All Souls Day Responsorial Psalm and Gospel Acclamation Composition Available
  • JacobFlahertyJacobFlaherty
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    Hello, all! Here is a chant-based Responsorial Psalm for November 2, All Souls Day. I've mostly ever posted things a day or two before they actually happen, so trying to get ahead of it this year. Let me know if you'd be interested in the score (and maybe throwing a few bucks at me so my wife can be reasonably satisfied with the time away from the family it took to compose! :)

    Responsorial Psalm (start at 16:45): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJ8zzuRsyW4&t=249s

    Gospel Acclamation (start at 27:38 - the refrain is Jeff Ostrowski's; the verse is my own) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJ8zzuRsyW4&t=249s
  • ServiamScores
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    I like this a lot. Very sober and appropriate, and well written.


    That said, the given options in the lectionary are:

    1. 23:1–3a, 3b–4, 5, 6

    ℟. (1) The Lord is my shepherd; there is nothing I shall want.
    or:
    ℟. Though I walk in the valley of darkness, I fear no evil, for you are with me.



    2. Psalm 25:6 and 7b, 17–18, 20–21

    ℟. (1) To you, O Lord, I lift my soul.
    or:
    ℟. (3a) No one who waits for you, O Lord, will ever be put to shame.



    3. Psalm 27:1, 4, 7 and 8b and 9a, 13–14

    ℟. (1) The Lord is my light and my salvation.
    or:
    ℟. (13) I believe that I shall see the good things of the Lord in the land of the living.


    So I'm not quite sure how this refrain would fit in as a R.P., although it would definitely be licit as an offertory or communio, I would imagine.
  • JacobFlahertyJacobFlaherty
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    Thanks, James! Oh, shoot. That seems to be different from past years, or at least from what my pastor gave me in the Lectionary. Is it different when it falls on a Sunday?
  • a_f_hawkins
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    In the Dioceses of the United States of America, instead of the Psalm assigned in the Lectionary, there may be sung either the Responsorial Gradual from the Graduale Romanum, or the Responsorial Psalm or the Alleluia Psalm from the Graduale Simplex, as described in these books, or an antiphon and Psalm from another collection of Psalms and antiphons, including Psalms arranged in metrical form, providing that they have been approved by the Conference of Bishops or the Diocesan Bishop.
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