"If we really understood the Mass, we would die of joy." (Saint John Vianney)
"It would be easier for the earth to carry on without the sun than without the Holy Mass." (Saint Pio of Pietrelcina)
"You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you odd." (Flannery O'Connor)
St. Cecilia pray for us church musicians that we may gain the wisdom and strength to provide music that glorify God and help others to experience the joy of salvation given through Christ's obedience and humility on the cross.
Wednesday, November 24, 2010
Monday, November 22, 2010
Schola: December calendar
At OLPH
Saturday Mass (8:15AM) (Warm - up starts at 7:40)
Dec. 4, 18
Kyrie XVII
Gospel Accl.
Sanctus XVIII
Mysterium Fidei and Amen
Agnus Dei XVIII
Creator alme siderum
Veni, Veni Emmanuel
Alma Redemptoris Mater
At Resurrection Church
Satruday Mass (9AM) (Warm-up starts at 8:30)
Dec. 11
Kyrie XVII
Gospel Accl.
Sanctus XVIII
Mysterium Fidei and Amen
Agnus Dei XVIII
Veni, Veni Emmanuel
Alma Redemptoris Mater
Immaculate Conception
Resurrection Church
Dec. 8 7:30 PM
Introit (Entrance proper) : schola
I exult for joy in the Lord, my soul rejoice in my God;
for he has clothed me in the garment of salvation
and robed me in the cloak of justice,
like a bride, a bride adorned with her jewels
Kyrie eleison (2x)
Christe eleison (2x)
Kyrie eleison (2x)
Gloria (255)
Responsorial Psalm:
Sing to the Lord a new song, for he has done marveluos deeds.
Gospel Acclamation
Offertory: Ave Maris Stella (schola)
Sanctus (316)
Mysterium Fidei (priest)
(316-A)
Mortem tuam annuntiamus Domine,
et tuam resurrectionem confitemur, donec venias
(We proclaim Thy death, O Lord,
and we confess Thy resurrection, until Thou comest.)
Doxology: Amen
Agnus Dei (320)
Communion Proper (schola)
Gloriosa dicta sunt de te, Maria:
quia fecit t ibi magna qui potens est.
(Glorious things are said to you, O Mary,
for he who is mighty has done great things for you.)
Communion Hymn: Immaculate Mary (783)
Recessional Hymn: Salve Regina (780)
At St. Martin's (Little Sisters of the Poor)
Dec 12, Sunday, 10:30 (warm-up at 10AM)
Introit (Entrance Proper) : schola
Rejoice in the Lord always;
again I say, rejoice! The Lord is near
Kyrie (857)
Responsorial Psalm:
Lord, come and save us
Gospel Acclamation
Offertory : Veni, veni Emmanuel (schola)
Sanctus (859)
Mysterium Fidei (priest)
(all)
Mortem tuam annuntiamus Domine,
et tuam resurrectionem confitemur, donec venias
(We proclaim Thy death, O Lord,
and we confess Thy resurrection, until Thou comest.)
Doxology: Amen
Agnus Dei (862)
Communion Proper (schola)
Say to the anxious: be strong and fear not,
our God will come to save us
Communion Hymn: O come, O come Emmanuel
Recessional Hymn: Salve Regina (702)
Children's Schola
(classes at St. Paul on Monday & at St. Michael's Academy on Thursday)
First Friday Mass, Dec. 3
OLPH 8:15 AM (warm up starts at 7:45 AM)
Ave Maria(prelude)
Kyrie XVI
Gospel Accl.
Veni, Veni Emmanuel
Sanctus XVIII
Mysterium Fidei and Amen
Agnus Dei XVIII
Ave verum Corpus natum
Saturday Mass (8:15AM) (Warm - up starts at 7:40)
Dec. 4, 18
Kyrie XVII
Gospel Accl.
Sanctus XVIII
Mysterium Fidei and Amen
Agnus Dei XVIII
Creator alme siderum
Veni, Veni Emmanuel
Alma Redemptoris Mater
At Resurrection Church
Satruday Mass (9AM) (Warm-up starts at 8:30)
Dec. 11
Kyrie XVII
Gospel Accl.
Sanctus XVIII
Mysterium Fidei and Amen
Agnus Dei XVIII
Veni, Veni Emmanuel
Alma Redemptoris Mater
Immaculate Conception
Resurrection Church
Dec. 8 7:30 PM
Introit (Entrance proper) : schola
I exult for joy in the Lord, my soul rejoice in my God;
for he has clothed me in the garment of salvation
and robed me in the cloak of justice,
like a bride, a bride adorned with her jewels
Kyrie eleison (2x)
Christe eleison (2x)
Kyrie eleison (2x)
Gloria (255)
Responsorial Psalm:
Sing to the Lord a new song, for he has done marveluos deeds.
