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Fr. Magiera Reviews The Campion Hymnal

Corpus Christi Watershed · January 12, 2017

|The following review was posted on the St. Joseph Parish Facebook:


475 Campion Missal IMAGE HE CAMPION Missal/Hymnal is just about the best general worship resource for people who attend the Traditional Latin Mass. Why? Well, first of all, Sunday is the primary day of worship for the Catholic in the week, and this book is a complete SUNDAY MISSAL, containing Mass Propers for every Sunday of the year. Not only that, it has the Propers for any Holy Day that can (if necessary) replace a Sunday Mass, such as All Saints, the Immaculate Conception, and Christmas. In fact, this book contains the propers of all First Class Feasts—even those that are not Holy Days of Obligation—and five important Second Class feasts, such as Candlemas and the Transfiguration. It also contains the Nuptial Mass, Funeral Mass, and the celebration of the Sacrament of Confirmation. Moreover, the complete Mass ordinaries are provided—in Latin and English, of course—from the beginning Sign of the Cross through the Last Gospel, for both the Solemn Mass and the Low Mass. Both of these renderings are accompanied by beautiful photos so even the novice should be able to follow the Mass rather easily.

With regard to music, it contains all 18 Chant Masses (Gregorian chant settings of the Mass ordinary), all six Credos, over 150 hymns in English, and 16 simple Gregorian Chants. It even contains proper Prefaces and the special Communicantes and Hanc Igitur—the third and fourth prayers, respectively, of the Canon of the Mass—which may vary according to the liturgical season (for example, Christmas and Pentecost). In its pages are several devotions and prayers as well. Throughout the volume, you can find scattered illustrations, photos, and reproductions of historical manuscripts. To top it all off, it has various indices, including a hymn tune title index and a hymn tune metrical index, for those who might take a scholarly interest.

What this all means is that, for Sundays, First Class Feasts and a few Second Class Feasts, you can leave your hand missals at home. Nothing to bring with you, nothing to misplace or, worse, lose. Check it out at Campion Website.

                                  Fr. Magiera
                                  St. Joseph Catholic Church
                                  Rockdale, IL

Father Michael Magiera, FSSP—formerly a professional opera singer—has often been featured by the Catholic media (e.g. here and here). His first Mass, offered in 2005 in Philadelphia’s Cathedral Basilica of Sts. Peter and Paul, was quite spectacular, and had around 40 clerics who attended in choro. This photograph shows the packed Cathedral.

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    “Music List” • 5th Sunday of Easter (Year C)
    Some have expressed interest in perusing the ORDER OF MUSIC I prepared for the 5th Sunday of Easter (18 May 2025). If such a thing interests you, feel free to download it as a PDF file. The Communion Antiphon was ‘restored’ the 1970 Missale Romanum (a.k.a. MISSALE RECENS) from an obscure martyr’s feast. Our choir is on break this Sunday, so the selections are relatively simple in nature.
    —Jeff Ostrowski
    Communion Chant (5th Sunday of Easter)
    This coming Sunday—18 May 2025—is the 5th Sunday of Easter, Year C (MISSALE RECENS). The COMMUNION ANTIPHON “Ego Sum Vitis Vera” assigned by the Church is rather interesting, because it comes from a rare martyr’s feast: viz. Saint Vitalis of Milan. It was never part of the EDITIO VATICANA, which is the still the Church’s official edition. As a result, the musical notation had to be printed in the Ordo Cantus Missae, which appeared in 1970.
    —Jeff Ostrowski
    “Music List” • 4th Sunday of Easter (Year C)
    Some have expressed interest in perusing the ORDER OF MUSIC I prepared for the 4th Sunday of Easter (11 May 2025). If such a thing interests you, feel free to download it as a PDF file. I don’t know a more gorgeous ENTRANCE CHANT than the one given there: Misericórdia Dómini Plena Est Terra.
    —Jeff Ostrowski

Quick Thoughts

    Antiphons Don’t Match?
    A reader wants to know why the Entrance and Communion antiphons in certain publications deviate from what’s prescribed by the GRADUALE ROMANUM published after Vatican II. Click here to read our answer. The short answer is: the Adalbert Propers were never intended to be sung. They were intended for private Masses only (or Masses without music). The “Graduale Parvum,” published by the John Henry Newman Institute of Liturgical Music in 2023, mostly uses the Adalbert Propers—but sometimes uses the GRADUALE text: e.g. Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul (29 June).
    —Corpus Christi Watershed
    When to Sit, Stand and Kneel like it’s 1962
    There are lots of different guides to postures for Mass, but I couldn’t find one which matched our local Latin Mass, so I made this one: sit-stand-kneel-crop
    —Veronica Brandt
    The Funeral Rites of the Graduale Romanum
    Lately I have been paging through the 1974 Graduale Romanum (see p. 678 ff.) and have been fascinated by the funeral rites found therein, especially the simply-beautiful Psalmody that is appointed for all the different occasions before and after the funeral Mass: at the vigil/wake, at the house of the deceased, processing to the church, at the church, processing to the cemetery, and at the cemetery. Would that this “stational Psalmody” of the Novus Ordo funeral rites saw wider usage! If you or anyone you know have ever used it, please do let me know.
    —Daniel Tucker

Random Quote

“Worse, composers are now setting the introits of the missal [instead of the Graduale] to music, even to chant, though these texts were explicitly for spoken recitation only.”

— ‘Dr. William Mahrt (Fall, 2015)’

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