Communion/Entrance Antiphons - are they required?

[Elzee]

During daily Mass, we have no music - no entrance hymm or Communion hymm. Our priest also does not have us recite the entrance/communion antiphons. Are these required in the absence of a hymm? I usually read them to myself because they are so beautiful, but as I looked at our missalette the other day, it struck me that it appears they may be required?

 

[Phemie]

During daily Mass, we have no music - no entrance hymm or Communion hymm. Our priest also does not have us recite the entrance/communion antiphons. Are these required in the absence of a hymm? I usually read them to myself because they are so beautiful, but as I looked at our missalette the other day, it struck me that it appears they may be required?

The Entrance & Communion antiphons are actually the first choice of 4 things that can be sung at those times. Hymns can be substituted but the antiphons are to be read when there is no singing.

 

[benedictgal]

The Entrance & Communion antiphons are actually the first choice of 4 things that can be sung at those times. Hymns can be substituted but the antiphons are to be read when there is no singing.

Actually, Daily Mass is the time that is most appropriate to use the antiphons. Probably the only thing (besides wedding music corrections) that the new document Sing to the Lord (USCCB) makes note of is the fact that these antiphons should be used during Daily Mass. One thing to remember, though, is that when the antiphons are used, you don’t immediately follow them with a hymn. It is one or the other, but, never both.

My PV always recites the Entrance and Communion Antiphons during Daily Mass. It’s actually a lot better when he recites the Communion Antiphon becuase we don’t have to hear a badly sung Communion hymn (Pescador de los Hombres) on a daily basis. It also helps us to enjoy some necessary sacred silence.

 

[porthos11]

The Entrance & Communion antiphons are actually the first choice of 4 things that can be sung at those times.

Actually, they are the third choice. The first choice are the antiphons and psalms from the Graduale Romanum.

The second preferred choice are the selections from the Graduale Simplex (I use these).

The third choice would be the spoken antiphons from the Roman Missal.

The fourth, of course:

Hymns can be substituted but the antiphons are to be read when there is no singing.

 

[John_Lilburne]

I think these some form of these antiphons is compulsory if there is no singing.

From the 2002 General Instruction of the Roman Missal (GIRM) approved for the USA, which can be accessed from romanrite.com/girm.html :

“48. … If there is no singing at the entrance, the antiphon in the Missal is recited either by the faithful, or by some of them, or by a lector; otherwise, it is recited by the priest himself, who may even adapt it as an introductory explanation (cf. above, no. 31).”

“87. … If there is no singing, however, the Communion antiphon found in the Missal may be recited either by the faithful, or by some of them, or by a lector. Otherwise the priest himself says it after he has received Communion and before he distributes Communion to the faithful.”

The word “otherwise” says to me that it must be one of these options.