The Our Father sung

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Have you attended a Mass when the Lord’s Prayer was sung instead of recited?
 
Yes, I attend a Catholic university, and we sing The Lord’s Prayer with a traditional chant almost every week.

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Singing it is a valid option. The music is in the Roman Missal. We sing it almost every week.

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I think there was a mini-hit song of some woman singing the “Our Father” decades ago.
 
Yes, at a Novus Ordo Latin Mass. Never in English, though I believe some Ordinariate groups do do so.
 
When I was in college, the parish there quite often sung the Our Father. For a while, we did the “Singing Nun’s Our Father”, which I felt was quite disrespectful. Eventually, we turned to a chanted Lord’s Prayer. The pastor loved to chant the Eucharistic Prayer anyway, and so chanting the Lord’s Prayer made sense. It also gave the proper respect - instead of detracting from the prayer (as the “Singing Nun” version did, IMO - it just didn’t sound prayerful doing a folk music version of the Lord’s Prayer), IMO, it added beauty to the prayer.
 
We sing it sometimes.

I personally don’t mind it being sung but I don’t like to sing it EVERY week. The reason is that right or wrong, some people (like my husband) just don’t sing, ever. So a prayer they typically would recite with the community, they miss out when it is sung. I know it’s their own choice, but it makes me sad and I prefer it to be recited.
 
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So a prayer they typically would recite with the community, they miss out when it is sung. I know it’s their own choice, but it makes me sad and I prefer it to be recited.
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Don’t be sad for that. Personally I don’t see any difference as far as sincerity or insincerity of the prayer goes. Many recite things or sing in unison just because they’re supposed to without giving the prayer any thought whatsoever. I don’t judge those who don’t recite or sing.
 
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Have you attended a Mass when the Lord’s Prayer was sung instead of recited?
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Every. Single. Sunday.

Along with the Latin introit, Greek Kyrie, Latin Gloria, Offertory, Sanctus, Agnus Dei, Communion antiphon. And everything else except the homily sung in French plainchant (prayers, readings, intercessions, preface, EP, etc.).
 
Have been to plenty where it was sung.
We don’t ever sing it at my parish because we get a lot of non-Catholics visiting, and it’s the practically the only thing they can pray along with us without being a well-versed Catholic as it were.

I really get tired of the chant, and the Mass setting which have the Our Father in them, tend to mess with the words, and not have it sung-though, and the pastor really doesn’t like that.
 
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Have you attended a Mass when the Lord’s Prayer was sung instead of recited?
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Very regularly at Mass (assuredly I am speaking of both the Novus Ordo and in the vernacular) and even more so for the communal recitation of the Liturgy of the Hours, when the Office has been chanted.
 
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