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The 1979 BCP Psalms are not from the RSV but are a bespoke updating of Coverdale.

FWIW, I've been using the Abbey Psalms for a couple of years now for the Office and don't fi…

Thanked by 3Liam Gamba Roborgelmeister
I'm somewhat flabbergasted by there being a service that started at 4:30AM.

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At least for the entrance, it sounds like the Graduale Simplex that you want. For the exit, maybe the appropriate Marian antiphon?

Thanked by 2probe Paul F. Ford
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 anythi…

Thanked by 6LauraKaz tomjaw Abbysmum Charles Chant_Supremacist MatthewRoth
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'…

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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…

Thanked by 5Abbysmum CHGiffen Liam GerardH Roborgelmeister
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.

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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.
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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 se

Thanked by 1Chant_Supremacist
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 …

Thanked by 3smvanroode Liam Chant_Supremacist
Paul Turner, who's pretty meticulous about all things Novus Ordo, says Gloria: no, Creed: yes.

Thanked by 2GerardH Roborgelmeister
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 wor…

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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 w…

Thanked by 3Paul F. Ford PaxMelodious a_f_hawkins
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 Her…

Thanked by 2montre_16 irishtenor
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.

Thanked by 1Liam
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 ve…

Thanked by 1trentonjconn
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 th…

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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 bapti…

Thanked by 4Anna_Bendiksen contemporaryworship92 Liam CHGiffen
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 refer…

Thanked by 6Liam LauraKaz Abbysmum M. Jackson Osborn tomjaw CHGiffen
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 m…

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