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    * *  PDF Download • “Simple English Propers” (CMAA)


1st Sunday of Advent

ENTRANCE   •   OFFERTORY   •   COMMUNION

2nd Sunday of Advent

ENTRANCE   •   OFFERTORY   •   COMMUNION

3rd Sunday of Advent

ENTRANCE   •   OFFERTORY   •   COMMUNION

4th Sunday of Advent

ENTRANCE   •   OFFERTORY   •   COMMUNION

24 December — (VIGIL) Christmas

ENTRANCE   •   OFFERTORY   •   COMMUNION

25 December — Christmas Midnight Mass

ENTRANCE   •   OFFERTORY   •   COMMUNION

25 December — Christmas Mass at Dawn

ENTRANCE   •   OFFERTORY   •   COMMUNION

25 December — Christmas Daytime Mass

ENTRANCE   •   OFFERTORY   •   COMMUNION

1 January — Mary, Mother of God

ENTRANCE: (1e)   (2e)   •   OFFERTORY   •   COMMUNION

Epiphany of the Lord

ENTRANCE   •   OFFERTORY   •   COMMUNION

Ash Wednesday

ENTRANCE   •   OFFERTORY   •   COMMUNION

1st Sunday of Lent

ENTRANCE   •   OFFERTORY   •   COMMUNION

2nd Sunday of Lent

ENTRANCE: (1e)   (2e)   •   OFFERTORY   •   COMMUNION

3rd Sunday of Lent

ENTRANCE: (1e)   (2e)   •   OFFERTORY   •   COMMUNION

4th Sunday of Lent

ENTRANCE   •   OFFERTORY   •   COMMUNION

5th Sunday of Lent

ENTRANCE   •   OFFERTORY   •   COMMUNION

Passion (Palm) Sunday

OFFERTORY   •   COMMUNION

Holy Thursday

ENTRANCE   •   OFFERTORY   •   COMMUNION

Easter Sunday

ENTRANCE   •   OFFERTORY   •   COMMUNION

2nd Sunday of Easter

ENTRANCE   •   OFFERTORY   •   COMMUNION

3rd Sunday of Easter

ENTRANCE   •   OFFERTORY   •   COMMUNION: (Year A)   •   (Year C)

4th Sunday of Easter

ENTRANCE   •   OFFERTORY   •   COMMUNION

5th Sunday of Easter

ENTRANCE   •   OFFERTORY   •   COMMUNION (Years B & C)

6th Sunday of Easter

ENTRANCE   •   OFFERTORY   •   COMMUNION:   (Year A)   (Year B)   (Year C)

Ascension of the Lord

ENTRANCE   •   OFFERTORY: (1o) (2o)   •   COMMUNION: (Year B)

Pentecost Sunday

ENTRANCE   •   OFFERTORY   •   COMMUNION

Trinity Sunday

ENTRANCE: (Years A & B)   •   OFFERTORY   •   COMMUNION: (Year B)

Corpus Christi Sunday

ENTRANCE   •   OFFERTORY: (1o) (2o)   •   COMMUNION: (Year C)

2nd Sunday in Ordinary Time

ENTRANCE   •   OFFERTORY   •   COMMUNION: (Year B)

3rd Sunday in Ordinary Time

ENTRANCE: (Years A & B)   •   OFFERTORY   •   COMMUNION: (Years A & B)

4th Sunday in Ordinary Time

ENTRANCE   •   OFFERTORY   •   COMMUNION: (Years B & C)

5th Sunday in Ordinary Time

ENTRANCE   •   OFFERTORY   •   COMMUNION

6th Sunday in Ordinary Time

ENTRANCE   •   OFFERTORY   •   COMMUNION

7th Sunday in Ordinary Time

ENTRANCE   •   OFFERTORY   •   COMMUNION

8th Sunday in Ordinary Time

ENTRANCE   •   OFFERTORY   •   COMMUNION: (Year A)

