Maybe he was thinking of the Gospel Acclamation?

Yes, unless you are told otherwise. I am omitting the sequence because it 'takes too long.'

Mt 23:13
Lk 16:10
Lk 23:34

I wish it were optional.

We sang it for the first time in some years, and it came off all right, though the psalm-tone setting we used is not that interesting. Step by step!

The ICET one is fine except for real bummers like "O most gracious light divine...shine within these hearts of th...YOURS"

Yes, we've never omitted a required Sequence. Otherwise, it wouldn't be required.

No, Fr Ron is right: it isn't an ICET text. It is the venerable translation by E Caswall. Venerable, that is, except for the cretinesque substitution of 'yours' for 'thine' in several places, even though it savages the rhyme scheme. Also, omitted in several of the first three or four lines is 'Come thou', leaving no syllable on which to sing the second note of the historic tune of this treasured 'Golden Sequence'. I played with fire (it seemed an appropriate thing to do on Pentecost) and supplied a vocative 'O' when I sang it this morning at St Basil's chapel at UST.

I had this conversation this AM with somebody who would have been just as happy to finish what Trent started...including ditching the Dies Irae.

Of course, if we were living ca. 1600, some of you members of Ye Guild of Church Musick would be claiming that Masses without the pre-Trent sequences are invalid.

Sing the Sequences. Preferably in translations that rhyme; failing that, in Latin. Or vice-versa.

I say ignore the "approved" translations - I disapprove of them, as does any thoughtful musician!

Sad to say, The Hymnal 1940 has only an abbreviated version. Ditto the 1982. There is a complete version in The English Hymnal, and in Sir Sidney Nicholson's Plainsong Hymnal. Unfortunately the version we are given to work with has quite a few lines of seven syllables that should be eight. But, some daring ingenuity will trans-, um, transform them into the proper length to fit the tune.

Sequences are pretty much hymns, and Trent's impulse was to restrict them as much as possible. Cathedrals and big monasteries in France had admittedly gone rather to dramatic excess. Now they are often seen as reactionary, which is interesting.

I'm going to channel my best Mary Jane Ballou here and approch the OP concern from another perspective. The setup first- I obliged a diocesan memo and forwarded music ministry leadership and clergy an email that the singing of one of the three English (and their corresponding Spanish) settings of the PS was obligatory. Schola chanted it in English, Ensembles (and I presume other groups) likely used the Beethoven. The celebrant at the Masses for which I was present bent over backwards to explain the significance of the three required sequences in his opening remarks after the "in Nomine."
Here's my MJB- from my vantage I have to wonder if PIPs simply regard these significant "markers" as yet another arbitrary imposition aberrantly added by priests and musicians to extend a liturgy for which they likewise arbitrarily opt to choose to sit on their larynxes and tolerate the burden of time added, or worse seeth quietly in abject obligation?
Fr. Friel has a powerful reflection on Latin, vernaculars and comprehension over at CCW where he begs the question of the necessity of intelligibility in reasonable measure in the Mass. And in that regard, does the OF itself augur against the efficacy of these calendar moments throughout the year. It can be very frustrating, yes?

We always sing the sequence in English for Easter and Pentecost.
My pastor asked me if I was going to the one for Corpus Christi.
Does anyone have a copy of it (English) so that I can start preparing?

Thank you Sr. Sarah David for posting the sequence.

The English version just above is the same as that in The English Hymnal. It is quite fine, but, unfortunately, is not the one in the lectionary, so it cannot be used. One could only wish that our lectionary provided us with something so fine!

Actually, on closer look, it seems to be the version which served as a model for our lectionary's offering, in which the historical verb forms have been hacked to pieces without any attempt at replacing the omitted syllables so that it can be sung to the historic melody. Also, a few lines have been 'recast', presumably because the original language was deemed too fine. How can it be, that such artless amateurs are employed to provide us with liturgical texts to sing? It defies comprehension.

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Sorry for resurrecting this old thread, but isn't the sequence also required on vigil Masses for Easter and Pentecost (OF)? I went to a Mass this weekend, and it was omitted.

I probably should have looked this up before I posted that, but the GIRM only stipulates Easter Sunday and Pentecost Day: it mentions nothing about the vigils. But yes, it is not part of the Easter Vigil, but Pentecost doesn't really have a special Vigil Mass in the same vein as Easter, which is why I was confused. You and the GIRM have cleared that up, though. Thank you and God bless you.

The extended vigil of Pentecost is fascinating, but I've to see it celebrated in my neck of the woods. I almost convinced our Pastor to celebrate it the last two years, but he always changes his mind at the last minute (after we've learned everything). Ah well.
I Vespers can be combined with Mass, and there can be four OT readings with intervening psalms. Sounds awesome. Maybe next year we'll finally experience it.

I attempted to chant the sequence today, it started well and ended very well, but the middle we shall not speak of. I noticed while practicing that it seemed someone had taken a clumsy hand in modernizing the text back in '64, those "you" forms really do beg to be "thee, thine, thou, etc." which also has the advantage of singing much better. Don't people understand that "y" consonant sounds don't sing well? It is a beautiful bit of music if done well. One lady said after mass she had not heard it in many years but remembered it fondly being sung in Latin when she was young. The other masses had the "Ode to Joy" adaptation of the sequence instead.

Unfortunately we forgot to bring back the "Alleluia" with the Ite Missa Est, but then we had the tone deaf deacon who can neither match nor hold a pitch, so perhaps that was a "happy fault".