Ridiculously Awesome Sanctus You’ve Never Heard
We are not allowed to sing Tropes in the Extraordinary Form, so I added that text in italics.
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).

We are not allowed to sing Tropes in the Extraordinary Form, so I added that text in italics.

First published in 1901 by Emile Dethier, organist at the Grand Seminary in Liège, Belgium.

“Grant, we humbly beseech Thee, almighty God, that those whom Thou refreshest with Thy sacraments…”

Composer David Haas posted a striking proclamation on his Facebook page.

Yet the laborer called at the eleventh hour does not taste the joy reserved to one who has “worked and suffered without reckoning the hours.”

Only one word describes Guerrero’s musical genius: fearsome.

Then the Pope declared that it was the motet’s words—not its melody—which annoyed him.

“Sanctify, O Lord, the gifts we offer, and purify us from the stains of our sins…”

By the French Roman Catholic composer, Raphaël Mercier (d. 1953).

Their garments resemble the “winter” cappa magna.

“O Lord Jesus Christ, who—in the days of thy subjection to Mary and Joseph—didst consecrate home life by ineffable acts of virtue…”

There’s something less scary you can do to help build up God’s Kingdom.

In 1971, Sheen appeared on “Firing Line” and spoke about St. Augustine.
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