Xmas Image • Print for Children to Color
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“If we do not love those whom we see, how can we love God, Whom we do not see?” Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
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).
Unless I am mistaken, John David Chambers stole Neale’s rhymes without attribution.
No man can deliver his brother, no make agreement unto God for him.
This morning, I recorded the voice parts—but please pardon my screechy soprano notes!
Hermann Finck (d. 1558) wrote about choral sound and performance in 1556.
John answered them, saying, “I baptize with water; but there hath stood one in the midst of you, Whom you know not…”
“Let us not be cast into the darkness to burn in flames, but may we share the joy of heaven, seeing the face of God.”
“He whom the whole world cannot contain was enclosed in thy womb…”
A nicely done Psalm Tone is preferred to a poorly sung authentic version.
This Catholic hymnal was written by a priest named “Police.” (not kidding)
Jesus began to say to the multitudes concerning John: “What went you out into the desert to see?”
Fr. Valentine used to say: “If you don’t blow your own horn, nobody else is going to blow it for you.”
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