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The Saint Jean de Brébeuf Hymnal

The Saint Jean de Brébeuf Hymnal

ERIOUS CATHOLICS can finally purchase an exemplary hymnal that doesn’t mimic or “build upon” Protestant models. The pew edition is utterly sleek, and the supplemental materials (accompaniment volumes, rehearsal videos, choral supplement, etc.) are innovative and powerful. A member of the Catholic Organist Group wrote: “I have never encountered such a prolific and astoundingly interesting hymnal; I just read it for an hour and I’ve barely scratched the surface. I’m hanging on every word. It’s just as much a lesson in theology, Christian tradition, the history of sacred hymnody, and inspiring Christian bio-epic of the North American martyrs as it is a hymnal. It could easily stand as a primary text to a course, and is almost overkill as a pew aid.”

The Brébeuf Hymnal contains three times as many hymns as its competitors.

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*  HYMN TUNE INDEX • Melodic Snippets (8,000 entries)
—Please be patient as this massively helpful page loads!

*  Pew Edition • Purchase the Pew Edition
—Contact SOPHIA INSTITUTE PRESS for bulk discount rates.

*  CHORAL SUPPLEMENT • Purchase Link
—The Choral Supplement must be used in conjunction with the pew edition.
—Contact SOPHIA INSTITUTE PRESS for bulk discount rates.

*  ORGAN ACCOMPANIMENT • Three Volumes (1,292 pages)
—The Organ Accompaniment volumes must be used in conjunction with the pew edition.
—Being sold by SOPHIA INSTITUTE PRESS; Spiral-Bound; extremely opaque paper.

Download the hymnal indexes, sample pages, and more below!

Rehearsal Videos

By permission of the JP2 institute, Watershed will be providing hundreds of rehearsal videos free of charge. Some examples:

Hymn #006   •   Equal Voices   |   SOPR • ALTO • TENR • BASS

Hymn #007   •   Equal Voices   |   SOPR • ALTO • TENR • BASS

Hymn #012   •   Equal Voices   |   SOPR • ALTO • TENR • BASS

Hymn #018   •   Equal Voices   |   SOPR • ALTO • TENR • BASS

Hymn #030   •   Equal Voices   |   SOPR • ALTO • TENR • BASS

Hymn #037   •   Equal Voices   |   SOPR • ALTO • TENR • BASS

Hymn #084   •   Equal Voices   |   SOPR • ALTO • TENR • BASS

Hymn #090 • VIDEO | This is a unison hymn

Hymn #156   •   Equal Voices   |   SOPR • ALTO • TENR • BASS

Hymn #182   •   Equal Voices   |   SOPR • ALTO • TENR • BASS

Hymn #188   •   Equal Voices   |   SOPR • ALTO • TENR • BASS

Hymn #193   •   Equal Voices   |   SOPR • ALTO • TENR • BASS

Hymn #217   •   Equal Voices   |   SOPR • ALTO • TENR • BASS

Hymn #222 • VIDEO | This is a unison hymn

Hymn #242 • VIDEO | This is a unison hymn

Hymn #236 • (temporary recording)

Hymn #250   •   Equal Voices   |   SOPR • ALTO • TENR • BASS

Hymn #259   •   Equal Voices   |   SOPR • ALTO • TENR • BASS

Hymn #260   •   Equal Voices   |   SOPR • ALTO • TENR • BASS

Hymn #266   •   Equal Voices   |   SOPR • ALTO • TENR • BASS

Hymn #282   •   Equal Voices   |   SOPR • ALTO • TENR • BASS

Hymn #286   •   (temporary recording)

Hymn #290   •   Temporary files: AA BB

Hymn #356   •   Equal Voices   |   SOPR • ALTO • TENR • BASS

Hymn #370   •   Equal Voices   |   SOPR • ALTO • TENR • BASS

Hymn #376   •   Equal Voices   |   SOPR • ALTO • TENR • BASS

Hymn #379   •   Equal Voices   |   SOPR • ALTO • TENR • BASS

Hymn #382 • VIDEO | This is a unison hymn

Hymn #402 • VIDEO | This is a unison hymn

Hymn #403 • (temporary recording)

Hymn #407 • (temporary recording)

Hymn #411 • (temporary recording)

Hymn #428 • VIDEO | This is a unison hymn

Hymn #446   •   Equal Voices   |   SOPR • ALTO • TENR • BASS

Hymn #450   •   Equal Voices   |   SOPR • ALTO • TENR • BASS

Hymn #464   •   Equal Voices   |   SOPR • ALTO • TENR • BASS

Hymn #465   •   Equal Voices   |   SOPR • ALTO • TENR • BASS

Hymn #480   •   Equal Voices   |   SOPR • ALTO • TENR • BASS

Hymn #502 • VIDEO | This is a unison hymn

Hymn #510   •   Equal Voices   |   SOPR • ALTO • TENR • BASS

Hymn #517   •   Equal Voices   |   SOPR • ALTO • TENR • BASS

Hymn #528 • VIDEO | This is a unison hymn

Hymn #536   •   Equal Voices   |   SOPR • ALTO • TENR • BASS

Hymn #540 • (temporary recording)

Hymn #546   •   Equal Voices   |   SOPR • ALTO • TENR • BASS

Hymn #554   •   Equal Voices   |   SOPR • ALTO • TENR • BASS

Hymn #654   •   Equal Voices   |   SOPR • ALTO • TENR • BASS

Hymn #655   •   Equal Voices   |   SOPR • ALTO • TENR • BASS

Hymn #657   •   Equal Voices   |   SOPR • ALTO • TENR • BASS

Hymn #659   •   Equal Voices   |   SOPR • ALTO • TENR • BASS

Hymn #661   •   Equal Voices   |   SOPR • ALTO • TENR • BASS

Hymn #663   •   Equal Voices   |   SOPR • ALTO • TENR • BASS

Hymn #681   •   (temporary recording)

