The “Little Rock Nine” & Sacred Music
How could closing down all the schools be a good plan?
Jesus said to them: “I have come into this world so that a sentence may fall upon it, that those who are blind should see, and those who see should become blind. If you were blind, you would not be guilty. It is because you protest, ‘We can see clearly,’ that you cannot be rid of your guilt.”
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).
The organist will play softly at the Offertory.
You can sleep soundly at night, knowing how to correctly pronounce “hagióque pnéumate.”
“To thee do we send up our sighs, mourning and weeping in this valley of tears.”
“…like man, Mary, you are IN—really cool among women.”
Fr. Robert W. Hovda argues that “Little Green Apples” can be sung during Mass.
When priests came into Bishop Trautman’s office asking permission, he would start speaking Latin to them.
“The master in this Gospel is praising, not the wrongful act of the unfaithful steward, but the peculiar astuteness with which he makes friends who will be useful when things go amiss.” (Maredsous N. T.)
In the Extraordinary Form, the “Asperges Me” is only used on Sundays.
Following the Mass, Archbishop Joseph H. Schlarman was made an honorary Indian chief.
“Sheen told a friend of mine that anything he’d ever said of significance was taken from either Knox or Chesterton.” —Fr. George Rutler
Can you imagine a liturgical commentator standing at the front of Church declaring something like that?
The organist will play softly at the Offertory.
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