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Jeff Ostrowski · January 4, 2023

PDF Download • The Official Funeral Booklet for Pope Benedict XVI (37 pages)

We strive to emphasize the positive on this blog, but I have to admit…

Jeff Ostrowski · January 4, 2023

PDF Download • Ancient Christmas Hymn with Modern Harmonies (4 pages)

She said: “Jeff, you should record these harmonies with human voices, to illustrate what you mean.”

Jeff Ostrowski · January 1, 2023

PDF Download • Extremely Rare! • Gregorian Accompaniments (513 pages)

Dr. Peter Wagner, a famous musicologist, founded the “Gregorian Academy” in Freiburg (Switzerland).

Jeff Ostrowski · December 31, 2022

“Requiescat In Pace” • Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI

Let us pray for the repose of the soul of Josef Ratzinger, who did so much good for the church.

Jeff Ostrowski · December 24, 2022

PDF Download • “What Child Is This?” • Jeff’s Arrangement of This Carol … in Latin!

This morning I sat down and arranged what—in my view—is one of the beautiful Christmas carols.

Veronica Moreno · December 18, 2022

Young Boys Who “Play” Mass

A mother describes her son’s love for the Mass. He memorizes and recruits friends to “play Mass.” We are a people of hope.

Jeff Ostrowski · December 18, 2022

PDF Download • “Veni, Veni Emmanuel” for 2 parts

I didn’t have the heart to tell this fellow that the same melody occurs at other times of the liturgical year.

Jeff Ostrowski · December 17, 2022

Available Now! • 4th Sunday of Advent

Those who so desire may now download this organ accompaniment booklet (25 pages) for the 4th Sunday of Advent, including the “O ANTIPHON” for 18 December 2022.

Jeff Ostrowski · December 15, 2022

PDF • “Rorate Mass Musical Booklet” (39 pages)

In my humble opinion, that ‘explanation’ is sheer, unadulterated gobbledygook.

Jeff Ostrowski · December 14, 2022

PDF Download • 1938 “White List of Sacred Music” (Archdiocese of Dubuque, Iowa) — 114 pages!

Their spelling of French names could have used some proofreading!

Jeff Ostrowski · December 13, 2022

PDF Download • “Advent Eucharistic Hymn”

I don’t know a more powerful exposition on the Holy Eucharist than this striking hymn by Archbishop Pecham!

Jeff Ostrowski · December 10, 2022

PDF Download • “Kyriale Accompaniment Book” by Dr. Peter Wagner (138 pages)

… including a deliciously dazzling discovery you won’t want to miss!

Jeff Ostrowski · December 7, 2022

PDF Download • “Organ Accompaniment Booklet” • Vespers (3rd Sunday of Advent) — 23 pages

Were Pothier and Mocquereau homeless? The answer might surprise you.

Jeff Ostrowski · December 7, 2022

PDF Download • “Salve Regina” [Simplex] • An Elegant English Translation (2022)

The incomparable Andrew Hinkley kindly set it to plainchant notation.

Jeff Ostrowski · December 3, 2022

PDF Download • Organ Accompaniment Booklet: Vespers (2nd Sunday of Advent) — 27 pages

Dom Gajard said to Jean Langlais: “Hear the blackbird! It doesn’t know what an ‘ictus’ is, yet it sings better than we.”

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    Vespers Booklet (4th Sunday of Lent)
    The organ accompaniment booklet (24 pages) which I created for the 4th Sunday of Lent (“Lætare Sunday”) may now be downloaded, for those who desire such a thing.
    —Jeff Ostrowski
    Vespers Booklet, 3rd Sunday of Lent
    The organ accompaniment I created for the 3rd Sunday of Lent (“Extraordinary Form”) may now be downloaded, if anyone is interested in this.
    —Jeff Ostrowski
    Weeping For Joy! (We Hope!)
    Listening to this Easter Alleluia—an SATB arrangement I made twenty years ago based on the work of Monsignor Jules Van Nuffel—one of our readers left this comment: “I get tears in my eyes each time I sing to this hymn.” I hope this person is weeping for joy!
    —Jeff Ostrowski

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No concession should ever be made for the singing of the Exsultet, in whole or in part, in the vernacular.

— ‘Fr. Augustin Bea, S.J. in the years immediately before the Second Vatican Council’

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