Pope Pius XI and “Concelebration”
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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).

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Amazing! Verdelot’s cadence here sounds quite modern!

The organist will play softly at the Offertory.

How could closing down all the schools be a good plan?

Three new auxiliary bishops for Los Angeles!

You can sleep soundly at night, knowing how to correctly pronounce “hagióque pnéumate.”

“…like man, Mary, you are IN—really cool among women.”

“To thee do we send up our sighs, mourning and weeping in this valley of tears.”

Fr. Robert W. Hovda argues that “Little Green Apples” can be sung during Mass.

“The master in this Gospel is praising, not the wrongful act of the unfaithful steward, but the peculiar astuteness with which he makes friends who will be useful when things go amiss.” (Maredsous N. T.)

When priests came into Bishop Trautman’s office asking permission, he would start speaking Latin to them.
In the Extraordinary Form, the “Asperges Me” is only used on Sundays.

Following the Mass, Archbishop Joseph H. Schlarman was made an honorary Indian chief.

It’s extremely short and not difficult—yet fresh & gorgeous.

“Sheen told a friend of mine that anything he’d ever said of significance was taken from either Knox or Chesterton.” —Fr. George Rutler
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