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Jeff Ostrowski • Article Archive

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).

Jeff Ostrowski · August 25, 2025

“Reform of the Reform” officially embraced by USCCB

As to whether this matters … who can say?

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Jeff Ostrowski · August 24, 2025

“The Worm That Dieth Not”

My pastor asked me to write a column for our parish bulletin…

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Jeff Ostrowski · August 20, 2025

Cardinal Heenan Speaks About Monsignor Knox

“He was perhaps the greatest figure in the Church of the twentieth century.” —Cardinal Heenan, Archbishop of Westminster

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Jeff Ostrowski · August 18, 2025

Finberg Missal • “Rare Latin + English Missal” (Burns and Oates, 1961) — 1,737 pages

One of the rarest (and most valuable) treasures our organization has ever made available.

Jeff Ostrowski · August 13, 2025

A Nice Hymn In Spanish

This honors the holy name of Jesus.

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Jeff Ostrowski · August 12, 2025

Fulton J. Sheen • “Why Four Bishops Voted Against the Liturgical Constitution”

Including info Re: “emanations from penumbras.”

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Jeff Ostrowski · August 11, 2025

“Music List” • 21st in Ordinary Time (Year C)

Readers have expressed interest in examining the “music list” I prepared for Sunday, 24 August.

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Jeff Ostrowski · August 11, 2025

“Entrance Chant” • 21st Sunday Ordin. Time

This “Entrance Chant” is used during liturgical years A, B, and C.

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Jeff Ostrowski · August 10, 2025

Do Protestants Have The Best Hymns?

“When we do this, we regard the congregation as unable to develop, as animals rather than human beings…” Professor László Dobszay

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Jeff Ostrowski · August 6, 2025

“Music List” • 19th in Ordinary Time (Year C)

Readers have expressed interest in examining the “music list” I prepared for this coming Sunday.

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Jeff Ostrowski · August 6, 2025

This Sunday’s Communion Antiphon

If anyone can point to a similar example, please notify me.

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Jeff Ostrowski · August 5, 2025

Using “Ye” Vs. “You” Correctly

Father Caraman was close friends with Monsignor Ronald Knox, Evelyn Waugh, and Sir Alec Guinness.

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Jeff Ostrowski · August 4, 2025

“Pope Leo XIV Has Announced…”

My pastor asked me to write a column each week vis-à-vis sacred music and liturgy.

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Jeff Ostrowski · August 2, 2025

“Chants” • 18th Sunday in Ordinary Time

The Communion chant is stunning.

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Jeff Ostrowski · August 2, 2025

“Corn” From Heaven?

Some Americans believe the British version is always better.

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President’s Corner

    Sacred Music “Pro Tip”
    Our website welcomes millions of visitors, yet surprisingly few find their way to the actual blog page itself. If you are among them, bookmark it today. Numerous articles and resources await you—but these treasures belong to those who explore each article, not merely its title. The headline is only the doorway; the substance lies within.
    —Jeff Ostrowski
    Music List • (29th Sund. Ordinary Time)
    Readers have expressed interest in seeing the ORDER OF MUSIC which I created for this coming Sunday, the 29th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year A). If such a thing interests you, feel free to download it as a PDF file. The INTROIT for this Sunday explains why this Sunday is called “Apple Sunday.” As we approach the end of the liturgical year, most of the INTROITS seem to be in Mode III or Mode IV, which are ‘haunting’ tones.
    —Jeff Ostrowski
    “Holy, Holy, Holy” transposed lower

    A simple setting based on a work by Canon Jules Vyverman.

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    —Jeff Ostrowski

Quick Thoughts

    PDF • “Singers’ Booklet” (26 Pages)

    This is a ‘messy’ booklet in terms of its formatting, but it’s only ever seen by the singers—not members of the congregation.

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    —Jeff Ostrowski
    Preface of Saint Joseph (added by the pope)

    You can see the “Præfatio de Sancto Joseph” inserted directly into the priest’s missal.

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    —Jeff Ostrowski
    “Predictable Rhymes?” • A Follow Up
    We received considerable correspondence regarding my article, Two Ways to Defile a Hymn. More specifically, what really raised certain people’s hackles was its follow-up article dealing with the keyboard accompaniment for the CHRIST THE KING HYMNAL. But to quote Eliza Doolittle: “Have I said anything I oughtn’t?” Please examine this PDF file and see whether you agree. Were the editors of the BRÉBEUF HYMNAL incorrect to insist upon sophisticated and clever rhymes, rather than mind-numbingly predictable rhymes?
    —Jeff Ostrowski

Random Quote

“The liturgy needed reform by 1965; there was no call for dismantling it. It was intended that the vernacular would enhance the Latin, not supplant it. It was not, emphatically, the mind of the Council Fathers to jettison Gregorian Chant, or to encourage the banal secularization of Church music, so as now to surpass in crudity the worst aberrations of the Howling Pentecostals.”

— Most Rev’d Robert J. Dwyer, Archbishop of Portland (9 July 1971)

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