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…because this goes back to the old days- St. Gregory the Great.
on the Ambrosian Rite:
“The Fraction is done immediately after the Canon, accompanied by an antiphon called the Confractorium [as was the case in the Roman Rite up until St. Gregory the Great]”
acatholiclife.blogspot.com/2009/08/traditional-ambrosian-rite-of-1954.html
I have never heard of this. perhaps it is possible that the confractorium was replaced by the Agnus Dei. any thoughts?
 
I would say that the only problem with this is that the confractorium was a Proper Antiphon and the Agnus Dei is a Common Petition, not associated with a specific cardinal verse. It would be irregular, IMHO, looking at the organic way in which the rites progressed, and in some cases merged, to replace a Proper element with a Common element, and the Ambrosian had at least two proper antiphons that had no counterpart in the Roman Rite.
 
I notice that he put up MY recension of the Liturgy of St. Ambrose! 😃
 
Ite_ad_Ioseph said:
…because this goes back to the old days- St. Gregory the Great.
on the Ambrosian Rite:
“The Fraction is done immediately after the Canon, accompanied by an antiphon called the Confractorium [as was the case in the Roman Rite up until St. Gregory the Great]”
acatholiclife.blogspot.com/2009/08/traditional-ambrosian-rite-of-1954.html
I have never heard of this. perhaps it is possible that the confractorium was replaced by the Agnus Dei. any thoughts?
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I believe what the author was trying to say (as may be better seen in the original post on the NLM blog cited) was that the ORDER was the same i.e. fraction immediately after the Canon. St. Gregory the Great moved the Pater Noster to its present location thus displacing the Fraction.

The Agnus Dei can be considered as a sort of “confractorium” insofar as in the earliest mention of it, it is sung to accompany the Fraction. As to whether it replaced any anthem sung during the Fraction is disputed. As several authors (Martimort, Botte, Capelle to give a few) state, it is not *improbable *that chanting accompanied the Fraction before the introduction of the Agnus Dei, but the extent of definite evidence is debated (For example: the older liturgists hold that there were and point to certain books - Cabrol, for example, supports the view, and Cagin posits that the confractorium Venite Populi was the chant before the Agnus Dei. But some modern liturgical scholars dispute this)
 
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