Use of Ave Regina Caelorum
  • daniel
    Posts: 75
    Is this hymn only used during the Divine Offices from Feb. 3rd until Easter, or can it be used as the Recessional Song of a Mass during this period?
  • David Sullivan
    Posts: 355
    Absolutely--I'd even recommend it. Over a season, your congregation might even start to join in. My schola will be singing it during this season. A priest I met just last week told me that it was an old Roman custom to sing the seasonal Marian antiphon after Mass.

    You're very free to choose music (or not) for a recessional--there is no music at all prescribed for the recessional of Mass.
  • dvalerio
    Posts: 341
    And as I've mentioned elsewhere, there is at least one local use of the Roman Rite, which is the Rite of Braga (in Portugal), in which the Marian antiphon is sung not only at the end of the Office but also at the end of Mass (though the Marian Antiphons in Braga do not match those normally found in the Roman Rite).
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