Ave Maris Stella

Jeff Ostrowski · November 10, 2025

Re: The People’s Mass Book (1974)

“A Man Can Kill With a Gun, a Bomb, or a Lance…”

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Like it was yesterday, I remember fighting with those high school students about hymnal headers.

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Jeff Ostrowski · August 14, 2021

The second part has blank staves—so you can compose your own organ harmonies!

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Readers have expressed interest in examining my “music list” for this coming Sunday.

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—Jeff Ostrowski

There’s a triple ‘allelúja’ and I just love the chord at the end of the 2nd iteration.

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The following declaration will probably smack of “blowing my own horn.”

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Regarding approval for the “Revised Standard Version (Catholic Edition).”

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Since a new month has arrived, it’s my pleasure to remind you that…

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I don’t care what people say; I love this piece!

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