Feast of St Joachim and Anne
  • birdylanfern
    Posts: 3
    Ave Maria!

    The feast of the parents of the B.V.M. is arriving, and I have a question.

    The introit found in the Graduale Romanum for the feast is Sapientia Sanctorum.

    The introit found in the Graduale Simplex for the Common of Saints is Iustus ut Palma.

    I was wondering whether it is allowed (using a strict interpretation of the rubrics), to chant the simple version of the Sapientia Sanctorum found in the Graduale Simplex, under the Common of Martyrs.
  • MatthewRoth
    Posts: 3,210
    You can sing basically anything that you want. It’s not a matter of strict interpretation or not. Since it’s in the GS, and it’s a bit of an odd feast (the Roman rite only recently combined the two, whereas the monastic version has been combined for a while, and the two are paired sensibly, except that we pair very few male and female saints otherwise), then singing the other chant is fine.