Gospel Acclamation: Alleluia Only

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At the church here for Sunday Mass there was no cantor.
The first reader read the Psalm.
For the Gospel Acclamation, the organist played the music for the Introductory Alleluia which the congregation sang.
However the Acclamation verse was neither sung nor recited.
What went amiss?
 
CyrilSebastian said:
At the church here for Sunday Mass there was no cantor.
The first reader read the Psalm.
For the Gospel Acclamation, the organist played the music for the Introductory Alleluia which the congregation sang.
However the Acclamation verse was neither sung nor recited.
What went amiss?
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There was probably no one who knew how to sing the acclamation and it never occurred to the readers to step in and read the acclamation. And it probably never occurred to the priest or organist to ask a reader.

This would happen at my parish because readers at the Sunday Mass NEVER handle the Alleluia or Psalm.
 
There is (or at least, there used to be) an instruction in most missalettes stating that the acclamation was to be omitted if not sung. Perhaps this was just misunderstood a bit?
 
Cor_ad_Cor said:
There is (or at least, there used to be) an instruction in most missalettes stating that the acclamation was to be omitted if not sung. Perhaps this was just misunderstood a bit?
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Weird. It’s that way in the Latin too, if I recall.
 
There was no cantor.
What don’t you get?
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It’s great to have the verse, but as long as you sing the Alleluia it’s all good.
 
bobballen_18 said:
You have in Catholic parishes??? Yikes. :o 😦
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Not to worry. No Catholic could possibly stand 3 minutes of that stuff. Then again, I didn’t think any Catholic could stand 10 minutes of “It’s a Small, Small World” as an intro but I was proven wrong. Maybe they’re just gluttons for punishment, I don’t know. 😉
 
ProVobis said:
How about “Halle halle halle”?

youtube.com/watch?v=7O6XuYUunMI
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A former choir director sang in the choir that accompanied the west coast debut of Marty Haugen’s Agape Mass (which featured John Bell’s Halle Halle Halle) so that particular arrangement was used many times at my parish back in the day. Eventually the choir was so tired of it that we pretty much wanted to run screaming when we heard it.

But the congregation (at least the ones who were around in the 1990s) still love it and ask to hear it.

In the interest of parish harmony 😛 we eventually reached a compromise. We sing it as an acclamation whenever baptisms take place at a Mass with choir present.
 
SMHW said:
In the interest of parish harmony :
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Actually in the interest of Church harmony, Alleluia is probably the only thing (other than Hosanna and Amen) that unites us all. No one has suggested it be sung in the vernacular yet. 😉
 
ProVobis said:
Actually in the interest of Church harmony, Alleluia is probably the only thing (other than Hosanna and Amen) that unites us all. No one has suggested it be sung in the vernacular yet. 😉
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Well that does raise the issue of “Hallelujah” versus “Alleluia”. (I think we’ve more than covered the various pronunciations of “Amen” in other threads.)
 
SMHW said:
Well that does raise the issue of “Hallelujah” versus “Alleluia”. (I think we’ve more than covered the various pronunciations of “Amen” in other threads.)
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Details, details… 🙂

The important thing is knowing when to use it, not what it means or how it’s spelled. 👍
 
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