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Views from the Choir Loft

Robert Cardinal Sarah

Jeff Ostrowski · January 31, 2024

PDF Download • “Pew Edition” — Monsignor Martin B. Hellriegel’s Hymnal (149 Pages)

Including never-before-released photographs of Monsignor Martin B. Hellriegel.

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Jeff Ostrowski · March 4, 2023

Crd. Roche Breaks His Silence Re: Cardinal Sarah

Jesus Christ “will not snap the staff that is already crushed, nor put out the wick that still smolders.”

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Jeff Ostrowski · February 18, 2023

Cardinal Roche on discouraging or limiting “ad orientem” celebration: “It is an absurdity”

Ponder this statement by the prefect for the Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments (a.k.a. “CDW”).

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Dr. Lucas Tappan · August 20, 2022

An Incredible Summer with Wonderful Musicians

These were two joyful, yet profitable, weeks spent with a dedicated group of devout Catholics…

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Fr. David Friel · February 18, 2021

CDW Guidance for Holy Week 2021

Bishops have broad freedom to determine what adaptations may be necessary in 2021.

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Fr. David Friel · September 27, 2020

CDW: “Let us return to the Eucharist with joy!”

A letter from Cardinal Sarah to episcopal conferences worldwide

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Fr. David Friel · March 4, 2018

New Memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of the Church

Invoking Mater Ecclesiae in a new annual feast

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Fr. David Friel · June 18, 2017

Silence in the Liturgy

Thoughts from Pope Benedict XVI, Msgr. Guido Marini, and the GIRM

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Fr. David Friel · January 29, 2017

Conference Updates

Dunwoodie Chant Conference & Sacra Liturgia Milano

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Jeff Ostrowski · December 5, 2016

Bishop of Manchester • Letter Re: “Ad Orientem”

A $12,000 reward will be given to anyone who can produce a Vatican II document mentioning “celebration facing the people.”

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Corpus Christi Watershed · November 23, 2016

Cardinal Sarah Visits The Monastery of Solesmes

If you read French, you’ll understand these homilies.

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Jeff Ostrowski · October 3, 2016

Cardinal Sarah’s Missing Paragraph…

This article includes live recordings from a conference (“Society for Catholic Liturgy”) in Los Angeles.

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Jeff Ostrowski · August 23, 2016

“Ad Orientem” • Why I’m Rejoicing over Sloppy Errors in the Catholic Herald

His assertion that “smoking out enemies” is best done by appointing them to high positions in the Vatican is absurd.

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Richard J. Clark · August 5, 2016

“Ad Orientem” and Granovetter’s Threshold Models of Collective Behavior

The people deserve to know the truth. It is time for ignorance to end so that the faithful may develop informed opinions.

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Jeff Ostrowski · August 1, 2016

Does Your Bishop Enforce The GIRM?

They will assume—and why shouldn’t they?—that “approved by the USCCB” applies to the hymns and songs…

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President’s Corner

    PDF Download • “Our Father” (1 page)
    Dutch organist, teacher, and conductor HERMAN STRATEGIER (d. 1988) studied under Hendrik Andriessen. He composed this unison setting with organ accompaniment for the LORD’S PRAYER (“Our Father”) which a children’s choir would find both within reach and worthy of the effort. The whole thing fits neatly on a single page. Strategier eventually became organist of Saint Catherine’s Cathedral in Utrecht. He also taught at the “Dutch Institute for Catholic Church Music” (Nederlands Instituut voor Katholieke Kerkmuziek).
    —Jeff Ostrowski
    PDF • “Organ Interlude” (Manuals Only)
    Monsignor Franciszek Walczyński (d. 1937) was a Polish composer. If you play the pipe organ, I encourage you to try out this ORGAN INTERLUDE FOR MANUALS ONLY (1-page PDF) which he composed. Walczyński taught plainsong at the seminary in Tarnów (about 50 miles east of Kraków). With his brother Stanisław—also a Catholic priest—he initiated the Saint Adalbert Society for the Support of Church Music, which ran annual workshops for their diocese. In July of 1894 (more than a decade before the appearance of the Editio Vaticana) Walczyński lectured on “congregational singing and Gregorian Chant.” On top of all that, Monsignor Walczyński founded an organists’ school in Tarnów and the SAINT ADALBERT CHOIR at the cathedral.
    —Jeff Ostrowski
    Eucharistic Prayer No. 2 on Sundays?

    Highlighted in yellow (on this single-page PDF file) is documentation concerning whether the 2nd Eucharistic prayer may be used on Sundays.

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    —Jeff Ostrowski

Quick Thoughts

    Preface of Saint Joseph (added by the pope)

    You can see the “Præfatio de Sancto Joseph” inserted directly into the priest’s missal.

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    —Jeff Ostrowski
    “Predictable Rhymes?” • A Follow Up
    We received considerable correspondence regarding my article, Two Ways to Defile a Hymn. More specifically, what really raised certain people’s hackles was its follow-up article dealing with the keyboard accompaniment for the CHRIST THE KING HYMNAL. But to quote Eliza Doolittle: “Have I said anything I oughtn’t?” Please examine this PDF file and see whether you agree. Were the editors of the BRÉBEUF HYMNAL incorrect to insist upon sophisticated and clever rhymes, rather than mind-numbingly predictable rhymes?
    —Jeff Ostrowski
    ‘Ould’ But Not Good
    Dom Samuel Gregory Ould (note the spelling) was a Benedictine monk at FORT AUGUSTUS ABBEY in Scotland. As musician, organist, and composer, Dom Ould was highly regarded. Moreover, he was considered an authority on Gregorian Chant. But not everything found in an old book—or, in this case, an “Ould” book—is necessarily praiseworthy. Consider this page from Dom Ould’s hymnal. Do you see the rhymes? They offend severely by ABR (“Abuse By Reuse”) and are utterly predictable. In my recent article—Two Ways to Defile a Hymn—I addressed this topic.
    —Jeff Ostrowski

Random Quote

The Second Plenary Council of Baltimore (Tit. VI, Cap. iii, 379) did order that Vespers be sung, and in their entirety, in all churches on Sundays and feast days and that Vespers be not omitted on account of other services. However, the Fathers of the Council inserted the clause, “quatenus fieri potest,” in consideration of practical difficulties in the carrying out of the decree.

— The American Ecclesiastical Review (Febr. 1949)

Recent Posts

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  • Preface of Saint Joseph (added by the pope)
  • PDF Download • “Our Father” (1 page)
  • Composer Isabella Quintana: “Christ my teacher, Christ my healer, Christ my Savior.” • (Guest Article)
  • PDF • “Organ Interlude” (Manuals Only)

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