I thought it’d be interesting once to do the math. So I made a little chart with the 1962 Scripture readings (including the propers) on the left and the reformed lectionary readings (presuming no propers) on the right for the coming Sunday, July 7.
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Corpus Christi Watershed overshoots
Now that’s one whopper of a claim!
Read moreA liberal discovers chant and traditional liturgy
Sitting in a living room with ten other people, worshiping with nothing but the human voice, gave me a real understanding of how our music can be “on earth as it is in heaven.” I started to realize how much more prayerful, how much more natural, this approach to music was than the over-produced concert music of contemporary Catholicism.
Read moreNo hymns permitted at Mass in England and Wales? Not quite.
This is clearly an editorial oddity – perhaps produced after a heavy Roman lunch?
Read moreImplementing MS 33 – One Attempt
You know about the hymns vs. propers debate. As rich as the Latin propers (introit, gradual, etc.) are, they’re seemingly too difficult and inaccessible for most people, as the leaders of the liturgical movement in Europe had already started to conclude by the 1930s. Here’s what we’ve trying at St. John’s Abbey for the introit and communio when we don’t do the chant propers.
Read moreWill interest in English propers endure?
The liturgical function of the proper chants is to aid meditation upon scriptural texts. When the chants are sung in Latin, they can serve this function for only a few. –Bruce. E. Ford
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