Live Recording Snippet • Vespers at Saint Vitus
We’ve made a very good start, and things will get better and better!
“If we do not love those whom we see, how can we love God, Whom we do not see?” Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
A theorist, organist, and conductor, Jeff Ostrowski holds his B.M. in Music Theory from the University of Kansas (2004), and did graduate work in Musicology. He serves as choirmaster for the new FSSP parish in Los Angeles, where he resides with his wife and children.—Read full biography (with photographs).
We’ve made a very good start, and things will get better and better!
I recorded all the voices, to demonstrate how it sounds…
Then he saith to his servants, “The marriage indeed is ready, but they that were invited were not worthy.”
Saint John Fisher (d. 1535) tutored King Henry VIII when he was a boy—but Henry VIII eventually murdered him and placed his head on a stake.
“Hymns that are directed to the Trinity should not be used, no matter how familiar they may be.”
“O God, Who, through the august communication of this sacrifice, dost make us partakers of the one supreme divinity…”
Robert Campbell is an excellent translator of the Breviary—but even the best steal.
A fascinating radio address by Msgr. Knox covering topics related to the Incarnation.
“We implore Thy majesty, O Lord, that the holy mysteries we are celebrating may free us of past and save us from future sins.”
“When thou art invited to a wedding, sit not down in the first place, lest perhaps one more honorable than thou be invited by him…”
“Authorized by the archbishops and bishops of Scotland for use in the Scottish dioceses.”
How can people claim this is a translation of the hymn by St. Thomas Aquinas?
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