My Parish switched to Source & Summit, and immediately my life and work as a Music Director became much easier. We have the printed missals in our pews, but the online planning platform is outstanding. Saves a lot of time. It makes liturgical planning easier with the ability to plan masses months in advance. I use it to plan weekend masses and School Masses where I'm also the music teacher. The optional chant based antiphons are all beautifully rendered by Adam Bartlett, and quite accessible. The platform allows you to easily import hymns from other sources to either print Ordos or allow parishioners to access them on their devices with a link. It's also very easy to create custom Ordos for Weddings, Funerals and other Masses for Various Needs and Occasions. There is a publisher feature on the platform that allows the design of programs/worship aids. Also very easy to use. The Ordos are also interactive. Cantors and Choral singers can access the link, hear their vocal lines to help them practice ahead of masses. Every monthly cantor schedule emailed to my singers also contain links to all the Ordos so they can see and hear the music days or weeks in advance of their scheduled mass.

Example: https://app.sourceandsummit.com/share/d575a683-937a-4281-a7fd-537e3d187d29?choir

We'll be entering our fourth year as subscribers, as we have the option of renewing on a yearly basis. The Hymns in Source and Summit are all in the public domain, time tested, traditional and universal. It's been a pleasure rediscovering many old hymns that some of Parishioners hadn't heard in decades. Plainchant isn't that difficult, and how the school children have quickly adapted to singing antiphons on a weekly basis is proof of that.

Not everyone was pleased with this seemingly radical transition, and as with any major change to liturgical planning and music selections, it really takes a few years for the new format to take hold. For years our Parish was stuck in a lot of the muzak found in Gather, 3rd Edition (which still contained music by David Haas). Folks are still very attached to this music and are still voicing their opposition to the use of Antiphons and Chant because it sounds boring to them. So be prepared for that, because again, you can't please everybody.

Where I am at with it is that I like the Responsorial Psalms/GA of S&S, but I like the Mass Ordinary options of the HM. I am indifferent on the Hymn choices for both hymnals, I like both. I don't know if I can have the best of both worlds, or if I will have to print out mass parts/suffer under Respond and Acclaim.

I think that is a good setting, but I was looking for masses like the Mass of Resurrection and the Heritage Mass. I want to provide a little more variety in the Mass settings because currently we have 2, Mass of Wisdom and the Chant Mass for the whole year. I preferably would like Chant for Advent/Lent, Mass of Resurrection for Christmas/Easter, and Heritage Mass (or Mass of St. Francis) for OT.