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Views from the Choir Loft

Annibale Bugnini Reform

Jeff Ostrowski · February 5, 2025

PDF Download • “Psalm Comparison Chart”

This PDF chart will be of interest to Catholic musicians!

Jeff Ostrowski · October 23, 2023

“Did One Man Single-Handedly Sabotage the Gregorian Restoration?” • (Part 2 of 2)

Will anyone step forward to defend this?

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 · January 8, 2022

Re: Glaring Lectionary Omission • “Setting The Record Straight”

They were: (1) Cardinal Palazzini; (2) Cardinal Stickler; (3) Cardinal Mayer; (4) Cardinal Oddi; (5) Cardinal Casaroli; (6) Cardinal Gantin; (7) Cardinal Innocenti; (8) Cardinal Ratzinger; (9) Cardinal Tomko.

Jeff Ostrowski · November 11, 2021

Cardinal Cupich Responds To Our Article!

Cardinal Antonelli: “I have the impression that much has been conceded to the Protestant mentality, especially in matters regarding the sacraments.”

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Jeff Ostrowski · October 10, 2021

A Puzzling Assertion by Bishop Arthur Roche (Congregation for Divine Worship)

Is backroom bowdlerization of Sacred Scripture truly irreversible?

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Jeff Ostrowski · June 4, 2021

They Did Something Bad & Inexplicable • (Documentation Included)

I beg you on my hands and knees to read verses 12-20.

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Jeff Ostrowski · July 2, 2015

Annibale Bugnini’s Commentary (June 1967)

“The faithful everywhere have responded generously, and have greeted the new liturgy with great joy.” —Archbishop Bugnini (1967)

Fr. David Friel · May 24, 2015

A Mini History of the Sequences

At the height of their usage, there were proper sequences for nearly every Sunday and feast day.

Jeff Ostrowski · March 9, 2015

Cardinal Sarah’s Liturgical Bombshell

Pressure will be brought to have him walk back his statements, but I don’t believe he will.

Jeff Ostrowski · February 10, 2015

The Facts About Annibale Bugnini’s Death

The difference between correlation & causality.

Jeff Ostrowski · December 30, 2014

“A Pathetic, Unenforceable Patchwork Of Rhetoric” & The Latin Mass

“Many of those who have influenced the reform have no love, and no veneration of that which has been handed down to us.” —Secretary of the Consilium

Jeff Ostrowski · September 24, 2014

Are We Getting Dumber?

In spite of all the progress our civilizations have made, the self-appointed “expert liturgists” are regressing.

Jeff Ostrowski · August 5, 2014

Five Questions No Liturgist Can Answer

“The present welter of discardable booklets, mimeographed sheets, divergent paperback hymnals, and so on … has unfortunate psychological effects.” — Dr. James Hitchcock

Jeff Ostrowski · July 27, 2014

The Improbable Triumph Of The Latin Mass

“Complete equality of status for the old rite of Mass alongside the new rite … is just not going to happen.” — Fr. Brian W. Harrison (26 March 1995)

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    “Music List” • 5th Sunday of Easter (Year C)
    Some have expressed interest in perusing the ORDER OF MUSIC I prepared for the 5th Sunday of Easter (18 May 2025). If such a thing interests you, feel free to download it as a PDF file. The Communion Antiphon was ‘restored’ the 1970 Missale Romanum (a.k.a. MISSALE RECENS) from an obscure martyr’s feast. Our choir is on break this Sunday, so the selections are relatively simple in nature.
    —Jeff Ostrowski
    Communion Chant (5th Sunday of Easter)
    This coming Sunday—18 May 2025—is the 5th Sunday of Easter, Year C (MISSALE RECENS). The COMMUNION ANTIPHON “Ego Sum Vitis Vera” assigned by the Church is rather interesting, because it comes from a rare martyr’s feast: viz. Saint Vitalis of Milan. It was never part of the EDITIO VATICANA, which is the still the Church’s official edition. As a result, the musical notation had to be printed in the Ordo Cantus Missae, which appeared in 1970.
    —Jeff Ostrowski
    “Music List” • 4th Sunday of Easter (Year C)
    Some have expressed interest in perusing the ORDER OF MUSIC I prepared for the 4th Sunday of Easter (11 May 2025). If such a thing interests you, feel free to download it as a PDF file. I don’t know a more gorgeous ENTRANCE CHANT than the one given there: Misericórdia Dómini Plena Est Terra.
    —Jeff Ostrowski

Quick Thoughts

    Antiphons Don’t Match?
    A reader wants to know why the Entrance and Communion antiphons in certain publications deviate from what’s prescribed by the GRADUALE ROMANUM published after Vatican II. Click here to read our answer. The short answer is: the Adalbert Propers were never intended to be sung. They were intended for private Masses only (or Masses without music). The “Graduale Parvum,” published by the John Henry Newman Institute of Liturgical Music in 2023, mostly uses the Adalbert Propers—but sometimes uses the GRADUALE text: e.g. Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul (29 June).
    —Corpus Christi Watershed
    When to Sit, Stand and Kneel like it’s 1962
    There are lots of different guides to postures for Mass, but I couldn’t find one which matched our local Latin Mass, so I made this one: sit-stand-kneel-crop
    —Veronica Brandt
    The Funeral Rites of the Graduale Romanum
    Lately I have been paging through the 1974 Graduale Romanum (see p. 678 ff.) and have been fascinated by the funeral rites found therein, especially the simply-beautiful Psalmody that is appointed for all the different occasions before and after the funeral Mass: at the vigil/wake, at the house of the deceased, processing to the church, at the church, processing to the cemetery, and at the cemetery. Would that this “stational Psalmody” of the Novus Ordo funeral rites saw wider usage! If you or anyone you know have ever used it, please do let me know.
    —Daniel Tucker

Random Quote

“What really matters in life is that we are loved by Christ and that we love Him in return. In comparison to the love of Jesus, everything else is secondary. And, without the love of Jesus, everything is useless.”

— Pope John Paul II (1979)

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