Entrance Singing

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I am not sure if this is only at my parish, or if this is all over, but why do we sing entrance hymns at daily mass but not on Sunday during Lent. I meant to ask my priest today but he had somewhere else to be.
 
That’s something unique to your own parish.

There is nothing which would make that practice universal or even applicable to only the U.S.

Don’t hesitate to ask your pastor about it.
 
I am not sure if this is only at my parish, or if this is all over, but why do we sing entrance hymns at daily mass but not on Sunday during Lent. I meant to ask my priest today but he had somewhere else to be.
This sounds unique to your parish. We sing entrance hymns during lent, but our pastor chooses to do the recessional in sacred silence during lent instead of our recessional hymn. Perhaps your pastor is doing something similar.
 
They do it at may parish as well.
Except at the Spanish Mass.
Always music there.
 
My parish did the procession to the altar without any hymn or organ on Passion Sunday. The previous Sundays had the hymn *Parce Domine *sung. At daily Masses and low Masses I have gone to, there was no hymn sung during the procession.
 
There are different things that different parishes do. Some parishes choose to do a silent entrance during Lent to emphasize the penitential nature of the season.
 
to clarify:

singing of a “hymn” for the Entrance Rite is only one of FOUR options described in the GIRM:

(1) the antiphon from the Missal or the antiphon with its Psalm from the Graduale Romanum, as set to music there or in another setting;

(2) the antiphon and Psalm of the Graduale Simplex for the liturgical time;

(3) a chant from another collection of Psalms and antiphons, approved by the
Conference of Bishops or the Diocesan Bishop, including Psalms arranged in responsorial or metrical forms;

(4) another liturgical chant (hymn) that is suited to the sacred action, the day, or the time of year, similarly approved by the Conference of Bishops or the Diocesan Bishop.
 
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