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HYMN OF THE MONTH – December: Silent Night
I'm somewhat flabbergasted by there being a service that started at 4:30AM.

Comment by fcb November 30 permalink
Request: Easy Short Entrance & Recessional Chants
At least for the entrance, it sounds like the Graduale Simplex that you want. For the exit, maybe the appropriate Marian antiphon?

Comment by fcb October 31 permalink
We need better (i.e. Catholic) Communion Hymns
are there general principles that can assist in the selection of Offertory music? As far as I can tell, the answer is "no." The chant in the Gradual seems almost never to have anything to do with offering, so there is no need to sing somet…

Comment by fcb October 30 permalink
We need better (i.e. Catholic) Communion Hymns
It seems to me that if one wants congregational singing during communion (I am all for it myself), some sort of responsorial psalmody, like the traditional Communio, is the way to go. I know it's not particularly trad, but I've always thou…

Comment by fcb October 28 permalink
We need better (i.e. Catholic) Communion Hymns
The only table that was ever referred to in Catholic tradition was the communion rail that separated the Sanctuary (which represents Heaven) from the nave (which represents the Church on Earth) where our Lord comes to the laity to give himself them …

Comment by fcb October 27 permalink
Gradual before/during Epistle
Matthew, could you expand a bit on your last point? Are you saying that those who recited the Epistle quietly during the gradual had misinterpreted the rubric?

Comment by fcb October 22 permalink
Gradual before/during Epistle
Now that I think about it, what I read elsewhere was actually about the practice you describe: the epistle read silently while the gradual was sung. This too strikes me as very odd.

Comment by fcb October 22 permalink
Publishers announced for new Breviary!
What about the spines look so horrendous? While "horrendous" seems a bit extreme, I'm not real keen on the Ascension logo. WoF, in the other hand, looks pretty good to me. I too was a bit disappointed that Magnificat was not chosen. …

Comment by fcb October 14 permalink
Publishers announced for new Breviary!
My understanding is that the Psalms and Canticles will have at least asterisks and daggers, so that will make them a bit easier to chant. I've also heard that there is discussion about having the final stressed syllable in each line marked, whi…

Comment by fcb October 10 permalink
Gloria Patri at Mass, In English
So he preferred "Ghost" in order to promote a proper trinitarian theology. This strikes me as some serious retconning. The Holy Spirit is not a person in the sense that a human beings (or their ghost) is a person--i.e. possessing an indep…

Comment by fcb September 29 permalink
Music for Rite of Baptism
SC 35.1 is a pretty clear Conciliar mandate for the inclusion of more scripture in the Rite of Baptism. And the rite does not require a full liturgy of the word--I typically just do a Gospel reading and give a 2-3 minute fervorino. Also, the Rite o…

Comment by fcb September 12 permalink
All Souls on a Sunday - Gloria and Credo
Paul Turner, who's pretty meticulous about all things Novus Ordo, says Gloria: no, Creed: yes.

Comment by fcb September 1 permalink
Music for Rite of Baptism
active participation-is-always-good is taken as axiomatic by the compilers of the rite, but they have failed to consider that it’s impeded by the nature of the rite itself I'm wondering if you might say more about this. I'm not sure I unde…

Comment by fcb August 29 permalink
Music for Rite of Baptism
I've probably done a hundred or so baptisms, and my pastoral experience is that it is just about as difficult to get people to sing at them as it is to get them to sing at Mass. It obviously works best if you've got good musical leadership…

Comment by fcb August 29 permalink
Music for Rite of Baptism
I guess I think we need a little clarity on what establishes a norm. If it is the current liturgical books, then baptism without music is just as much outside the norm as Mass without music, given that the current liturgical book for infant baptism …

Comment by fcb August 29 permalink
Music for Rite of Baptism
the norm is for baptisms to be within the Mass If by "norm" you mean legislative norm, this is not true. In fact, the Order of Baptism of Children, while stating why one might well want to include baptisms at Sunday Mass, also says "t…

Comment by fcb August 28 permalink
Anyone else getting spammed out the wazoo?
Me too. You can change your account setting so that you don't get email notifications of private messages (a short term solution to keep your inbox free).

