a_f_hawkins

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 …

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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 in…

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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 vers…

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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. …

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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 le…

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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 ..."

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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,…

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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 R…

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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. Tra…

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Neither England&Wales nor Scotland has organised its own hymnal.

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https://hymnary.org/hymn/RITL1985/page/259 fwiw

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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 …

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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/

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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 a…

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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…

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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 …

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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 …

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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…

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For the Kyrie https://sicutincensum.wordpress.com/2018/01/29/trope-of-the-week-kyrie-de-angelis/

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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…

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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…

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Bells are likewise supposed to be silent/silenced, but not wooden clappers.
So ;-) is a xylophone forbidden ?

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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

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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-Re…

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Marc Cerisier the directive in the Missal that the Entrance and Communion Antiphons there are intended for reading when they are not sung is in the Latin edition to ensure that if sung they are sung …

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Chris G-Z as I said above, Jerome did NOT use dynamic equivalence when writing the VulgateNow I not only admit but freely announce that in translating from the Greek -except of course in the case o…

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