“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
Pope Saint Paul VI (3 April 1969): “Although the text of the Roman Gradual—at least that which concerns the singing—has not been changed, the Entrance antiphons and Communions antiphons have been revised for Masses without singing.”

“My desire, Leroy, is to answer your question in a rigorously straightforward way.” —Jeff Ostrowski

“This is an exquisite setting and I know my singers would very much enjoy singing it.” —Mary

Last time I created a ‘simplified’ keyboard accompaniment it was downloaded more than 1,000 times within 24 hours.
The official language of the Catholic Church is Latin (whereas Greek is our mother tongue).

“From your wounded side, O Christ, a spring of water bursts forth, by which the squalor of the world is washed away…”

Dom John Stéphan was a Benedictine monk of Buckfast Abbey in South Devon, England.

Includes an interesting harmonization for “Víctimae Pascháli Laudes.”

Dom Charles Augustine Bachofen was born in Switzerland but spent his career between the Benedictine monasteries at Conception (Missouri) and Mount Angel (Oregon).

Readers have expressed interest in examining my “music list” for Easter Sunday 2026.
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