Hi Gregory,

Where do these chant assignments come from (or at least the texts)? If they are to be chant propers, they should refer to existing chants from the Gregorian repertoire.

Only the offertory for Our Lady, Queen of Poland can be found in the Graduale (Recordare, Virgo Mater, GR 422), as well as the alleluia for Our Lady of Częstochowa (Ave Maria, gratia plena, GR 412).

I'm very curious where these assignments have been published. Are they put out by the bishops conference of Poland (as they are local feasts)? Have they been published in Notitiae?

The problem we still have is we don't have a complete list of the Propers used in the EF, we have a large number of supplements but no general index... We need to find a book with the Polish supplement.

Have found the following, so far... (hopefully the texts are the same, as some Propers have variants of the text!)

Offertorium: Recordare, Virgo Mater
Communio: Regina mundi dignissima
here,
Alleluia II: Benedixit te Dominus is in the Graduale Romano Seraphicum Pg (93)

Communio: Gloriosa dicta sunt appears to be in the Cist. Graduale pg. 501. Although the Dominicans also have this but the text is different after (de te...)

@francis
I quickly looked through Gregobase, and the Synopticum after looking through various scans of books containing supplements! I am beginning to think I need to sit down and add all those Propers to Gregobase.

If I get time I will continue the search...

Not that strange, if you consider that most High Masses in Poland, in Parishes, Cathedrals, etc., were of the Singmesse variety: Vernacular hymns at the Introit, Epistle/Gradual, Offertory, Elevation and Communion, with a Latin Ordinary setting. Chant supplements would really only be needed in Monastic establishments that chanted the Mass in its entirety. The Polish hierarchy was too conservative to follow liberals like Pius X and corrupting documents like Tra le sollicitudine.

I remember writing to someone in Poland about this--I work in a Polish parish in the USA--and the reply was that the Liber Usualis was never used except in monasteries or a few places where the Rector was willing to risk the ire of the Old Ladies by replacing Serdeczna Matko with Salve Sancta Parens on Jan 1, and fell into complete disuse after Vatican II.

My suggestion is to try contacting a Benedictine Monastery (or even Solesmes itslef)--there might be an archival Liber with the supplement in their library.

Oh look at this... although it is not the Introit! http://www3.cpdl.org/wiki/index.php/Fundamenta_ejus_(Giovanni_Pierluigi_da_Palestrina)

I checked Graduals from 1910 and 1911 at polona.pl, and no luck.

a_f_hawkins - Thanks for the reference to the concert. I've just written to the Schola Gregoriana Sancti Casimiri, when I get a response I'll let you know.