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Cynthia Ostrowski

Cynthia Ostrowski holds a bachelor's degree in Geographic Information Science and a minor in Computer Science from Texas A&M University Corpus Christi (2005). She is currently a stay-at-home mother of two children. A former GIS analyst, Cynthia's interests include photography, french horn, and singing polyphony. Read more.

Cynthia Ostrowski · September 30, 2014

Catholic Line Art, Black and White • Installment #58

Today’s installment comes from the Feast of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist.

Cynthia Ostrowski · September 24, 2014

Catholic Line Art, Black and White • Installment #57

Here is a “catalogue” which clearly lists the woodcuts made available so far.

Cynthia Ostrowski · September 8, 2014

Catholic Line Art, Black and White • Installment #56

I will be releasing hundreds of these B/W religious line art drawings for free and instant download. These beautiful Catholic “woodcuts” were done with magnificent skill. “Download Free Traditional Catholic Clipart”

Cynthia Ostrowski · July 14, 2014

Catholic Line Art, Black and White • Installment #30

All the vestments used in the Campion Missal were more than 200 years old.

Cynthia Ostrowski · July 1, 2014

Catholic Line Art, Black and White • Installment #55

I will be releasing hundreds of these B/W religious line art drawings for free and instant download. These beautiful Catholic “woodcuts” were done with magnificent skill. “Download Free Traditional Catholic Clipart”

Cynthia Ostrowski · June 24, 2014

Catholic Line Art, Black and White • Installment #54

I will be releasing hundreds of these B/W religious line art drawings for free and instant download. These beautiful Catholic “woodcuts” were done with magnificent skill. “Download Free Traditional Catholic Clipart”

Cynthia Ostrowski · June 3, 2014

Catholic Line Art, Black and White • Installment #53

I will be releasing hundreds of these B/W religious line art drawings for free and instant download. These beautiful Catholic “woodcuts” were done with magnificent skill. “Download Free Traditional Catholic Clipart”

Cynthia Ostrowski · April 8, 2014

Catholic Line Art, Black and White • Installment #52

I will be releasing hundreds of these B/W religious line art drawings for free and instant download. These beautiful Catholic “woodcuts” were done with magnificent skill. “Download Free Traditional Catholic Clipart”

Cynthia Ostrowski · March 18, 2014

Catholic Line Art, Black and White • Installment #51

I will be releasing hundreds of these B/W religious line art drawings for free and instant download. These beautiful Catholic “woodcuts” were done with magnificent skill. “Download Free Traditional Catholic Clipart”

Cynthia Ostrowski · February 4, 2014

Catholic Line Art, Black and White • Installment #50

I will be releasing hundreds of these B/W religious line art drawings for free and instant download. These beautiful Catholic “woodcuts” were done with magnificent skill. “Download Free Traditional Catholic Clipart”

Cynthia Ostrowski · January 21, 2014

Catholic Line Art, Black and White • Installment #49

I will be releasing hundreds of these B/W religious line art drawings for free and instant download. These beautiful Catholic “woodcuts” were done with magnificent skill. “Download Free Traditional Catholic Clipart”

Cynthia Ostrowski · January 14, 2014

Catholic Line Art, Black and White • Installment #48

I will be releasing hundreds of these B/W religious line art drawings for free and instant download. These beautiful Catholic “woodcuts” were done with magnificent skill. “Download Free Traditional Catholic Clipart”

Cynthia Ostrowski · January 7, 2014

Catholic Line Art, Black and White • Installment #47

I will be releasing hundreds of these B/W religious line art drawings for free and instant download. These beautiful Catholic “woodcuts” were done with magnificent skill. “Download Free Traditional Catholic Clipart”

Cynthia Ostrowski · December 17, 2013

Catholic Line Art, Black and White • Installment #46

I will be releasing hundreds of these B/W religious line art drawings for free and instant download. These beautiful Catholic “woodcuts” were done with magnificent skill. “Download Free Traditional Catholic Clipart”

