Anima Christi
  • JazFenn
    Posts: 15
    Is Anima Christi appropriate at offertory? Why/why not?
  • MatthewRoth
    Posts: 3,423
    It’s not explicitly a communion prayer but it could be considered as such, so I’d go 50-50 on whether it’s appropriate there. What is less appropriate is an explicitly Eucharistic text including a communion antiphon from the psalms or the gospel in motet form (Gustate et videte and the like).
    Thanked by 1Chant_Supremacist
  • SponsaChristi
    Posts: 693
    Not really. It’s located in the section of “prayers for after communion” in all the hand missals I own. I’ve never seen it in the “prayers before communion” section. It’s most appropriate to sing it during communion after everyone has received.
  • MatthewRoth
    Posts: 3,423
    That level of detail is why they invented the NO.
  • francis
    Posts: 11,300
    Some people think any hymn can be done anywhere… some people think any of the 18 masses in the Kyriale can be done anywhere and even mixed and matched. Others are very particular.
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  • AnimaVocis
    Posts: 207
    Oh, francis! I like that idea.... Maybe even a rotating schedule of the Ordinary....

    Week 1- Kyrie I, Gloria II, Credo I, Sanctus III, Agnus IV
    Week 2- Kyrie V, Gloria VI, Credo II, Sanctus VII, Agnus VIII
    Week 3- Kyrie IX, Gloria X, Credo III, Sanctus XI, Agnus XII
    Etc ..

    (Wink, wink)
    Thanked by 2irishtenor StPatrick
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