Hymn #694   •   Equal Voices   |   SOPR • ALTO • TENR • BASS

Hymn #697   •   Equal Voices   |   SOPR • ALTO • TENR • BASS

Hymn #699   •   Equal Voices   |   SOPR • ALTO • TENR • BASS

Hymn #672   •   (temporary recording)

Hymn #712   •   Equal Voices   |   SOPR • ALTO • TENR • BASS

Hymn #752   •   Equal Voices   |   SOPR • ALTO • TENR • BASS

Hymn #759   •   Equal Voices   |   SOPR • ALTO • TENR • BASS

Hymn #760   •   (Live Rec. of the Latin section)

Hymn #761   •   (Live Rec. of the Latin section)
   #761 • with Alto Line Added

Hymn #783   •   Equal Voices   |   SOPR • ALTO • TENR • BASS

Hymn #802   •   Equal Voices   |   SOPR • ALTO • TENR • BASS

Hymn #814   •   Equal Voices   |   SOPR • ALTO • TENR • BASS

Hymn #865   •   Equal Voices   |   SOPR • ALTO • TENR • BASS

Hymn #868   •   Equal Voices   |   SOPR • ALTO • TENR • BASS

Hymn #869   •   Equal Voices   |   SOPR • ALTO • TENR • BASS

Hymn #875   •   Equal Voices   |   SOPR • ALTO • TENR • BASS

Hymn #876   •   Equal Voices   |   SOPR • ALTO • TENR • BASS

The Brébeuf Hymnal has been reviewed and compared by Mr. Dan Craig.

Additional Information

*  Instructional Video • FIRST SECTION vs. SECOND PART
—YouTube: “Using the Brébeuf Index Correctly”

*  PDF Download • SEASONAL INDEX
(For personal use, uploaded by Veronica Moreno)

*  PDF Download • COMPLETE INDICES
(Material from the Saint Jean de Brébeuf Hymnal)

*  YouTube Video • “Most Catholic Indexes”
—This shows the rationale behind the Brébeuf indices.

*  CCWatershed Article • ORGAN ACCOMP.
(Additional info Re: the Organ Accompaniment volumes)

*  PDF Download • ADDITIONAL ARTICLES
(Ten articles about the Saint Jean de Brébeuf Hymnal)

*  Blog Article • SOURCE MATERIAL
(Many of the old Catholics hymnals we scanned can be downloaded here)

*  PDF Download • EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
(Salient points about this hymnal on a single sheet)

*  Photographs • CHORAL SUPPLEMENT
(The Brébeuf Choral Supplement has started to arrive in mailboxes!)

*  PDF • “What People Are Saying”
(Testimonials from Catholics in the pews.)

*  PDF • “What Experts Are Saying”
(Testimonials from authorities on Sacred Music.)

Questions?

The Brébeuf Hymnal was produced by the the John Paul II Institute for Liturgical Renewal, and is distributed by Sophia Institute Press. Nine members from Corpus Christi Watershed were chosen to assist the JP2 Institute in the production of this superb hymn book. Corpus Christi Watershed is a 501(c)3 public charity. In the interest of full disclosure, any artists who contributed to the Brébeuf hymnal—texts, melodies, harmonizations, artwork, and so forth—receive standard royalties.

Contact the John Paul II Institute with questions about the Brébeuf Hymnal.

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Quick Thoughts

Surprising Popularity!

One of our most popular downloads has proven to be the organ accompaniment to “The Monastery Hymnal” (131 pages). This book was compiled, arranged, and edited by Achille P. Bragers, who studied at the Lemmensinstituut (Belgium) about thirty years before that school produced the NOH. Bragers might be considered an example of Belgium “Stile Antico” whereas Flor Peeters and Jules Van Nuffel represented Belgium “Prima Pratica.” You can download the hymnal by Bragers at this link.

—Jeff Ostrowski
15 February 2021 • To Capitalize…?

In the Introit for the 6th Sunday after Pentecost, there is a question regarding whether to capitalize the word “christi.” The Vulgata does not, because Psalm 27 is not specifically referring to Our Lord, but rather to God’s “anointed one.” However, Missals tend to capitalize it, such as the official 1962 Missal and also a book from 1777 called Missel de Paris. Something tells me Monsignor Knox would not capitalize it.

—Jeff Ostrowski
15 February 2021 • “Sung vs. Spoken”

We have spoken quite a bit about “sung vs. spoken” antiphons. We have also noted that the texts of the Graduale Romanum sometimes don’t match the Missal texts (in the Extraordinary Form) because the Mass Propers are older than Saint Jerome’s Vulgate, and sometimes came from the ITALA versions of Sacred Scripture. On occasion, the Missal itself doesn’t match the Vulgate—cf. the Introit “Esto Mihi.” The Vulgate has: “Esto mihi in Deum protectórem et in domum refúgii…” but the Missal and Graduale Romanum use “Esto mihi in Deum protectórem et in locum refúgii…” The 1970s “spoken propers” use the traditional version, as you can see.

—Jeff Ostrowski

Random Quote

In the ’60s, I thought this emphasis on congregational singing was to encourage good Catholic hymns like “Immaculate Mary” and so forth … but after the Council, they threw them out, too!

— ‘Fr. Valentine Young, OFM (2007)’

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