MatthewRoth

Is Keith Green's "There is a Redeemer" approved for use in Catholic Church?
Wesley's hymns tend to express Catholic theology, so I usually don't have trouble with those hymns. While I realize "A Mighty Fortress" is the paraphrase of a psalm, it also symbolically stands as the battle cry of the Reformatio…

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Is Keith Green's "There is a Redeemer" approved for use in Catholic Church?
Yes, it sounds a little Monarchical, doesn't it?

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Antiphon for opening of Holy Door
I know these things aren't of strict obligation but it's a bit weird they are doing the Salve Regina and not the Alma Redemptoris Mater.

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Whats happening to congregational singing?
Chonak, I was going to spare everyone... Matt Redman and Hillsong United are examples of what's in vogue today. They have much calmer pieces... CGZ, I was merely pointing out its depth of Scripture, in my opinion, compared to pieces in the v…

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Whats happening to congregational singing?
Indeed, I'm interested too. It's interesting that the only hymn I've sung at Francsican in the contemporary repertoire that had a doxology is "Lift High the Banners of Love." It's very English evangelical from the 198…

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Whats happening to congregational singing?
Fr. Krisman, I would like to think “traditional hymns" means hymns which are more along the lines of the the English hymns cited... “Holy God, We Praise Thy Name" as it is played and sung (though rarely written) and “O Lord, I am not worth…

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Pray Tell
In that case, I think the congregation almost expects it, e.g. at the London Oratory.

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Habemus episcopum
Not all communities using Divine Worship: the Missal are actually in the Ordinariate. Our Lady of the Atonement in San Antonio still is a diocesan parish. But some who had come over earlier did join, like the folks in Indy and I believe in the Scran…

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Whats happening to congregational singing?
Well, hopefully never, because in the OF, it accompanies the fraction which is followed by the dialgoue. In the EF, the fraction is accompanied by a silent prayer. The celebrant sings Pax Domini, etc. and the Agnus follows, after the Pax at Solemn …

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Pray Tell
I excuse 1P5, at least partially, given that trads tend to be poked at by the hierarchy. Should they express their anger? Perhaps not but it's no wonder the readers feel as they do. PrayTell has almost the full support of bishops the world over…

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What song is this (Kennedy Funeral)
You can add Tulsa and Omaha as well.

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What song is this (Kennedy Funeral)
The problem is that while the quality can be better, i.e. of the musicianship, the choices are not necessarily better because of the optionitis that plagues the Novus Ordo, and even if you do all chant and/ir polyphony you still have the deformed fu…

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Ave Maria (Charles H. Giffen), SATB + rehearsal accompaniment
I listened to the MP3. I’ll pass it on to some of my friends so we can sing it! They'll find a place for it. I really like it.

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Your favorite Christmas CD's?
Adam, I thought of that but I decided that I could explain my reasoning... :)

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Your favorite Christmas CD's?
I need that CD, because Sarum, Christmas, and Sheppard.

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Theology in a Song
Interesting, MJO, you mention the Son in creation. I tend to emphaisze all three persons at different times when referring to Creation. The Father generates the Son and the Spirit proceeds from him, so in like manner ceation is principally from the …

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Christ the King
Clerget, I didn't think you did. I do find it typical of liturgy by committee, and not just the parish liturgy committee but also the Consilium and the reformed liturgy, to hold piety in contempt and being picky about “it’s a solemnity, not a f…

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Christ the King
I actually am bothered by people who insist on calling it a memorial, feast, or solemnity and who correct those who choose to call it a feast. First, the new terminology is, well, new. It also refers somewhat to what is prayed at the Mass than any…

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Year C 1st Sun. of Advent Entrance Antiphon 25 & Responsorial psalm 25
Yes. Ps. 129 (130) is used twice in the Last Sunday After Pentecost (tomorrow, or for those who use the OF, it was last week because of Christ the King). As you note the chants sound different. The text and music at different points interact diffe…

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Latin "i" vs. "j" - source?
I find that using I instead of J prevents people from pronouncing it as a hard consonant...

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Year C 1st Sun. of Advent Entrance Antiphon 25 & Responsorial psalm 25
Do both. Often the propers repeat the same text in two chants at one Mass. That is a good thing.

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Of Canada and copyrights
What if you were to download it only? Could you then copy it here? Interesting area to ask questions of a copyright law expert.

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Chrism Mass Propers Composition Contest
Also, a work of that nature is prone to slipping away from the influence of the Gregorian chant of the text one is setting.

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Coverdale psalms in Novus Ordo
People sometimes use Coverdale regardless. It is illicit, but it is done.

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Urbs beata Jerusalem - plainsong (identifying plainsong)
At least through the Middle Ages the schema of the office differed. I don't know at what point the BR was largely adopted, but they never used the revised hymns, and I suspect the shift to the BR was done somewhat involuntarily...

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Urbs beata Jerusalem - plainsong (identifying plainsong)
One must remember the hymns are the first casulty of the destruction of the Roman Rite. The canons of St. Peter’s Basilica refused to adopt them; the Lateran may have refused as well. Both had also preserved a form of the office that pre-dates the c…

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What book is this Alleluia from?
CHGiffen is correct...I just checked, and it is in the Liber Brevior as the antiphon for Vespers at the end of Mass on Holy Saturday. The reformers of Holy Week just recycled it for their newly created Lauds.

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What book is this Alleluia from?
Isn’t it in the Graduale Simplex?

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Funeral mass question
But it isn’t the Libera me as we know it from the traditional form of the Requiem Mass.

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Funeral mass question
I don’t have the GR1974 in front of me, but I have been told it isn’t, and at my parish, when faced with options, almost always we default to the pre-conciliar way, but in this case we don’t.

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