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Status of Mass Propers Added by Pius XII
FSSPmusic wrote: the Pius XII gradual for the Assumption uses the Vulgate text in the Missal but the new Bea Psalter text in the chant books I've checked several altar missals from 1951 through 1962 and none have the Vulgate text for this grad…

Comment by gsmisek April 23 permalink
Vexilla Regis English Translation
I just found this PDF by Chris McAvoy, which is very beautiful, but is not the melody from the St. Gregory Hymnal, which uses the melody of the 1908 Graduale Romanum.

Comment by gsmisek May 2024 permalink
English Translations of Latin Hymns
Of course, The Divine Office Hymnal, by the USCCB, has English translations approved and confirmed for use in the USA. It incorporates ICEL's new Liturgy of the Hours hymn translations and others (under copyright): https://giamusic.com/store/th…

Comment by gsmisek January 2024 permalink
Rubricians: Marriage on an Ember Day?
"to be precise, a "Nuptial Mass" is any Wedding Mass at which the Solemn Nuptial Blessing is given, regardless of Propers used" That's not how the rubricians used the term. Granted, the terms "Missa nuptialis" and…

Comment by gsmisek August 2013 permalink
Gloria and Creed in Ritual Masses
"The EF specifically deletes the Gloria from the nuptial Mass ordo, which I thought was odd." This is incorrect. For the extraordinary form (liturgical books in force in 1962), the General Rubrics of the Roman Missal require a Gloria for …

Comment by gsmisek August 2013 permalink
Horrible news for critics of the New Translation
My only problem with not repeating "I believe" is that in English complete sentences do not begin with "And in" Greek and Latin sentences don't usually begin with "And in" either, which tells you we are dealing wi…

Comment by gsmisek November 2010 permalink
Responsorial Psalm from the Loft or Ambo?
"Other" is always going to be the last item on a list. Not necessarily. If the ambo were merely one possibility among many, without preference, the GIRM could have stated something like: "The psalmist, or the cantor of the Psalm, sin…

Comment by gsmisek March 2010 permalink
T E N E B R A E ( ? )
Pes wrote: "would members consider it an organic development of the liturgy to replace the word "Judaei" (in the responsory, Tenebrae factae sunt) with the word "homini"? Such a change would more fully reflect the Magisteriu…

Comment by gsmisek April 2009 permalink
Singing the Liturgy of the Hours in Latin
I think david andrew's reference to a blog post claiming that everyone, including the laity, are obliged to use for their daily liturgical life the forms approved for the territory where they live, is actually to a post by Bro. Ignatius Mary , …

Comment by gsmisek January 2008 permalink
Singing the Liturgy of the Hours in Latin
It never occurred to me that any of the hymns in the Liber Hymnarius were new compositions, let alone 43, by one author. The author index of Te Decet Hymnus confirms that Fr. Lentini is the only living author of hymns in the Liber Hymnarius. After q…

Comment by gsmisek January 2008 permalink

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