No chance to buy through Amazon?

My recommendation: bring more of these hymnals to the next Colloquium than you did V2 hymnals. And have a nice pen or marker handy as well!

This looks like an amazing book. If I attended the EF more often, I'd be buying one right away, and I might have to get one anyway for the occasional times I attend.

Just got a reply back from Port City. Looks like a single hymnal would be $22.99 + $5.15 shipping, for a total of $28.14.

An order of 4 hymnals would be 4*$22.99 + $11.19 shipping, which works out to be just under $26 per hymnal in that case.

For reference, my shipping address is near Chicago, but I believe media mail shipping is the same price regardless of distance. It certainly will be nicer to have these available on Amazon for smaller orders, but I understand why it must be like this, at least initially.

Probably a silly question, but will the St. Edmund Campion Missal have hymns in both Latin and English? I understand that there will be hymns that use English translations of the Latin texts, but are the original Latin texts to the hymns included as well?

Seeing that my college takes St Edmund Campion as its Patron, I may be able to arrange for a few copies to be purchased by the chaplaincy for the weekly EF Latin Mass.

http://www.ccwatershed.org/media/pdfs/12/12/31/14-14-46_0.pdf

Here it lists a 20-page section on "Congregational Gregorian Chants." I wonder, though, if that is a complete representation.

As far as concern about Latin hymns...

I tried to avoid them as often as possible. When I first began doing the TLM we would do all sorts of hymns in Latin to common hymn tunes that we'd find... People were able to sing them because they could (kinda) pronounce the words, and they knew the tunes (Winchester New, Diademata, etc)... But, for the most part they didn't know what they were singing. Yes there was a translation printed, but they can't read the translation while singing. They can read a translation while listening, which is why choral motets/anthems in Latin are the way to go. Shorter congregational chants in Latin (Attende Domine, Regina Caeli) are a bit better as people can learn the meaning of the words and remember them. Remembering what every verse of a 6 verse Latin hymn to the tune Diademata means seems rather difficult. The congregation chanting the Ordinary in Latin makes perfect sense because they know what words of the Ordinary parts mean. Unfamiliar Latin hymns with multiple verses to me just seems like killing time.

My personal opinion is that if someone wants an EF congregation to sing hymns - stick to English hymns done during the procession to the altar before the Asperges and after the Last Gospel. That's more than enough hymns.

I've never really given the topic of Latin hymns much thought, but I think that Matthew and Jeff make compelling arguments against them.

I think there's "easy Latin" and "hard Latin". Parce Domine is easy - not too many words, and mostly familiar. The verses of Attende Domine are hard - lots of words, many of which do not regularly appear elsewhere in the Mass. I can see that one would want to be cautious as to which Latin hymns one would choose for a congregation.

Hmm, I think I'll wait until the St. John Fisher missal is published...

I'm not waiting either! Already ordered 4 copies for evaluation, but I'm expecting that I will fall in love with it and try to get copies ordered for all of the pews.

I was told my order would be shipped in late January or early February... I'm hoping it's sooner rather than later.

Anyway, is there even any suggestion that the St. John Fisher Missal will be published anytime in the near future? It is a nice resource to be sure, but it doesn't even seem to be in the same league as the Campion Missal/Hymnal with respect to completeness and polish.