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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.”

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Jeff Ostrowski · August 17, 2024

Music List • (20th Sund. Ordinary Time)

This coming Sunday is 18 August 2024.

Jeff Ostrowski · August 15, 2024

Music List • “Assumption” (15 August)

Several readers expressed interest in seeing my music list for the Assumption (15 August). You will notice the COMMUNION HYMN is a special version of “Ave Maris Stella” in English and Spanish. Our Mass on the Assumption was Tri-Lingual: Latin, English, and Spanish. Here’s the organ accompaniment (five pages) for that hymn. Furthermore, those who […]

Jeff Ostrowski · August 14, 2024

“Missa de Angelis” • Gloria

Feel free to download this PDF file containing GLORIA VIII (“Mass of the Angels”) harmonized by the great Belgian organist: Flor Peeters.

Jeff Ostrowski · August 14, 2024

Assumption Resp. Psalm (in Spanish)

Responsorial Psalm in Spanish for the feast of Our Lady’s Assumption, 15 August.

Jeff Ostrowski · August 13, 2024

15 August • “Our Lady’s Assumption”

Jeff shares a ‘quick thought’ regarding the topic of the sacred liturgy.

Jeff Ostrowski · August 9, 2024

Music List • (19th Sund. Ordinary Time)

This coming Sunday (11 August 2024) is the 19th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B. Some have expressed interest in seeing my “ORDER OF MUSIC.” If such a thing be appealing to you, it can be downloaded as a PDF file.

Jeff Ostrowski · August 6, 2024

MONTH OF AUGUST • “Reminder”

Each day I speak to folks who have followed our blog for years but (somehow) don’t realize we publish a free newsletter. Please subscribe to it! Simply scroll to the bottom of any blog article and enter your email address. We have no endowment, no major donors, no savings, and refuse to run annoyong ads. Therefore, […]

Jeff Ostrowski · August 6, 2024

“Reader Feedback” • 6 August 2024

Mrs. J.M. writes to us from Manassas, Virginia: “I’m thrilled you are offering this scan by the Sisters of the Most Precious Blood in O’Fallon, Missouri! Years ago I wrote to the sisters and one sent me a copy of all the booklets and cds. I have been such an admirer of Msgr Hellriegel’s work!”

Jeff Ostrowski · August 5, 2024

“Reader Feedback” • 5 August 2024

Mr. RPD wrote: “I write to you regarding your recent release of 483 pages of Plainsong Propers in English, composed by the Sisters of the Most Precious Blood in O’Fallon, Missouri. I attended the English School in Helsinki from 1957 to 1969. The teachers were sisters of the Most Precious Blood of Jesus, from O’Fallon, […]

Jeff Ostrowski · August 3, 2024

Music List • (18th Sund. Ordinary Time)

Tomorrow is Sunday, 4 August 2024. Some have expressed interest in seeing my “Order of Music” for tomorrow, which is the 18th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B. If such a thing be appealing to you, it can be downloaded as a PDF file.

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 27, 2024

Music List • (17th Sund. Ordinary Time)

Some have expressed interest in seeing my “Order of Music” for tomorrow, which is the 17th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B. If such a thing be appealing to you, it can be downloaded as a PDF file.

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 24, 2024

MONTH OF JULY • “Reminder”

Each day, I speak on the phone with Catholics who’ve supported Corpus Christi Watershed for years—yet many don’t subscribe to our free email newsletter! Please sign up! Simply scroll to the bottom of any blog article and enter your email address. (We have no endowment, no major donors, run no advertisements, and have no savings. Therefore, our […]

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President’s Corner

    ‘Bogey’ of the Half-Educated: Paraphrase
    Father Adrian Porter, using the cracher dans la soupe example, did a praiseworthy job explaining the difference between ‘dynamic’ and ‘formal’ translation. This is something Monsignor Ronald Knox explained time and again—yet even now certain parties feign ignorance. I suppose there will always be people who pretend the only ‘valid’ translation of Mitigásti omnem iram tuam; avertísti ab ira indignatiónis tuæ… would be “You mitigated all ire of you; you have averted from your indignation’s ire.” Those who would defend such a translation suffer from an unfortunate malady. One of my professors called it “cognate on the brain.”
    —Jeff Ostrowski
    Father Cuthbert Lattey • “The Hebrew MSS”
    Father Cuthbert Lattey (d. 1954) wrote: “In a large number of cases the ancient Christian versions and some other ancient sources seem to have been based upon a better Hebrew text than that adopted by the rabbis for official use and alone suffered to survive. Sometimes, too, the cognate languages suggest a suitable meaning for which there is little or no support in the comparatively small amount of ancient Hebrew that has survived. The evidence of the metre is also at times so clear as of itself to furnish a strong argument; often it is confirmed by some other considerations. […] The Jewish copyists and their directors, however, seem to have lost the tradition of the metre at an early date, and the meticulous care of the rabbis in preserving their own official and traditional text (the ‘massoretic’ text) came too late, when the mischief had already been done.” • Msgr. Knox adds: “It seems the safest principle to follow the Latin—after all, St. Jerome will sometimes have had a better text than the Massoretes—except on the rare occasions when there is no sense to be extracted from the Vulgate at all.”
    —Jeff Ostrowski
    “Music List” • 9 Nov. (Dedic. Lateran)
    Readers have expressed interest in perusing the ORDER OF MUSIC I’ve prepared for 9 November 2025, which is the Dedication of the Lateran Basilica. If such a thing interests you, feel free to download it as a PDF file. As always, the Responsorial Psalm, Gospel Acclamation, and Mass Propers for this Sunday are conveniently stored at the sensational feasts website alongside the official texts in Latin.
    —Jeff Ostrowski

Quick Thoughts

    “Reminder” — Month of November (2025)
    On a daily basis, I speak to people who don’t realize we publish a free newsletter (although they’ve followed our blog for years). We have no endowment, no major donors, no savings, and refuse to run annoying ads. As a result, our mailing list is crucial to our survival. Signing up couldn’t be easier: simply scroll to the bottom of any blog article and enter your email address.
    —Jeff Ostrowski
    Gospel Options for 2 November (“All Souls”)
    We’ve been told some bishops are suppressing the TLM because of “unity.” But is unity truly found in the MISSALE RECENS? For instance, on All Souls (2 November), any of these Gospel readings may be chosen, for any reason (or for no reason at all). The same is true of the Propria Missæ and other readings—there are countless options in the ORDINARY FORM. In other words, no matter which OF parish you attend on 2 November, you’ll almost certainly hear different propers and readings, to say nothing of different ‘styles’ of music. Where is the “unity” in all this? Indeed, the Second Vatican Council solemnly declared: “Even in the liturgy, the Church has no wish to impose a rigid uniformity in matters which do not implicate the faith or the good of the whole community.”
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    “Our Father” • Musical Setting?
    Looking through a Roman Catholic Hymnal published in 1859 by Father Guido Maria Dreves (d. 1909), I stumbled upon this very beautiful tune (PDF file). I feel it would be absolutely perfect to set the “Our Father” in German to music. Thoughts?
    —Jeff Ostrowski

Random Quote

“We must remember that the important elements of a rite are not the things that will first be noticed by a casual and ignorant onlooker—the number of candles, colour of the vestments and places where the bell is rung—but just those things he would not notice: the Canon, fraction and so on, the prayers said in a low voice and the characteristic but less obvious rites done by the celebrant at the altar.”

— Fr. Fortescue explaining that Anglicanism does not preserve Sarum

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