“Lauda Sion” • Rehearsal Video With Translation By Saint Robert Southwell, Jesuit Martyr
Many of the big publishing companies skip the Corpus Christi Sequence—they literally leave it blank.
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).
Many of the big publishing companies skip the Corpus Christi Sequence—they literally leave it blank.
I really don’t “get” the lyrics in Catholic hymnals by the major publishers.
The last time we sing “Vidi Aquam” is Pentecost Sunday; now we go back to “Asperges Me.”
Including rehearsal videos and special 13th-century hymn to the Most Holy Trinity.
Fantastic photograph taken by our organist during Mass on Sunday…
“Once familiar features of the preconciliar rite are now as remote to us as some obscure aboriginal ritual.” —Msgr. McManus (1980)
Throughout the movie, Hitchcock seems to imitate the liturgy.
For reasons I don’t fully understand, this chasuble was only worn once.
On Pentecost Sunday, the FSSP Superior General will visit our parish.
A plenary indulgence can be gained by singing the “Veni Creator Spiritus” publicly on Pentecost.
“Hymns that are directed to the Trinity should not be used, no matter how familiar they may be.”
Joseph Ratzinger, an expert at the Council, was also the private secretary of Cardinal Frings, Archbishop of Cologne.
If they were set upon avoiding the word “men,” I wish ICEL would have done something like “peace on earth to *those* of good will.”
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