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Jeff Ostrowski · August 19, 2024

“Our Father” • (Arr. for 3 Voices)

This tune has many names such as “Psalm 112” and “Old Hundred Twelfth.”

Jeff Ostrowski · August 17, 2024

Music List • (20th Sund. Ordinary Time)

This coming Sunday is 18 August 2024.

Jeff Ostrowski · August 6, 2024

PDF Download • “Entrance Chant in English” (19th Sunday in Ordinary Time)

Including twelve (12) different versions!

Veronica Brandt · August 5, 2024

Slavonic Sub Tuum: a 3 part gem of haunting beauty for your choir

An easy-peasy all-year-round Marian motet in three parts plus some reflections on typing up sheet music.

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Jeff Ostrowski · August 4, 2024

“Something Quite Odd” • Today’s Responsorial Psalm

Including a special comparison chart which shows the NAB translation vs. the “Abbey Psalms and Canticles” translation.

Jeff Ostrowski · August 2, 2024

PDF Download • “Sanctus” (Roman Missal, 3rd Ed.) in English, Latin, Spanish — Organ Accomp.

You might want to download three PDF files I composed this morning.

Jeff Ostrowski · July 31, 2024

Reminder • “Lalemant Propers” (392 Pages)

You can purchase this book in hard-copy, but many prefer to download the PDF file.

Jeff Ostrowski · July 30, 2024

“Entrance Chant in English” • 18th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B

“Entrance Chant” for the 18th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B.

Jeff Ostrowski · July 29, 2024

PDF Download • “O’Fallon Mass Propers” (483 Pages)

Including an English version of the “Dies Irae,” an English version of the “Lauda Sion,” and hundreds of pages of English Mass Propers.

Jeff Ostrowski · July 26, 2024

“Simplified” Accomp. (3,400 downloads)

Saint Georg’s Windsor is often paired with “Songs Of Thankfulness And Praise” by Christopher Wordsworth.

Jeff Ostrowski · July 23, 2024

PDF Download • “Entrance Chant” for the 17th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Years ABC)

Including ten (10) alternate versions!

Jeff Ostrowski · July 19, 2024

PDF Download • “Plainsong Propers” (1964) — Extremely Rare!

English Gregorian Chant by the Sisters of the Most Precious Blood (O’Fallon, Missouri)

Corpus Christi Watershed · July 16, 2024

PDF Download • “Discomforts Of Transition”

We’d be grateful if a reader could determine the precise year this bizarre pamphlet appeared.

Jeff Ostrowski · July 16, 2024

“Soul of my Savior” arranged for 3 voices

Many readers watched this video, which was a iPhone recording from last Sunday of three young women singing “Soul of my Savior” arranged for three equal voices by Miss Helen Drost. People have been asking where they can get the musical score. Please know it can be instantly downloaded by clicking here.

Jeff Ostrowski · July 9, 2024

Live Recording • “Entrance Chant” (14th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B)

In the 1970s, some musicians felt that annihilating the Mass propers would lead to “freedom”—but the opposite was true.

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President’s Corner

    “Common” Responsorial Psalm?
    I try to avoid arguing about liturgical legislation (even with Catholic priests) because it seems like many folks hold certain views—and nothing will persuade them to believe differently. You can show them 100 church documents, but it matters not. They won’t budge. Sometimes I’m confronted by people who insist that “there’s no such thing” as a COMMON RESPONSORIAL PSALM. When that happens, I show them a copy of the official legislation in Latin. I have occasionally prevailed by means of this method.
    —Jeff Ostrowski
    “Music List” • 5th Sunday of Easter (Year C)
    Some have expressed interest in perusing the ORDER OF MUSIC I prepared for the 5th Sunday of Easter (18 May 2025). If such a thing interests you, feel free to download it as a PDF file. The Communion Antiphon was ‘restored’ the 1970 Missale Romanum (a.k.a. MISSALE RECENS) from an obscure martyr’s feast. Our choir is on break this Sunday, so the selections are relatively simple in nature.
    —Jeff Ostrowski
    Communion Chant (5th Sunday of Easter)
    This coming Sunday—18 May 2025—is the 5th Sunday of Easter, Year C (MISSALE RECENS). The COMMUNION ANTIPHON “Ego Sum Vitis Vera” assigned by the Church is rather interesting, because it comes from a rare martyr’s feast: viz. Saint Vitalis of Milan. It was never part of the EDITIO VATICANA, which is the still the Church’s official edition. As a result, the musical notation had to be printed in the Ordo Cantus Missae, which appeared in 1970.
    —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

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“Contradictions place us at the foot of the Cross, and the Cross places us at the gates of Heaven.” (Saint John Mary Vianney)

— Cardinal Merry del Val’s Prayer-Book

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