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“My desire, Leroy, is to answer your question in a rigorously straightforward way.” —Jeff Ostrowski
Dom John Stéphan was a Benedictine monk of Buckfast Abbey in South Devon, England.
This gorgeous PDF scan is being offered completely free of charge
Earlier this year, my mother found out we desperately needed funds and were planning to run a fundraiser…
“Kids, you’re only on this floating rock for a very short time.”
This is surely one of music history’s great ironies!
I would argue we must renew our good resolution and stand firm.
With a brief digression on “feelings of inadequacy.”
An English translation of “Veni Creator Spiritus.”
This version by Father Adrian Fortescue is fascinating!
How dare I broach such a subject?
Where “Parce Dómine” (the famous song for Lent) came from.
In 1957, the Abbey of Solesmes publicly claimed copyright over “the rhythmic signs 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗿𝗵𝘆𝘁𝗵𝗺 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝗿𝗲𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘁.”
Is it fair to forever bind Dom Guéranger to what he wrote about “barbarous archaisms” in 1855?
Including several hymns eminently suitable for the feast of Christ the King.
