“Alma Redemptóris Mater” • Everything There Is To Know About This Marian Antiphon
Including a new harmonization for the pipe organ.
Pope Saint Paul VI (3 April 1969): “Although the text of the Roman Gradual—at least that which concerns the singing—has not been changed, the Entrance antiphons and Communions antiphons have been revised for Masses without singing.”
A theorist, organist, and conductor, Jeff Ostrowski holds his B.M. in Music Theory from the University of Kansas (2004). He completed studies in Education and Musicology at the graduate level. Having worked as a church musician in Los Angeles for ten years, in 2024 he accepted a position as choirmaster for Saint Mary of the Immaculate Conception in Michigan, where he resides with his wife and children. —Read full biography (with photographs).

Including a new harmonization for the pipe organ.

Simplified keyboard accompaniment for “Come, Thou Long-Expected Jesus” (Advent hymn).

Readers have expressed interest in examining the music list I prepared for 8 December (“In Conceptione Immaculata Beatae Mariae Virginis”).

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

It’s hard to banish that round once it enters your ears!

This image is found on the first page of a 1974 Sacramentary.

Readers have expressed interest in examining the “music list” I prepared for this coming Sunday.

It’d be easier to accept if they admitted they were explicitly contradicting Vatican II … but instead, they lied egregiously.

“Catholic parishes are slow to change their habits. They still sing what the oldest members learned at school.” —Evelyn Waugh

Readers have expressed interest in examining the “music list” I prepared for this coming Sunday.

I know of no greater commentary on the psalms. Its author—an erudite Dominican priest—founded the famous “Homiletic and Pastoral Review.”

A simplified keyboard accompaniment for the “O Jesus Christ, Remember” hymn.

This is something Monsignor Ronald Knox had to explain time and again…
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