Archbishop Sample’s Letter On Sacred Music (1 of 8)
We’ve teamed up to create an 8-part series on Archbishop Sample’s momentous 2013 letter. Today, Jeff Ostrowski introduces the series.
“Is it not true that prohibiting or suspecting the extraordinary form can only be inspired by the demon who desires our suffocation and spiritual death?” —The Vatican’s chief liturgist from 2014-2021; interview with Edw. Pentin (23-Sep-2019)
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’ve teamed up to create an 8-part series on Archbishop Sample’s momentous 2013 letter. Today, Jeff Ostrowski introduces the series.
Fr. Joseph Terra, FSSP, was also seriously wounded in this burglary-turned-murder.
Why aren’t the Propers from the Roman Gradual identical to the Mass Propers printed in the Roman Missal? • “Recent research … has made it clear that the antiphons of the Order of Mass were never intended to be sung.” — Bishop Donald Trautman (2007)+
Can AD ORIENTEM be excluded from the Novus Ordo? Vatican says: “Negatively, and in accordance with the following explanation.”
“If some senseless decree were to order the total or partial destruction of basilicas or cathedrals, then
obviously it would be the educated — whatever their personal beliefs — who would rise up in horror to oppose such a possibility.”
His Holiness mentions St. Thomas More, St. John Fisher, and others.
Are you bothered by the VANDALISM done to Lectionary Sequence translations?
Are there concrete reasons to prefer the ancient texts from the Roman Gradual? Short answer: Yes!
John Paul II leads the congregation facing the traditional way during his June 1999 visit to Poland.
A book which Bugnini called the “precursor” to the Simple Gradual is now online!
Musicians tend to fight with one another over the DUMBEST things.
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