“Entrance Chant” • Immaculate Conception
This Introit is in mode iii, which some consider the most beautiful.
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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).

This Introit is in mode iii, which some consider the most beautiful.

What is he talking about? Where can I go to hear these “aesthetically superior” interpretations? Where can they be found?
The feast of the Immaculate Conception contains a typo.

Readers have expressed interest in perusing the “music list” I’ve prepared for this coming Sunday.

Including three separate points on Dom Combe’s shameful and defamatory statement.

The feast of Christ the King—a completely modern feast—was added in 1925.

“I’m currently gathering materials for a newly ordained priest…”

This rare missal from 1857 contains some musical notes.

Readers have expressed interest in perusing the “music list” I’ve prepared for this coming Sunday.
Why even mention such a thing? Everybody makes mistakes, right?
“As the congregation sings their part, the choir “enhances” them with polyphony. This is genius!” — Veronica Moreno

The sixth mode is sometimes the “peaceful” mode.

This Introit is in the sixth mode (known as the “peaceful” mode).

We sometimes receive messages which…

For sixty years, Catholics have demanded to know what is gained by the ceaseless tinkering with liturgical translations.
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