Mass, Offertory as Antiphon, Offertory as Responsory, On the Manner of Distributing Holy Communion, Simple English Mass Propers, Versus ad Communionem Last Updated: December 23, 2024

PDF Download • “Entrance Chant in English” (19th Sunday in Ordinary Time)

Jeff Ostrowski · August 6, 2024

Including twelve (12) different versions!

Filed Under: Articles, Featured, PDF Download Tagged With: Chaumonot Entrance Chant Collection, Entrance Chant from Roman Gradual, Missal Propers Vs Roman Gradual, Rev Fr Adrian Fortescue Liturgy, Sung Vs Spoken Propers Novus Ordo Last Updated: August 6, 2024

Reminder • “Lalemant Propers” (392 Pages)

Jeff Ostrowski · July 31, 2024

You can purchase this book in hard-copy, but many prefer to download the PDF file.

Filed Under: PDF Download, President's Corner Last Updated: July 31, 2024

PDF Download • “Mass Propers For Sundays And Holydays Set To Simple Melodies” (429 pages)

Jeff Ostrowski · January 19, 2021

In 1947, this book was given a double “Imprimatur” by Cardinal Spellman, Archbishop of New York.

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Filed Under: Articles, PDF Download Tagged With: Augustus Edmonds Tozer Last Updated: January 22, 2021

PDF Download • Rare 1970 Document Explains “Spoken vs. Sung Propers”

Andrea Leal · October 29, 2020

This is perhaps the single most significant liturgical document CCWatershed has ever unearthed—and translated to English! • Explains the origin of “Gradual Antiphons” vs. “Missal Antiphons” (a.k.a. “Sacramentary Antiphons”)+

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Filed Under: Articles, Featured, PDF Download Tagged With: Father Adalbert Franquesa Garrós, Graduale Romanum Roman Gradual Propers, Sung Vs Spoken Propers Novus Ordo Last Updated: November 6, 2024

Indispensable & Accessible: Fr. Samuel F. Weber Propers in English

Richard J. Clark · October 16, 2020

Indispensable and accessible: these antiphons possess sublime elegance that grace the Novus Ordo Mass with simple, yet proper reverence and solemnity.

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Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: Graduale Romanum Roman Gradual Propers, Propers Ignatius Press by Fr Samuel Weber, THE ADALBERT PROPERS Last Updated: January 18, 2025

“Spoken vs. Sung Propers” • The Complete History

Jeff Ostrowski · October 2, 2020

Lies containing a little truth are the most difficult to quash • Here is the definitive, final exposé on why the “Spoken Propers” don’t match the “Sung Propers.” • In October of 1972, the Bishops’ Committee on the Liturgy falsely equated the “Spoken Propers” with the “Sung Propers” and proclaimed: “These antiphons are too abrupt for communal recitation” • Several official English translations of the Roman Gradual have received the imprimatur multiple times+

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Filed Under: Articles, Featured Tagged With: Graduale Romanum Roman Gradual Propers, Sung Vs Spoken Propers Novus Ordo, THE ADALBERT PROPERS Last Updated: January 18, 2025

“Secret Book of Happiness” • Official English Translations of the Roman Gradual

Jeff Ostrowski · August 21, 2020

Overkill: “ too much of something; the amount by which destruction exceeds what is necessary.”

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Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: Graduale Romanum Roman Gradual Propers, Missal Antiphons Dont Match Roman Gradual, Sung Vs Spoken Propers Novus Ordo Last Updated: August 21, 2020

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    “Music List” • 15th in Ordinary Time (Year C)
    Some have expressed interest in perusing the ORDER OF MUSIC I prepared for the 15th Sunday in Ordinary Time (13 July 2025). If such a thing interests you, feel free to download it as a PDF file. As always, the Responsorial Psalm, Gospel Acclamation, and propers for this Sunday are also provided at the the feasts website.
    —Jeff Ostrowski
    15th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year C)
    This coming Sunday—13 July 2025—is the 15th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year C). All the chants have been conveniently assembled and posted at the feasts website. The OFFERTORY, Ad Te Levávi, is particularly beautiful.
    —Jeff Ostrowski
    Music Director Job • $80,000 per year
    Our readers will be interested in this job offering for Music Director at Saint Adalbert’s Basilica, located 40 minutes from where I live. My pastor was recently elevated to this basilica. He is offering $80,000 per year, plus benefits. I’m told Saint Adalbert’s Basilica is utterly gorgeous and contains one of America’s most magnificent pipe organs. It would be fantastic to have a colleague nearby!
    —Jeff Ostrowski

Quick Thoughts

    Pope Pius XII Hymnal?
    Have you ever heard of the Pope Pius XII Hymnal? It’s a real book, published in the United States in 1959. Here’s a sample page so you can verify with your own eyes it existed.
    —Corpus Christi Watershed
    “Hybrid” Chant Notation?
    Over the years, many have tried to ‘simplify’ plainsong notation. The O’Fallon Propers attempted to simplify the notation—but ended up making matters worse. Dr. Karl Weinmann tried to do the same in the time of Pope Saint Pius X by replacing each porrectus. You can examine a specimen from his edition and see whether you agree he complicated matters. In particular, look at what he did with éxsules fílii Hévae.
    —Corpus Christi Watershed
    Antiphons Don’t Match?
    A reader wants to know why the Entrance and Communion antiphons in certain publications deviate from what’s prescribed by the GRADUALE ROMANUM published after Vatican II. Click here to read our answer. The short answer is: the Adalbert Propers were never intended to be sung. They were intended for private Masses only (or Masses without music). The “Graduale Parvum,” published by the John Henry Newman Institute of Liturgical Music in 2023, mostly uses the Adalbert Propers—but sometimes uses the GRADUALE text: e.g. Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul (29 June).
    —Corpus Christi Watershed

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