TL;DR: I wrote propers and a Responsorial Psalm to be sung unaccompanied for a young men's discipleship camp. I like the approach to the Psalm (and the boys do, too), and am thinking of expanding that approach into a complete collection of Psalms for Daily and Sunday Mass. I'd like to get some input as to whether that would be a worthwhile undertaking. It is attached below for review, as is an Introit, although I'm not thinking about writing a collection of those.

I am directing the music for the Junior High and High School Men's Discipleship Camp for the Diocese of New Ulm, Minn.

Because our Diocesan Coordinator of Youth Ministries and young clergy are absolutely top-notch, these masses are celebrated ad orientem, in the new rite, with the assistance of the Diocesan seminarians in the sanctuary and in the schola.

The music of the liturgy is essentially unaccompanied plainsong, mostly in the vernacular.

The chanters (myself and some seminarians) chant the Introit (antiphon only) in an Englished setting of the Graduale melody.

The Kyrie is a simple call-and-response, in Greek. The Psalms I have set this year with simple, singable refrains, but instead of simply Psalm-toning the verses, have composed somewhat parallel, but also expressive and varied settings for each verse.

The Offertory is the Orthodox priest Fr. Jan Erickson's setting of Psalm 116, reduced to a plainchant melody, and with the first verse changed into a refrain --- the boys sing it very well.

A mixed, simple chant Latin/English Ordinary is used.

The Communio is chanted by the Schola. Then "Soul of My Savior" is sung as a Thanksgiving hymn when the boys have received Communion, and a Marian hymn or perhaps the Antiphon concludes the liturgy.

These are always very beautiful liturgies.

This year, however, I have been especially pleased with the success of the Psalm-settings I have composed. I was inspired by the way in which the chants of the Graduale express themselves so effectively through subtle variation on common structures, which then become perfectly fitted to the various texts they set, and I tried to accomplish this same effect ing my Psalm settings, crafting each verse with similar, but yet variegated structures, to wed it more perfectly to the text, and to proclaim that text more effectively to the assembly and assist them in praying it more deeply.

I am toying with the idea of expanding them into a complete collection of plainchant Responsorial Psalms, suitable for unaccompanied singing, whether at daily Mass, or even Sunday Mass. I have attached one for review and comment, if you would do me that kindness.

I have also attached one of my Proper settings (for today, St. Ignatius of Loyola), simply for comment, although I know Proper settings abound, and would probably not entertain the idea of creating yet another such collection when others are doing such remarkably similar work.

Thanks in advance for your constructive criticism.