Looking for suggestions and guidance. When I started at the parish, they had just switched from the Ignatius Pew Missal to ILP SAH with SttL psalms matching the lectionary in the hymnals. I believe there was some push back over all the chant and not being able to read square notes, so a "hymnal committee" came up with options and chose this. I think the previous DM and priests were more in favor of Credo, but went with SAH at the recommendation of the committee. We still sing the same hymns that were in the Pew Missal.

I've learned since this change occurred two years ago, that nobody thought to look at the settings of the Psalms when the committee went through various hymnals. This has created multiple issues. We are a small/rural area with volunteers. They can't sing these modern melodies. Our biggest church in the parish abandoned these altogether and still sing the Ignatius Pew Missal settings. I heard complaints from a few people that they "don't have the music in their hymnals." I tried meshing the refrain and setting verses to Meinrad tones (is this legal?). It's been a mixed success. The Pew Missal settings are so simple and should be entrenched in memory by now that folks should simply be able to listen and repeat.

At the end of the day, our cantors sing the Ignatius Pew Missal very well and knowing they have little time to practice it makes sense to stick with that. However, I'd like to find a better solution, if one exists, where we can have "chant" style Psalms that are more elaborate like the Source and Summit, and somehow maybe even provide the congregation with the music. I feel like we are just stuck with these SAH until at least 2028, which I may have to come to terms with.

Any thoughts or advice would be much appreciated