Dunno. You can show your new cantor the GIRM section on the entrance chant:

47. When the people are gathered, and as the Priest enters with the Deacon and ministers, the Entrance Chant begins. Its purpose is to open the celebration, foster the unity of those who have been gathered, introduce their thoughts to the mystery of the liturgical time or festivity, and accompany the procession of the Priest and ministers.

Nowhere does it say that the pupose of the chant is to welcome the priest.

"Let us stand and greet our celebrant with our entrance hymn, Hail, Holy Queen ..."

I've heard that too, and when I've worked in an announcing parish I put a stop to it. The opening hymn kind of does need something before it. It seems self-evident to me that, if you aren't listening to any speaking, you're going to tend to miss the first few words. At least I do.

What I used was "Welcome to St. X on the 3rd Sunday in Ordinary Time. The celebrant is Fr. Y. The opening hymn is number 123 in the Z Hymnal. Title. One, two, three."

Given this will doubtlessly turn into a rant of how much everyone hates announcements, I'll be the moderate to say that, while I don't like them, they should be clear and absolutely as short as possible. At times, I've just said "The hymn: 123, name, one two three." And I don't get this "please" stuff. "Please, O pretty please join us in our hymn..."

Make it a statement of fact, not a request or an order. This is the hymn. You can do with that information as you will.

We usually have something like this. [bracketed texts only said as appropriate]

Welcome to this Mass at (Church-building-name) of the Cathedral Parish of St. Raphael. Today we celebrate [The Xth Sunday of Y] [The solemnity of X] [The Feast of X].

[Very occasionally, announcements about the Mass happen here: "Today Bishop Morlino will be consecrating Jane Doe as a Consecrated Virgin living in the World" or "Today Bishop Morlino will confirm 47 young people from our cathedral parish"]

[Please join in our opening hymn, number four nine two, "hymn name", number four nine two.]

[All our music for the Mass today can be found in the programs handed out by the ushers at the doors. Please join in our opening hymn, XYZ.]

I plead guilty to having used the "Welcome" form prior to the Midnight Mass. The only reason why I made the announcement was to encourage those who normally do not attend the parish to please make use of the pew cards for the revised translation. I do not normally make an announcement, as I launch into the SEP Introit.

It did bug me to no end when I went to another parish and heard the exact same greeting that was indicated in the original post. Talk about making the celebrant the focus of the Mass. It was bizarre.

When shall the Church Universal come to realize that the Mass is NOT a "celebration." Yes, I understand and know the full text of this word, but most do not. Yes, I know that we are an "Easter people." However, we are not resurrected by Our Lord and Saviour until we have taken up our cross in this life and been through the trials and sacrifices and thus "crucified in Christ." Then and ONLY then is our joy complete.

Let me share and old saying that has been set at many a door of Anglican churches throughout time and locations. Perhaps, along with other notices, bulletins and other news worthy events, these words should be ENGRAVED upon every church door of every church throughout the world and atop of every bulletin and handout for all to recited and meditated on.

"Hush! For GOD is here! Enter this door as if the floor within were gold,
And every wall of jewels all of wealth untold;
As if a choir in robes of fire were singing here;
Nor shout, nor rush, But hush ... For God is here!"

Announcement:
"Our ENTRANCE hymn can be found in your (color: red/maroon) hymnal at number ###, (title), number ###".

We don't have a board, and I use the words "Entrance, Offertory, Communion, and Recessional", not "Gathering, Preparation of the Gifts, Communion Processional, or Sending Forth".

Color codes: Red=Worship III / Maroon=Hymnal 1940.
BMP

Our pastor also hates announcements, especially during the mass (I guess you might say that prior to the Entrance is not during the mass). He says that announcing hymn numbers sounds to him like, "Attention Kmart shoppers!" So we do as CharlesW does - just put the numbers on the hymn board and start. The congregation is pretty well trained to look for the numbers and find them in the book for themselves.

