“Simultaneous Fulfillment” of Mass Obligation?
Christmas falls on a Monday this year—but documentation shows “double dipping” is forbidden.
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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).

Christmas falls on a Monday this year—but documentation shows “double dipping” is forbidden.

Imagine the amount of time required to typeset something like this!

“The heavens and the earth proclaim thy glory…”
Do you take pictures of your choir? Photographs can serve as nice reminders of wonderful experiences.

Bach’s music inhabits “a still and serious world…without color, without light, without motion” from which we cannot break away.

“…and without parables He did not speak to them; that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying, I will open my mouth in parables, I will utter things hidden from the foundation of the world.”

Excerpt from a documentary on “St. Thomas More” (Paul Scofield) which in 1966 won six Oscars at the Academy Awards.

This piece is perfect for “stealthily” adding polyphony to the Ordinary Form.

We choirmasters are frequently called upon to speak in public.

It’s based on Pacheco’s version, created the year Guerrero died.

“Amen I say to you, whatsoever, you ask when you pray, believe that you shall receive, and it shall be done to you.”
Constant critics are corrosive.

Msgr. Charles Pope has several sagacious suggestions!

Sheen told Ferris that he wanted a classical repertoire at the cathedral in Rochester, including Gregorian chant.
It’s remarkable that owning fully-updated software and pristine hardware makes no difference…
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