10th Sunday in Ordinary Time

ENTRANCE: (Years A & C)   •   OFFERTORY   •   COMMUNION: (Years A & C)

11th Sunday in Ordinary Time

ENTRANCE   •   OFFERTORY   •   COMMUNION

12th Sunday in Ordinary Time

ENTRANCE   •   OFFERTORY   •   COMMUNION: (Year C)

13th Sunday in Ordinary Time

ENTRANCE   •   OFFERTORY   •   COMMUNION: (Years B & C)

14th Sunday in Ordinary Time

ENTRANCE   •   OFFERTORY   •   COMMUNION

15th Sunday in Ordinary Time

ENTRANCE: (1e) (2e)   •   OFFERTORY   •   COMMUNION: (1c) (2c)

16th Sunday in Ordinary Time

ENTRANCE   •   OFFERTORY   •   COMMUNION: (Year C)

17th Sunday in Ordinary Time

ENTRANCE   •   OFFERTORY   •   COMMUNION

18th Sunday in Ordinary Time

ENTRANCE: (Years B & C)   •   OFFERTORY: (Years A & B)   •   COMMUNION

19th Sunday in Ordinary Time

ENTRANCE   •   OFFERTORY   •   COMMUNION: (Years A & B)   •   (Year C Mp3)

20th Sunday in Ordinary Time

ENTRANCE   •   OFFERTORY   •   COMMUNION: (Year B)

21st Sunday in Ordinary Time

ENTRANCE   •   OFFERTORY   •   COMMUNION: (1c) (2c)

22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time

ENTRANCE   •   OFFERTORY   •   COMMUNION: (Years B & C)

23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time

ENTRANCE   •   OFFERTORY   •   COMMUNION

24th Sunday in Ordinary Time

ENTRANCE   •   OFFERTORY: (Years A & B)   •   COMMUNION: (Year B)

25th Sunday in Ordinary Time

ENTRANCE   •   OFFERTORY   •   COMMUNION

26th Sunday in Ordinary Time

ENTRANCE: (Years B & C)   •   OFFERTORY   •   COMMUNION

27th Sunday in Ordinary Time

ENTRANCE   •   OFFERTORY   •   COMMUNION

28th Sunday in Ordinary Time

ENTRANCE   •   OFFERTORY   •   COMMUNION

29th Sunday in Ordinary Time

ENTRANCE   •   OFFERTORY   •   COMMUNION

30th Sunday in Ordinary Time

ENTRANCE   •   OFFERTORY   •   COMMUNION

31st Sunday in Ordinary Time

ENTRANCE: (Years A & B)   •   OFFERTORY   •   COMMUNION

32nd Sunday in Ordinary Time

ENTRANCE   •   OFFERTORY   •   COMMUNION: (Year A)

33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time

ENTRANCE   •   OFFERTORY   •   COMMUNION

34th Sunday — Solemnity of Christ the King

ENTRANCE   •   OFFERTORY   •   COMMUNION: (Year A)

24 June — Nativity of St. John the Baptist

ENTRANCE   •   OFFERTORY   •   COMMUNION

8 December — Immaculate Conception

ENTRANCE   •   OFFERTORY   •   COMMUNION

IMPORTANT INFORMATION:

(1) The Simple English Propers were published by the CMAA in 2011. The melodies were composed by Adam Bartlett. The book was typeset by Steven Van Roode.

(2) The SEP practice videos were created by Corpus Christi Watershed at the express request of the CMAA. No remuneration was accepted by CCW, as it was our pleasure to assist choirs in learning the SEP. The videos are property of CCW but may be shared freely so long as they are not altered.

(3) The videos were created as a free gift to the Church. Watershed has never received (and will never receive) any payment from the sale of SEP hard copies on Amazon.

(4) At the SEP website, you’ll find important information, such as: “The contents of this book may be downloaded, printed, used, and shared freely by all, as they are published under Creative Commons licensing.”

