matthewj: [...] Spanish GS [...]
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What a treat!BLAENWERN
Which one?...one of...
You are correct in that this is indeed the season for Alma Redemptoris Mater. I've noticed that for very many (most?) Catholics the Salve Regina is the default Marian antiphon, no matter the season of the year....genuinely curious...
Senlis Aix-en-Provence La Chise-Dieu Sélestat
Sunday: [?] Alma Redemptoris mater Quam dilecta Ave regina
Monday: Alma Redemptoris / Mater patris Gaude virgo Nigra sum
Tuesday: Sub tuum Ave regina Ave regina Ista est
Wednesday:Haec est. Ave virgo sanctissima Ave stella Tota pulchra
Thursday: Tota pulchra Ave regina... mater Gaude Dei genitrix Descendi
Friday: Ave regina Ave virgo sanctissima Speciosa Alma Redemptoris
Saturday: Salve regina Salve regina Salve regina Salve regina
(Regina coeli (Regina coeli
in Paschaltide) in Paschaltide)
There are those (their number is legion) who prefer their limitations and don't wish to be bothered by anything that lies beyond said limitations....un-necessarily limited...
, and Jerome didn't approve Ambrose 's hymn initiative either.Jerome says: "Listen, young men whose duty it is to recite the office in church: God is to be sung not with the voice but with the heart. Nor should you, like play-actors, ease your throat and jaws with medicaments, and make the church resound with theatrical measures and airs."commentary on Ephesians 5:19
(I hope the table above is a bit more legible now I inserted a few hard-spaces.) (More than) 17 votive antiphons is not as limited as 4, and [2 or 4] isn't exactly a further limit. Many Lutheran churches mix things up by seasonally switching the "Hymn of Praise" between Glory to God and This is the Feast of Victory, which might strike some as pointless.singing Salve Regina all year round strikes me as un-necessarily limited
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