Final Sunday after Pentecost (4th in November)
“And from the fig-tree learn a parable: when the branch thereof is now tender, and the leaves come forth, you know that summer is nigh.”
“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).
“And from the fig-tree learn a parable: when the branch thereof is now tender, and the leaves come forth, you know that summer is nigh.”
Christmas falls on a Monday this year—but documentation shows “double dipping” is forbidden.
Imagine the amount of time required to typeset something like this!
Do you take pictures of your choir? Photographs can serve as nice reminders of wonderful experiences.
“…and without parables He did not speak to them; that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying, I will open my mouth in parables, I will utter things hidden from the foundation of the world.”
Bach’s music inhabits “a still and serious world…without color, without light, without motion” from which we cannot break away.
Excerpt from a documentary on “St. Thomas More” (Paul Scofield) which in 1966 won six Oscars at the Academy Awards.
This piece is perfect for “stealthily” adding polyphony to the Ordinary Form.
We choirmasters are frequently called upon to speak in public.
“Amen I say to you, whatsoever, you ask when you pray, believe that you shall receive, and it shall be done to you.”
It’s based on Pacheco’s version, created the year Guerrero died.
Sheen told Ferris that he wanted a classical repertoire at the cathedral in Rochester, including Gregorian chant.
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