Cynthia Ostrowski · December 11, 2013

Catholic Line Art, Black and White • Installment #45

I will be releasing hundreds of these B/W religious line art drawings for free and instant download. These beautiful Catholic “woodcuts” were done with magnificent skill. “Download Free Traditional Catholic Clipart”

Cynthia Ostrowski · December 3, 2013

Catholic Line Art, Black and White • Installment #44

I will be releasing hundreds of these B/W religious line art drawings for free and instant download. These beautiful Catholic “woodcuts” were done with magnificent skill. “Download Free Traditional Catholic Clipart”

Cynthia Ostrowski · November 26, 2013

Catholic Line Art, Black and White • Installment #43

I will be releasing hundreds of these B/W religious line art drawings for free and instant download. These beautiful Catholic “woodcuts” were done with magnificent skill. “Download Free Traditional Catholic Clipart”

Cynthia Ostrowski · November 19, 2013

Catholic Line Art, Black and White • Installment #42

I will be releasing hundreds of these B/W religious line art drawings for free and instant download. These beautiful Catholic “woodcuts” were done with magnificent skill. “Download Free Traditional Catholic Clipart”

Cynthia Ostrowski · November 12, 2013

Catholic Line Art, Black and White • Installment #41

I will be releasing hundreds of these B/W religious line art drawings for free and instant download. These beautiful Catholic “woodcuts” were done with magnificent skill. “Download Free Traditional Catholic Clipart”

Cynthia Ostrowski · October 29, 2013

Catholic Line Art, Black and White • Installment #40

I will be releasing hundreds of these B/W religious line art drawings for free and instant download. These beautiful Catholic “woodcuts” were done with magnificent skill. “Download Free Traditional Catholic Clipart”

22 July 2020 • Five Recent Messages

We are asking our readers to give $5.00 per month (or even $3.00 per month) so we can keep our website online. Here are five recent messages from donors:

(#1) Your site is a Godsend. It must continue. I am a church mouse but I can afford $5 a month. Let’s help keep the beautiful music ringing through our sanctuaries. (#2) In honor of my Godson, who just turned 5 yrs old. May he and his brothers grow up singing in my Youth Schola and learning to play pipe organ at our Parish where I am Director of Music Ministries. (#3) Thank you! This is a beautiful resource that I sing with every morning, with my kids, on your YouTube channel. (#4) Thank you CCWatershed team for all you have done to keep Catholic sacred music alive in this ever changing world. You help us provide liturgical beauty in our ordinary form parishes. I can only pray, that before the end of the year, all of us will be back in church singing glorious sacred music. Pax Christi. (#5) Thank you for all your efforts! I have learned so much from you sharing your gifts and love of sacred music.

—Jeff Ostrowski

21 July 2020 • From a Musicology PhD…

To you and your colleagues who helped produce the Brébeuf hymnal, I wanted to drop a line to say “bravo.” I just got a copy and immediately ordered the choral supplement (I ought to have just gotten it in the first place). What an achievement this book is! This is the sort of hymnal one could use for decades without exhausting its contents and the possibilities it offers. And that hymn I asked you about (Southwell/Allen) was QUELLA; what a beautiful melody (and text)! —P.B.

—Jeff Ostrowski

Wonderful emails received recently…

(#1) “Thank you for all the great work you do to provide music and rehearsal videos for all of us to use! It has been invaluable to those music and choir directors who’ve had to build a Gregorian chant schola from scratch! May God continue to bless all you do to promote sacred music for the Mass and for the glory of God!”

(#2) “I am a newly ordained priest. When I was in seminary we constantly used stuff from you guys to help us learn things. Thank you!”

(#3) “Thank you CCWATERSHED for all you do and provide for restoring Sacred Music in the Church today. God bless your ministry.”

(#4) “Thank you for bringing beautiful Sacred Music to all of us!”

—Jeff Ostrowski