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Articles

Gwyneth Holston · December 23, 2013

Good King Wenceslas Looked Out When?

The connection between the Feast of the Nativity and the Feast of St. Stephen.

Richard J. Clark · December 22, 2013

Live Streaming: Lessons and Carols ~ Our Lady of Atonement

Mæstro Edmund Murray directs a special Festival at Our Lady of Atonement in San Antonio, TX.

Fr. David Friel · December 22, 2013

The Book of Non-Blessings

Of Advent Wreathes & Christmas Crèches

Richard J. Clark · December 20, 2013

Emotional Baggage and Changing Demographics

As a child growing up in the 1970s, I was well aware of the utter incompetence I was hearing on Sundays. As you can tell, I am still pretty upset about it.

Jeff Ostrowski · December 19, 2013

“Ministerial Creativity” by Bishop Donald Trautman

“In the United States we have a very healthy understanding of liturgy. We know something about liturgy, and I think we’re doing it rather well.” — Bishop Trautman (October 2005)

Dr. Peter Kwasniewski · December 19, 2013

Prayer and Action

If we want our apostolate or our daily round of duties to be fruitful, we need to begin and end with the continually burning fire of adoring union with God.

Jeff Ostrowski · December 18, 2013

Nothing Ordinary About It: The Mass Proper as Early Music Jigsaw Puzzle

Doug Shadle has published an article on the Catholic Mass Propers.

Jeff Ostrowski · December 18, 2013

“Beauty” by Most Rev. James D. Conley (Bishop of Lincoln, Nebraska)

“Fr. Morganroth would return to his room to play his piano — he played brilliantly. If you had an appointment with him he would leave the door ajar. You were to simply push the door open and take a seat in a chair next to the piano.”

Andrew R. Motyka · December 18, 2013

It’s What We Do

Explaining how to handle death at so many funerals.

Jeff Ostrowski · December 17, 2013

“The Church has been called to move on.” — GIA’s Worship IV Hymnal

What is the purpose of a Procession? Is this statement true?

Jeff Ostrowski · December 17, 2013

Reason #6634 “Sing To The Lord” Was Not Submitted To Rome For Approval

Why should something invented in 1968 be “preferred” to the immemorial tradition of the Catholic Church?

Cynthia Ostrowski · December 17, 2013

Catholic Line Art, Black and White • Installment #46

I will be releasing hundreds of these B/W religious line art drawings for free and instant download. These beautiful Catholic “woodcuts” were done with magnificent skill. “Download Free Traditional Catholic Clipart”

Jeff Ostrowski · December 16, 2013

Francis Clashes With Former Head Of Liturgical Institute

In my humble opinion, Pope Francis is spot on.

Gwyneth Holston · December 16, 2013

Impatiently Awaiting the Publication of the English Translation of von Hildebrand’s Aesthetics

Finally, English-speakers will able to read Hildebrand’s examination of the splendor of beauty.

Corpus Christi Watershed · December 15, 2013

Florida Priest Named Head Of USCCB Divine Worship Secretariat

Please note: It’s Fr. Michael J. Flynn … not Michael J. Fox! 🙂

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    “Music List” • 4th Sunday of Easter (Year C)
    Some have expressed interest in perusing the ORDER OF MUSIC I prepared for the 4th Sunday of Easter (11 May 2025). If such a thing interests you, feel free to download it as a PDF file. I don’t know a more gorgeous ENTRANCE CHANT than the one given there: Misericórdia Dómini Plena Est Terra.
    —Jeff Ostrowski
    “Entrance Chant” • 4th Sunday of Easter
    You can download the ENTRANCE ANTIPHON in English for the 4th Sunday of Easter (11 May 2025). Corresponding to the vocalist score is this free organ accompaniment. The English adaptation matches the authentic version (Misericórdia Dómini), which is in a somber yet gorgeous mode. If you’re someone who enjoys rehearsal videos, this morning I tried to sing it while simultaneously accompanying my voice on the pipe organ.
    —Jeff Ostrowski
    Music List • “Repertoire for Weddings”
    Not everyone thinks about sacred music 24/7 like we do. When couples are getting married, they often request “suggestions” or “guidance” or a “template” for their musical selections. I created this music list with repertoire suggestions for Catholic weddings. Please feel free to download it if you believe it might give you some ideas or inspiration.
    —Jeff Ostrowski

Quick Thoughts

    Antiphons Don’t Match?
    A reader wants to know why the Entrance and Communion antiphons in certain publications deviate from what’s prescribed by the GRADUALE ROMANUM published after Vatican II. Click here to read our answer. The short answer is: the Adalbert Propers were never intended to be sung. They were intended for private Masses only (or Masses without music). The “Graduale Parvum,” published by the John Henry Newman Institute of Liturgical Music in 2023, mostly uses the Adalbert Propers—but sometimes uses the GRADUALE text: e.g. Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul (29 June).
    —Corpus Christi Watershed
    When to Sit, Stand and Kneel like it’s 1962
    There are lots of different guides to postures for Mass, but I couldn’t find one which matched our local Latin Mass, so I made this one: sit-stand-kneel-crop
    —Veronica Brandt
    The Funeral Rites of the Graduale Romanum
    Lately I have been paging through the 1974 Graduale Romanum (see p. 678 ff.) and have been fascinated by the funeral rites found therein, especially the simply-beautiful Psalmody that is appointed for all the different occasions before and after the funeral Mass: at the vigil/wake, at the house of the deceased, processing to the church, at the church, processing to the cemetery, and at the cemetery. Would that this “stational Psalmody” of the Novus Ordo funeral rites saw wider usage! If you or anyone you know have ever used it, please do let me know.
    —Daniel Tucker

Random Quote

“So, as in delirium a man talks in a long-forgotten tongue, now—when her heart is rent—the Catholic Church drops twenty centuries without an effort, and speaks as she spoke underground in Rome, and in Paul’s hired house, and in Crete and Alexandria and Jerusalem.”

— A non-Catholic describing the “Hagios O Theos” of Good Friday in 1906

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