Scripture verses in Sacramentary

[frenchbeatle]

I’m curious about something that I’ve only seen one priest do.

Just after processing in, and before making the Sign of the Cross, he reads from the sacramentary a verse or two of Scripture. Also, just after receiving Communion, he reads another verse. This is during daily Mass, if that makes a difference. During Easter, after reading the verse, he says Alleluia, and we repeat it.

I assume since the Scripture verses are in the sacramentary, that this is allowed. I just wonder why no other priest I’ve seen has done it.

Any thoughts on this?

 

[Phemie]

I’m curious about something that I’ve only seen one priest do.

Just after processing in, and before making the Sign of the Cross, he reads from the sacramentary a verse or two of Scripture. Also, just after receiving Communion, he reads another verse. This is during daily Mass, if that makes a difference. During Easter, after reading the verse, he says Alleluia, and we repeat it.

I assume since the Scripture verses are in the sacramentary, that this is allowed. I just wonder why no other priest I’ve seen has done it.

Any thoughts on this?

He is reading the Antiphons, which are the Propers of the day. On Sundays we usually see the Propers replaced by the Entrance hymn and the Communion hymn but those are substitutes for the Propers which remain the first choice for the Entrance and Communion chants.

 

[FrDavid96]

I’m curious about something that I’ve only seen one priest do.

Just after processing in, and before making the Sign of the Cross, he reads from the sacramentary a verse or two of Scripture. Also, just after receiving Communion, he reads another verse. This is during daily Mass, if that makes a difference. During Easter, after reading the verse, he says Alleluia, and we repeat it.

I assume since the Scripture verses are in the sacramentary, that this is allowed. I just wonder why no other priest I’ve seen has done it.

Any thoughts on this?

Phemie has already explained the “what” here’s the “why”

The antiphons are a part of the Mass (this applies to the whole Latin Church everywhere). In the US it is permitted to replace the antiphons with an appropriate hymn. This is what happens at most US parishes, at least on Sunday Masses, so as a result, most Catholics are so accustomed to the hymns they aren’t aware that the hymns are a substitute for the antiphons.

What you’re seeing is simply an example of the priest not-replacing them with a hymn but instead doing the antiphons themselves. You might think of these as very short entrance-hymns or communion-hymns.

 

[frenchbeatle]

Thanks to both of you for the info. That makes sense. It makes me wish other priests would say these during daily Mass.

 

[puzzleannie]

in our parish the congregation recites the entrance and communion antiphons together, as they are printed in the missalette.

 

[John_Lilburne]

From the 2002 General Instruction of the Roman Missal (GIRM) approved for the USA, which can be accessed from romanrite.com/girm.html :

“48. … If there is no singing at the entrance, the antiphon in the Missal is recited either by the faithful, or by some of them, or by a lector; otherwise, it is recited by the priest himself, who may even adapt it as an introductory explanation (cf. above, no. 31).”

“87. … If there is no singing, however, the Communion antiphon found in the Missal may be recited either by the faithful, or by some of them, or by a lector. Otherwise the priest himself says it after he has received Communion and before he distributes Communion to the faithful.”

 

[OraLabora]

Thanks to both of you for the info. That makes sense. It makes me wish other priests would say these during daily Mass.

At our abbey church, every day, they chant these in Latin, in Gregorian chant.

That’s the way it is supposed to be. FWIW, it’s an OF Mass.

 

[benedictgal]

At my parish, my parochial vicar prays the antiphons during daily Mass and he also prays them when he celebrates daily Mass at the local hospital chapel. In fact, he has asked us to join him in praying them.