Many people have been sending us messages, asking for the below videos. In fact, we posted them last year—but perhaps some don’t realize that. It is against our policy to post things previously released; so please forgive this exception.
HE FOLLOWING BOOKLET below is for the Extraordinary Form (“1955 Holy Week”) but the music is almost identical to the Ordinary Form. (Except for the Crucem Tuam antiphon, which seems to have been shifted to a different spot in the 1970s.)
* * PDF Download • “Musician’s Guide to Good Friday”
Here are Mp3 versions:
The link is easy to remember: ccwatershed.org/friday/
Someone has talked about how missalette companies either delete or modify the Reproaches, even though they’re 100% part of the authentic “Ordinary Form” Rite. I’ve always been puzzled by attempts to render this beautiful ceremony into English—especially when people delete the Latin but leave the Greek untouched!
As you can see, the rubrics specifying which cantors sing when are quite ancient:
What can be said of the prayers for Good Friday? Who could meditate upon them without being moved? My first chant teacher, Fr. Peter Gee, always said his favorite chants were the ones for Good Friday, and I think he was right.
