Reading of the Passion

[pig_boy]

I had a quick question on the reading of the Passion during Palm Sunday Mass. Our priest stated that since the people are the body of Christ, they should read the part of Jesus and the priest read the part of the crowd. Is this practice appropriate? I am interested if someone has a specific source and not just opinions (although opinions are welcome).

Thanks.

Edit:

I’ve found a document in note 33 that says the part of Christ is reserved for the priest. Does anyone know how authoritative such a document is?

adoremus.org/PaschaleSolemnitatis.html#anchor260407

 

[dylanschrader]

That’s Paschale Solemnitatis, probably the most authoritative document on this you’ll find.

 

[lizaanne]

----mini rant----

WHY IN THE WORLD TO PRIESTS THINK THEY CAN MAKE THIS STUFF UP!!!

Ugh. It’s just so doggone frustrating!!! :banghead:

~Liza

 

[MusicMan]

The music guide I use from the National Association of Pastoral Musicians (www.npm.org), commands liturgists to not have the congregation read the crowd parts during the Passion on Good Friday, as “it is inappropriate” for them to do so.

What? Hunh?

 

[Manfred]

The music guide I use from the National Association of Pastoral Musicians (www.npm.org), commands liturgists to not have the congregation read the crowd parts during the Passion on Good Friday, as “it is inappropriate” for them to do so.

What? Hunh?

Lame, lame, lame; not to mention irreverent, and just plain ignorant and stupid!

 

[Manfred]

----mini rant----

WHY IN THE WORLD TO PRIESTS THINK THEY CAN MAKE THIS STUFF UP!!!

Ugh. It’s just so doggone frustrating!!! :banghead:

~Liza

I suppose he also believes in, and misunderstands, “the priesthood of all believers”; so then it would be OK for the audience, er, congregation to join him on the altar during Mass and recite the words of Consecration. (Is there an icon where WE bang someone else’s head?)

 

[MusicMan]

The fine folks at NPM have issued this suggestion in past years on their music planning guides for Palm Sunday and Good Friday. Never has it been worded as a directive. This year, on the guide for Good Friday, it is issued as a directive.

In previous years, they have explained their issue – it puts the congregation at odds with Christ.
Every time I show this to my pastor for clarification, we just roll our eyes. I’m quite appalled that it’s worded as a directive this year.

Quite frankly, I think the folks at NPM are missing the point here. So what if the congregation is at odds with Christ? Our behavior in daily life often puts us at odds with Christ. Furthermore, it is our sins that he is dying to redeem for us. Even the Holy Father writes about how the sins we commit today are added to the weight of the sins Christ is crucified to redeem Man from.

 

[guanophore]

The fine folks at NPM have issued this suggestion in past years on their music planning guides for Palm Sunday and Good Friday. Never has it been worded as a directive. This year, on the guide for Good Friday, it is issued as a directive.

In previous years, they have explained their issue – it puts the congregation at odds with Christ.
Every time I show this to my pastor for clarification, we just roll our eyes. I’m quite appalled that it’s worded as a directive this year.

Quite frankly, I think the folks at NPM are missing the point here. So what if the congregation is at odds with Christ? Our behavior in daily life often puts us at odds with Christ. Furthermore, it is our sins that he is dying to redeem for us. Even the Holy Father writes about how the sins we commit today are added to the weight of the sins Christ is crucified to redeem Man from.

I understand this now, but still hate it. Ulitmately, this is the very service that drove me from Catholicism. I could NOT believe that all these “so called believers” would willingly accept this assignment. I fled crying from the Mass, and did not return for 30 years.