Liturgy Planner
  • I need a good site for planning my liturgical music. We just cancelled Liturgy.com (praise God!), but I still need something. I need something that's pretty diversified, though, and not all geared towards chant. Any help would be greatfully appreciated.
  • kevinfkevinf
    Posts: 1,185
    Canticanova.com. Gary has a great planning calendar set of links. Also Corpus Christi Watershed.
  • CharlesW
    Posts: 11,934
    Didn't know this. Rushing to check it out.
  • irishtenoririshtenor
    Posts: 1,296
    NPM (I know, I know...) has a planning calendar here: http://www.npm.org/Planning/yearb/index.html

    That'll be for hymns and psalms from the big 3.

    CC Watershed's "Music for the Liturgy" page is WONDERFUL as well.
    Thanked by 1E_A_Fulhorst
  • Thank you. All of this is great for me. Very much appreciated. God bless.
  • http://www.ccwatershed.org/liturgy/

    ... is pretty much the best thing ever.

    Organ accompaniments for the Ordinaries are little more than scans, though. Kinda hard on the eyes.
  • hartleymartin
    Posts: 1,447
    I make a lot of use of CCWatershed, but being in Australia, I have to refer to the local version of the ORDO to know exactly what is going on.

    A good site for the EF mass is this:

    Sunday Propers: http://maternalheart.org/propers.htm
    Propers for Saints: http://maternalheart.org/propers-saints.html

    I actually use this as the reference point for finding out what the appropriate chants are for various saints' feast days for the OF mass, then see if the same chant is available in the SEP. Where possible I try to match the text of any motets that I may use with the propers for the day. It isn't always a good match, but after that I try to match according to the liturgical season or theme, or the readings of the day.

    I tend to use a Hymn to substitute the Introit chant. By the time the congregation have sung a Hymn, done the Kyrie, Gloria and Responsorial Psalm, they are usually happy to let the choir sing a motet for the offertory. Then after they have sung the Preface Dialogue, and maybe the Sanctus (I tend to use chant or a common mass setting for the Sanctus), Mysterium Fidei and the Lord's Prayer, and perhaps also the Agnus Dei, they don't mind listening to the Communion Chant and then letting the organist play a postlude for the recessional.

    You starting running into complaints when the ordinary and the responses are not sung.

    Attached is the booklet I produced for the Feast of the Assumption of Our Lady for this year. You will have to print it out double-sided and then fold it, otherwise the pages do not appear in the right order. I could not get what I wanted to fit onto a single A4 sheet so I included a whole pile of the rest of the ordinary of the mass to make up for it. If it were a parish leaflet I would probably print notices on the back page.

    Also attached is a mass leaflet for the Feast of St Lawrence, which thankfully fit onto a single A4 leaflet.

    My advice to everyone is to justify and not left-allign the text. Break the readings into two columns like a newspaper - it makes it easier to read. Include melody lines for hymns and the chants and the congregation gets the hint that they are supposed to sing it. Mass leaflets are not hard to create. You need to have settled on the liturgy plenty of time in advance and laid it out well.