Our Church Music Movement: How Are We Doing?
I never dreamed that so many people love this stuff…and are willing to fight for it!
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).
I never dreamed that so many people love this stuff…and are willing to fight for it!
Some of the old Catholic hymnals were dreadful, but this one is splendid.
This special Solesmes book contains another version of the “Chants Abrégés.”
This book of organ accompaniments by John Ainslie covers every season, including ordinary time.
“They should have been more offended by the Romanian doctor…” —Fr. George Rutler
You will love what Henri Durieux has done with this hymn melody.
“Remit, we beseech Thee, O Lord, the sins of Thy people…”
“If we had known what the prayers really said, we would not have wanted to pray them any longer.” —Paul Inwood
“…most humbly we pray that—since so great is the number of thine elect pleading in our behalf—we may partake, in all their fulness, of thine abounding mercies…”
Were you aware of this amazing piece by Raphaël Mercier?
“I’m sure you’ll enjoy the beautiful poems, songs, and pictures…” —Very Rev. Norbert M. Shumaker
“And all the kings of the earth shall adore Him; all nations shall serve Him…”
An extremely rare Canadian hymnal produced by Rev. Aloysius Knauff.
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