Thanks again for your helpful and honest/realistic input.

Check out #320 in The Hymnal 1982 of the Episcopal Church. It's basically the standard Lauda Sion Salvatorem tune with a translation used in Hymnal 1940 and revised for Hymnal 1982.

I presume this version is what is used in Anglican Usage parishes. My understanding is that a translation which has at one time been authorized for use in the Catholic Church retains its validity for other usages in the Catholic Church.

There's "Contemplate the Bread of Angels" (Ecce panis angelorum) in By Flowing Waters. And composer Mark Winges has set the "Zion Praise Thy Savior" text, using the version of the chant from the Hymnal 1982 and with a very modern organ obligato. It's available from subitomusic.com. I sang on a recording of a number of his sacred pieces, and I can also suggest looking at "Now my tongue" (Pange lingua) and "Humbly I Adore Thee" (Adoro te).

Gavin,

Which New English Hymnal do you recommend?

I do hope you can find the English. We can start learning the chant now and then sing the English for Mass. Thanks so much!

Okay, here is the first version. If you have a large-format printer, you can use this one; just remember to tell the duplexer how you want it to flip the page.

jdaambul,

just wondering if you've downloaded this yet?

Absolutely! Print as many as you like and use them with my best wishes.

That goes for everyone else here as well. I have found this style of notation helpful with people who are not yet comfortable with the neumes.

I realize that the above PDFs were shared a few years ago...is there accompaniment music available, or another place/site to download options for the CC Sequence?

The Complete English Propers (Abrogast, 1964) up at the Music Sacra site has the official English text from the lectionary set to the chant melody (see p. 99 of the pdf = p. 83 of the book).

Janet, the entire Sequence, in Latin, is in the Gregorian Missal. That at least tells me that it is not forbidden in the Ordinary Form.

What's more, the Lauda Sion is printed in some OF missalettes, such as the OCP edition we use in my parish. So it is most definitely not forbidden.

Also you can find the Sequence in the Palmer-Burgess Gradual with square notes in very nice English.

Just to add to the pile-on (it's fun, in small doses): The director is, um, "mis-informed", shall we say. The sequences of Easter and Pentecost are mandatory (though they can be recited instead of sung; and vernacular is permitted, though not required); the sequence of Corpus Christi is optional but *not* forbidden. The reason it's omitted in BB is probably because it's optional. But BB is not a ritual book, just a not-so-glorified worship aid.

Now, of course, this may have zero effect on the director's decision. But, sometimes, directors are operating under misinformation and are willing to re-visit things when they realize this.

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Thank you all very much... so glad to have your confirmation. She was just so very certain that her knowledge vastly exceeds mine in all things liturgical (and, to be fair, she has been at directing for a very long time and doing a pretty good job of choosing mostly very tasteful music, imo). When she had that aghast expression and indicated that she was not allowed to use it by her pastor, for a moment I wondered if there was some restriction on using it of which I was unaware. When I asked if Fr. M. had forbidden her to use it, the response was something to the effect that she had not asked, but did not have permission to use it... very confusing.

{I do need to clarify that they do not use the Breaking Bread books at the parish in question... that was purely my own interjection relative to the topic, since I am stuck with Breaking Bread this year since it was already in place when I took the job. I was surprised to find in the Breaking Bread that nothing at all was mentioned about the Corpus Christi sequence, since the Easter and Pentecost sequences are in the booklets in English. Thanks, Liam, for mentioning the difference between the mandatory and optional difference.}

In any case... I am glad to be reminded once again that years of experience do not always equate to more knowledge...

PS: At my own parish, we sang the Easter sequence three times during the octave this year (for the first time in the memory of any of the choir members or the pastor), will be singing the sequence at Pentecost and will be singing the shortened version of the Corpus Christi sequence as well. I have been restricted to singing them in English, but the melodies are the traditional melodies from the Latin versions...