Musical Resources • Christmas Midnight Mass (EF)
We won’t be singing “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” for Offertory!
Jesus said to them: “I have come into this world so that a sentence may fall upon it, that those who are blind should see, and those who see should become blind. If you were blind, you would not be guilty. It is because you protest, ‘We can see clearly,’ that you cannot be rid of your guilt.”
A theorist, organist, and conductor, Jeff Ostrowski holds his B.M. in Music Theory from the University of Kansas (2004). He completed studies in Education and Musicology at the graduate level. Having worked as a church musician in Los Angeles for ten years, in 2024 he accepted a position as choirmaster for Saint Mary of the Immaculate Conception in Michigan, where he resides with his wife and children. —Read full biography (with photographs).
We won’t be singing “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” for Offertory!
“Look with favor, we beseech Thee, O Lord upon these offerings here before Thee…”
When I print this entire booklet, the Communion inexplicably erases every clivis in the psalmody.
Make sure to read the translation of the Offertory Hymn—so gorgeous!
“…there are, in the core of the Church’s sacramental teaching and experience, good contentions and corollary arguments to be made for both practices.” —Archbishop Naumann
A $12,000 reward will be given to anyone who can produce a Vatican II document mentioning “celebration facing the people.”
“Be appeased, we beseech Thee, O Lord, by the prayers and offerings of our lowliness…”
Our Church is notoriously horrible at keeping up with cultural fads—because they’re so ephemeral.
I had the pleasure of meeting Mr. Pete Avendaño at the Sacred Music Symposium, held each year in Los Angeles.
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