a_f_hawkins

Behaviorism and its influence on active participation
I wouldn't pray the Rosary at any time while the priest is saying prayersMy wife recalled visiting Ireland in the late 50s going to a Low Mass at a large church in central Dublin. As the priest approached the altar, one of his fellow friars en…

Comment by a_f_hawkins May 6 permalink
Child baptism during Mass
This is not an endorsement of bending the rules, but - the "three sacraments of initiation are baptism, confirmation, and eucharist" which we in the west have separated for infants but in the east are all administered together. It is possi…

Comment by a_f_hawkins May 5 permalink
Latin Responsorial Psalms
One thing to note about GS, the Responsorial psalms are responsaries(!) The intention is (or was) that the congregation should repeat the respond directly after its first occurrence in the first verse, not that the cantor should start by stating it …

Comment by a_f_hawkins May 3 permalink
Gregorio/LaTeX - Trim empty staff at end of line?
End of line The end of line is automatically determined by the GregorioTeX. However, under some circumstances it can be useful for you to specify it because it improves the rendering. To force an end of line at the end of a syllable put z inside pa…

Comment by a_f_hawkins May 2 permalink
Gloria Patri sung by assembly at Introit?
GR ¿1974? has 3 pages of Toni ℣ Gloria Patri pro antiphonis ad Intoitum et ad Communionem as well as clear instructions for their use in the Praenotanda II De ritibus .... ... Huiusmodi antiphonae et versiculorum alternatio haberi potest quoties suf…

Comment by a_f_hawkins May 1 permalink
Homily Length?
As an aside, the flattening of parish [para]liturgical culture such that Mass is the only type of service that ever happens is unfortunate. And as a further aside, liturgies other than Mass can be lead by a deacon, of which many parishes now have a …

Comment by a_f_hawkins April 26 permalink
Why no hymns at Pope Francis' funeral?
The current 2008 Missal rubrics describe the Gloria as 'this hymn', and my 1920 hand missal similarly " ... moves to the centre of the altar and recites the Hymn Gloria ..."

Comment by a_f_hawkins April 26 permalink
Homily Length?
the homily is really an anomaly in the mass, even though it is now common place. The ubiquity of the homily really distracts from the mass as ritual sacrifice.As Thomas Aquinas, the Council of Trent, and VII taught - the Mass is both instructional a…

Comment by a_f_hawkins April 25 permalink
Act of Contrition Sheet Music
- Who owns the copyright(s)? https://www.topcatholicsongs.com/sites/default/files/Act-of-Contrition-key-A-rcs-3.29.2025.pdf

Comment by a_f_hawkins April 6 permalink
“It’s easy to mistake emotional manipulation for a movement of God, right?”
minimally associative words like 'et' are given 15 notesA wild thought I don't have time to chase, but it might not be weighty in the grammar of a sentence and profoundly important theologically.

Comment by a_f_hawkins March 29 permalink
Which of the two particular editions of RM?
Delenda est Carthago

Comment by a_f_hawkins March 27 permalink
Which of the two particular editions of RM?
How do you justify that assertion, given that both AAS and this advertisment in Notitiae 6 p51 say that it was (my emphasis)? LIBRERIA EDITRICE VATICANA Ordo Missae et Ritus servandus in celebratione Missae Editio typica In-16°, pp. 72, L. 800 ($ …

Comment by a_f_hawkins March 25 permalink
The Hymnal Industrial Complex
NB I do not want to provoke a discussion on the merits/demerits of the NO. There is a particular problem with the ancient propers and the 'chants between the readings' in the NO. Traditionally these were reflective pieces, meditations almo…

Comment by a_f_hawkins March 24 permalink
The Hymnal Industrial Complex
Neither England&Wales nor Scotland has organised its own hymnal.

