The Sequence for Pentecost. What does your church do?

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Is it sung or read in your church…or just ignored 🤷 ?
 
We have seven Sunday Masses. It will likely be sung in Latin at the 11 am Mass. At the others it will be either sung in English or simply read - depending on the priest / choir for that particular Mass.
 
In our church the Sequence was beautifully sung while standing :harp:
 
It varies from year to year. This year, the Sequence was sung in the vernacular with a refrain in Latin. Last year, it was omitted. The year before that it was sung entirely in the vernacular, the year prior to that sung entirely in Latin, and IIRC we recited it the year before that.
 
Ignored.

As I got to Mass yesterday it occurred to me that I should ask the priest who was filling in if we were celebrating the Vigil of Pentecost or Pentecost itself. Note that we’ve never celebrated the Vigil in this parish. But there was Adoration and the Rosary and I forgot.

Everything had been set up for the Pentecost readings as usual but he celebrated the Vigil. We read the First and Second Readings of Pentecost but he read the Gospel from the Vigil.

I’m still trying to figure out if this priest is bi-ritual. He was ordained a Russian Orthodox priest in 1991, received into the Greek Catholic Church in 1995. In 2000 he came to the US and ministered there until this year when he came to Canada.
 
Sung by the congregation, a version from the hymnal set to the tune of Beethoven’s Ode to Joy — not what I had expected but that’s all right.
 
We did the “Ode to Joy” version. I’ve always liked that one.

It irks me when many parishes choose to ignore it altogether. The Sequence is required for Easter and Pentecost.
 
At my parish, the sequence was sung in Latin by the choir during the Solemn High Mass (with alternating stanzas between the men and the women) and was read during the Low Mass.
 
Phemie said:
Ignored.

As I got to Mass yesterday it occurred to me that I should ask the priest who was filling in if we were celebrating the Vigil of Pentecost or Pentecost itself. Note that we’ve never celebrated the Vigil in this parish. But there was Adoration and the Rosary and I forgot.

Everything had been set up for the Pentecost readings as usual but he celebrated the Vigil. We read the First and Second Readings of Pentecost but he read the Gospel from the Vigil.

I’m still trying to figure out if this priest is bi-ritual. He was ordained a Russian Orthodox priest in 1991, received into the Greek Catholic Church in 1995. In 2000 he came to the US and ministered there until this year when he came to Canada.
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If he comes from a Byzantine background, one would imagine he would have a true “ars celebrandi” when it comes to the liturgy. It would seem very odd if he didn’t insist on chant and incense every Sunday.
 
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If he comes from a Byzantine background, one would imagine he would have a true “ars celebrandi” when it comes to the liturgy. It would seem very odd if he didn’t insist on chant and incense every Sunday.
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No incense but each time I hear him celebrate Mass he seems to be restraining himself from chanting everything. He always chants the doxology and, sadly, response is really muted on weekdays and at the Saturday evening Mass, masses which don’t usually have music. Let’s face it, a chanted Amen sounds weird when everyone sings his/her own version.
 
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