Do you sing the Propers at your parish?

[snarflemike]

I have come to be a strong proponent of the Mass Propers, as opposed to the generic hymns found at most Masses. I (only half) jokingly refer to them as the 4th Reading. So I’m curious, do you get the Propers in your Parish? Our schola uses the Fr. Weber English Propers book, an excellent resource containing 4 or 5 different versions (varying difficulty) for each antiphon.

 

[CTBcin]

I too am a strong proponent of singing the Mass propers. Our seminary sings the propers for every Mass, but I have seen very little of this outside of the seminary. However, I have visited 1-2 parishes that sing the Mass propers on Sundays.

 

[OraLabora]

I go to Mass at a Benedictine abbey and yes they do sing the Propers, in Latin Gregorian chant. Every day.

At my home parish, which I visit rarely, no. At the parishes in Sherbrooke, Québec, our schola does, about once a month, a different parish each month. Sometimes we have to swap out the offertory for a simpler chant though, that matches our skill level, and we don’t usually do the gradual but instead the responsorial psalm in the vernacular (French) but on an adapted Gregorian mode, with antiphon in the same mode.

 

[Prodigal1984]

I’ve been saying this for a while.
I wish the Church would restore the Offertory Chant as well.

 

[OraLabora]

Well it doesn’t need to be “restored”, it is still there, in the post-conciliar version of the Graduale Romanum. The choir director just has to pick it up and sing it… if (s)he can! Offertories are, for me at least, the toughest part of the repertoire. A better bet would be from the Graduale Simplex, an antiphon with psalmody, but I find the Simplex makes the Mass too much like the Liturgy of the Hours.

 

[Cor_ad_Cor]

One of the local parishes does, the rest (including a very “traditionalist” chapel - not SSPX) in the area does not. Personally, I’m not a big fan.

@OraLabora - Happy Cake Day!

 

[OraLabora]

Thanks!

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[phil19034]

I wish we used them