Memorial acclamation?

[TheMc]

Mention that something is not appropriate or approved and the response is invariably, “I’m sure God doesn’t mind.”

Besides being dead wrong, this is one of the most ignorant and annoying comments I hear from people, concerning liturgy.

When Christ said, “Whatever you bind on earth…”, he gave his authority to the church, so when the Missal says “Do X and Say Y,” God DOES mind.

We’ve offered to send her and at least one other member, all expenses paid, for courses for 2 weeks in the summer but they refuse the offer. They feel that since they are volunteers they should be able to just continue as they are. They are not in the least open to reading documents, be it the GIRM, CSL, or anything else.

In my book, that is good enough reason to kick them out all together. A choir director needs to know what (s)he is doing.

 

[Corki]

Thanks everyone for your replies. I contacted the Cleveland Diocese Office for Worship and they confirmed that this is not an approved acclamation.

Kudos to the director for being so unambiguous and for having a backbone!!! :clapping:

Diocisan “officials” around here would never come out and say that anything the parish does is not appropriate. They would just tip toe around the topic.

 

[Phemie]

Besides being dead wrong, this is one of the most ignorant and annoying comments I hear from people, concerning liturgy.

When Christ said, “Whatever you bind on earth…”, he gave his authority to the church, so when the Missal says “Do X and Say Y,” God DOES mind.

In my book, that is good enough reason to kick them out all together. A choir director needs to know what (s)he is doing.

The problem is that the present Pastor would rather have bad music than no music. That’s why, even after having pointed out to him that there are any number of laws, both liturgical and copyright, being violated by the Gloria that we sing (Carey Landry’s from his “Young People Mass”), he won’t talk to them and tick them off.

 

[TheMc]

The problem is that the present Pastor would rather have bad music than no music. That’s why, even after having pointed out to him that there are any number of laws, both liturgical and copyright, being violated by the Gloria that we sing (Carey Landry’s from his “Young People Mass”), he won’t talk to them and tick them off.

Even after it was pointed out to him?

 

[Digitonomy]

I was curious about the history of the memorial acclamation, that an outside text like “Keep in Mind” could sneak into such widespread use. I suspect it is because the memorial acclamation is so recent. Here is a brief history:
liturgy.slu.edu/RomanMissal/mystery_of_faith.html

The Wikipedia article on this indicates that the Lutherans, as well as some Methodists and Anglicans have acclamations in their services, but it’s unclear how similar they are to our own, or whether one inspired another.

 

[Phemie]

Even after it was pointed out to him?

Yes.

I’m just happy that for Easter it looks like the choir is learning a new Gloria, one that’s using the right words. I hope it means we’ll be singing this new one until the new translation comes on line – not sure when that will happen in Canada.

 

[jayk15]

If you think that version of the acclamation is bad, look at this one that is sometimes used in my parish: ‘He is Lord, He is Lord, He is risen from the dead and he is Lord, every knee shall bow, every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord’