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Views from the Choir Loft

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Guest Author · November 27, 2025

“Sacred Music Pilgrimage to Italy” with Grace Feltoe

Including a tour of the Pontifical Institute of Sacred Music with Father Robert Mehlhart, OP.

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Guest Author · September 22, 2025

Installment #7 • Three (3) Questions Re: Forthcoming USA Lectionary

What is the specific criteria for this most recent tinkering?

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Guest Author · August 30, 2025

Installment #6 • “Serious Problems with the Lectionary Translation”

“If we had known what the prayers really said, we would not have wanted to pray them any longer.” —Paul Inwood

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Guest Author · August 28, 2025

Installment #5 • “Serious Problems with the Lectionary Translation”

Executive Director (emeritus) of ICEL weighs in on our series.

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Guest Author · August 21, 2025

“Practical Solutions to Impractical Problems” • Lerner’s Philosophy of Parish Music

Simple chants (sung well) save souls.

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Guest Author · August 16, 2025

Installment #4 • “Serious Problems with the Lectionary Translation”

Jeffrey Tucker: “USCCB deserves scorn for maintaining strict copyright over liturgical texts.”

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Guest Author · August 4, 2025

Installment #3 • “Serious Problems with the Lectionary Translation”

“All ate a meal fit for heroes.” — Catholics in the pews deserve better than this!

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Guest Author · July 31, 2025

Installment #2 • “Serious Problems with the Lectionary Translation”

Special ‘favors’ or ‘permissions’ or ‘exceptions’ are given to various corporations while others are denied.

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Guest Author · July 22, 2025

PDF Comparison Chart • “Serious Problems with the Lectionary Translation”

The responsorial psalms used in American Masses are—broadly speaking—pirated from the hard work of others.

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Guest Author · May 25, 2025

“Can the Choir Sing Alone at Mass?” • Yes! And Here’s Why That Matters

A priest once suggested to me that we “mic” the people in the pews during Mass to make their responses more audible and robust.

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Guest Author · March 6, 2024

Saint Paul’s Choir School • “My Reflections”

Saint Paul’s Choir School is the only all boys Catholic choir school in the nation.

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Guest Author · February 8, 2024

Father Robbie Low: “The State of Catholic Music”

“Music has an immense part to play in this perception of the divine reality and the heavenward leanings of the soul.” —Fr Robbie Low

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Guest Author · January 13, 2024

Guest Article by Dr. Kurt Poterack

Christendom College offers scholarships and free organ lessons for students starting in the Fall of 2024.

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Guest Author · November 26, 2023

“An Initiation to Gregorian Chant” (Msgr. Turco)

Guest article by Father Stephen Concordia, OSB.

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Guest Author · September 1, 2023

Gregorian Rhythm Wars • “The Counter Tradition”

Guest submission (1 September 2023) by Alasdair Codona of Glasgow, Scotland.

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President’s Corner

    Music List • “Ascension of the Lord”

    Readers have expressed interest in examining my “music list” for this coming Sunday.

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    —Jeff Ostrowski
    PDF Download • “For Pentecost Sunday”

    There’s a triple ‘allelúja’ and I just love the chord at the end of the 2nd iteration.

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    —Jeff Ostrowski
    PDF Download • “Organ Accompaniment”

    The following declaration will probably smack of “blowing my own horn.”

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    —Jeff Ostrowski

Quick Thoughts

    “Thee” + “Thou” + “Thine”

    Regarding approval for the “Revised Standard Version (Catholic Edition).”

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    —Jeff Ostrowski
    “Reminder” — Month of May (2026)

    Since a new month has arrived, it’s my pleasure to remind you that…

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    —Jeff Ostrowski
    Simplified Version • “Canon in D” (Pachelbel)

    I don’t care what people say; I love this piece!

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    —Jeff Ostrowski

Random Quote

“The chapter orders that only grandees (and their immediate relatives), counts, marquises, and provincial governors may in future enter the choir enclosure during divine service: such a restriction being imposed so that quiet can be the better maintained during cathedral solemnities.” [From “The Life of Father Francisco Guerrero.”]

— Sevilla: Chapter Resolution (25 May 1558)

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