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Raspberry Pi

Veronica Brandt · October 29, 2020

Geeky Virtual Pipe Organ Options

Setting up a virtual pipe organ based on a tiny credit-card sized computer for your home studio.

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Veronica Brandt · March 28, 2018

Ratchets instead of Bells for your Electric Angelus

Remember to change any electronic bells this Friday and Saturday! Links to some good ratchet sounds included.

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Veronica Brandt · April 9, 2016

More on Angelus Bells

More bells – enormous bells from Cologne Cathedral, bells from the country in southern France and bells from Ohio.

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Veronica Brandt · January 23, 2016

Angelus Bells and the Raspberry Pi

Setting a computer up to do something useful, bringing together a credit card sized computer and some midi samples.

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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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—Jeff Ostrowski

PDF Download • “Organ Accompaniment”

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

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—Jeff Ostrowski

“Thee” + “Thou” + “Thine”

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

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—Jeff Ostrowski

“Reminder” — Month of May (2026)

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

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—Jeff Ostrowski

Simplified Version • “Canon in D” (Pachelbel)

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

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—Jeff Ostrowski

“The Second Vatican Council has not been treated as a part of the entire living Tradition of the Church, but as an end of Tradition, a new start from zero. The truth is that this particular council defined no dogma at all, and deliberately chose to remain on a modest level, as a merely pastoral council; and yet many treat it as though it had made itself into a sort of superdogma which takes away the importance of all the rest.”

— Cardinal Ratzinger (speaking formally as head of the CDF)