O Caput Cruentatum

Jeff Ostrowski · March 25, 2021

Never Released Before! • Unique Version of “O Sacred Head Surrounded” (SATB)

What is a Catholic Hymnal? How old are these hymns?

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Music List • “Ascension of the Lord”

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

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—Jeff Ostrowski

PDF Download • “For Pentecost Sunday”

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

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PDF Download • “Organ Accompaniment”

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

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“Thee” + “Thou” + “Thine”

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

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“Reminder” — Month of May (2026)

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

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Simplified Version • “Canon in D” (Pachelbel)

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

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“Only against this background, of the effective denial of the authority of Trent, can one understand the bitterness of the struggle against allowing the celebration of Mass according to the 1962 Missal after the liturgical reform. The possibility of so celebrating constitutes the strongest, and thus (for them) the most intolerable contradiction of the opinion of those who believe that the faith in the Eucharist, as formulated by Trent, has lost its validity.”

— Cardinal Ratzinger, 2001

O Caput Cruentatum

Never Released Before! • Unique Version of “O Sacred Head Surrounded” (SATB)

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