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Richard J. Clark · December 11, 2020

Safety in Music is a Pro-Life Issue

Updated music protocols in the Archdiocese of Boston include multiple layers of protection: masks, ventilation, distance, time.

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Jeff Ostrowski · December 10, 2020

Offertory Compared • “Ave Maria” (4th Sunday of Advent) vs. “Ave Maria” (Immaculate Conception)

Consider the melody found in “Le Graduel Romain,” published in 1800—nine years before Napoleon Bonaparte kidnapped Pope Pius VII

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Jeff Ostrowski · December 8, 2020

Gregorian Chant • “How To Sing The Repercussion” (such as: Bistropha, Tristropha, etc.)

Each monastery had its own particular way of singing plainsong.

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Keven Smith · December 7, 2020

How to Help Children Match Pitch (part II)

Got your kids singing in head tone? Good. Next, try these two tips to eliminate obstacles to their success.

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Fr. David Friel · December 6, 2020

The Prophet Baruch: Surge, Ierusalem, Look to the East!

The communion chant for the Second Sunday of Advent, together with the introit and offertory, invite us to reflect on the Holy City, Jerusalem.

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Jeff Ostrowski · December 6, 2020

“Homily — 2nd Sunday of Advent, Year B” • Father Valentine Young, OFM

Yes, these are extraordinary times—and they require something extraordinary from us.

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Jeff Ostrowski · December 2, 2020

Book Title • “English As She Is Spoke”

One who translates Aquinas expects to be cross-examined by those who understand philosophy and Latin; but Bible translators are liable to be cross-examined by anybody, because everybody thinks he knows what the Bible means.

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Jeff Ostrowski · December 2, 2020

(Ecuador) • Archbishop Poisoned on Good Friday

It happened during the “Mass of the Presanctified” celebrated on Good Friday, 30 March 1877.

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Veronica Brandt · December 1, 2020

Latin Mass Gospel Reading Video: Boost your Sunday

Reviewing the Sunday readings ahead of time is a highly recommended exercise. Now enjoy a crossword puzzle at the same time!

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Keven Smith · November 30, 2020

How to Help Children Match Pitch (part I)

It all starts with teaching your kids to sing in head tone. Here are some ideas on how to do it.

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Jeff Ostrowski · November 30, 2020

The “Winking” Part • Where’d Father Lasance Get It?

A curious translation which Father Lasance “borrowed” for the Ash Wednesday Introit…

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Fr. David Friel · November 30, 2020

A Whale of a Pulpit

An unusual genre of ambo architecture

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Jeff Ostrowski · November 29, 2020

Extremely Rare! • Pages from the “Directorium Chori” (Solesmes Abbey, 1864)

The entire edition was destroyed in a fire (circa 1866) except four rare copies.

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Jeff Ostrowski · November 25, 2020

Feast of the Holy Family • Where did it come from?

The Consilium asked (15 March 1965): “Is it pleasing that the feast of the Holy Family be suppressed?” • Discussion of the First Sunday After Epiphany; the Feast of the Holy Name; the Feast of the Baptism of the Lord; the two (2) instances of different “Jubilate Deo” Offertories which repeat; “Abhinc Duos Annos” (23 October 1913); and many other items+

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Jeff Ostrowski · November 24, 2020

“Homily — 1st Sunday of Advent, Year B” • Father Valentine Young, OFM

All of us are now closer to our moment of death than we were last year or in any time in the past.

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President’s Corner

    “Holy, Holy, Holy” transposed lower

    A simple setting based on a work by Canon Jules Vyverman.

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    —Jeff Ostrowski
    Music List • (27th Sund. Ordinary Time)

    Readers have expressed interest in examining my “music list” for this coming Sunday: 4 October 2026

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    —Jeff Ostrowski
    A Mystery! — Re: the “Liber Usualis”

    Even after all these years, nobody has been able to explain this.

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    —Jeff Ostrowski

Quick Thoughts

    Preface of Saint Joseph (added by the pope)

    You can see the “Præfatio de Sancto Joseph” inserted directly into the priest’s missal.

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    —Jeff Ostrowski
    “Predictable Rhymes?” • A Follow Up
    We received considerable correspondence regarding my article, Two Ways to Defile a Hymn. More specifically, what really raised certain people’s hackles was its follow-up article dealing with the keyboard accompaniment for the CHRIST THE KING HYMNAL. But to quote Eliza Doolittle: “Have I said anything I oughtn’t?” Please examine this PDF file and see whether you agree. Were the editors of the BRÉBEUF HYMNAL incorrect to insist upon sophisticated and clever rhymes, rather than mind-numbingly predictable rhymes?
    —Jeff Ostrowski
    ‘Ould’ But Not Good
    Dom Samuel Gregory Ould (note the spelling) was a Benedictine monk at FORT AUGUSTUS ABBEY in Scotland. As musician, organist, and composer, Dom Ould was highly regarded. Moreover, he was considered an authority on Gregorian Chant. But not everything found in an old book—or, in this case, an “Ould” book—is necessarily praiseworthy. Consider this page from Dom Ould’s hymnal. Do you see the rhymes? They offend severely by ABR (“Abuse By Reuse”) and are utterly predictable. In my recent article—Two Ways to Defile a Hymn—I addressed this topic.
    —Jeff Ostrowski

Random Quote

“The Saint Jean de Brébeuf Hymnal will undoubtedly enrich liturgical life at the parish level by making accessible these ancient, noble, and theologically-rich Catholic hymns, translated into English in quite a beautiful way.”

— Rev. Fr. John Berg (Superior General, Priestly Fraternity of Saint Peter) 30-NOV-2018

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