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Views from the Choir Loft

Dr. Peter Kwasniewski

A graduate of Thomas Aquinas College (B.A. in Liberal Arts) and The Catholic University of America (M.A. and Ph.D. in Philosophy), Dr. Peter Kwasniewski is currently Professor at Wyoming Catholic College. He is also a published and performed composer, especially of sacred music. Read more.

Dr. Peter Kwasniewski · September 4, 2014

Mass Among the Poor

Does it seem strange that religious orders dedicated to serving the poor would also be rediscovering the traditional Latin Mass?

Dr. Peter Kwasniewski · August 28, 2014

The Awesomeness of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass

A Benedictine monk helps us appreciate the tremendous miracle of the Mass, which is the central point of all earthly reality.

Dr. Peter Kwasniewski · August 21, 2014

Why the Mass is the Key to the New Evangelization

We hear a lot these days about the New Evangelization, but not so much about the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. And yet the Mass is at the very heart of our mission.

Dr. Peter Kwasniewski · August 14, 2014

Important Resources for Liturgical Reform (7 of 7)

“Who could have anticipated such a Renaissance of music-making in the desert of postmodernity? Yet this was but the first wave, and now we are enjoying a second…”

Dr. Peter Kwasniewski · August 7, 2014

St. Thomas on the “Asperges” (Sprinkling Rite)

St. Thomas did not comment specifically on the custom of sprinkling the people with holy water prior to the principal Sunday Mass; but he did explain exactly why it’s a good idea to do such a thing.

Dr. Peter Kwasniewski · July 31, 2014

Away with the World—Let Heaven Enter

Music, for a Christian, should serve the same purpose as everything else in life: weaning us from excessive attachment to this world and lifting our souls heavenward.

Dr. Peter Kwasniewski · July 24, 2014

“What Shall I Render to the Lord…”

It is impossible for us, by ourselves, to make a just return to the Lord for all He has given to us. But “with the Lord, nothing is impossible.”

Dr. Peter Kwasniewski · July 17, 2014

Basic Steps To Improve Music At Your Parish — Part 2

I have been asked to recommend some ways in which any parish in the United States could improve the music used at Mass. Some parishes may already have taken the following two steps, in which case my advice will be nugatory for them, but if your parish has not yet done so, now’s the time to begin.

Dr. Peter Kwasniewski · July 10, 2014

Pope Francis on Sound Doctrine, Memory, and Adoration

“One of the most common canards now broadcast is that Pope Francis cares but little for the sacred liturgy…”

Dr. Peter Kwasniewski · July 3, 2014

Music Rules Over Us

Music is like a food that either makes us healthy or sick; indeed, it shapes our souls in its image.

Dr. Peter Kwasniewski · June 26, 2014

On the Objectivity of the Beautiful

Can we really rank the works of fine art? Is one composer greater than another, one piece of sacred music more beautiful than another? Or is it all relative?

Dr. Peter Kwasniewski · June 19, 2014

Archbishop Sample’s Letter On Sacred Music (4 of 8)

“Everything in God’s good creation is hierarchically ordered, and the virtue of each part is to belong to the whole in the right way…”

Dr. Peter Kwasniewski · June 12, 2014

Art as Affirmation and Sacrifice

True art affirms the Catholic Faith—and represents a spiritual sacrifice pleasing and acceptable to the Lord.

Dr. Peter Kwasniewski · June 5, 2014

What the Ordinary Form Could Be: The Vienna Oratory

Have you ever wondered what a Novus Ordo High Mass might look like? Read on…

Dr. Peter Kwasniewski · May 29, 2014

The Danger of Being Arbitrary in the Liturgy

Traditional practices form a coherent whole, as they developed organically together. In many ways the liturgical reform was mechanistic and ideological.

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President’s Corner

    “Booklet of Eucharistic Hymns” (16 pages)
    I was asked to create a booklet for my parish to use during our CORPUS CHRISTI PROCESSION on 22 June 2025. Would you be willing to look over the DRAFT BOOKLET (16 pages) I came up with? I tried to include a variety of hymns: some have a refrain; some are in major, others in minor; some are metered, others are plainsong; some are in Spanish, some are in Latin, but most are in English. Normally, we’d use the Brébeuf Hymnal—but we can’t risk having our congregation carry those heavy books all over the city to various churches.
    —Jeff Ostrowski
    “Yahweh” in church songs?
    My pastor asked me to write a weekly column for our parish bulletin. The one scheduled to run on 22 June 2025 is called “Three Words in a Psalm” and speaks of translating the TETRAGRAMMATON. You can read the article at this column repository. All of them are quite brief because I was asked to keep within a certain word limit.
    —Jeff Ostrowski
    “Music List” • Pentecost Sunday
    Some have expressed interest in perusing the ORDER OF MUSIC I prepared for Pentecost Sunday (8 June 2025). If such a thing interests you, feel free to download it as a PDF file. Because our choir is on break this week, the music is relatively simple.
    —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).
    —Corpus Christi Watershed
    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

“Indeed, we may not hope for real Latin poetry any more, because Latin is now a dead language to all of us. However well a man may read, write, or even speak Latin now, it is always a foreign language to him, acquired artificially. It is no one’s mother tongue. Does a man ever write real poetry in an acquired language?”

— Rev’d Adrian Fortescue (d. 1923)

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