May the Gospel Acclamation Be Sung Following Gospel Reading?

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Greetings. For some reason I had to create a new account here. None of my credentials from my old account was accepted, nor was I able to create a new password (as a way of saying this is not actually my first post here on CA).
Anyhoo - here’s my question.
We have the parochial vicar filling in at daily Mass during Lent. Since some of the melodies,and even the language (he’s Brazilian) are new to him, he asked me to start the Gospel acclamation song, Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ…etc.
He also requested that we sing it at the end of the Gospel reading.
iow, it would look like this:
  1. Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ, King of endless glory…
  2. Cong responds: Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ…
  3. He chants the verse
  4. We all sing: Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ…
  5. he reads the Gospel
  6. We all sing Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ…(instead of speaking, praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ)
    Is there anything unliturgical about singing the praise to you bit at the end of the Gospel reading?
    He says this is done in the Brazilian Mass.
 
If they are singing the exact words, “Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ.” then I would hardly see an issue; otherwise, this seems to me to be innovating the liturgy beyond the established texts/rubrics.
 
He wants to sing the words that introduce the Gospel acclamation: Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ, King of endless glory. He does it in the Brazilian Mass.
 
They did it at the Cathedral here a couple weeks ago - while our very orthodox, traditional Bishop was the celebrant.

He was fine with it, so I’m fine with it.
 
It is not true to say that anything not specifically forbidden in the rubrics is thereby allowed. There’s no sense to that kind of thinking. The rubrics are not intended to anticipate every possible situation because that would be impossible.

The parts of the Mass are intended to be done in exactly the order they are described in the Missal. Just because there’s no rubric saying that “the Lamb of God is not to be repeated after Communion” or “the Sanctus is not to be repeated after the Our Father” neither is it permitted to repeat the Gospel acclamation after the Gospel.

Each part of the Mass is intended to be done at its own proper time, meaning in exactly the order that each part appears in the Missal. It really is that simple and that direct. Each part occurs in the order it appears in the Missal.
 
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