Comment by fcb August 13 permalink
Lamentations and Observations of a Gregorian Greenhorn (My Story as a Young Catholic Musician)
For those who are interested in the origins of such things, I believe Fr. Z's coinage of "Save the liturgy, save the world" was a play on the oft repeated line in mid-2000s TV show Heroes: "Save the cheerleader, save the world.&q…

Comment by fcb August 13 permalink
Observing Solemnities on Sundays in Ordinary Time
one of his many reasons for rejecting Catholicism was he never heard about saints at Mass I'm glad that wasn't his only reason.

Comment by fcb August 3 permalink
English hymn in honor of Saint Mary Magdalene (draft, feedback requested)
Some suggestions, mostly related to meter. Christ casts out sev’n demons, You don't need the elision on "seven"--in fact, it leaves you a syllable short. Once a vessel of passion, You've got one syllable too many, I think. You co…

Comment by fcb July 9 permalink
Market Pivot Toward Tradition in OCP's Heritage Missal
Unlike me, both davido and MatthewRoth seem to know what they're talking about when it comes to music. The fact that they disagree on the musical merits of IAtBoL and HIAL suggests to me that there is some element of subjective taste that needs…

Comment by fcb July 7 permalink
The Church's ONE Foundation
Heretics and schismatics are not part of the Church, although the hymn implies that. Of course they are. "The Church recognizes that in many ways she is linked with those who, being baptized, are honored with the name of Christian, though they …

Comment by fcb July 4 permalink
Contemporary Music to be tolerated, as per Pope Pius XII?
Whether or not there is a difference between "modern" and "contemporary," the Latin doesn't use either of those terms, but "hodiernae musices," which is not a reference to any particular genre or style, but to a po…

Comment by fcb June 24 permalink
Kyrie question why three repeats?
You might try showing him GIRM 52: “Each acclamation is usually pronounced twice, though it is not to be excluded that it be repeated several times, by reason of the character of the various languages, as well as of the artistry of the music or of o…

Comment by fcb June 23 permalink
Another internecine war
But I'm not sure that it's much further than Sung Mass to low Mass with Sr. Mary Perpetua leading everyone in reciting the rosary while Mass is being celebrated. I think today we underestimate the degree to which celebrations of the TLM ha…

Comment by fcb May 31 permalink
Another internecine war
A slight tangent, but is it really the case that before the liturgical reforms this sort of thing could not happen, specifically in the realm of music? Surely it must have happened that a pastor who assiduously promoted solemn Mass with music from…

Comment by fcb May 31 permalink
What compositions/arrangements are needed?
This might seem like an odd choice, but I've always found the private prayer said during the purification of the vessels particularly beautiful, and the English translation is, imho, as if not more beautiful than the Latin: "“What has pass…

Comment by fcb May 30 permalink
Thoughts on the unpublished Charlotte liturgical letter
What made me initially dubious about the authenticity of this letter was not the particular set of opinions--as Liam noted, this is a pretty standard array of conventional wisdom from the 1990s. What beggars belief is 1) that a bishop would think th…

Comment by fcb May 29 permalink
Thoughts on the unpublished Charlotte liturgical letter
@fcb -- thanks for the corrective, you are right -- it is "alleged" to be what it is, and I have amended my statements to reflect that. I dearly hope it is not real. The Pillar says it's real, but also that it is unlikely to be promul…

Comment by fcb May 28 permalink
Thoughts on the unpublished Charlotte liturgical letter
The faithful's full, conscious, and active participation is hindered wherever Latin is employed....Full, conscious, and active participation in a liturgy that uses Latin would require each person to learn the Latin language, which is an impossi…

Comment by fcb May 28 permalink

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