To point 3 - this was a deliberate response to VII calling for a wider selection of biblical texts. In the case of the Communion antiphon, there is generally a choice, one based on the traditional selection from (usually) a psalm, and the other a phrase from the Gospel of the day. The altar Missal will contain both.

I'm in an English arch diocese. The Missal texts were intended for 'if not sung', and lack psalms to extend the chant, but USCCB's Missal version approves singing them (the rest of the world afaik does not). A good, but not official, guide to the options as seen by DDWDS is found here for Sundays and major feasts.

From 2010, for the USA, which has had a USA-specific grandfathering:

https://forum.musicasacra.com/forum/discussion/2992/x#Item_54

Liam, thank you! I found a list among the posts. It's all too complicated for me, and I see that it was as well, in 2010.

In Canada, these sixteen years have passed during which the CBW III psalms (a version of the Grail) have been tacitly allowed to continue in use for singing, notwithstanding the newer lectionary approved in 2009.

Is that analogously true in the United States also?

@TLMlover the Missal antiphons sometimes match the Graduale Romanum, but don't always. In particular, the Missal usually has two options for the Communion antiphon; one from the psalms, one from the gospels. They do not account for the three-year lectionary cycle like the 1974 Graduale does (when possible from authentic repertory).

Bartlett's Simple English Propers use a translation of the texts from the Graduale Romanum, hence why they don't match the missal

Why would missals (like the one in our parish) NOT use texts from the GR?

That is a question for Bugnini et al. The missal antiphons are in the Editio Typica, so that is a decision by Rome, not individual publishers.

I can't speak to the Jogues missal as I don't know it.

The English text on their website matches the published 1997 Lectionary. Psalm setting can match that text, or could use another approved psalter (for now).

The Spanish on their website matches the Mexican lectionary, but most published settings use an older translation based on the Lectionary from Spain. Both are licit for use in the US (as well as any approved texts form Spanish speaking bishops conferences until we have our own Lectionary, per what I’ve been told by the USCCB).

My Spanish psalter is the only complete psalter I’m personally aware of outside of Mexico that uses their lectionary texts (can be found on the CRCCM Repertoire Project, with printed copies available in near future).

@TLMlover

Recently a parishioner has complained to me that my choice of Responsorial Psalm and /or Introit does not exactly match the translation appearing in our missalette. She wants the text to be exact.

I have run into this myself were musicians use text not in the missallette. The individual that approached you has a vaild complaint. The Propers and psalm text to be used should match the resourse the parish has provided to the congregation. If you want to use something different even if it is approved by the USCCB, you need to provide a Liturgy aid for the congregation.

As an example, the Breaking Bread missallette changed the english text of the benediction hymns that normally grace the last page. Many of us who are used to the traditional text complained. Now, I see an insert was added in the back of the missallette by concerned members of the parish, containing the traditional text, which I welcomed.

I don't know how important "participation" is in the TLM. But in the NO, it's not only important, it's a prerequiste.

Many of you object to priest in the NO, who seem to take liberties with the Liturgy, especially the Eucharistic Liturgy. Or some musicians who get "bored" playing the same Mass setting and every 8 or 10 weeks feel it necessary to change it. I get so tired of that, the Mass isn't about you!

By changing the text of the resource that the congregation is given to use, you are doing the same thing some priest do, the Mass isn't about you. It's about giving everyone the same opportunity to participate, when you introduce different text, you make it about yourself, and quite frankly that's a mistake.

The problem is that for 99% of things and people the text is in their native language or one that they speak well. In fact this is the whole point of the NO.

I don’t know how I feel about the Benediction text changing other than to say that there is another more obvious solution.

As to the setting of the Ordinary: I think that actually, yeah, you should have a rotation every eight to ten weeks however that is sliced and diced. We have long gone nine weeks with one Gregorian setting and at the end we want to keel over. Many churches don’t have music in July (and increasingly June these days). But a split of the green Sundays is pretty reasonable. I think it’s worse in more typical parishes for the musicians, and I’m sympathetic: so many people play the same stuff not just at one Mass but twice if not three times (usually running back all or most of one Sunday Mass, Saturday being unique). So long as it isn’t changing weekly on a whim, some sort of division by season and then between late summer and fall/after Epiphany for the green Sundays seems reasonable.

We change things for benediction too. If my pastor allowed it, we’d do Rorate Caeli for Advent and Ave Verum from Christmas Eve to Candlemas. That’d be a nice break from O Salutaris and would give the congregation nice things to have—I kind of enjoy giving the children who come to Vespers and Benediction a Gregorian earworm.

A follow up tomy response to Don:

What about daily Mass? If you are expecting a full set of daily Mass readings in a missalette, you're not going to find it. Propers, maybe. But not all missalettes offer daily propers. People either bring their own or just listen. Simple.

Also, I have been in parishes where the Sunday Mass readings proclaimed from the Lectionary are not the same as the missalette. You just adjust. No problem.

My experience has been that, usually, the folks who complain about this sort of thing are the ones who dislike traditional music in general and who are therefore looking for things to complain about.

People who have strong ideas about Things - regardless of placement on the spectrum - are quite capable of complaining. It's a human condition thing, not a one-end-of-the-spectrum thing.

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People who have strong ideas about Things - regardless of placement on the spectrum - are quite capable of complaining. It's a human condition thing, not a one-end-of-the-spectrum thing.

I agree. Some people are anxious or are just truly never happy. I can take some complaints if I know to just ignore them. I actually yelled at someone who was never happy and was unreasonable. She is still a bit in the way, how-ev-er she’s a lot nicer and easier to deal with. I don’t recommend shouting matches! But it worked. And the unreasonable complaints just get filed away (the problem really is not the object of the complaint: if things were different I think that she could be convinced to go along with things).

I actually yelled at someone who was never happy and was unreasonable.

And that’s inappropriate and not something to brag about.

You’ve never yelled at someone who always was demanding and who never had anything nice to say?

No, I haven’t. I work in the hospitality industry and am expected to treat everyone with dignity and respect, regardless of how annoying, demanding, rude, or abusive they are. Have I been tempted to? Multiple times a day, every day M-F, yes, but that kind of behaviour would cost me my job and I don’t want to be homeless, so I have to exercise self control.

That’s not to say I don’t set boundaries with people and politely, yet assertively refuse them service when they’re abusive and start swearing and threatening me, or throw stuff at me, or have to go into parent mode to break up arguments/fights between customers because someone cut in front of them.

I deal with trying people by using trauma-based care to the best of my abilities given the circumstances and have compassion for people.

Lack of boundaries is a miasma of America's popular and civic culture. I prefer to live in eastern New England where the residue and half-life of a culture of LOTS of boundaries has not yet faded entirely. Fences and hedges make for better (albeit not necessarily good) neighbors and all that.