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Jeff Ostrowski · April 9, 2026

PDF Download • “Sprinkling Rite” + Psalm Verses

“From your wounded side, O Christ, a spring of water bursts forth, by which the squalor of the world is washed away…”

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Jeff Ostrowski · April 8, 2026

Buckfast Abbey Weighs In

Dom John Stéphan was a Benedictine monk of Buckfast Abbey in South Devon, England.

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Jeff Ostrowski · April 7, 2026

PDF Download • “Catholic Hymnal & Service Book” (632 Pages)

Includes an interesting harmonization for “Víctimae Pascháli Laudes.”

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Jeff Ostrowski · April 6, 2026

PDF • “Liturgical Law” (467 Pages)

Dom Charles Augustine Bachofen was born in Switzerland but spent his career between the Benedictine monasteries at Conception (Missouri) and Mount Angel (Oregon).

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Jeff Ostrowski · April 6, 2026

Responsorial Psalm Fauxbourdon?

What does this actually sound like?

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Jeff Ostrowski · April 5, 2026

Music List • (Easter Sunday, 2026)

Readers have expressed interest in examining my “music list” for Easter Sunday 2026.

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Jeff Ostrowski · April 1, 2026

PDF Download • “Sprinkling Rite”

At the last second, a few tones were changed in the antiphon.

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Jeff Ostrowski · April 1, 2026

‘Sarum’ Good Friday?

Do you recognize it?

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Jeff Ostrowski · March 31, 2026

Gregorian Chant • The “Correct” Way of Singing?

Now I will explain what that means.

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Jeff Ostrowski · March 30, 2026

PDF Download • “Eb Organ Postlude”

Although a Lutheran himself, he held the appointment at a Roman Catholic Cathedral until his death.

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Jeff Ostrowski · March 28, 2026

Music List • (Palm Sunday, 2026)

Readers have expressed interest in examining my “music list” for this coming Sunday.

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Jeff Ostrowski · March 28, 2026

Easter • Would You Sing This Hymn?

Should this be added to the “pernicious hymn pairing” collection?

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Jeff Ostrowski · March 24, 2026

Pipe Organ “Answers” in Plainsong?

Some might be a bit confused as to why it says the organ “answers” in Plainsong.

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Jeff Ostrowski · March 24, 2026

“Gregorian Chant Quiz” • 24 March 2026

How well do you know your Gregorian hymns?

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Jeff Ostrowski · March 23, 2026

“Versions of the Psalter” • Jeff Interviews Top Biblical Scholar: Dr. Mark Giszczak

Including a special release—“Rare as a Unicorn”—Pius XII Psalter in Latin and English (1,545 pages).

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President’s Corner

    PDF Download • “Singers’ Booklet”

    The Communion antiphon this week is the powerful “Parable of the Ten Bridesmaids.”

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    —Jeff Ostrowski
    Feast of All Saints (Nov. 1st)

    The formatting of this booklet is ‘messy’—but it’s only ever seen by the singers (not the congregation).

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    —Jeff Ostrowski
    Twenty-Two (22) English Translations
    We gathered every English translation of “Creátor Alme Síderum” ever made by Catholic poets, priests, bishops, cardinals, and saints (22 in all). Click this link to see them displayed, placed directly alongside the original Latin. Some are strikingly beautiful (e.g. “Great Maker of the glitt’ring stars”) and together they trace the hymn back to the ancient “Cónditor Alme Síderum,” which POPE URBAN VIII reworked in 1632AD.
    —Jeff Ostrowski

Quick Thoughts

    Preface of Saint Joseph (added by the pope)

    You can see the “Præfatio de Sancto Joseph” inserted directly into the priest’s missal.

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    —Jeff Ostrowski
    “Predictable Rhymes?” • A Follow Up
    We received considerable correspondence regarding my article, Two Ways to Defile a Hymn. More specifically, what really raised certain people’s hackles was its follow-up article dealing with the keyboard accompaniment for the CHRIST THE KING HYMNAL. But to quote Eliza Doolittle: “Have I said anything I oughtn’t?” Please examine this PDF file and see whether you agree. Were the editors of the BRÉBEUF HYMNAL incorrect to insist upon sophisticated and clever rhymes, rather than mind-numbingly predictable rhymes?
    —Jeff Ostrowski
    ‘Ould’ But Not Good
    Dom Samuel Gregory Ould (note the spelling) was a Benedictine monk at FORT AUGUSTUS ABBEY in Scotland. As musician, organist, and composer, Dom Ould was highly regarded. Moreover, he was considered an authority on Gregorian Chant. But not everything found in an old book—or, in this case, an “Ould” book—is necessarily praiseworthy. Consider this page from Dom Ould’s hymnal. Do you see the rhymes? They offend severely by ABR (“Abuse By Reuse”) and are utterly predictable. In my recent article—Two Ways to Defile a Hymn—I addressed this topic.
    —Jeff Ostrowski

Random Quote

“Gerard Manley Hopkins once argued that most people drank more liquids than they really needed and bet that he could go without drinking for a week. He persisted until his tongue was black and he collapsed at drill.”

— A biography of Fr. Gerard M. Hopkins (d. 1889)

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