Gospel Acclamation
Offertory: Ave Maris Stella (schola)
Sanctus (316)
Mysterium Fidei (priest)
(316-A)
Mortem tuam annuntiamus Domine,
et tuam resurrectionem confitemur, donec venias
(We proclaim Thy death, O Lord,
and we confess Thy resurrection, until Thou comest.)
Doxology: Amen
Agnus Dei (320)
Communion Proper (schola)
Gloriosa dicta sunt de te, Maria:
quia fecit t ibi magna qui potens est.
(Glorious things are said to you, O Mary,
for he who is mighty has done great things for you.)
Communion Hymn: Immaculate Mary (783)
Recessional Hymn: Salve Regina (780)
At St. Martin's (Little Sisters of the Poor)
Dec 12, Sunday, 10:30 (warm-up at 10AM)
Introit (Entrance Proper) : schola
Rejoice in the Lord always;
again I say, rejoice! The Lord is near
Kyrie (857)
Responsorial Psalm:
Lord, come and save us
Gospel Acclamation
Offertory : Veni, veni Emmanuel (schola)
Sanctus (859)
Mysterium Fidei (priest)
(all)
Mortem tuam annuntiamus Domine,
et tuam resurrectionem confitemur, donec venias
(We proclaim Thy death, O Lord,
and we confess Thy resurrection, until Thou comest.)
Doxology: Amen
Agnus Dei (862)
Communion Proper (schola)
Say to the anxious: be strong and fear not,
our God will come to save us
Communion Hymn: O come, O come Emmanuel
Recessional Hymn: Salve Regina (702)
Children's Schola
(classes at St. Paul on Monday & at St. Michael's Academy on Thursday)
First Friday Mass, Dec. 3
OLPH 8:15 AM (warm up starts at 7:45 AM)
Ave Maria(prelude)
Kyrie XVI
Gospel Accl.
Veni, Veni Emmanuel
Sanctus XVIII
Mysterium Fidei and Amen
Agnus Dei XVIII
Ave verum Corpus natum
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
Bishop Morlino's letter to parishioners at Platteville
http://badgercatholic.blogspot.com/2010/11/bp-morlinos-letter-to-platteville.html
Fr. Rutler's article
http://www.firstthings.com/onthesquare/2010/08/the-liturgical-expertsrsquo-long-tassels
Two Important Sites for Sung Mass
Chant totorial for the New translation
http://vimeo.com/channels/cmaa
Simple Propers
http://musicasacra.com/simple-propers-of-the-mass-ordinary-form/
http://vimeo.com/channels/cmaa
Simple Propers
http://musicasacra.com/simple-propers-of-the-mass-ordinary-form/
Monday, November 8, 2010
Bishop Slattery and the Sung Introit
Posted by Jeffrey Tucker
http://www.chantcafe.com/2010/11/bishop-slattery-and-sung-introit.html
Bishop Slattery of Tulsas has offered a wonderful case for bringing back the sung introit. What he calls for here is PRECISELY what the Chant Cafe has been pushing with the Simple English Propers Project. We are making progress in this campaign but we need your help. Please make a donation today.
But today I would like to suggest one simple change by which we might begin to recover the sense that the liturgy is something we receive, rather than something we create. I do not propose this as the most important or essential change towards this end, but merely as one change, one step, one movement away from the chaos of created liturgies towards the proper vision of the Council.
What I would like to propose is that we recover the sung introit at Mass.
I know that for two generations now, Catholics have been expected to sing an opening hymn at Mass and in many parishes the faithful are regularly browbeaten to “stand up and greet this morning’s celebrant with hymn #so-and-so” which, depending upon the parish, might be taken from the red hymnbook, or the blue hymnbook, or the nicely disposable paperback missalette. So deeply has this ‘opening hymn mentality’ shaped our consciousness that most Catholics would be astounded to hear me say that hymns have no real place in Mass.
Hymns belong in the Liturgy of the Hours and in the common devotions of the faithful, but the idea that the parish liturgy committee should sit down sometime early in the month and look through a hymn book, trying to find pretty hymns which haven’t been overdone in the past three or four months, which explore the themes of the Sunday Masses and which brings the people together as a singing community is an idea completely alien to the spirit of the Catholic liturgy.
It is alien first of all because the singing of hymns as Sunday worship was a Protestant innovation, better suited to their non-Sacramental worship than to the Mass, and alien secondly because an opening hymn introduces - at the very inception of the sacred action - that element of creative busy-ness, which is, as we have seen, antithetical to the nature of salvation as a gift we receive from God.
What belongs at the beginning of Mass is the sung introit, that is a sung antiphon and psalm. In the Catholic liturgical tradition, these are unique compositions in which a scriptural cento is set to a singular piece of music. The melody explores and interprets the text of the cento, while the composition as a whole illuminates the meaning to be discovered later in the readings of the day.
