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Andrea Leal • Article Archive

Andrea Leal is a wife and homeschooling mother of 6 children. She holds a Bachelor's Degree from UC Berkeley in Peace and Conflict Studies, and serves as choir director for the Traditional Latin Mass in Las Vegas.—Read full biography (with photographs).

Andrea Leal · April 2, 2025

“What is the Best Catholic Missal?” • Video Review by Catholic Family News

“I am shocked this isn’t more well known; this is really a spectacular work.” —Catholic Family News

Andrea Leal · October 12, 2024

To Persevere is Sanctity

To be a successful choir director is to sacrifice and to persevere in a nearly insane manner.

Andrea Leal · August 22, 2024

PDF • “Organ Interludes” (Manuals Only) — 104 Pages

Including Dom Gregory Murray, Flor Peeters, Jacques Lemmens, John Lee, C. H. Rinck, Dom Alphege Shebbeare, Oreste Ravanello, Louis Niedermeyer, Eugène Gigout, Luigi Bottazzo, Johann Sebastian Bach, and many others.

Andrea Leal · June 19, 2024

FREE • Sacred Music Symposium Books Available!

These are packed with fascinating historical and musical information!

Andrea Leal · December 29, 2023

Musical Resources • “The Season of Septuagesima”

My three (3) musical lineups include music by Henryk Botor, Kevin Allen, and Father Victoria.

Andrea Leal · December 8, 2023

What Ever Happened to Advent?

Juanpablo Macias, a seminarian studying for the Archdiocese of Las Vegas, enjoys composing, singing, and playing organ for the sacred liturgy.

Andrea Leal · October 11, 2023

It’s Spooky Season! • “Six Ways To Celebrate Halloween Like A Catholic”

“If you knew how quickly people would forget you after your death, you would not seek to please anyone but God during your life.” —Saint John Chrysostom

Andrea Leal · October 6, 2023

“Catholic Herald” Article Features Our Singing!

One of the things that surprised me was how many traditional choir programs had begun popping up all around the country.

Andrea Leal · May 16, 2023

Revealed! • Kevin Allen’s Setting of the “Confíteor Deo Omnipoténti” (SATB) for Compline

I find this melody hauntingly gorgeous.

Andrea Leal · March 7, 2023

PDF Download • “Spanish Missal for the Traditional Latin Mass” (Madrid, 1961) — 860 pages!

Let me explain why this 1961 Spanish Missal is so important.

Andrea Leal · January 13, 2023

New Lectionary for the USA • Coming in 2028?

“Work hasn’t even begun on the next Lectionary, and there’s nothing definite about 2028 as a date.” — Father Andrew V. Menke, director of the USCCB liturgical committee

Andrea Leal · August 15, 2022

PDF Download • Organ Interludes Based on Plainsong (Manuals Only) — 104 pages!

A terrific collection of organ interludes (manuals only) for free PDF download.

Andrea Leal · July 12, 2022

FSSP Guadalajara • “Conferencia de Musica Sagrada”

New Sacred Music Conference in Guadalajara, Mexico!

Andrea Leal · April 6, 2022

PDF Download • “Regina Caeli for 3 Voices”

I never shared this before because pride and perfectionism held me back.

Andrea Leal · November 27, 2021

PDF Download • “Two Easy Advent Hymns”

When you read through the translation, you’ll agree this could certainly be sung during Sunday Masses in Advent…

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    “Music List” • 5th Sunday of Easter (Year C)
    Some have expressed interest in perusing the ORDER OF MUSIC I prepared for the 5th Sunday of Easter (18 May 2025). If such a thing interests you, feel free to download it as a PDF file. The Communion Antiphon was ‘restored’ the 1970 Missale Romanum (a.k.a. MISSALE RECENS) from an obscure martyr’s feast. Our choir is on break this Sunday, so the selections are relatively simple in nature.
    —Jeff Ostrowski
    Communion Chant (5th Sunday of Easter)
    This coming Sunday—18 May 2025—is the 5th Sunday of Easter, Year C (MISSALE RECENS). The COMMUNION ANTIPHON “Ego Sum Vitis Vera” assigned by the Church is rather interesting, because it comes from a rare martyr’s feast: viz. Saint Vitalis of Milan. It was never part of the EDITIO VATICANA, which is the still the Church’s official edition. As a result, the musical notation had to be printed in the Ordo Cantus Missae, which appeared in 1970.
    —Jeff Ostrowski
    “Music List” • 4th Sunday of Easter (Year C)
    Some have expressed interest in perusing the ORDER OF MUSIC I prepared for the 4th Sunday of Easter (11 May 2025). If such a thing interests you, feel free to download it as a PDF file. I don’t know a more gorgeous ENTRANCE CHANT than the one given there: Misericórdia Dómini Plena Est Terra.
    —Jeff Ostrowski

Quick Thoughts

    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).
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    When to Sit, Stand and Kneel like it’s 1962
    There are lots of different guides to postures for Mass, but I couldn’t find one which matched our local Latin Mass, so I made this one: sit-stand-kneel-crop
    —Veronica Brandt
    The Funeral Rites of the Graduale Romanum
    Lately I have been paging through the 1974 Graduale Romanum (see p. 678 ff.) and have been fascinated by the funeral rites found therein, especially the simply-beautiful Psalmody that is appointed for all the different occasions before and after the funeral Mass: at the vigil/wake, at the house of the deceased, processing to the church, at the church, processing to the cemetery, and at the cemetery. Would that this “stational Psalmody” of the Novus Ordo funeral rites saw wider usage! If you or anyone you know have ever used it, please do let me know.
    —Daniel Tucker

Random Quote

Is this the dumbest statement ever written? “When considering texts for his motets, Gombert obtained his inspiration from Scripture—such as the Psalms—as opposed to the liturgy of the Roman Catholic church.”

— Wikipedia

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