Update • Saint Edmund Campion Missal

Update • Saint Edmund Campion Missal

Searching for the Saint Edmund Campion Missal? Read this letter.

The 3rd edition of the Campion Missal will include, as an option, the Pre-1955 Holy Week (with a fabulous & rare translation into English) as well as the new Prefaces and Feasts added (as options) by the CDW on 22 February 2020.

The 3rd edition won’t include hymnody, since it would be imprudent to challenge the new Saint Jean de Brébeuf Hymnal, recently declared by the New Liturgical Movement to be “hands down, the best Catholic hymnal ever published.”

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* Click Here to learn about the Brébeuf Hymnal
—Pew Edition, Choral Supplement, Organ Accompaniment, and more!

Additional Information Re: Brébeuf Hymnal

* Instructional Video • YOUTUBE
(“Using the Brébeuf Index Correctly”)

* PDF Download • SEASONAL INDEX
(For personal use, uploaded by Veronica Moreno)

* PDF Download • COMPLETE INDICES
(Material from the Saint Jean de Brébeuf Hymnal)

* CCWatershed Article • ORGAN ACCOMP.
(Additional info Re: the Organ Accompaniment volumes)

* PDF Download • ADDITIONAL ARTICLES
(Ten articles about the Saint Jean de Brébeuf Hymnal)

* PDF Download • EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
(Salient points about this hymnal on a single sheet)

* PDF Download • TESTIMONIALS
(Read what the experts have to say about this new Catholic hymn book.)

You can visit the for the (archive) website Second Edition of the Edmund Campion Missal.

PDF Download • Vespers for the Dead

Mr. Albert Bloomfield kindly sent me “Vespers for the Dead”—which does not fulfill a priest’s obligation to pray the Divine Office, yet is often prayed when a loved one dies. Here is formatting A, and here it is again with formatting B.

—Jeff Ostrowski

20 October 2020 • “What we can’t share”

Almighty God has given to us the example of the Jesuit Martyrs of North America, whose feast day we celebrated yesterday. Of course, along with those eight martyrs we honor their associates, e.g Father François Bressani. I can’t share with you the torments Father Bressani underwent at the hands of Iroquois: it is too brutal. It would tear your heart out. But I will share what Bressani’s Superior said, after receiving a letter from him: “The letter is soiled and ill-written; because the writer has only one finger left on his right hand, and cannot prevent the blood from his wounds—which are still open—from staining the paper. His ink is gunpowder mixed with water, and his table is the earth.” If you have the stomach for it, read what Father Bressani (d. 1672) underwent for Jesus Christ. Let his example help us never fall into sins of impurity, avarice, ingratitude, or envy.

—Jeff Ostrowski

13 October 2020 • Chopin talks Bach

My “pianist pedigree” goes from my teacher through Wiktor Łabuński through Felix Blumenfeld, who studied with Anton Rubinstein. I always considered myself part of the “Bach-Mozart-Chopin school” as opposed to the “Handel-Beethoven-Liszt school.” (Needless to say, there’s great overlap between these schools.) Before giving a concert, Frédéric Chopin would always shut himself up in a room and play through Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier. The year Chopin died, he spent considerable time with the painter, Eugène Delacroix (d. 1863), who recounts hearing Chopin launch into a monologue on the transcendence of J.S. Bach, insisting that “the fugue is like pure logic in music,” and that “to know fugue deeply is to be acquainted with the element of all reason and all consistency in music.”

—Jeff Ostrowski