Don’t Tell Me What You Can Do: Show Me
Directing a choir is extremely difficult. The obstacles often seem insurmountable.
“A much greater source of anxiety to Us is the style of action of those who maintain that liturgical worship should shed its sacred character, who foolishly say we should substitute for sacred items & furnishings ordinary common things in daily use.” —Pope Saint Paul VI (14 Oct 1968)
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).
Directing a choir is extremely difficult. The obstacles often seem insurmountable.
Ehrlichman, Haldeman, Dean, Nixon, and others made tons of money writing and speaking about Watergate.
This 1,292 page book is much thinner than I had anticipated.
I was surprised to see composer David Haas comment on facebook in support of this.
A “Dialogue” Low Mass with singing (c. 1958) by choristers of St Mary’s Cathedral, Sydney.
You will notice that Fr. Weber’s version sounds quite similar to the authentic Latin chant.
Notice how the priest, dressed in cope, is engulfed in darkness at the beginning of the Easter Vigil—except for candles burning.
Catholics can now *see with their own eyes* the antiquity of our liturgy.
Should we assume malice on the part of those who denigrate the Traditional Mass?
I don’t usually release “rough cut” PDF files, but this one is so valuable…
Bells are rung and the organ played at the “Gloria”—but then stay silent until the Easter Vigil “Gloria.”
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The election of Pope Leo XIV has been exciting, and we’re filled with hope for our apostolate’s future!
But we’re under pressure to transfer our website to a “subscription model.”
We don’t want to do that. We believe our website should remain free to all.
Our president has written the following letter:
President’s Message (dated 30 May 2025)
Time's up