After having taken a closer look at the SEP, I found the 7 Communion Antiphons to be used ad libitum. Perhaps this website should consider publishing them together in separate files, or perhaps together to be printed as a booklet.

I've taken the liberty of using screen captures to edit them all together into an 8-page booklet, with the intention of introducing them to the Parish Choir that I'll be volunteering with in the near future. I am trying to get them to move away from the old 4-hymn sandwich.

I have generally found that if you use a processional hymn, sing the responses and sing the Our Father, that congregations are generally happy to leave the choir to sing an offertory motet and then a communion chant and leave the organist to play a suitable postlude. I like to mix up the ordinary of the mass a little. I rarely use a single setting of the ordinary for an entire mass. I might have a polyphonic Kyrie and Agnus Dei, with an easy veracular Gloria and Sanctus. It rather depends on the occasion and what sort of singers I have available.

In Lent and Advent I often use a suitable hymn for the season is used as the recessional. In Lent it may be something like "Lord Jesus Think On Me" or "May this Lenten Discipline", whilst with Advent, "Veni, Veni Emmanuel", "On Jordan's Bank the Baptist's Cry", "Come, Thou Long-Expected Jesus" can all be sung as recessionals, when strictly speaking (in the Catholic Liturgy) Postludes are not permitted in these seasons.

But back onto my main point, I think that we should encourage the use of these ad libitum Communion Antiphons as a way to break up the dreaded 4-hymn sandwich!