Announcements about anything before mass? Never, Ever.
This is the sequence of events that should lead into mass:
1. People enter, are greeted, and given a mass leaflet with needed hymns, etc.
2. People sit and/or kneel in contemplative prayer, during which
3. The organ plays a voluntary/prelude which evokes the theme or emotions of the day
4. When all is in (unannounced) readiness, the organ introduces the hymn, and, without
further ado
5. Everyone sings the hymns as the procession of (choir?) and sacred ministers ascends
the altar
6. The introit may be sung as the altar is censed.
7. Celebrant sings 'in the name...'
8. And so on, everyone speaking (chanting) only the ritual text
No announcements of any kind, no interruptions of the ritual continuum, no comments.
Just the mass and its ritual texts, acts, and music
from beginning to end

There are, of course, those clowns who, upon reading the above would snortle that there is no place for some interjected commentary. (How Right!), no welcoming announcements for visitors who, because they are daft, don't know where they are (How Right again!), There's no place for someone to say something cute to make the people giggle and feel at home (How right again) - they're not after all 'at home' - they are in the House of the Lord, the Holy of Holies. While there they are celebrating Holy Mass. This is an interaction between heaven and earth which does not resemble any other sort of human activity. It is unthinkable that anyone should interrupt or append to the ritual and acts intrusions or commentary that are foreign to it. It is astonishing that those who do these things do them with an impertinent and unabashed lack of embarrassment, because they are doing something horribly distracting that is a blight on the liturgy. (It's not that these people are not needed: it is just that they are not at all needed to do these things.)

In one of those rare instances where Laredo might just have a freak snow storm, I agree with PGA.

In the instance of the third Sunday in September, when my dad's parish introduced the new musical settings of the revised Roman Missal, I rehearsed the sung parts with the faithful a few minutes before Mass. A few minutes prior to starting Mass, I repeated the announcement about the Mass part changes for the stragglers coming into church.

We don't give out the bulletin before Mass because folks tend to read it during the liturgy. We also don't have a board.

The only time that I will make the announcement about following the pew cards is on Christmas and Easter when we will have visitors (for the same reasons PGA indicated).

Our congregation is bell trained :)
One of the servers gives a nice loud ring to the bell we keep on a bookshelf in our small vestibule. Everyone stands, and the introit begins.

I don't mind the announcing the hymn part, it's the welcoming of the priest that sounds 'off' to me. My last pastor said it was innapropriate, but I just wanted to make sure since I have a cantor who is used to doing this and I am putting the quash on it.

@Gavin

Hahaha!

I really don't want to "contribute" to this contentious issue; but, some of us labor under supervision that prefers not to have a sacristy bell used, not to have the organ introduction function as the indicator to stand, etc. ad nauseum. This "welcome the celebrant" is a non-starter, to the contrary any welcomes verbally made are done in the name of the pastorate on behalf of the Church universal.
However, in such a situation where a musician must function as "commentator" or Master of Ceremonies, two offices still valid theoretically, I might recommend that the invitation to stand be phrased mindful of the "prayers at the altar." Something along the lines of "We now stand before the altar of our Lord, praising Him singing "proper/hymn/song" title." Before anyone autoflames me, consider that the Mass does not formally begin until the singing of the Introit, contrary to what some reviewers mention over at Ship of Fools in their reports.
I would love to recover the use of the sacristy bell where I am. When it happens, I'll give everyone a ring.

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How odd this should come up. I just heard this exact pre-Mass announcement for the very first time at my parish, from a relatively new cantor. It was really weird...

We had a new priest, who consistently said "Good morning" when he got to the chair; I told him that the liturgy provides him with a proper greeting, it is called "Dominus vobiscum.

i think the confusion arrived when we exchanged the entrance rite with the "right of greeting".

Entrance and recessional football jokes provide the comic backdrop during football season. Fairly common in a number of WI churches that I have visited.

I've witnessed a celebrant (in the parish I grew up in; I was back visiting a few years ago) think of another point he wanted to make in his homily, but he thought of it after we had already started saying the Creed. He stopped the Creed to make his really minor point! I just about fainted. This after a homily filled with golf jokes and irrelevant quotes from a book he happened to have read recently.

Charles, you are correct that "In nomine Patris . . ." comes first and then "Dominus vobiscum" (or "Gratia Domini . . ."). This does express a priority, invoke the Trinity first and then comes the greeting--theocentric first, then anthropocentric.

At Saint Edward, the bells ring and the introit (either from the GR or SEP) begins. The
people have learned to stand up the moment the bells ring.