Father Noel Chabanel

Jeff Ostrowski · September 26, 2023

PDF Download • All Seven (7) Movements: “Mass in Honor of Saint Noël Chabanel”

My Mass setting for the Ordinary Form involves your Congregation, your Cantrix, and your Choir.

Jeff Ostrowski · August 23, 2023

PDF Download • Saint Noël Chabanel Mass Setting (“Kýrie Eléison”) for the Ordinary Form

We must remember the lesson of the rock.

Jeff Ostrowski · August 18, 2023

PDF Download • Saint Noël Chabanel Mass Setting (“Holy, Holy, Holy”) for the Ordinary Form

As if the canonic sections were insufficiently stupendous, the composer works in stepwise ascending lines juxtaposed with lines in augmentation.

Jeff Ostrowski · September 19, 2021

Clarion Call To All Choirmasters! • (26 Sept.)

Forty images of (IMHO) the patron saints of church musicians.

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The “Secret” Prayer

It would be difficult to imagine more holy prayers than the “orations” at Mass: i.e. the Collect, Secret, and Post-Communion. Consider the Secret Prayer for Trinity Sunday: “Hallow, we pray thee, Lord our God, by our invocation of thy holy name, this sacrificial offering, and work upon us until we too become an eternal offering to thee: through our Lord.”

—Jeff Ostrowski

“Music List” • 4th Sunday of Lent

Some have expressed interest in perusing the “ORDER OF MUSIC” I prepared for the 4th Sunday of Lent (30 March 2025). If such a thing interests you, feel free to download it as a PDF file. The Propers are particularly beautiful, especially the INTROIT (“Lætare Jerúsalem”).

—Jeff Ostrowski

Communion Chant (4th Sunday of Lent)

You can download the Communion Chant for the 4th Sunday of Lent (Year C). Its opening phrase calls to mind the authentic version. I have created a rehearsal video to assist volunteer choirs.

—Jeff Ostrowski

When to Sit, Stand and Kneel like it’s 1962

There are lots of different guides to postures for Mass, but I couldn’t find one which matched our local Latin Mass, so I made this one: sit-stand-kneel-crop

—Veronica Brandt

The Funeral Rites of the Graduale Romanum

Lately I have been paging through the 1974 Graduale Romanum (see p. 678 ff.) and have been fascinated by the funeral rites found therein, especially the simply-beautiful Psalmody that is appointed for all the different occasions before and after the funeral Mass: at the vigil/wake, at the house of the deceased, processing to the church, at the church, processing to the cemetery, and at the cemetery. Would that this “stational Psalmody” of the Novus Ordo funeral rites saw wider usage! If you or anyone you know have ever used it, please do let me know.

—Daniel Tucker

Antiphons Don’t Match?

A reader wants to know why the Entrance and Communion antiphons in certain publications deviate from what’s prescribed by the GRADUALE ROMANUM published after Vatican II. Click here to read our answer. The short answer is: the Adalbert Propers were never intended to be sung. They were intended for private Masses only (or Masses without music).

—Corpus Christi Watershed