Can You Name These Five Hymns?
Speak now, or forever hold your peace!
“If we do not love those whom we see, how can we love God, Whom we do not see?” Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
A theorist, organist, and conductor, Jeff Ostrowski holds his B.M. in Music Theory from the University of Kansas (2004), and did graduate work in Musicology. He serves as choirmaster for the new FSSP parish in Los Angeles, where he resides with his wife and children.—Read full biography (with photographs).
Are you bothered by the VANDALISM done to Lectionary Sequence translations?
Are there concrete reasons to prefer the ancient texts from the Roman Gradual? Short answer: Yes!
John Paul II leads the congregation facing the traditional way during his June 1999 visit to Poland.
A book which Bugnini called the “precursor” to the Simple Gradual is now online!
Musicians tend to fight with one another over the DUMBEST things.
This lovely image is courtesy of D.F. — taken at Georgetown University.
Congregations in South Texas normally applaud for the musicians during Mass.
“…otherwise the entire Mass might be placed into the vernacular; whereupon the Council fathers burst into uproarious laughter.” — Cardinal Stickler speaking of Vatican II
This is no hybrid: it’s an elegant, accurate, modern, unified English translation of the Graduale!
Free PDF downloads for “Mass of the Angels” organ accompaniments • Henri Potiron (1950), Achille Bragers (1937), Dr. Eugene Lapierre (1946), Franz Xaver Mathias (1906), Dr. Peter Wagner (1905), Monsignor Leo P. Manzetti (1906), Julius Bas (1906), and more+
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We’re under tremendous pressure to transfer our website to a “subscription model.”
We don’t want to do this. We believe our website should remain free to all. It’s annoying to have to search for login credentials (e.g. if you’re away from your desk).
Our president has written the following letter:
* Thirteen Men & Coins (Holy Thursday Appeal)
Traditionally on Holy Thursday, the priest washed the feet of thirteen men. Theologians held various opinions regarding whom the “13th man” represented. Before the liturgical changes of Pope Pius XII (which changed the number from thirteen to twelve), the priest washed each man’s feet, kissed his foot, and gave him a coin.
This “coin” business seems providential—inasmuch as our appeal begins on Holy Thursday this year.
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