Chanting the Our Father

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Our priest chanted the Our Father today which was nice but he didn’t alert us to it, wish he had. Does your priest do this, in english that is?
He actually has a great voice and our choir managed to adlib it well. I lipsynced it which is what I think he expected from all.
If one isn’t comfortable with it.
 
This would not be a surprise to our parish since this is all we have ever done. BTW you can chant the Our Father and Pater Noster using pretty much the same chant. Since it is Lent we also chant the Kyrie in Greek and the Sanctus and Agnus Dei in Latin.
 
I guess I’m more surprised to hear that your parish has never done this before and didn’t know it. I can’t think of a single parish I’ve ever belonged to that didn’t chant the Our Father at least once in awhile.

I prefer it actually.

~Liza
 
brotherhrolf said:
This would not be a surprise to our parish since this is all we have ever done. BTW you can chant the Our Father and Pater Noster using pretty much the same chant. Since it is Lent we also chant the Kyrie in Greek and the Sanctus and Agnus Dei in Latin.
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Well, this may be why I was thinking that his reason is Lent, and I think he is stretching his wings a little. I’m not objecting to it just not used to it and he is the only one in our cluster that has done it so far but the others may follow. I do like it also. I would rather stay in english though but the Latin is not unfamiliar to us.
We do not sing during the communion, for Lent, just piano instrumental music, they tell me this is a standard.
 
The Pater Noster is chanted the same way across the world. Everyone uses the exact same tones. I love praying it at night.

I have heard the Our Father chanted as well. The music varies from parish to parish, though.
 
I can chant either in Latin or in English. One thing I’ve seen on EWTN and I don’t just mean the Masses in Birmingham. The Holy Father universally chants the Our Father in Latin - even if the Mass is in Italian. Folks, you already know the chant…all you need to know is the Latin and it’s not hard. This should be one of the most basic things a Catholic learns - too bad our kids are not learning this and it has been disparaged by others. Think about it- all of us- no matter our language - could join together and chant the Lord’s Prayer una voce.
 
lizaanne said:
I guess I’m more surprised to hear that your parish has never done this before and didn’t know it. I can’t think of a single parish I’ve ever belonged to that didn’t chant the Our Father at least once in awhile.

I prefer it actually.

~Liza
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👍 Me too!
 
brotherhrolf said:
I can chant either in Latin or in English. One thing I’ve seen on EWTN and I don’t just mean the Masses in Birmingham. The Holy Father universally chants the Our Father in Latin - even if the Mass is in Italian. Folks, you already know the chant…all you need to know is the Latin and it’s not hard. This should be one of the most basic things a Catholic learns - too bad our kids are not learning this and it has been disparaged by others. Think about it- all of us- no matter our language - could join together and chant the Lord’s Prayer una voce.
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Back when I first started getting seriously interested in the Catholic Church, I taught myself enough Latin to say the standard prayers and learned the responses, even though my old parish seldom if ever used them. To this day, I still prefer reciting the rosary in Latin. The rhythm and cadence is different enough in Latin that I don’t just “rattle off” the prayers, and it keeps me focused on meditating on the mysteries.

Oh, and as far as the Pater Noster goes…while this isn’t the “standard” Pater Noster, I stumbled across it and it took my breath away. See what you think:

Pater Noster
 
Oh, indeed, a Pater Noster motet. Most of the Masses composed during the Renaissance included a different version of the Pater Noster in motet form. That’s what I am trying to reclaim for us. We have 1500 years worth of liturgical music at our disposal. I am blessed that I have gotten to sing and to hear our heritage. I submit to you that few, very few of the compositions of the last 40 years are the equal of any of the 1500 years which have gone before. Why did we abandon our musical heritage?
 
dessert said:
Well, this may be why I was thinking that his reason is Lent, and I think he is stretching his wings a little. I’m not objecting to it just not used to it and he is the only one in our cluster that has done it so far but the others may follow. I do like it also. I would rather stay in english though but the Latin is not unfamiliar to us.
We do not sing during the communion, for Lent, just piano instrumental music, they tell me this is a standard.
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During Lent there is supposed to be no instrumental music unless it is accompanying singing.
 
