“Contemporary” Catholic Music • Is it truly dead?
Today we announce a special guest who will be present at the Sacred Music Symposium!
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).

Today we announce a special guest who will be present at the Sacred Music Symposium!

“O God, from Whom Judas received the punishment of his crime, and the thief the reward of his confession…”

“The multitude goeth forth to meet our Redeemer with flowers and palms, and payeth the homage due to a triumphant conqueror.”
Two young ladies helped record these 14th-century harmonies.

Listen to the instructions John Paul II gives the Chicago congregation.

The Jews therefore said to Him, “Thou art not yet fifty years old and hast Thou seen Abraham?”

“Sometimes when you are confusing, you are mistaken for being learned.” —Fulton J. Sheen

This brief video—filmed at an Episcopal church in 2013—may offend you.

I have a confession to make: I can’t stand hearing wrong notes.
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