Oh, JMO, that is splendiforously glorious!
I just held a plenum of our four parish music leadership just last evening. Among the topics was the permission to move onto new Mass settings after the one year exposure to the MR3 in our consensus Mass settings decided last Summer. I mentioned how the main parish Schola would likely move from Royce Nickel's ST THERESE to ST. RALPH SHERWIN, so we have kismet with this SATB bonus! Our other little garage schola's been using the Glory during the last year which they are happy to continue employing. You still da Man.

Thank you so much for these encouraging comments.

Hopefully within a few months I can also provide a "live" version with organ accompaniment, since this SATB can also be sung with organ. Everything depends on the choir/organist/acoustic, etc.

Noted!

Adam, I would like nothing more — and I want to do my other chant Masses as well. However, I am not sure when these will all be finished.

BTW, JMO- you got the Wendy Seal of Approval once she got home, she whom you thought so enchanting to include in the 09 video!
I should trademark that, the WSA! And, for the record I humbly echo Adam's query.

Kudos again on this, Jeffrey!

So, I hear that the melody is in the soprano line. Do you think it will be as effective, overall, if the entire congregation (men and women) is singing along on that same melody? Or would the SATB setting be better left for a situation where the congregation isn't singing (i.e., "active participation" by listening and praying)? Just curious!

Great question, MarkM, I'm pondering that as well as I plan to introduce it. When we did the similarly composed Nickel Mass of S. T. of Liseaux, we've deployed it in unison about 90% of this last year. That will likely be the starting program with JMO's setting of the Glory, but I may "sneak" a male voice singing the soprano into the mix when we go SATB. And I'm pretty sure that's why JMO had his solo version of the chant to immediately follow Matt Curtis' SATB on the video, as a prompt to aid congregational acquisition.

Friends,

I am so honored by all these supportive comments.

I am also particularly interested in hearing the myriad performance possibilities.

Thanks again !

Now can we have it in SSSA? :D That's what I have to work with!

I'd try it if I could get a bass and a tenor.

The one comment that I encountered, JMO, was a left-field compliment. One doesn't know how to respond to requests that are premised upon what one doesn't know how to teach, versus the achievable alternative.
Perhaps JT's endorsement at NLM alone will suffice. Otherwise, I've never gotten any impression that the ethos at NLM is tolerant of anything that strays too far from Vaticana.
Criminey sakes, man, you've (with the presumptive help of the Sancte Spritus ,Mother of Invention) tapped into the mother lode of new and glistening composition. Rejoice and be glad.

I went and looked when you first posted and I was wondering if something was wrong with me because I didn't see any comments at the time...

Also- I posted a nice comment.
Love your work.

If it makes you feel better, a lot of times people actually reading things doesn't help either.

I have written articles on my blog wherein I defend the use of pop-folk music in liturgy, and then gotten comments telling me how wrong I am about pop-folk music being inappropriate and that it's perfectly fine to sing. I have also written articles explaining why I think that traditional sacred music, especially Gregorian chant, is the most suitable music for liturgy, and received comments telling me how wrong I was and that really the most suitable music was, in fact, Gregorian chant and traditional sacred music.

Or, in the words of Bill Murray in Ground Hog Day: "People like blood sausage too. People are morons."