Joannm said:
During Lent there is supposed to be no instrumental music unless it is accompanying singing.
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The organ is allowed to support the choir - until we come to Holy Week. On Palm Sunday the organ belts out All Glory, Laud, and Honor…We have a separate Palm Sunday liturgy a block away from the cathedral with choir. At the end of this liturgy we all process into the cathedral singing All Glory, Laud, and Honor…until everyone is in the cathedral. At the end of the communion hymn, the organ goes tacit and will not be played until the Gloria on Holy Thursday and then goes tacit until the Gloria on Holy Saturday. The organ can (softly) give the key signatures for the choir. This is for the best. We tried with a key signature mouth organ - it didn’t work.
 
dessert said:
Our priest chanted the Our Father today which was nice but he didn’t alert us to it, wish he had. Does your priest do this, in english that is?
it.
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have been chanting it in English most of my adult life in parishes in 5 states, and also occasionally in Latin, we do Latin chant here in Advent and Lent for OF and the other common prayers. I have never been in a church where congregation did not know how to do both. we also do so in Spanish of course, and most people here know the Padre Nuestro if no other prayer in Spanish.
 
puzzleannie said:
have been chanting it in English most of my adult life in parishes in 5 states, and also occasionally in Latin, we do Latin chant here in Advent and Lent for OF and the other common prayers. I have never been in a church where congregation did not know how to do both. we also do so in Spanish of course, and most people here know the Padre Nuestro if no other prayer in Spanish.
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5 states huh, I didn’t know it was being chanted around in other churches so much.
Hmmmm well this is a good change and I am not used to it, and we will be practicing it soon at choir. Thanks
 
dessert said:
5 states huh, I didn’t know it was being chanted around in other churches so much.
Hmmmm well this is a good change and I am not used to it, and we will be practicing it soon at choir. Thanks
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Yeah, I’d say y’all have been missing out on a good thing! I’ve heard this my whole life, 32 years. It’s so beautiful.
 
I think we are blessed down here on the Gulf Coast. From Pensacola over to Corpus Christi we have retained the culture of our ancestors. It doesn’t surpise me that we continue the practices of our ancestors.
 
dessert said:
Our priest chanted the Our Father today which was nice but he didn’t alert us to it, wish he had. Does your priest do this, in english that is?
He actually has a great voice and our choir managed to adlib it well. I lipsynced it which is what I think he expected from all.
If one isn’t comfortable with it.
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My parish does the chant in English and in Latin. We have a Latin NO the 1st and 3rd Sundays of each month. For all of those masses, the Pater Noster is always chanted. We have the choir chant it with “regulars” down below chanting together. My parish is a cathedral and we get a lot of visitors, so you can tell which ones are the visitors during the Latin NO, but they will follow along in the books and will join in when they can.

For the regular English NO masses, sometimes the priests will chant it in English, sometimes they won’t and will recite it. It is well chanted, though, when we do it.
 
Irish_Saints said:
Oh, and as far as the Pater Noster goes…while this isn’t the “standard” Pater Noster, I stumbled across it and it took my breath away. See what you think:

Pater Noster
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Wow. This is just beautiful.
It’s hard to believe they can sing like that when they’re sitting down! (?)

Only prayer I know in Latin is the Ave Maria.
 
ac_claire said:
Wow. This is just beautiful.
It’s hard to believe they can sing like that when they’re sitting down! (?)

Only prayer I know in Latin is the Ave Maria.
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How did I miss that link?!? As stated in the description, it is spiritual bliss. Beautiful.

*(As part Filipina and experiencing almost all of the family/friend get-togethers spent singing all day and night long, I can totally believe that they can sing like that whilst sitting. hahahaha! 😃 )
 
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