[2] He attended Georgetown University for a single year, before starting as a freshman at Thomas Aquinas College in California, where he received his BA in Liberal Arts in 1994.

[11] In 2016, Cardinal Burke introduced the Czech translation of Resurgent, calling it "very readable and very accessible" and thanking Kwasniewski "for giving us this work.

[20][21] He was the founding choirmaster and schola director at Wyoming Catholic College (2007–2018) until the time he left to pursue a full-time writing career.

[22][23][24] Among compositions that have received numerous concert and church performances since 1990 may be included settings of the Catholic Mass, religious motets, English hymns, Christmas carols, and liturgical antiphons and acclamations.

The work Seven Mandatum Antiphons (2010), consisting of English a cappella settings of the texts from the Maundy Thursday liturgy for the washing of the feet, was dedicated to Arvo Pärt on the occasion of the latter's 75th birthday.

Graeme Adamson)—which recorded a CD, Divine Inspirations, of Kwasniewski's music together with that of British composer Nicholas Wilton—and Cantus Magnus (dir.