I noticed that the chants - tones and words are different from the SEP. What is that all about?
The communion antiphons for Ordinary Time are for season use. So there is no one communion chant for a given Sunday.
Am I to simply pick one from the list and run with it, or is there a method to use?
I too would also be interested in a future edition that matches the SEP
I should comment on this also: / I too would also be interested in a future edition that matches the SEP / I honestly don't believe that this would be allowed by the USCCB Secretariat for Divine Worship. The Lumen Christi Missal has been published with the authority of this agency, and has received every possible Ecclesiastical approval. A requirement of this office is to use the translations of the antiphons of the Roman Missal, Third Edition, where possible. / This is no light issue, and the decision was not made lightly, but extremely deliberately. The antiphon translations found in the Lumen Christi Missal can form for us a foundation for textual unity moving forward as more and more composers set the texts of the proper in English, as much of the future of liturgical composition should entail.
Any hymnal with guitar chords is a direct indication that there is little interest in attracting trained musicians to lead music in the church...
Really, you are better off singing a capella than with guitars or piano playing chords...
But using guitarists or pianists who can only play chords is like using a reader who can't read adverbs and skips over them.
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