The Sung Introit
These sung introits have been an integral part of the Latin Rite, and remain so in the Extraordinary Form, where the schola or choir chants the more difficult antiphon, and the congregation sings the psalm. This gives the faithful both the chance to listen and respond, practicing, in effect, the basic elements of the Mass, listening and responding, listening, for example to the Word of God as it comes to us in the readings, and then responding to the Father’s initiative by offering to Him the obedience of Jesus.
Unfortunately these antiphons have never been set to music in the Novus Ordo. For forty years they have sat, lonely of notation, at the top of each page in the Sacramentary unable to be sung, until even the memory of the sung introit has passed away.
Yet there are changes afoot and reason to hope. The introduction of the new translation of the Roman Missal, now definitely set for the First Sunday of Advent of next year, gives me reason to anticipate a new beginning here. Faithful to the spirit of the Latin text and with an accurate translation into a consciously sacred style of English, the new Missal points to a rediscovered seriousness in the way America celebrates her liturgy and perhaps a greater appreciation as well of the elements of liturgy which have been discarded these past forty years.
Perhaps with this new seriousness, and given the need to compose new chant melodies to accompany the new translations, this may well be the time when liturgists will begin discussing the meaning of a received liturgy; when composers might make their first attempts to set these antiphons to a simple English Plain Song, and when publishers might begin to produce worthy and dignified liturgical books.
at 8:57 AM 15 comments Links to this post
Labels: Jeffrey Tucker
http://www.chantcafe.com/2010/11/bishop-slattery-and-sung-introit.html
Bishop Slattery of Tulsas has offered a wonderful case for bringing back the sung introit. What he calls for here is PRECISELY what the Chant Cafe has been pushing with the Simple English Propers Project. We are making progress in this campaign but we need your help. Please make a donation today.
But today I would like to suggest one simple change by which we might begin to recover the sense that the liturgy is something we receive, rather than something we create. I do not propose this as the most important or essential change towards this end, but merely as one change, one step, one movement away from the chaos of created liturgies towards the proper vision of the Council.
What I would like to propose is that we recover the sung introit at Mass.
I know that for two generations now, Catholics have been expected to sing an opening hymn at Mass and in many parishes the faithful are regularly browbeaten to “stand up and greet this morning’s celebrant with hymn #so-and-so” which, depending upon the parish, might be taken from the red hymnbook, or the blue hymnbook, or the nicely disposable paperback missalette. So deeply has this ‘opening hymn mentality’ shaped our consciousness that most Catholics would be astounded to hear me say that hymns have no real place in Mass.
Hymns belong in the Liturgy of the Hours and in the common devotions of the faithful, but the idea that the parish liturgy committee should sit down sometime early in the month and look through a hymn book, trying to find pretty hymns which haven’t been overdone in the past three or four months, which explore the themes of the Sunday Masses and which brings the people together as a singing community is an idea completely alien to the spirit of the Catholic liturgy.
It is alien first of all because the singing of hymns as Sunday worship was a Protestant innovation, better suited to their non-Sacramental worship than to the Mass, and alien secondly because an opening hymn introduces - at the very inception of the sacred action - that element of creative busy-ness, which is, as we have seen, antithetical to the nature of salvation as a gift we receive from God.
What belongs at the beginning of Mass is the sung introit, that is a sung antiphon and psalm. In the Catholic liturgical tradition, these are unique compositions in which a scriptural cento is set to a singular piece of music. The melody explores and interprets the text of the cento, while the composition as a whole illuminates the meaning to be discovered later in the readings of the day.
The Sung Introit
These sung introits have been an integral part of the Latin Rite, and remain so in the Extraordinary Form, where the schola or choir chants the more difficult antiphon, and the congregation sings the psalm. This gives the faithful both the chance to listen and respond, practicing, in effect, the basic elements of the Mass, listening and responding, listening, for example to the Word of God as it comes to us in the readings, and then responding to the Father’s initiative by offering to Him the obedience of Jesus.
Unfortunately these antiphons have never been set to music in the Novus Ordo. For forty years they have sat, lonely of notation, at the top of each page in the Sacramentary unable to be sung, until even the memory of the sung introit has passed away.
Yet there are changes afoot and reason to hope. The introduction of the new translation of the Roman Missal, now definitely set for the First Sunday of Advent of next year, gives me reason to anticipate a new beginning here. Faithful to the spirit of the Latin text and with an accurate translation into a consciously sacred style of English, the new Missal points to a rediscovered seriousness in the way America celebrates her liturgy and perhaps a greater appreciation as well of the elements of liturgy which have been discarded these past forty years.
Perhaps with this new seriousness, and given the need to compose new chant melodies to accompany the new translations, this may well be the time when liturgists will begin discussing the meaning of a received liturgy; when composers might make their first attempts to set these antiphons to a simple English Plain Song, and when publishers might begin to produce worthy and dignified liturgical books.
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