PDF Download • “Entrance Chant in English” (31st Sunday in Ordinary Time) for 3-NOV-2024
With a brief digression on “feelings of inadequacy.”
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.”
With a brief digression on “feelings of inadequacy.”
The reformers borrowed this “Entrance Chant” from Wednesday in the 2nd week of Lent.
Readers have expressed interest in looking over the “music list” I’ve prepared for this coming Sunday.
It’s been downloaded more than 4,000 times, so it seems useful.
Including “O Come All Ye Faithful” (with Latin text) in a delightful arrangement for two voices.
“These are simple propers, but not to the point of being monotone.” —Rebecca De La Torre
When the congregation isn’t moved, such a musician will reply: “Well, that’s just because they’re uneducated philistines who don’t know anything.”
This one was put in a “brighter” mode—owing to its text—based on the somewhat peculiar place the original came from.
Readers have expressed interest in looking over the “music list” I’ve prepared for this coming Sunday.
I’ve been patiently waiting to release this since the summer!
I just got off the phone with a very high ranking official at the USCCB…
This one’s in Mode 3, imitating the authentic Gregorian chant.
With a digression on a 1971 film called “Fiddler on the Roof.”
Readers have expressed interest in looking over the “music list” I’ve prepared for this coming Sunday.
This coming Sunday—13 October 2024—is the 28th in Ordinary Time.
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