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Can Watershed survive? (Part 1)
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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).

Can Watershed survive? (Part 1)

“…free us from all sins and dangers, as Thou dost grant us to be sharers in this great mystery…”

In spite of what you may have read online, hymns in English were often sung during Low Mass.

Can you hear the Canon between Soprano & Tenor?

“The use of Latin in celebrating the new Mass Rite will be encouraged as it has been in the old; Latin expresses the nature of the Church as international and timeless.”

You can download the program or view the full Mass online.

The Archbishop of Kraków was (for a short time) Senator of the Second Polish Republic.

A good piece for Lent.

Is this “tacit” approval really “imaginary” approval?

This simple setting of Gregorian Credo IV uses organ, men’s voices, and women’s voices.

“We solemnly offer the sacrifice at the beginning of Lent, O Lord…”

“Smoke rises from the Mountain of Doom. The hour grows late, and Gandalf the Grey rides to Isengard seeking my counsel.”

This SATB setting can be used during any liturgical season and has “O Salutaris Hostia” as one of its verses.

The text is by St. Gregory the Great, who was Pope from 590-604.

Do we remember that people in the pews often lack our musical background?
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