Update • Saint Edmund Campion Missal

Update • Saint Edmund Campion Missal

Searching for the Saint Edmund Campion Missal? Read this letter.

The 3rd edition of the Campion Missal will include, as an option, the Pre-1955 Holy Week (with a fabulous & rare translation into English) as well as the new Prefaces and Feasts added (as options) by the CDW on 22 February 2020.

The 3rd edition won’t include hymnody, since it would be imprudent to challenge the new Saint Jean de Brébeuf Hymnal, recently declared by the New Liturgical Movement to be “hands down, the best Catholic hymnal ever published.”

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* Click Here to learn about the Brébeuf Hymnal
—Pew Edition, Choral Supplement, Organ Accompaniment, and more!

Additional Information Re: Brébeuf Hymnal

* Instructional Video • YOUTUBE
(“Using the Brébeuf Index Correctly”)

* PDF Download • SEASONAL INDEX
(For personal use, uploaded by Veronica Moreno)

* PDF Download • COMPLETE INDICES
(Material from the Saint Jean de Brébeuf Hymnal)

* CCWatershed Article • ORGAN ACCOMP.
(Additional info Re: the Organ Accompaniment volumes)

* PDF Download • ADDITIONAL ARTICLES
(Ten articles about the Saint Jean de Brébeuf Hymnal)

* PDF Download • EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
(Salient points about this hymnal on a single sheet)

* PDF Download • TESTIMONIALS
(Read what the experts have to say about this new Catholic hymn book.)

You can visit the for the (archive) website Second Edition of the Edmund Campion Missal.

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19 January 2021 • Confusion over feasts

For several months, we have discussed the complicated history of the various Christmas feasts: the Baptism of the Lord, the feast of the Holy Family, the Epiphany, and so forth. During a discussion, someone questioned my assertion that in some places Christmas had been part of the Epiphany. As time went on, of course, the Epiphany came to represent only three “manifestations” (Magi, Cana, Baptism), but this is not something rigid. For example, if you look at this “Capital E” from the feast of the Epiphany circa 1350AD, you can see it portrays not three mysteries but four—including PHAGIPHANIA when Our Lord fed the 5,000. In any event, anyone who wants proof the Epiphany used to include Christmas can read this passage from Dom Prosper Guéranger.

—Jeff Ostrowski

6 January 2021 • Anglicans on Plainsong

A book published by Anglicans in 1965 has this to say about Abbat Pothier’s Editio Vaticana, the musical edition reproduced by books such as the LIBER USUALIS (Solesmes Abbey): “No performing edition of the music of the Eucharistic Psalmody can afford to ignore the evidence of the current official edition of the Latin Graduale, which is no mere reproduction of a local or partial tradition, but a CENTO resulting from an extended study and comparison of a host of manuscripts gathered from many places. Thus the musical text of the Graduale possesses a measure of authority which cannot lightly be disregarded.” They are absolutely correct.

—Jeff Ostrowski