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MysteriumFidei
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What parts of the nuptial mass require music? I selected Missa de Angelis for the ordinary but I am not sure what else to choose. It will be Novus Ordo. What traditional hymns and music can I choose?
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otjm
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You should probably work that out ion conjunction with the priest who will say the Mass and the person(s) who will be doing the music.
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John_Lilburne
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Generally on singing, from the 2002 General Introduction to the Roman Missal (GIRM) approved for the USA, which can be accessed from romanrite.com/girm.html :
"40. Great importance should therefore be attached to the use of singing in the celebration of the Mass, with due consideration for the culture of the people and abilities of each liturgical assembly. Although it is not always necessary (e.g., in weekday Masses) to sing all the texts that are of themselves meant to be sung, every care should be taken that singing by the ministers and the people is not absent in celebrations that occur on Sundays and on holy days of obligation. In the choosing of the parts actually to be sung, however, preference should be given to those that are of greater importance and especially to those to be sung by the priest or the deacon or the lector, with the people responding, or by the priest and people together. [footnote 49: Cf. Sacred Congregation of Rites, Instruction *Musicam sacram, On music in the Liturgy, 5 March 1967, nos. 7, 16: AAS 59 (1967), pp. 302, 305.]
The priest can sing most of the Mass, for example: The Sign of the Cross, the Eucharistic Prayer, etc. But it will depend on what the priest is comfortable with, how skilled he is. Pope Benedict encouraged that future priests to be trained in this last week in Sacramentum Caritatis: “62. … Speaking more generally, I ask that future priests, from their time in the seminary, receive the preparation needed to understand and to celebrate Mass in Latin, and also to use Latin texts and execute Gregorian chant;”.
The singing by the people I would probably suggest for a wedding would be:
Entrance song (Rite of Marriage, n. 20)
Gloria, (Glory to God in the Hightest). (This is required for the Nuptial Mass by Missale Romanum, Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 2002, ISBN: 8820972719, page 1023. There is no Penitential Rite).
Alleluia, or verse before the Gospel.
Offertory song
Our Father
Agnus Dei (Lamb of God)
Communion hymn
"40. Great importance should therefore be attached to the use of singing in the celebration of the Mass, with due consideration for the culture of the people and abilities of each liturgical assembly. Although it is not always necessary (e.g., in weekday Masses) to sing all the texts that are of themselves meant to be sung, every care should be taken that singing by the ministers and the people is not absent in celebrations that occur on Sundays and on holy days of obligation. In the choosing of the parts actually to be sung, however, preference should be given to those that are of greater importance and especially to those to be sung by the priest or the deacon or the lector, with the people responding, or by the priest and people together. [footnote 49: Cf. Sacred Congregation of Rites, Instruction *Musicam sacram, On music in the Liturgy, 5 March 1967, nos. 7, 16: AAS 59 (1967), pp. 302, 305.]
The priest can sing most of the Mass, for example: The Sign of the Cross, the Eucharistic Prayer, etc. But it will depend on what the priest is comfortable with, how skilled he is. Pope Benedict encouraged that future priests to be trained in this last week in Sacramentum Caritatis: “62. … Speaking more generally, I ask that future priests, from their time in the seminary, receive the preparation needed to understand and to celebrate Mass in Latin, and also to use Latin texts and execute Gregorian chant;”.
The singing by the people I would probably suggest for a wedding would be:
Entrance song (Rite of Marriage, n. 20)
Gloria, (Glory to God in the Hightest). (This is required for the Nuptial Mass by Missale Romanum, Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 2002, ISBN: 8820972719, page 1023. There is no Penitential Rite).
Alleluia, or verse before the Gospel.
Offertory song
Our Father
Agnus Dei (Lamb of God)
Communion hymn
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Andreas_Hofer
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Well if you want a really musical Mass you can get the priest to sing the collect, preface, postcommunion and dismissal, as well, along with chanting the Gospel.
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MysteriumFidei
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That would be great, but I don’t see it happening. My pastor like guitar masses. There isn’t even an Organ. I know that to the Angels and Saint the Mass is beautiful under such situations but Organ and Chant elevates my spirit to contemplate the things of God.
The gyst of my question, though, was what hymns should I select?
The gyst of my question, though, was what hymns should I select?
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DVina
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*NO Organ???
*Is there at least a piano?At my wedding I used “Gospel Processional” by Hutmacher for the processional. Only one word to rememeber: Alleluia.
I was a choir member, so for the recessional, I chose “When in our Music God is Glorified” in a setting by David Ashley White.
I would suggest something both grand and widely know, Such as “Praise to the Lord,” Joyful, Joyful we Adore Thee," “Holy God We Praise Thy Name,” etc. If you are going to have the music a capella, look for chants proper to the rite of marriage.
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jc-servant
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You should still talk with your music director and/or priest before assuming anything. They might surprise you (in a good or bad way). I know a priest at a parish that I frequently visit when seeing relatives who likes some of that odd 1970’s music, but he can chant a whole mass decently. Since the newest papal document regarding music he chants more often and has changed the Sanctus back to the Latin one also. I also know that depending on who has to do the music for you some hymns might be out of the question due to their skills or lack thereof.
I strongly suggest asking if they have a list of approved/banned stuff before you get your heart too set on anything.
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John_Lilburne
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I have put public domain hymn tunes at romanrite.com/hymns.html played by an organ. By downloading one and opening with iTunes they could be put onto a iPod or burnt onto a CD.
The decision about which hymns depends a lot on what the congregation are likely to know and join in with.
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