Rorate Caeli + ICEL + Dynamic Equivalence
There’s an old adage: “Once stung, twice shy.”
Jesus said to them: “I have come into this world so that a sentence may fall upon it, that those who are blind should see, and those who see should become blind. If you were blind, you would not be guilty. It is because you protest, ‘We can see clearly,’ that you cannot be rid of your guilt.”
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).
Readers have expressed interest in perusing the “music list” I’ve prepared for this coming Sunday.
Like so many Advent antiphons, this one is in the first mode and comes from the prophet Isaiah.
It certainly seems like most of the Advent antiphons come from the book of Isaiah…
A different version was requested. I was able to complete that task earlier today.
I have made some changes to my “musical list” for funerals.
If you have items you’d like to learn (such as how to make multi-track rehearsal videos) please email them to us.
It’s ‘live’—so you can hear babies crying, the sound of the priest incensing the altar, and so forth.
Readers have expressed interest in perusing the “music list” I’ve prepared for this coming Sunday.
In my view, this one falls within the “Top Ten” list of Christmas carols.
“My most important vocation is not that of a musician but as a husband and a father to my four children.” —Richard J. Clark
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