PDF Download • “Offertory” (Palm Sunday)
Some believe that “joyful” texts sound happy in Gregorian Chant and “sad” texts sound mournful.
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.”