Corpus Christi Sequence at Sunday Mass

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Here the hymn Praise, O Zion, Voices Raising was sung as the Sequence.
 
John_Lilburne said:
The Sequence is option for the feast of Corpus Christi. From the General Instruction of the Roman Missal:

“64. The Sequence, which is optional except on Easter Sunday and on Pentecost Day, is sung before the Alleluia.”

Pentecost Day should have a Sequence, but not Pentecost Vigil.

My recording of the full Corpus Christi Sequence (from the Australian Lectionary) is 10 minutes 36 seconds, at youtube.com/watch?v=rCxKRVlKwTk .
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I was at a Pentecost Day mass (7pm) at a college. They skipped the sequence. 😦
 
In past years when I attended Corpus Christi Mass at the abbey, they sang the full sequence in Latin. This year for some reason they omitted it. I was rather disappointed but can only assume they had a good reason. They did have an outdoor procession though, which was chanted in Latin.
 
OraLabora said:
In past years when I attended Corpus Christi Mass at the abbey, they sang the full sequence in Latin. This year for some reason they omitted it. I was rather disappointed but can only assume they had a good reason. They did have an outdoor procession though, which was chanted in Latin.
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I should point out that at the abbey, Corpus Christi was celebrated on the Thursday and not transferred to the Sunday. Abbeys don’t follow the diocesan calendars but the monastic one, and the major feasts and solemnities are not transferred as the conventual Mass is for the community, and not designed to accommodate the needs of the laity. However the laity are free to attend.
 
We sang the full Latin chant at our parish. Or rather, I sang it by myself. 😛 Lol. It is a pretty difficult one to sing by oneself, with a rather large range. But it is such an awesome sequence, both the text itself and the music (chant)!

It was only sung at what is more or less our OF “High Mass” - at our Saturday evening Mass the whole thing was just read, and our earlier Sunday Mass the short version was used. Then at our Sunday EF Mass we didn’t even do Corpus Christi - our priest opted to do the Second Sunday after Pentecost since he already celebrated 4 Masses for Corpus Christi.
 
Said, and only three verses of it at that. I have to say my parish is normally rather traditional, but whenever anything is a little different, we get confused. :o
 
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