Hollywood: Midnight Mass By Candlelight
The FSSP had a special Christmas Mass at their new Apostolate in Los Angeles.
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).
The FSSP had a special Christmas Mass at their new Apostolate in Los Angeles.
“I never witnessed a Mass in the so-called Extraordinary Form that was done in 15 minutes.”
We won’t be singing “Frosty The Snowman” for Offertory!
My performance leaves much to be desired, but you get the idea.
This famous Advent hymn was not written in the 1800s—it goes back at least to the 15th century.
If you want to test the USCCB policy, try this experiment.
Including six reasons why Tomás Luis de Victoria may be the true composer of this piece.
Providing music for the Traditional Latin Mass is not nearly as hard as some believe.
With a masterpiece like this, we must be careful not to rush in where angels fear to tread.
“Gather ye together His Saints to Him; who have set His covenant before sacrifices…”
Sometimes it takes decades to appreciate the genius of this or that Gregorian chant.
“Christianity is the perfect development of the Jewish religion…” —Fr. Leslie Rumble
“Arise in thy strength, we beseech thee, O Lord, and come…”
Whether this rumor is accurate makes no difference, because the rules for Friday abstinence were changed in the 1960s.
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