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President’s Corner

    Music List • (4th Sunday of Lent)
    Readers have expressed interest in seeing the ORDER OF MUSIC I created for this coming Sunday, which is the 4th Sunday of Lent (15 March 2026). If such a thing interests you, feel free to download it as a PDF file. This feast has sublime propers. It is most often referred to as “Lætare Sunday” owing to its INTROIT. I encourage all the readers to visit the feasts website, where the Propria Missae may be downloaded completely free of charge.
    —Jeff Ostrowski
    PDF Download • Communion (4th Snd. Lent)
    The COMMUNION ANTIPHON for this coming Sunday, which is the Fourth Sunday of Lent (Year A), is particularly beautiful. There’s something irresistible about this tone; it’s neither happy nor sad. As always, I encourage readers to visit the flourishing feasts website, where the complete Propria Missae may be downloaded free of charge.
    —Jeff Ostrowski
    Good Friday Flowers
    Good Friday has a series of prayers for various parties: the pope, catechumens, pagans, heretics, schismatics, and so forth. In the old liturgical books, there was no official ‘name’ for these prayers. (This wasn’t unusual as ‘headers’ and ‘titles’ for each section is a rather modern idea.) The Missal simply instructed the priest to go to the Epistle side and begin. In the SHERBORNE MISSAL, each prayer begins with a different—utterly spectacular—flower. This PDF file shows the first few prayers. Has anyone counted the ‘initial’ drop-cap flowers in the SHERBORNE MISSAL? Surely there are more than 1,000.
    —Jeff Ostrowski

Quick Thoughts

    Stumped by “Episcopalian Hymnal” (1910)
    Some consider Songs of Syon (1910) the greatest Episcopalian hymnal ever printed. As a Roman Catholic, I have no right to weigh in one way or the other. However, this particular page has me stumped. I just know I’ve heard that tune somewhere! If you can help, please email me. I’m talking about the text which begins: “This is the day the Lord hath made; In unbeclouded light array’d.” The book is by George Ratcliffe Woodward, and its complete title is: Songs of Syon: A Collection of Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs. Back in 2016, Corpus Christi Watershed scanned and uploaded this insanely rare book. For years our website was the sole place one could download it as a PDF file.
    —Jeff Ostrowski
    “Dies Irae” • A Monstrous Translation
    It isn’t easy to determine what Alice King MacGilton hoped to accomplish with her very popular book—A Study of Latin Hymns (1918)—which continued to be reprinted in new editions for at least 34 years. This PDF file shows her attempt to translate the DIES IRAE “in the fewest words possible.” There’s a place for dynamic equivalency, but this is repugnant. In particular, look what she does to “Quærens me sedísti lassus.”
    —Jeff Ostrowski
    PDF Download • “Holy, Holy, Holy”
    For vigil Masses on Saturday (a.k.a. “anticipated” Masses) we use this simpler setting of the “Holy, Holy, Holy” by Monsignor Jules Vyverman (d. 1989), a Belgian priest, organist, composer, and music educator who ultimately succeeded another ‘Jules’ (CANON JULES VAN NUFFEL) as director of the Lemmensinstituut in Belgium. Although I could be wrong, my understanding is that the LEMMENSINSTITUUT eventually merged with “Catholic University of Leuven” (originally founded in 1425). That’s the university Fulton J. Sheen attended.
    —Jeff Ostrowski

Random Quote

“Dom Pothier does not belong to the dim past, as the silence which surrounds his name would lead one to believe. Only a few years separate us from the time when—growing old and heavily burdened by trials—Dom Pothier was concentrating his ever keen attention on the study of manuscripts in the Belgian place of retreat where his community had found refuge. For he was the abbot; and there can be no doubt that the cross he wore during those days was a cross of sorrow, though he bore it with a smile.”

— Dom Ermin Vitry, OSB (31-OCT-1936)

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