Immediately following communion

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after the priest cleans up and at the time he then sits, what is he doing?
Is he praying as mandated?

Is this a time of required silence?
 
kms123 said:
after the priest cleans up and at the time he then sits, what is he doing?
Is he praying as mandated?

Is this a time of required silence?
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While that time may be used for silent private prayer it is also quite proper for the congregation to sing a hymn at that time.

GIRM 88. When the distribution of Communion is finished, as circumstances suggest, the priest and faithful spend some time praying privately. If desired, a psalm or other canticle of praise or a hymn may also be sung by the entire congregation.
 
Phemie said:
While that time may be used for silent private prayer it is also quite proper for the congregation to sing a hymn at that time.

GIRM 88. When the distribution of Communion is finished, as circumstances suggest, the priest and faithful spend some time praying privately. If desired, a psalm or other canticle of praise or a hymn may also be sung by the entire congregation.
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Are there limitations to what kind of musical praise is allowed?
Is something that sounds like praise and glory or use of hand drums and ends up drawing attention like a concert and the congregation applauding ok?

PS I the communion song is finished.
 
kms123 said:
Are there limitations to what kind of musical praise is allowed?
Is something that sounds like praise and glory or use of hand drums and ends up drawing attention like a concert and the congregation applauding ok?

PS I the communion song is finished.
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It’s a communal hymn. While the Communion hymn can be sung by the choir alone, if a post-Communion hymn is sung it is to be sung by the congregation, not by choir alone, so it shouldn’t be like a concert presentation.

Should it be like praise and glory? Well it says Canticle or hymn. Personally I’ve never felt that praise & glory songs fit the bill.
 
Phemie said:
It’s a communal hymn. While the Communion hymn can be sung by the choir alone, if a post-Communion hymn is sung it is to be sung by the congregation, not by choir alone, so it shouldn’t be like a concert presentation.

Should it be like praise and glory? Well it says Canticle or hymn. Personally I’ve never felt that praise & glory songs fit the bill.
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It is not sung, and could not possibly be sung by the congregation. It is more like a performance. 😦
 
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It is not sung, and could not possibly be sung by the congregation. It is more like a performance. 😦
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To me it draws attention to them, instead of what just happened, the sacrifice! 😦

Is it written that congregation must be included?
 
kms123 said:
To me it draws attention to them, instead of what just happened, the sacrifice! 😦

Is it written that congregation must be included?
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Yes, see the blue GIRM article in my first post. While the Entrance, Offertory, Communion and Recessional hymns can all be sung by the choir alone, the post-Communion hymn doesn’t have that option.
 
In our Church, after Communion, the Priest sits in prayer, while the choir sings a hymn, and they take up the second collection.

If there isn’t a designated second collection for that week, the second collection is for our building fund.
 
Of course, Pope Benedict has made some very strong recommendations for sacred silence, something that we are sorely lacking in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass today. In The Spirit of the Liturgy, he makes a very strong case for silence:
We are realizing more and more clearly that silence is part of the liturgy. We respond, by singing and praying, to the God who addresses us, but the greater mystery , surpassing all words, summons us to silence. It must, of course, be a silence with a context, not just the absence of speech and action. We should expect the liturgy to give us a positive stillness that will restore us…It is no accident that on all sides people are seeking techniques of meditation, a spirituality for emptying the mind. One of man’s deepest needs is making its presence felt, a need that is manifestly not being met in our present form in the liturgy.
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For silence to be fruitful, was we have already said, it must not just be a pause in the action of the liturgy. No, it must be an integral part of the liturgical event…More helpful and spiritually appropriate is the silence after Communion. This, in all truth, is the moment for an interior conversation with the Lord who has given himself to us…Unfortunately, there are often hindrances that spoil this precious moment…Nevertheless, whenever possible, this silence after communion should be used, and the faithful should be given some guidance for interior prayer.
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Yesterday, the choir sang my least favorite hymn of all, “Pescador de Hombres/Lord, When You Came by the Seashore”. Mercifully, the song lasted a couple of verses; however, the pianist went on and on and on, even though one of the choir members was trying to get him to stop. This made prayer very difficult. A dear friend of mine who is elderly told me that I was trying to squelch the Spirit because I wanted him to stop. I told her that we need to have some silence in order for the Spirit to get through to us despite the noise.

We need to have some quiet during the Mass, especially after Holy Communion, in order to recollect ourselves…
 
I really like what we do. There is a period of silence and we also sing one short chorus of something, like O Sacrament most holy… , usually acapella. It is very moving and keeping with the quite and reflective mood. 👍
 
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