Omit Alelluia At Daily Mass?

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Is it permissible to omit the Alelluia during daily Mass?
 
Phemie said:
It’s optional even at Sunday Mass. If it’s not sung it’s omitted.
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In another thread, I posted a hierarchy. If there is anything that should be sung at Mass, it’s the Gospel Acclamation (including the Lenten one). However, if there is no one to sing it, then, it is omitted because it is not to be recited.

Simply put, if it’s not sung, it’s not done.
 
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Of course we omit the alelluia - as we should proclaim Alleluia!

I can’t believe I misspelled it! :o :doh2:
 
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O.K. - I’ve found it.

GIRM #63 c. The Alleluia or verse before the Gospel may be omitted if they are not sung.

Though the other two parts of that number give me the impression that it would be o.k. to just recite it - or at a minimum requires a clarification on whether it must be sung or can be recited (of course, it is more proper to sing it!). I’ve been to many a daily Mass that only recited the Alleluia.
 
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Hello,

O.K. - I’ve found it.

GIRM #63 c. The Alleluia or verse before the Gospel may be omitted if they are not sung.

Though the other two parts of that number give me the impression that it would be o.k. to just recite it - or at a minimum requires a clarification on whether it must be sung or can be recited (of course, it is more proper to sing it!). I’ve been to many a daily Mass that only recited the Alleluia.
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There is a hierarchy of singing in the Church according to Musicam Sacram (1967).
  1. The distinction between solemn, sung and read Mass, sanctioned by the Instruction of 1958 (n. 3), is retained, according to the traditional liturgical laws at present in force. However, for the sung mass (missa cantata), different degrees of participation are put forward here for reasons of pastoral usefulness, so that it may become easier to make the celebration of Mass more beautiful by singing, according to the capabilities of each congregation.
These degrees are so arranged that the first may be used even by itself, but the second and third, wholly or partially, may never be used without the first. In this way the faithful will be continually led towards an ever greater participation in the singing.
  1. The following belong to the first degree:

    (a) In the entrance rites: the greeting of the priest together with the reply of the people; the prayer.

    (b) In the Liturgy of the Word: the acclamations at the Gospel.

    (c) In the Eucharistic Liturgy: the prayer over the offerings; the preface with its dialogue and the Sanctus; the final doxology of the Canon, the Lord’s prayer with its introduction and embolism; the Pax Domini; the prayer after the Communion; the formulas of dismissal.
  2. The following belong to the second degree:

    (a) the Kyrie, Gloria and Agnus Dei;

    (b) the Creed;

    (c) the prayer of the faithful.
  3. The following belong to the third degree:

    (a) the songs at the Entrance and Communion processions;

    (b) the songs after the Lesson or Epistle;

    (c) the Alleluia before the Gospel;

    (d) the song at the Offertory;

    (e) the readings of Sacred Scripture, unless it seems more
    suitable to proclaim them without singing.
 
Remember, the priest crossing the sanctuary, on his way to proclaim the Gospel, stops to bow to the altar while saying a silent prayer. It is a bit difficult to say the prayer while intoning the Alleluia.
Benedictgal has it right on. If it is not sung, it is not done.
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Why omitt Alelluia at daily Mass?

Ale/llu/ia is a Hebrew word is it not, just asking? Is it not three words and the English version we joined the three into one word? Alelluia means “Praise you God” why would we now be omitting it from every mass?

thank You…God Bless
 
So if Alelluia is not sung then it spoken in the mass, right?

thanks again
 
Ephretha! Open your eyes and ears. If the Alleluia is not sung, if someone is not there to sing it, the Alleluia is not done. It is not to be spoken. Above is the GIRM citation within the thread, I think 63…
 
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