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“Pausing a little, arise, make Adoration to the Sacrament, give the Pax to those present, observe Order of calling, and Years…”
“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).
“Pausing a little, arise, make Adoration to the Sacrament, give the Pax to those present, observe Order of calling, and Years…”
Knox was a founding member of the “Detection Club,” which included Agatha Christie and G. K. Chesterton.
At the time I’m posting, this video has 355 views—let’s see if we can raise that number!
Permission has been given to post this marvelous 2016 dissertation by Fr. Shawn Tunink.
“And from the fig-tree learn a parable: when the branch thereof is now tender, and the leaves come forth, you know that summer is nigh.”
Christmas falls on a Monday this year—but documentation shows “double dipping” is forbidden.
Imagine the amount of time required to typeset something like this!
Do you take pictures of your choir? Photographs can serve as nice reminders of wonderful experiences.
“…and without parables He did not speak to them; that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying, I will open my mouth in parables, I will utter things hidden from the foundation of the world.”
Bach’s music inhabits “a still and serious world…without color, without light, without motion” from which we cannot break away.
Excerpt from a documentary on “St. Thomas More” (Paul Scofield) which in 1966 won six Oscars at the Academy Awards.
This piece is perfect for “stealthily” adding polyphony to the Ordinary Form.
We choirmasters are frequently called upon to speak in public.
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