Video • Padre Pio Celebrates Mass (5 May 1956)
You can hear Padre Pio singing the Mass.
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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).
The “Gloria in excelsis” is not said from Septuagesima Sunday until Easter, except on Holy Thursday, Holy Saturday, & some special feasts.
A reader from Indonesia kindly sent us these…
Who wouldn’t welcome this fresh & contemporary piece for Easter?
Many of these melodies cannot be easily found in any other book.
“Devout people are the ones who will be most disturbed by the new liturgy.” —Pope Paul VI (11/26/1969)
The “Gloria in excelsis” is not said from Septuagesima Sunday until Easter, except on Holy Thursday, Holy Saturday, & some special feasts.
The book is 1,479 pages. The monastery of Solesmes certainly had a staggering output!
It would not be wrong to say that the entire video revolves around Sacred music.
A beautiful photograph from Saint Peter’s Basilica on 25 February 1906.
“For decades there were virtually no musical settings for the Propers in English.” —Susan Benofy
“It will always be very appropriate to follow the noble tradition of having boys serve at the altar.” —Congregation for Divine Worship (15 March 1994)
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President’s Message (dated 30 May 2025)
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