The second source got it wrong.
I needed wanted some documentation as to there being no Gloria. I am preparing a Mass schedule for the musicians. If I throw something like this out, I like to provide documentation so the priest doesn’t have to chase the answer (if he doesn’t know yet). I sure you can appreciate it if anyone came to you with a question or decision and had already done the leg work it takes. Priests are busy doing things only priest can do, or have to do, or getting a little break. Lay people need to take up all the mundane task they can, like computer searches!
OK. I suppose I have a different style. The way I see it is that it’s my responsibility to know these things; not to wait for someone to research it for me on the internet.I needed wanted some documentation as to there being no Gloria. I am preparing a Mass schedule for the musicians. If I throw something like this out, I like to provide documentation so the priest doesn’t have to chase the answer (if he doesn’t know yet). I sure you can appreciate it if anyone came to you with a question or decision and had already done the leg work it takes. Priests are busy doing things only priest can do, or have to do, or getting a little break. Lay people need to take up all the mundane task they can, like computer searches!
He probably does. I just hate to assume.OK. I suppose I have a different style. The way I see it is that it’s my responsibility to know these things; not to wait for someone to research it for me on the internet.
Yes, it will be. “Requiem Mass” just means the Introit for the Mass is requiem aeternam. It’s the same for the OF as well as the EF, so if you’ve been to a funeral in the OF, technically it’s also a Requiem Mass. Just the Introit is almost never used in the OF, of course…
Almost, but not “never”. A monk passed away last week at our abbey, at the tender age of 97! A Requiem Mass in the OF was held for him. In fact for all Masses for the dead, whether for commemorations or funerals, the Requiem Mass is chanted in Gregorian chant.
This is incorrect. In the EF, Masses for the Dead are not celebrated on Sundays, and thus All Souls is observed this year on Monday. 3 November.
Have you checked the Roman Missal?
Yes, Father, and plenty of other EF books in my library. The notion of celebrating All Souls on a Sunday is a modern one, dating only from 1970. At my FSSP parish we will celebrate it on Monday this year.
I did not catch the “EF/OF” distinction there. I took it (mistakenly) as a general statement that no Masses for the Dead are permitted on Sundays.
