What do your parishes replace the "Alleluia" with during Lent?

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In the Extraordinary Form, the Alleluia is replaced by a Tract, which is a slowly and mournfully sung chant designed to bring about a sense of penitence. I have never heard anything comparable in the Ordinary Form.

I grew up with “Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ, King of endless glory” sung in an upbeat manner.
 
Our parish also uses a musical version of “Praise to You, Lord Jesus Christ, King of endless glory.” (I have also heard elsewhere the words “Glory and praise to You, Lord Jesus Christ.”)

In Lent we avoid the “Alleluia” because Lent is a penitential time and “Alleluia” is rather joyful. But the word “Alleluia” translates to “Praise God.” How are the words we use in Lent any less joyful? They basically say “Praise God” in a slightly different way.
 
japhy said:
In the Extraordinary Form, the Alleluia is replaced by a Tract, which is a slowly and mournfully sung chant designed to bring about a sense of penitence. I have never heard anything comparable in the Ordinary Form.

I grew up with “Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ, King of endless glory” sung in an upbeat manner.
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We use “Praise to you, Lord, King of eternal glory!” with the Stephen Somerville setting.
 
PhilotheaZ said:
In Lent we avoid the “Alleluia” because Lent is a penitential time and “Alleluia” is rather joyful. But the word “Alleluia” translates to “Praise God.” How are the words we use in Lent any less joyful? They basically say “Praise God” in a slightly different way.
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Right, that’s my point. We’re not being penitential in our replacement of the “Alleluia”…
 
It has nothing to do with being penitential.

In Christian tradition, the acclamation of “Alleluia” is typically associated with the Resurrection. In our preparation for celebrating the Resurrection of Jesus on Easter Sunday, we do not use “Alleluia” liturgically.
 
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It has nothing to do with being penitential.
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That’s not what I’m come to find in the research I’ve done:

“On all ferial or week days kept as such and from Septuagesima till Easter the Church omits the Alleluias and in their place and during the great penitential season substitutes a portion of the Psalms which from the leisurely and mournful strain in which it is sung is called a Tract.” (The Glories of the Catholic Church: The Catholic Christian Instructed in Defence of His Faith, p. 228)

“Why between the Septuagesima and Easter, is the Tract read in the place of the Gradual? Because it is a time of penance and mourning, and therefore the Tract is read with a mournful and slow voice, to signify the miseries and punishments of this life.” (The Douay Catechism, p. 127)

“The Gradual is followed by the joyous Alleluia acclamation. In times of penance, a ‘Tract’ – i.e., a Psalm or part of a Psalm – replaces the Alleluia.” (Order of Mass commentary at FishEaters.com)
 
japhy, I was referring to the replacement of the “Alleluia” with “Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ…,” which would seem to use different language to say the same thing.
 
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japhy, I was referring to the replacement of the “Alleluia” with “Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ…,” which would seem to use different language to say the same thing.
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Oh, ok. I thought you were saying that it the omission of “Alleluia” was strictly liturgical law and not part of the penitential tone of Lent.
 
japhy said:
In the Extraordinary Form, the Alleluia is replaced by a Tract, which is a slowly and mournfully sung chant designed to bring about a sense of penitence. I have never heard anything comparable in the Ordinary Form.
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Well, the Tract is still in the OF in the sense that it is in the current Graduale Romanum (and in the Gregorian Missal). But I understand what you are saying.
 
Allow me to clarify if I’m being a bit obtuse.

In the “Traditional Latin Mass”, known as the Extraordinary Form, during Lent, the “Alleluia” is not only omitted, it is replaced by a mournful, slowly-sung chant. It is not replaced by an upbeat Latin chant along the lines of “Praise to you Jesus Christ”. It is replaced by a chant which accurately expresses the tone of the liturgical season.

In the Ordinary Form, I dare say less than 1% of Catholics have ever heard anything comparable during Lent. I don’t know why… Vatican II didn’t touch this. Where did this “gospel acclamation” come from?
 
While it is hard to give you an approximation since this keyboard is not designed for musical notes, here is what we use at Daily Mass:
Praaise aand honor, tooo yooou O Looord Jeeesus Christ.
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This is written using the same setting for one of the versions of the Kyrie. It sounds very penitential and solemn.

However, for Sundays, my parish uses this awful setting from OCP that sounds way too happy:
Praise to you Lord Jeesus Christ, King of endless glory.
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It lacks the solemnity and beauty of the first setting. however, my parochial vicar makes up for it (when the choir uses this setting, by using the aforementioned Kyrie setting).
 
The setting we use would usually go:
Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ, Word from the Heart of God!
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However, we have modified the lyrics by replacing the second part with the typical “…King of endless glory!”

More on my parish’s typical music will come in its own thread (also asking what your typical musical settings and popular hymns are in church).
 
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