Dumb question
  • daniel
    Posts: 75
    In the Sacramentary for this coming Sunday (23rd in Ordinary Time), the first Communion Antiphon given is "Like a deer that longs for running streams". Looked in Graduale Romanum and Simplex under "Communion Antiphons" for "Sicut Cervus" and it's not in either. Why?
  • Jeffrey TuckerJeffrey Tucker
    Posts: 3,624
    ah the great puzzle. Bugnini cobbled together a different set of propers, designed for spoken Masses, that are published in the Missal.
  • RobertRobert
    Posts: 343
    There is a discussion of this issue in another thread.

    incidentally, the Latin original in the missal is not the familiar "Sicut cervus desiderat ad fontes..." but rather "Quamadmodum desiderat cervus ad fontes..."
  • Maureen
    Posts: 675
    The Nova Vulgata translation is somewhat... um... interesting in its word choices. Yeah.

    "Altus cantus aptus" has its uses, and "Sicut cervus" with that wording is one of them.
  • incantuincantu
    Posts: 989
    You can of course find it set to music here:

    http://saintmeinradmusic.org/downloads/23OT_Booklet.pdf
  • RagueneauRagueneau
    Posts: 2,592
    link to the above
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