Plan TLM Funeral

[Chatter163]

There is no place for vernacular hymns during a TLM, High or Low. Such hymns must be sung before or after the Mass, which is why you hear them as processionals and recessionals, but not during the Mass itself.

 

[A_R_Smith]

I would love a Requiem Mass said when I’m gone… Great way to show my skeptical friends that, to me, being Catholic was not a mere ‘lifestyle choice’, but my heritage.

 

[connorcream]

1. My ribbons are starting to fray at the ends. I was wondering if anyone has put a dab of clear nail polish on them to stop it. Would hairspray work too and be less stiff?

AMDG,
Connorcream

Tried the hairspray and it seems to be fine. I will know in after a few months of use.
AMDG,
Connorcream

 

[fatima92]

I would like to add the following websites to what was already mentioned that may help since these are my guides as I try to coordinate the chants in our church weekly Mass in the Extraordinary Form:

  1. [mysite.verizon.net/missale/#requiem](http://mysite.verizon.net/missale/#requiem) - This site has the propers and readings

   2. [musicasacra.com/](http://www.musicasacra.com/) - This site has chant downloads and has chant resources that can be downloaded.  It even has the Liber Usualis (download may be long depending on computer speed)

   3. [sanctamissa.org/en/](http://www.sanctamissa.org/en/) - has various resources for the traditional Latin Mass including the calendar.

I am planning our chants every week in our church. We have a Low Mass every week except for 1 Sunday during the month when we have a High Mass. We use the Parish Book of Chants (published by the Church Music Association of America) which is a compilation of various hymns/chants in Latin as well as guide in chanting. This book is available on the website of Musicasacra.com either for download or for purchase.

We had a Requiem (Low )Mass in our church recently. Our priest said that the request of the deceased regarding the hymns and chants will be followed. Thus, I think that if you decide to have a Low Mass for your Requiem Mass, you may be able to choose the chants that you like as long as they are in Latin for the Offertory and Communion; entrance can be in either English or Latin since the Mass has not started yet.

I don’t know how it would be if the Requiem Mass is High Mass but in our Sunday High Mass based on my experience, I would think that you may need a Communion chant or a post communion chant such as Panis Angelicus or Ave Verum Corpus.

 

[Frosty]

There is no place for vernacular hymns during a TLM, High or Low. Such hymns must be sung before or after the Mass, which is why you hear them as processionals and recessionals, but not during the Mass itself.

Uh, this is not quite true. After the Dialogue Mass was introduced in the late 1950’s, vernacular hymns were indeed sung during Low Masses. I know, I used to play the organ at my parish for the 9am Low Mass for four years, beginning in 1959. Four hymns were sung ( what was rather scathingly called "the four hymn sandwich), at the beginning of Mass after the priest had entered the sanctuary, at the Offertory, at Communion and at the end of Mass. There was no processional or recessional as we know it in the OF today. The celebrant entered the sanctuary directly from the sacristy and left the altar back into the sacristy. The four hymns that we used at my parish the most often were in order; Praise to the Lord, Now Thank we All Our God, O Lord, I am Not Worthy, and Holy God We Praise Thy Name. The Offertory and Communion hymns rarely changed but the other two changed of course during Christmastime, Easter and the month of May.