Musical Resources • 2nd Sunday of Advent
Including scores, audio files, and organ accompaniments.
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’m not one of those Novus Ordo = bad, Tridentine = good people…” —Carlos de Quesado
Colin Mawby, former Master of Music at Westminster Cathedral, travels to Rome in this video, letting you see an original manuscript of Palestrina.
The phrase “ad populum conversus” does appear in the postconciliar books, and no amount of polemical articles can change this fact.
Priests often unknowingly drift into another tone, which is not allowed.
Some weren’t happy with Bill Murray’s opinions on the Latin Mass, and a certain editor—in his zeal to refute—made an egregious error.
Including a special PDF download of the “Asperges Me” you’ll want to obtain immediately!
“English Psalm-Tone Propers for the Ordinary Form of the Mass” is now available in print!
“While most worshipers were stumbling through the Introit or Collect, a few fluent in Latin would be loudly racing through the prayers.”
We’re called to discover Christ and conform our lives to His teachings.
“Right-wing Christians push fear of the dark-skinned and fear of honesty.” —National Catholic Reporter (28 October 2014)
Yesterday evening—on his day off, after another Mass he’d offered—I observed an OF priest saying the 1962 Missal in his private chapel.
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