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PRGRAM for 26 Dec.
“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).
Hearing this, most people would probably say, “She’s got a bad voice.” However, I disagree.
“Father Christopher Smith is a former Baptist who converted to Catholicism as a teenager. He is a graduate of Christendom College in Front Royal, Virginia, and he holds both a licentiate and a doctorate in dogmatic theology. He recently spoke with CWR about parish life at Prince of Peace and the parish’s approach to the liturgy.” — Catholic World Report
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“We request His Eminence the Cardinal Prefect of the Sacred Congregation of Rites the permission to point out the manifest danger of adopting either of these solutions.” — Dom Joseph Gajard, OSB
Ironically, that’s the spot you’re least likely to hear a hymn at Mass!
John Paul II asked your forgiveness in 1980 … did you forgive him?
The new Gregorian Missal (Solesmes, 2012) is a marvelous book.
I’ve encountered priests who believe their job during the sermon is to talk like Rush Limbaugh, Chris Matthews, or Bill O’Reilly.
Are all musical styles acceptable for Mass? Movie directors realize such a notion is bogus.
What a stark contrast between the (discredited) translation from the 1970s and the 2011 translation!
Consider these lines from GIA’s newest hymnal (Worship IV): “Who is this who eats with sinners, calling luckless losers winners?” Did they really just use the phrase “luckless losers” in a Catholic hymn book?
It dawned on me that nothing I’d been saying had made the slightest impact. I had literally been wasting my breath.
Even after so many years, recalling this statement makes my brain explode with rage.
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