The lost tradition of the Martyrology

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Maybe y’all have had a different experience, but I live on the east coast of the U.S. and I’ve never once heard the Martyrology read; neither before Holy Mass nor for Divine Office. I’ve also never heard it read when I celebrate the Extraordinary Form of the Holy Mass. I think that’s a real shame, because it’s a beautiful and inspiring tradition that goes back over a thousand years.

I don’t think ICEL will produce an official English translation anytime soon because there doesn’t seem to be any demand for it (I could be wrong). In the mean time I’m practicing my Latin by reading the Martyrologium Romanum daily, but I’d really like this rite to be celebrated publicly again.

Thoughts? 🙂
 
It is proclaimed in the abbey I’m associated with every day before dinner in the refectory. They proclaim it (chant it recto-tono) in French using a monastic edition (more emphasis on monastic saints; they also use the Benedictine liturgical calendar).
 
It isn’t proclaimed around here that I have heard. What I do see are listings in parish bulletins each week/month of names of deceased priests for us to pray for. There is often a corresponding list of living priests to pray for. So during the course of the year all the living and deceased priests of the diocese are prayed for.
 
OraLabora said:
Benedictines of Douai Abbey?
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No. I’ve stayed with Benedictines in Worth, Ampleforth and Buckfast and never heard it there. Don’t think they had it at Stanbrook either but it was so long since I was there that I might be wrong.

Keep guessing! 😛
 
Batfink said:
No. I’ve stayed with Benedictines in Worth, Ampleforth and Buckfast and never heard it there. Don’t think they had it at Stanbrook either but it was so long since I was there that I might be wrong.
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I believe Quarr Abbey on the Isle of Wight is of the Solemses Congregation, which leads me to think they might do it there.
Batfink said:
Keep guessing! 😛
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Could it be the Oratorians?
 
malphono said:
I believe Quarr Abbey on the Isle of Wight is of the Solemses Congregation, which leads me to think they might do it there.
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I’ll be staying there in the middle of April. I’ll let you know!
Could it be the Oratorians?
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Nope. As far as I remember, neither the London nor Oxford Oratorians have it, although they might proclaim it ‘privately’.

I guess this all just confirms the OP’s suspicions that we don’t hear it very much. Never realised I was so lucky 😃
 
Batfink said:
No. I’ve stayed with Benedictines in Worth, Ampleforth and Buckfast and never heard it there. Don’t think they had it at Stanbrook either but it was so long since I was there that I might be wrong.

Keep guessing! 😛
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It could be proclaimed in chapter which the public wouldn’t have access to.
 
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