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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 #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 #290   •   (Live Recording)

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

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

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

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 #761   •   (Live Rec. of the Latin section)

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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20 January 2021 • REMINDER

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19 January 2021 • Confusion over feasts

For several months, we have discussed the complicated history of the various Christmas feasts: the Baptism of the Lord, the feast of the Holy Family, the Epiphany, and so forth. During a discussion, someone questioned my assertion that in some places Christmas had been part of the Epiphany. As time went on, of course, the Epiphany came to represent only three “manifestations” (Magi, Cana, Baptism), but this is not something rigid. For example, if you look at this “Capital E” from the feast of the Epiphany circa 1350AD, you can see it portrays not three mysteries but four—including PHAGIPHANIA when Our Lord fed the 5,000. In any event, anyone who wants proof the Epiphany used to include Christmas can read this passage from Dom Prosper Guéranger.

—Jeff Ostrowski
6 January 2021 • Anglicans on Plainsong

A book published by Anglicans in 1965 has this to say about Abbat Pothier’s Editio Vaticana, the musical edition reproduced by books such as the LIBER USUALIS (Solesmes Abbey): “No performing edition of the music of the Eucharistic Psalmody can afford to ignore the evidence of the current official edition of the Latin Graduale, which is no mere reproduction of a local or partial tradition, but a CENTO resulting from an extended study and comparison of a host of manuscripts gathered from many places. Thus the musical text of the Graduale possesses a measure of authority which cannot lightly be disregarded.” They are absolutely correct.

—Jeff Ostrowski

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“With all the powers of modern music open to him, from romanticism through French impressionism to the German and Russian modernists, he is yet able to confine all these contradictory forces on the groundwork of the Gregorian tradition.”

— Theodor Rehmann (on Msgr. Jules Van Nuffel)

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