How should the bracketed text be interpreted? In churches where the choir sings from a loft rather than the sanctuary or chancel, is it necessary to send two cantors forward, or is it sufficient for them to chant the litany from the choir loft, the celebrant and ministers kneeling meanwhile?Lectionibus expletis, a duobus cantoribus, in medio chori genuflexis [seu, his deficientibus, ab ipso sacerdote, genuflexo in infimo gradu altaris a tatere epistolae], cantantur litaniae sanctorum (quin tamen duplicentur) usque ad invocationem. Propitius esto, omnibus genuflexis et respondentibus.
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