Ordination booklet (Latin chant) advice
  • frabenedetto
    Posts: 1
    Hello friends, my first post on this forum!

    I am preparing the liturgical booklet for my own ordination to the diaconate. The ordination will be done according to the Ordinary Form, mostly in Latin.

    The ordaining Bishop is an excellent Latinist, and has no problem (technical or ideological) with this. The only issue is that His Excellency (or so I have heard) is not known to do a lot of chanting (not ideological I assume, but more having to do with limitations of voice).

    So, your opinions please: should I include in the booklet the Celebrant's chants of the Mass (thus, I suppose, presenting the rite in its fulness and integrity, according to the mind of the Church) or could this potentially be either offensive to the Bishop, or a source of anxiety for him? Would it be better simply to leave his chant parts out?

    I hope I've made my dilemma clear enough.

    Thanks in advance for your answers.
  • Adam WoodAdam Wood
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    Put in the booklet what will actually happen at the service. You are creating an aide to a specific celebration at a specific time and place, not presenting the urtext.
  • ddoyle1220
    Posts: 14
    I would talk to either His Excellency or his Priest Secretary, and out what he soecifically would like in the program. In my limited experience, one year of Pre-Theo, most seminarians know the smaller chant responses with just the words.

    Personally, I would leave them out of the program, unless they are necessary, i.e. responses and translations for those who need them, especially if this is just for the people.

    The only place I would consider putting the orations, etc, set to music is in the script for the Bishop, if you are making one for him, hence the necessity of discussing this with him or his secretary directly. If you can't discuss this with him, you could also go the route of RMIII, and have it set on one side, and just the text on the opposite page, thus giving him the option.
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