16th Sunday after Pentecost (Extraordinary Form)
“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…”
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).
“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?
“Now if God so clothe the grass of the field, which is today, and tomorrow is cast into the oven, how much more you, O ye of little faith!”
“It is also tragic to note that the hymnal was officially approved by the music commission of the Archdiocese of Seattle.” —Fr. Joseph Roff
“Have regard, O Lord, to Thy covenant, and forsake not to the end the souls of Thy poor.”
A hymnal out of print for fifty years has been scanned by Mr. Colin E. Jackson!
It’s disturbing to realize that Mass was offered like this in some places.
“To the man of cultivated taste, they are displeasing—and in some cases even offensive…”
Creating a metrical translation like that, so very literal, is stupefyingly difficult.
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