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Jeff Ostrowski · January 24, 2015

PDF Download: Saint Rose Hymnal (1938)

“It contains about two hundred hymns—all from approved sources—and covers every phase of Catholic devotion.” —Foreword by the Bishop of La Crosse

Jeff Ostrowski · January 23, 2015

Hymns can be implemented into the Latin High Mass with great effect.

Richard J. Clark · January 23, 2015

I am at daily mass, but through no virtue of my own. God has a way of drawing us toward him even when we resist.

Jeff Ostrowski · January 22, 2015

Historically, “liturgy” referred to a service done for the people, not by them.

Jeff Ostrowski · January 21, 2015

“We feel that the selection of hymns leaves little to be desired…” —From the 1942 Foreword

Jeff Ostrowski · January 20, 2015

“Yet zephyrs vainly fan me, and flow’rs to groves invite…”

Aurelio Porfiri · January 20, 2015

“Many years ago I had a spiritual director that gave me a lesson that I have never forgotten…” —Aurelio Porfiri

Jeff Ostrowski · January 19, 2015

Some people accept a job as choir director and say, “I have five singers who don’t read music, so I guess that’s how it will always be.”

Cynthia Ostrowski · January 19, 2015

Today’s installment is a third image for 8 September—totally different than the two we’ve posted in the past.

Fr. David Friel · January 18, 2015

Impromptu Address of His Holiness Benedict XVI to the Members of the Pontifical “Sistine” Choir

Jeff Ostrowski · January 18, 2015

A beautiful image from 15th-century Austria.

Veronica Brandt · January 17, 2015

Starring the almost two year old darling of the family along with miscellaneous siblings egging her on.

Richard J. Clark · January 16, 2015

Good-hearted and talented people respond quite positively to the philosophy of service to God and others.

Jeff Ostrowski · January 15, 2015

This extremely rare Catholic hymn book is here made available for the first time ever as a PDF download.

Jeff Ostrowski · January 15, 2015

It’s hard to imagine a more beautiful text than Sedulius’ Hymn: Hostis Herodes Impie.