Failure, The Liturgy, & Today’s Mr. Know-It-All
The priest who rejected my submission was very professional, polite, and encouraging.
Pope Saint Paul VI (3 April 1969): “Although the text of the Roman Gradual—at least that which concerns the singing—has not been changed, the Entrance antiphons and Communions antiphons have been revised for Masses without singing.”
The priest who rejected my submission was very professional, polite, and encouraging.
Instructions for deacons learning to sing the Gospel during the Catholic Mass.
The staples in my bag for teaching Gregorian chant to an informal group of homeschoolers.
“The singing of the Proper texts rather than the endless substitution of songs and hymns, are only now being seriously considered and implemented.” — Executive Director of the International Commission on English in the Liturgy (ICEL)
The priorities of what we should sing at mass are full of surprises for some. I hope in the end that the greater “surprise” will be in how our prayer is formed by what we sing. I hope this will be the most pleasant surprise of all.
The notion that the texts are there “to remind us that we should be singing something else” could not be further from the truth.
Rev. Fr. Guy Nicholls, an internationally-renowned expert on Gregorian chant and Renaissance polyphony, speaks about the Mass Propers in a “live” phone interview.
“The Church asks those who will lead and shepherd her communities of Faith to give up the possibility of marital love as a prophetic witness that there is something even more important to our happiness than even beautiful intimacy possible in Christian marriage.” — Archbishop Naumann, 18 May 2013
Could there be room for legitimate changes to the Missal of 1962, the last typical edition of the traditional Roman Rite of Mass or the “extraordinary form”?
I took out my iPhone to record his exact words (“we don’t have any more airplanes”) and he called security on me. Classy.
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