Did the good of the Church “genuinely and certainly” require this confusing change in 1970?
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Simple English Propers Practice Videos
When all is said and done, we hope to have a complete index of all SEP practice videos.
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Simple English Propers: Full PDF Download
As a bonus, several handy website links are given!
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Simple English Propers Organ Accompaniments
Two exciting new volumes in the field of sung propers.
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Simple English Propers (Divine Mercy Sunday)
What would the Simple English Propers sound like harmonized as if they were Chabanel Psalms? That is, according to the principles of the Nova Organi Harmonia?
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Simple English Choral Propers by Jon Naples
Free polyphonic offertories for the Simple English Propers.
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Sung Propers: Various Simple Settings In English
Here’s a comparison of several complete musical settings of the Mass Propers by Fr. Guy Nicholls, Fr. Paul Arbogast, and others.
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Reader Question • “Extra Verses” for the Propers
Jeff Ostrowski answers a reader’s question with nine (9) statements.
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PDF Download • “Entrance Chant in English” (19th Sunday in Ordinary Time)
Including twelve (12) different versions!
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Reminder • “Lalemant Propers” (392 Pages)
You can purchase this book in hard-copy, but many prefer to download the PDF file.
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PDF Download • “Mass Propers For Sundays And Holydays Set To Simple Melodies” (429 pages)
In 1947, this book was given a double “Imprimatur” by Cardinal Spellman, Archbishop of New York.
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PDF Download • Rare 1970 Document Explains “Spoken vs. Sung Propers”
This is perhaps the single most significant liturgical document CCWatershed has ever unearthed—and translated to English! • Explains the origin of “Gradual Antiphons” vs. “Missal Antiphons” (a.k.a. “Sacramentary Antiphons”)+
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Indispensable & Accessible: Fr. Samuel F. Weber Propers in English
Indispensable and accessible: these antiphons possess sublime elegance that grace the Novus Ordo Mass with simple, yet proper reverence and solemnity.
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“Spoken vs. Sung Propers” • The Complete History
Lies containing a little truth are the most difficult to quash • Here is the definitive, final exposé on why the “Spoken Propers” don’t match the “Sung Propers.” • In October of 1972, the Bishops’ Committee on the Liturgy falsely equated the “Spoken Propers” with the “Sung Propers” and proclaimed: “These antiphons are too abrupt for communal recitation” • Several official English translations of the Roman Gradual have received the imprimatur multiple times+
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“Secret Book of Happiness” • Official English Translations of the Roman Gradual
Overkill: “ too much of something; the amount by which destruction exceeds what is necessary.”
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