It's so nice when people who know nothing about liturgy make sweeping decisions about it. I'm willing to bet you my entire yearly income that in a few months the same faculty will be complaining that the students aren't picking up the hymnals and aren't singing/participating, and that the next time you do perform a Latin motet they will complain that you shouldn't be singing in Latin because the students don't understand it and don't have a copy of the translation of the text.

I'm tempted to take your bet since, thankfully, we have a very solid faculty generally -- heck, one of them runs the serving for, and another sings in the choir for, the TLM (I happen to direct that choir) -- and a very supportive administration. What we do is pretty well-established at this point.

Sadly, bleak and awful as it must sound from without, this wasn't so much ideological, but it was more a pragmatic decision relating to funds spent printing 300 of these things each week vs. their actual use and utility. And it's true -- we have hymnals with the daily propers (we sing those) and psalm responses included within -- the only real utility of the sheets (other than the mess someone had to deal with from their being left everywhere) was in fact including the texts of any motets, or the notes for a psalm response. Enough of our repertoire is English already, that the reasoning didn't seem compelling.

To be fair, too -- I only started them when the hymnals got removed for CoViD two years ago. When they came back, I just kept doing them. Sneaky, huh?

To be fair, too -- I only started them when the hymnals got removed for CoViD two years ago. When they came back, I just kept doing them. Sneaky, huh?

not as sneaky as us removing them from the pews and never putting them back. We are committed to worship aids form now on. It's a fair bit of work for me, but I enjoy it and it allows me complete latitude with what we sing.