Gospel Acclamations for Lent
  • Jehan_Boutte
    Posts: 264
    Here's a question: why do we even need them?

    I really have a hard time figuring out the necessity of having Gospel acclamations for Lent instead of the Tract. I understand that the Alleluia is going out during Lent, but why did we need an Alleluia-like-refrain instead? Especially since we already had the Tract, which is basically a psalm sung in directo, without any antiphon or response.
    So why did the reformers didn't put the various tracts into the Lectionnary? Or, if there was a need to update this (which can be discussed), how about a psalm sung in directo? Or a second responsorial psalm?
  • smvanroodesmvanroode
    Posts: 998
    All these options are still there:
    - the Graduale Romanum has the tractus
    - the Graduale Simplex has the antiphona acclamationis and the tractus (as well as a second psalmus responsoribus)
    - the Lectionary has the verse before the Gospel, with an optional (!) acclamation that can be sung before and after the verse
    Thanked by 1Paul F. Ford
  • Jehan_Boutte
    Posts: 264
    True, but with all this embarras de richesses, what was the need for yet another option?
  • Chris Garton-Zavesky
    Posts: 6,902
    Jehan,

    If the new material had complemented the old, or produced something of beauty, another "option" would be welcome.

    On the other hand, how many times do we hear from OF-revolution proponents that the past has nothing to teach us?
    Thanked by 1Jehan_Boutte
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