“Reminder” — Month of May (2026)
Since a new month has arrived, it’s my pleasure to remind you that…
Articles
“Englished” Gregorian Chant • 5 Considerations
This is the closest I’ve come to putting down on paper exactly what I heard in my head.
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“Regina Caeli” • More Than You Wanted To Know
To my knowledge, this is the first online recording of the simple Norbertine “Regina Caeli.”
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“Translating the Bible” • Msgr. Ronald Knox (1953)
There’s no question Knox sometimes enjoyed “pushing the envelope” or stepping outside the box.
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Re: The “Correct” Way To Sing Gregorian Chant
A choir member’s visit to find Dom Pothier in Normandy’s Abbaye Saint-Wandrille de Fontenelle. She finds beauty and peace.
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PDF Download • Ascension “Entrance Chant”
More than once, Father Valentine told me: “When I sing this beautiful Introit, I can almost see the apostles standing there.”
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Every Artist Needs a Refuge
Every artist must enter into the interior life. In doing so one becomes a finer musician and a better servant of God and of each other.
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“The Unselected Hymn” • Do You Recognize It?
I fought for this one—but lost the battle.
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2026 Sacred Music Pilgrimage (Washington DC) • With Richard J. Clark
This choir pilgrimage is more than a trip—it is a sacred journey.
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“Gregorian Chant Isn’t a Platform for Your Personal Theories, Jeff” • (A Letter We Received)
“My desire, Leroy, is to answer your question in a rigorously straightforward way.” —Jeff Ostrowski
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Request From Australia
“This is an exquisite setting and I know my singers would very much enjoy singing it.” —Mary
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PDF Download • “Rarer Than a Blue Moon” — Side-by-Side English Translation (Pius XII Psalter)
Very Rev’d Father Charles J. Callan called it “the most recent critical edition of the Hebrew Massoretic text.”
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Fulton J. Sheen • “24-Hour Catechism”
(12 of 50) “The Mother of Jesus”
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Fascinating Interpretation of the “Regina Caeli” (Solemn Tone)
Listen to this fascinating and beautiful treatment of the rhombus — diamond shaped neumes.
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PDF Download • “Sprinkling Rite” + Psalm Verses
“From your wounded side, O Christ, a spring of water bursts forth, by which the squalor of the world is washed away…”
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