Gloria/Alleluia nexus 1962 MR?
  • Palestrina
    Posts: 535
    Is it accurate to say that the Gloria is never sung when the Alleluia is replaced by a tract?

    Trying to find some easy rules for choir members to follow… (Septuagesimatide timeliness probably obvious).
  • Richard R.
    Posts: 784
    I think so. The vigils of Easter and Pentecost include both an Alleluia and one or more Tracts. In the new books, these Tracts are now called Canticles, just to make things less confusing (or more, depending on your POV).
  • SponsaChristi
    Posts: 652
    No, that isn’t accurate. The Gloria is still sung on solemnities even if there is a tract replacing the Alleluia. (ie: the Feast of St. Joseph during Lent). It is also sung on Holy Thursday during the Mass of Chrism (I’m not sure if the Chrism Mass in the 1962 calendar is transferable. It doesn’t look like it.) and the Maundy Mass, despite there being a Tract and no Alleluia.

    The rubrics are already fairly simple compared to the current Missal. When in doubt, confirm with the priest offering Mass.
    Just give them the rubrics:
    Sundays: The Gloria is said on Sundays except those of Advent, Septuagesima, Lent, and Passiontide.

    Feasts: It is said on feasts of III class or higher, or equivalent (such as the Mass of a mystery or saint which is not per se III class, but which is assigned to the day either as a commemoration or by inclusion in the Martyrology, and the celebrant opts to celebrate that Mass instead of the ferial Mass).

    Ferias: It is said when the seasonal color is white (from Christmas until January 13, and from Easter until Pentecost), even if the ferias are IV class.

    Votives: It is said on votives of III class or higher (but not if vestments are violet), on IV class votive of the Angels on any day, and of the BVM on Saturday.

    Omitted: It is omitted whenever violet vestments are worn, in Requiem Masses, and in most Masses of IV class (with exceptions above).
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  • MatthewRoth
    Posts: 3,332
    The Mass of Holy Thursday is a Thursday of Lent in that there is no tract only a gradual. The Tuesdays, Thursdays, and most Saturdays have no tracts.

    But in any case the Gloria is also sung with certain votive Masses especially after Septuagesima (above all the Blessed Sacrament votive Mass for the XL Hours’ Devotion) or the First Thursday and Friday Masses that are privileged pre-1960, as well as First Saturday that gained the privilege with the new rubrics. Then the Gloria is of course sung when there is a feast.
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