“What earlier generations held as sacred, remains sacred and great for us too…” Pope Benedict XVI (7 July 2007)
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”)+
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+
Last night I discovered something I never knew—so I immediately telephoned a priest to verify this.
Overkill: “ too much of something; the amount by which destruction exceeds what is necessary.”
“Peace, peace, peace on earth; peace to God’s people, all people on earth.”
“We strongly resent the implication that we and our children are not sufficiently intelligent to understand the simple Latin of the Mass…” —Manifesto of the Catholic Laity (1943)
If you’re searching for “Cum vénerit Paráclitus,” you might want to check the *D* section…
Let’s take a stroll down Memory Lane, shall we?
Catholics can now *see with their own eyes* the antiquity of our liturgy.
Let’s not minimize the role of the psalms in the mass to the Responsorial! Plus a FREE download of the Epiphany Communion antiphon.
“English Psalm-Tone Propers for the Ordinary Form of the Mass” is now available in print!
Are we surprised that authentic Church music died in the 1970s?
Roosevelt was President while paralyzed. Churchill gave speeches but couldn’t pronounce “S” correctly. Surely, then, we can implement the Mass Propers with these 11 collections! • the Graduale Romanum has been set in English by many composers; here are some collections with audio samples+
At last! We finally have the answer! . . . Er, sort of . . .
