Music List • (5th Sunday of Lent)
Readers have expressed interest in examining my “music list” for this coming Sunday.
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.”
Readers have expressed interest in examining my “music list” for this coming Sunday.

Readers have expressed interest in examining my “music list” for this coming Sunday.

There’s nothing wrong with simplicity—so long as the music itself is inspired, memorable, dignified, and singable.
Some consider this 1910 tome the greatest Episcopalian Hymnal ever printed.

Readers have expressed interest in examining my “music list” for this coming Sunday.

Only a foolish and stubborn person would claim that “hyena” is basically the same thing as “a holy person.”

There’s a place for dynamic equivalency, but this is repugnant.

This is what we use for vigil Masses on Saturday (a.k.a. “anticipated” Masses).

Readers have expressed interest in examining my “music list” for this coming Sunday.

Were you shocked to see the Pius XII Hymnal (1959) assigning vernacular hymns to different parts of the Mass?
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