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Father Friel • Article Archive

Ordained in 2011, Father Friel served as Parochial Vicar at Saint Anselm Church in Northeast Philly before earning a doctorate in liturgical theology at The Catholic University of America. He presently serves as Vocation Director for the Archdiocese of Philadelphia.—(Read full biography).

Fr. David Friel · May 14, 2013

Judas Iscariot

Unrepeatable & Irreplaceable

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Fr. David Friel · May 12, 2013

Round Yon Virgin

Mother & Child

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Fr. David Friel · May 9, 2013

Ascension

Raising Our Minds & Hearts to God

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Fr. David Friel · May 8, 2013

Celibacy

Are We Beyond This?

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Fr. David Friel · May 6, 2013

An Inverted Culture

The Perils of Modernity

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Fr. David Friel · May 5, 2013

In This Time Above All

Lauding God Yet More Gloriously

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Fr. David Friel · April 28, 2013

Sacrificing Ourselves

The New Commandment

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Fr. David Friel · April 21, 2013

Faith Seeking Understanding

Anselm of Canterbury

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Fr. David Friel · April 19, 2013

Luke’s Second Book

High Drama

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Fr. David Friel · April 17, 2013

Acts of the Apostles

“They Could Not Withstand the Wisdom & Spirit with Which He Spoke”

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Fr. David Friel · April 14, 2013

Shouting Our Faith from the Rooftops

Suffering for the Sake of the Name

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Fr. David Friel · April 7, 2013

Jesus Returns

Peace Be with You

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Fr. David Friel · April 1, 2013

Easter Monday

What Do Priests Do?

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Fr. David Friel · March 31, 2013

He Saw & Believed

The Beloved Disciple & the Virtue of Faith

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Fr. David Friel · March 29, 2013

Feeling the Absence

The Experience of Good Friday

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President’s Corner

    “Holy, Holy, Holy” transposed lower

    A simple setting based on a work by Canon Jules Vyverman.

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    —Jeff Ostrowski
    Music List • (27th Sund. Ordinary Time)

    Readers have expressed interest in examining my “music list” for this coming Sunday: 4 October 2026

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    —Jeff Ostrowski
    A Mystery! — Re: the “Liber Usualis”

    Even after all these years, nobody has been able to explain this.

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    —Jeff Ostrowski

Quick Thoughts

    Preface of Saint Joseph (added by the pope)

    You can see the “Præfatio de Sancto Joseph” inserted directly into the priest’s missal.

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    —Jeff Ostrowski
    “Predictable Rhymes?” • A Follow Up
    We received considerable correspondence regarding my article, Two Ways to Defile a Hymn. More specifically, what really raised certain people’s hackles was its follow-up article dealing with the keyboard accompaniment for the CHRIST THE KING HYMNAL. But to quote Eliza Doolittle: “Have I said anything I oughtn’t?” Please examine this PDF file and see whether you agree. Were the editors of the BRÉBEUF HYMNAL incorrect to insist upon sophisticated and clever rhymes, rather than mind-numbingly predictable rhymes?
    —Jeff Ostrowski
    ‘Ould’ But Not Good
    Dom Samuel Gregory Ould (note the spelling) was a Benedictine monk at FORT AUGUSTUS ABBEY in Scotland. As musician, organist, and composer, Dom Ould was highly regarded. Moreover, he was considered an authority on Gregorian Chant. But not everything found in an old book—or, in this case, an “Ould” book—is necessarily praiseworthy. Consider this page from Dom Ould’s hymnal. Do you see the rhymes? They offend severely by ABR (“Abuse By Reuse”) and are utterly predictable. In my recent article—Two Ways to Defile a Hymn—I addressed this topic.
    —Jeff Ostrowski

Random Quote

The 1960s reformers had no chance of success since their goal was “recasting from top to bottom—and in a few months!—an entire liturgy which had required twenty centuries to develop.”

— Professor Louis Bouyer, close friend of Pope Saint Paul VI

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