Comment by a_f_hawkins March 20 permalink
Looking for 5 verse SATB of When I Survey The Wondrous Cross (Rockingham)
https://hymnary.org/hymn/RITL1985/page/259 fwiw

Comment by a_f_hawkins March 13 permalink
Congregations which have learned pieces incorrectly?
francis - the Gloria, Sanctus, and a lot else were changed in 2011 because the original translations into English were inaccurate. They were only ever a preliminary translation and should have been changed decades ago, ICEL did try but the bishops …

Comment by a_f_hawkins March 12 permalink
Congregations which have learned pieces incorrectly?
chants in the Graduale Triplex (based on teh Clementine Vulgata or other old translations)The antiphons use a much older edition than the Clementine, one probably predating St Jerome, or some speculate a previous version by Jerome. But chants sung t…

Comment by a_f_hawkins March 11 permalink
Recording of Mass Ordinaries 1964-1968
Also not quite what you are looking for, but https://praytellblog.com/index.php/2018/06/12/liturgy-in-southbridge-ma-an-audio-time-capsule-of-post-conciliar-transition/

Comment by a_f_hawkins March 3 permalink
Original Music for Psalms
It depends what you mean by 'Gregorian chant'. The Ordinary of the Mass is fairly accessible to an average person, but very few are capable of picking up a Graduale Romanum and singing an average Proper from it after a few minutes running …

Comment by a_f_hawkins March 2 permalink
Sources of Chants of the Votive Mass Pro Eligendo Summo Pontifice (EF)
The 'Pontifex maximus' was the chief pagan priest of Rome before the Empire, and Roman Emperors used the title. As far as I can see the appellation 'pontifex' which occurs in four of these antiphons was never applied to the Pope …

Comment by a_f_hawkins March 1 permalink
Original Music for Psalms
I really want people to have a song or two stuck in their head all week that reminds them of the readings. Is this an appropriate way to go about song selection?Yes and notice that there is a choice of Communion antiphons, the second of which usual…

Comment by a_f_hawkins February 24 permalink
Original Music for Psalms
CMunro11 - I'm glad I did not rush to comment without considering your particular circumstances. Have you read this :- https://livingwithchrist.ca/index.php/tools-for-parishes/461-music-at-mass As you can see from that the ideal, the first o…

Comment by a_f_hawkins February 23 permalink
English Martyrology
In the middle of this recent podcast :- https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-tnniq-16eaa4f?utm_campaign=w_share_ep&utm_medium=dlink&utm_source=w_share Fr Andrew Menke, Executive Director of ICEL says they are 'just putting the finishi…

Comment by a_f_hawkins February 18 permalink
Looking for Missa De Angelis Tropes
For the Kyrie https://sicutincensum.wordpress.com/2018/01/29/trope-of-the-week-kyrie-de-angelis/

Comment by a_f_hawkins February 14 permalink
Mandating vernacular only in a diocese
The discussion I was remembering was in 2018, here : https://forum.musicasacra.com/forum/discussion/15905/hamilton-diocese-liturgical-instruction-gathered-into-one/p1 The link to that document no longer works, the current version seems to be from 20…

Comment by a_f_hawkins February 14 permalink
Mandating vernacular only in a diocese
In Baltimore the Archbishop, Cardinal Lawrence Shehan forbade any use of Latin in 1967, as soon as a complete English translation of Mass was approved! I have lost my link to a copy of the decree, and do not remember whether that included music. The…

Comment by a_f_hawkins February 14 permalink
Have you played/sung for funeral of close family member??
My wife and I sang Missa XVIII for my mother's funeral (but not the propers), no problem. But she was in her mid-nineties, had spent a couple of months lingering impatiently in hospital, and had stopped breathing while holding my hand, fortifie…

Comment by a_f_hawkins February 11 permalink
Music for Guitar Masses?
Bells are likewise supposed to be silent/silenced, but not wooden clappers. So ;-) is a xylophone forbidden ?

Comment by a_f_hawkins February 8 permalink
Music from Father Augustin-Maria of the thrice blessed Sacrament O.Carm
corrected link for the Forty Hours, which are in French @Quaerens - my apologies, the forum software tries to put in the link without your help, and ends up pointing at itself! [Edit Added] NB second page of the index is numbered 109 , p.125 of pdf

Comment by a_f_hawkins February 6 permalink
Sancti venite, Christi corpus sumite
That was the objective of the Graduale Simplex, I think, while sticking to the monastic/curial use of the psalter. And I know little of the Germanic use of hymns at Mass, but that is a post-Reformation model to look at. It may well be that there wer…

Comment by a_f_hawkins January 26 permalink

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