Palm Sunday
  • Paolo
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    Here is our draft program for Palm Sunday, but it is still subject to change. What do you think of it?
    https://f75a8716-a519-46d8-9317-7eef74a24338.filesusr.com/ugd/86ff01_eaaa9bbd536f4ca296c569aa1cdfb805.pdf
    I have some doubts on singing De profundis (psalm 129/130 ) at communion, but probably it might be one of the few day of the year where it is appropriate.
    Our priest asked us to interpolated hymns during the reading of the gospel of the passion. I know it is not part of the liturgy, but the community might appreciate it. What do you think of this? Aso on Good Friday we are going to sing again many of the hymns of Palm Sunday.
  • contemporaryworship92
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    to interpolated hymns during the reading of the gospel of the passion


    Readings at a Catholic Mass should never be substituted or supplemented by hymns.
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  • MatthewRoth
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    I think it’s not a substitution but an interpolation which is nevertheless illicit.
  • SponsaChristi
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    Our priest asked us to interpolated hymns during the reading of the gospel of the passion. I know it is not part of the liturgy, but the community might appreciate it. What do you think of this?

    I think you should say (sing) the black and do the red.

    Isn’t it ironic to engage in liturgical abuse during the reading of the Passion during Mass, don’t you think? A little too ironic.
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  • contemporaryworship92
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    interpolated hymns during the reading of the gospel of the passion


    To add: within the context of a Catholic Mass, this is a genuinely crazy idea. This would be a very significant matter of liturgical abuse. The Liturgy of the Word, as with the Liturgy of the Eucharist, is a single cohesive liturgical act that you can not simply interrupt to do something else.

    This idea is better suited to be done outside of Mass. There are many ways you could have a parish prayer service where there is reading from Scripture with music interspersed.
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  • Liam
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    Nope to the interpolated hymns, which would be a liturgical travesty to put it most charitably. A Scriptural Stations of The Cross with hymns is an OK devotion. But not at any Mass, let alone any Mass during Holy Week.
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  • Liam
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    Basically, what people in the pews are expected by the ritual to do during the proclamation of the Passion, as with any other reading of Scripture, is to LISTEN ATTENTIVELY. That's it.

    PS: In 1988, the circular letter Paschale Solemnitatis foreclosed the option of the people as a whole reading part of the passion (at most, you can have lay readers, but a reader is not the congregation as a whole):

    33. The passion narrative occupies a special place. It should be sung or read in the traditional way, that is, by three persons who take the parts of Christ, the narrator and the people. The passion is proclaimed by deacons or priests, or by lay readers. In the latter case, the part of Christ should be reserved to the priest.

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    It's important to remember that the Holy Week liturgies are *not* re-enactments. The Liturgies of the Word therein are not passion plays, they are not Lutheran Passion services with arias, chorales, and hymns. Even the Eucharistic liturgy in general is not merely a re-presentation of Calvary, but an anamnesis collectively of the Paschal mystery, as well as Pentecost, and a foretaste of the Wedding Banquet of the Lamb.
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