The Respond and Acclaim psalm setting is pretty good. Congregation should pick up the response easily, and it's simple enough for a child to sing the verses at the ambo too.

Since the heading mentions a "Children's Mass", I assume that means something for children under age 10. Is that about right?

Chonak,

Maybe I've worked with some precocious 10 year olds, but most of them don't object to being asked to shoulder adult responsibilities musically, and a fairly large portion of them object to what calls itself 'kid-friendly' music, at least for the worship of God.

Good day all.
Thank you all for your feedback. I've been based in Zambia since the start of the pandemic, but my home province is South Africa. One of my many duties here in the community is Holy Childhood director. For the Childrens Online Mass on Wednesday, one of the young cantors, had asked if she could lead the psalm. I was ecstatic. We managed to find one written and composed by Charles L. Abing, 'Be merciful O Lord'. The kids are familiar with the musical styles of composers such as Sarah Hart, Aaron Thompson, Curtis Stephan, Marty Haugen etc. So I was just open to your suggestions on psalms that would be suitable given the time frame and that it would appropriate for the children as well, the majority of whom are 13 years and younger. It is a Childrens Mass after all, and the mass will follow the specific formats and rubrics for it. Thank you CCooze for your great help. You must know, Salesians aren't known to be the most liturgical people. Chris Garton, I apologize for not specifying and being very vague, I guess I was just in a hurry. Thank you all for your help.
Br. Reece SDB

Nathan_the_Organist, theres a specific book that we use and follow when celebrating mass for children. The texts and rubrics we take from there. We mainly use it during the Preface and Eucharistic Prayers. Its wonderful. I'll get the name of it. I know it was published by Pauline's Africa.

Thank you Chris Garton. It's a tough job. I've been fortunate to have worked with many young people through the many schools, parishes and centers that we run. I think the closest the children have been to singing latin may have been Mike Anderson's Clap, clap gloria and Jubilate Deo. That's about it. But as they say in Afrikaans, stadig, stadig (slowly, slowly).

If the Paulines published it, I'll trust that it has approval from the relevant authorities.

The current Roman Missal book does not include the eucharistic prayers for Masses with children that appeared in the second edition of the Roman Missal, but an interim edition has been published. Here, for example, is the US version: https://store.usccb.org/eucharistic-prayers-for-masses-with-children-p/7-233.htm

I had never heard of this book. I thought it was something that some liturgical innovator came up with. I'm glad to know that it has at least been approved by the CDWDS, even if they are not advertising it.

For what it's worth, I've found a lot of people used to things like the composers mentioned can handle an antiphon based on the Gregorian psalm tone just fine, and they're easier than most composed settings in my humble opinion.

Chonak,

I didn't know that the book Simple English Propers lacked Responsorial psalms, althougth I can't say I'm surprised, but my confusion rested on this point: is there more than one collection of English Propers, intended for easy learning, which would therefore be called (lowercase) simple (capitalized) English Propers?

Elmar writes:

Any idea if there is an official (international) follow-up in preparation?

The English version of the Eucharistic Prayers for Masses with Children is available in some other countries besides the US. For example, the Pauline sisters have published an edition in Africa, as Br. Reece mentioned.

I don't know if there has been any effort to update these prayers in other languages, but as Elmar indicated, the main work of publishing a new Roman Missal is probably higher in the queue of tasks.