Easter Sequence During Octave

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Quick question, and would like well-documented advice rather than opinions. I’m sure the answer is short and definitive, but I haven’t had a spare moment to research it.

A local parish has been using the Sequence from Easter Sunday for the Masses during the Octave (at the appropriate place, between the psalm and the Gospel). I know that the Gloria is to be said throughout the Octave, and the Te Deum, and in other ways these Masses are analogous to the Sunday. However, I have never come across this practice before. Is it licit?
 
Absolutely. The sequence is to be said throughout the octave. That is part of what distinguishes the octave.
 
Kindly, can you provide a source?

I couldn’t find a note to that effect in the Lectionary, and as I said I have not had time to research it further; my hope was that someone would know where it is documented that it should be so.

I’m not questioning the fittingness of the practice; in my own opinion it seems a capital thing to do. But no opinion effects whether it is *licit *to do. That is what I would like to know.
 
While I don’t pretend to know what the current Sacramentary or Lectionary or GIRM says, every older-use missal I’ve looked in says it’s to be done every day during the octave.
 
Do you mean Victimae Paschali Laudes? I plan on using it this Saturday evening mass during communion time while people receive (I am an organist/cantor).

I love playing and singing the propers out of the Solesmes books during mass. Victimae I would assume is appropriate as a piece anytime around Easter but not to use as a proper Sequence unless its explicitly stated in the missal. Just my opinion.
 
I believe the sequence is compulsory on easter sunday, and optional during the octave.
 
frommi said:
I believe the sequence is compulsory on easter sunday, and optional during the octave.
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IIRC, that’s what the ORDO said. It can be used at Mass up to and including the 2nd Sunday of Easter.
 
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Do you mean Victimae Paschali Laudes? I plan on using it this Saturday evening mass during communion time while people receive (I am an organist/cantor).

I love playing and singing the propers out of the Solesmes books during mass. Victimae I would assume is appropriate as a piece anytime around Easter but not to use as a proper Sequence unless its explicitly stated in the missal. Just my opinion.
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I hope that there will also be a hymn, or some sort of congregational response during the reception of Communion or immediately after.
 
The Ordo specfically indicates the Sequence as mandatory for Easter Sunday, optional during the Octave.

So yes, singing the Sequence during the Octave is indeed licit.
 
“The sequence is said or sung on this day. On the weekdays of the Octave of Easter, its use is optional.”
(Lectionary Volume 1 Study Edition, Collins Liturgical Australia, 1983, ISBN 0 00 599764-X, page 409. Easter Sunday, Mass of the Day.)

In the Latin edition of the lectionary I have not found the equivalent of this rubric. But the heading for this Sequence is “Per octavam Paschae” , meaning for the Octave of Easter. (Ordo Lectionum Missae, Liberia Editrice Vaticana, 1981, ISBN 88-209-1356-9, page 449.) It refers to “Graduale Romanum 1974, pp. 198-199” which may have a more detailed rubric.

From the 2002 General Instruction of the Roman Missal (GIRM) approved for the USA, which can be accessed from romanrite.com/girm.html :
“64. The Sequence, which is optional except on Easter Sunday and on Pentecost Day, is sung before the Alleluia.”

This sounds like a Sequence is optional every day of the year, except those two days when it is compulsory. But in Ordo Cantus Missae, it sounds like only some days have a Sequence: “8. When there is a sequence, it is sung in alternation either by the cantors with choir or by the two parts of the choir; the final Amen is omitted. When the Alleluia and its verse are not sung, the sequence is omitted.” (Documents on the Liturgy 1963-1979, Liturgical Press, Minnesota, 1982, ISBN 0-8146-1281-4, page 1346).

The Latin edition of the Lectionary, pages 449-451, has four Sequences:
Per octavam Paschae
In dominica Pentecostes
In sollemnitate Ss.mi Corporis et Sanguinis Christi
In Memoria beatae Mariae Virginis Perdolentis.

Each one is listed with a reference to a page numbers in Graduale Romanum 1974. I do not have this book. Perhaps it has more Sequences and instructions about when they are used.
 
Thank you very much, John. I’ll check the Graduale in our library tonight. I don’t think the American translation of the Lectionary has the rubric either, although I might have missed it. I generally trust the Ordo, but I was still looking for the legally binding source and you seem to have tracked it down. Much obliged.
 
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