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Yes, this week was a challenge for music. I thought I was the only one! I was also speaking to one of our priests in residence and we talked about this as well. What the ORDO stated was so different than what I read. ORDO (if you don’t have one): “With the Lord there is mercy and redemption (OK, easy there…it was the Psalm response!) for the reign of sin has come to an end in the person of Jesus. Hence, we must never lose heart for we believe we shall be raised up with him.” Nothing about his followers as family.
LLD (wish I had a first name1): First, let’s start off by stating how I feel about your quote. 1) You are taking our discussion as an argument; I am not. 2) You say “persuading each other.” I am not persuading you to do anything, I am just reacting on what you state. I do not care how you think Mass should look and sound like, and you should not care about my position of the same: Different roads leading to the Glory of God and that’s what it’s all about!
The Acclamation was almost like two acclamation pasted together. For music, I went Marian, as she is mentioned in two of the readings (sort of) and Saturday was a feast for her. It worked out because the priest (we only have the one) spent half the time in explaining the brothers and sisters of the Lord in relationship to the ever virgin Mary.
Really? What of “However, your colorful adjectives to prove your dislike while disrespecting others is not fair game,” did you not get? It’s a guitar; simple, a guitar, not twangy or country style. I have no reason not to discuss my position (and I’m sure other musicians of the Novus Ordo Mass are asking why do I bother) with you, but you must please stop, what I and others feel as disrespectful to me for allowing and those who play the “wrong” instruments at Mass.
Yes, OT 10 was a difficult GA verse. I prefer to use the prescribed Lectionary verse. Because I use a metrical Psalm and not the chants found in a missal and it’s accompanying GA verse, I have found that the Celtic Mass Alleluia verse notation almost always fits about 95% of them exactly. At times, I have to leave out, “says the Lord,” but the rest fits perfectly. For OT 10, I left out the first word, “Now,” “says the Lord,” and “from the earth.” Go back and reread it leaving out those words. The main theme of it stays intact. OT 11 fits perfectly. If you know the Celtic verse notation, give it a try. John Baptist will work too. Some are one syllable per note, while some are one syllable per 3 eigths. I write them for all Sundays and HDs. I know you know the notation to the Celtic Alleluia verse, so give it a try and you’ll see what I mean. Let me know. ’
k_hand:t3:I don’t have that problem, thank goodness. I usually will just write my own music for the Psalm. It seems easier and simpler for me. I don’t want to use the Celtic though, as that is kind of our thing for Easter and Christmas. That said, two of the Easter Vigil GA’s are rather wordy:
That is surprising to me and I not finding fault; it is what it is. I used to use a common Psalm or whatever we knew at the time many years ago. In the past 15 years or so, our pastor starting using visiting priests from the Seminary and retirees, friends of his, mainly because of some health issues. That’s when the question of the Psalm of the day was brought up. I remember one embarrassing homily when a priest wanted to include the P of the D, and said, “even though you sang…, the Psalm prescribed for today is…,” and proceeded to talk about it and it’s connection to the Gospel. After that, I bought all the metrical volumes that OCP and GIA had. Although the refrain was paraphrased to a point, I would rewrite them to be exact to the Psalm response as best as possible. That’s why I like the “Lyric Psalter” by MH and Alonso that came out in 2013, in response to RM3. Perfect. I still use the popular 80s Psalm from OCP and GIA written by the dynamic duo for Christmas and Easter: “All the Ends of the Earth” and “Let Us Rejoice” (2 of the 3 verses you posted). Even though the new “Lyric Psalter” includes them and the refrain is practically the same, the verses can be a bit different.
When I say I don’t have that problem, what I mean is we only have one priest and seldom anyone visits. But I use the Psalm of the day anyway, writing my own music. Sometimes I will use the missalette, or use it as a start. But I write my own as to make them easy to sing, and easy for someone to copy after hearing it once.
Well, obviously that was not the video and music group that sang it at your church. That song has been brought up so much in this and another thread. I like this song and do use it as a Closing Song and the people do like it; however, if I did it the way it is portrayed on that youtube version, I would be told never to do it again; “blech” is right! Trust me, we sing and play it so much different without the (LLD would like this), rock, pop style.
I was thinking about this and the only person I can think of who could have pulled that off was the former Moravian minister. She had a lovely voice and knew Gregorian chant. She trained the young girl who played the title role in our production of “Agnes of God”. We’re a small town and if there are trained singers here I’ve yet to meet them.
I applaud you for that. Sounds as if you play either guitar or piano and sing the Mass as well.
Yes, for almost twenty years so far, as a Catholic. I had a few years leading the singing as a Baptist back in my younger years.