Favorite Mass setting

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What is your favorite mass setting for use in the mass and why? it can be either classical or post Vatican II. your thoughtful responses are appreciated.
 
I prefer the Extraordinary Form, because I like it’s contemplative silence. It’s like I get to pray in a way that I don’t get to in the Ordinary Form.
 
My most recent fave is John Michael Talbot “Mass of Rebirth”
 
For a liturgical extravaganza with smells and bells galore, I would choose a Latin Solemn High Mass. You can’t get much more glorious than that. For a small, 15 minute Mass, I would like a well-done, reverent, no nonsense OF Mass.

I want Sundays and Feast Days EF. Every day Mass, a “Reversion” Vatican II Mass. [AKA, what Vatican II really meant before it was screwed up]
 
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Traditional Catholic Church, I suppose. 🙂

Barring that, any church.

Barring that, just the mass anywhere.
 
I go to a mission chapel, open building, Novus Ordo but celebrated ad orientum with much of the ordinary in Latin chant. The choir is 4 part a Capella. Father does not do a collection at the offertory nor do we exchange a sign of peace as this interferes with the flow of the Mass. The mass is not rushed and Communion is at a communion rail. Very reverent and peaceful.

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I assume you mean what musical setting we like for Mass. I have no knowledge of any of the classical settings, although I have purchased Vierne’s Messe solennelle to listen to but haven’t got around to doing so yet.

I had a favorite setting of the Mass before 2011 translation and that was Fr. Somerville’s (New) Good Shepherd Mass.

I’ve only heard 4 settings of the new translation. Three of those are the ones commissioned by the CCCB and I don’t like them. One was a setting I heard last summer while on holidays. I can’t for the life of me recall the name but it was one of the settings found in Breaking Bread, a missal/hymnal we don’t use in our parish. It wasn’t inspiring but it was a much better setting than any of the three in the official Canadian hymnal Celebrate in Song and it didn’t have a responsorial Gloria like those Canadian settings do.
 
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I haven’t heard very many Mass settings but of all the ones I have heard I think I like the ICEL one the most.
Out of the three in Celebrate in Song, I prefer the first setting (the Angeles one).

As for why… I like what sounds good and is easy to sing. 😛
 
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My most favourite mass setting is this what we call “Simbáng Gabi” or “Evening Mass” if translated in English. It is celebrated on the 9 days before Christmas (the time is every 5-6AM), and on the Christmas Eve, which is the 9th day, it is held in midnight time till 25th of December and this is called “Misa de Gallo” (Spanish) means “Rooster’s mass”. Then the night of Christmas, there will be a mass called “Salubong” which is a high-mass and this is about the awaited birth of Jesus.
 
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CoeurRempli said:
I haven’t heard very many Mass settings but of all the ones I have heard I think I like the ICEL one the most.
Out of the three in Celebrate in Song, I prefer the first setting (the Angeles one).

As for why… I like what sounds good and is easy to sing. 😛
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Angeles’s is the one my parish has been singing for the last 6 1/2 years and I’m sick of it. I really dislike repeating everything twice.
 
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Wow, 6 and a half years! I think my last parish used it for about a year before saving it only for solemnities.
I wouldn’t say it is my favourite but it is a lot nicer than many of the other settings that I have heard (whose names are unknown to me). It also brings back memories of attending Mass on my own for the first time when I started university… 🙂
 
I don’t know if I’d call these “Favorites” but lately my parish has been seasonally cycling through the Glendalough Mass setting (Lawton), the Mass of the Incarnate Word (Hurd), a locally arranged Mass, and that “old” (and IMHO, tired,) standby, the Creation Mass (Haugen).

We don’t necessarily use a single setting for the whole Mass. We will sometimes use something from another setting such as the Mass of the Angels & Saints (Janco).
 
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For the ignorant, how might one define a mass setting?

Some of us don’t know know that term.
 
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For the ignorant, how might one define a mass setting?

Some of us don’t know know that term.
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In very basic terms, a Mass setting is a musical composition of the various sung/chanted parts of the Mass. It might be old, new, traditional, modern… You would expect it to at least have most of the Ordinary of the Mass.
 
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We get this query about once a month.

The Glendalough Mass by Liam Lawton.
We use it year round except for Advent and Lent, when we do a more subdued, and briefer setting.
 
I figured music ministers just made it all up themselves. My knowledge of things liturgical is very limited.
 
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For musical setting, I like the Mass of Light with just piano, as we did into in my parish a year or so ago. It’s got a solem feel that I like. Some of the others are too…peppy. As for church setting, I’ve never been to a EF mass but I would love to. I love chant and incense
 
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