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1 posted on 01/31/2016 1:45:08 PM PST by marshmallow
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To: marshmallow

Where`s my Liber Usualis” I know I put it somewhere hmmmm


2 posted on 01/31/2016 1:48:41 PM PST by bunkerhill7 ((("The Second Amendment has no limits on firepower"-NY State Senator Kathleen A. Marchione."))))))
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To: marshmallow

Chant is good. Chant and cantor is better.


3 posted on 01/31/2016 1:50:25 PM PST by arthurus (Het is waar. Tutti i liberali sono feccia.)
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To: marshmallow

We used to chant at my parish in San Antonio. Our choir director had an enthusiasm for it for a while. However, based on the reaction to our occasional attempts with my Spanish choir, it’s white noise to the Hispanics.


4 posted on 01/31/2016 1:50:37 PM PST by Tax-chick ("Government employees are the single most important Democrat interest group."~Kevin Williamson)
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To: marshmallow

Axios!


6 posted on 01/31/2016 1:54:35 PM PST by NRx (Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.)
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To: marshmallow

I love Gregorian chant. When I was in college, before I was a Catholic, I used to accompany my sorority sisters to Mass at the Newman Club in Berkeley. At that time, Newman Hall was in an old, beautifully paneled building and Mass was held upstairs. They used something called “The Congregational High Mass”. This was before Vatican II.

If you arrived a tiny bit late (which happened because we all walked) you could hear the strains of the chant drifting down the stairs and out the doors before you ever actually arrived. It was mystical and probably contributed to my conversion.

Later, after I was married, my husband used to fish in a pond on the St. Mary’s College, Orinda, campus. You could hear the Brothers chanting vespers in the evenings. The music would drift across the meadow. So soothing! Didn’t matter whether you caught any fish. More reverant than church!


7 posted on 01/31/2016 2:02:33 PM PST by afraidfortherepublic
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To: marshmallow

Very good.


8 posted on 01/31/2016 2:09:29 PM PST by pax_et_bonum (Never Forget the Seals of Extortion 17 - and God Bless America)
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To: marshmallow

Therefore, the bishop said, all parishes in the Marquette diocese will be expected to teach chant to the faithful, and introduce the regular chanting of the Ordinary parts of the Mass. These steps, Bishop Doerfler said, “can be taken by the smallest parishes in the diocese.” He ordered that all parishes have chant programs in place by the end of the year 2020.

Bishop Doerfler also announced that the diocese would prepare its own hymnal, and only music from that hymnal will be approved for use at Mass in the diocese. He said that a diocesan director of sacred music will be appointed, to help parishes instruct the faithful and prepare for the new programs.

References:
“Sing to the Lord, All the Earth!” (Marquette diocese)
Bishop Sample issues pastoral letter on sacred music (CWN, 2/15/13)


9 posted on 01/31/2016 2:17:26 PM PST by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: marshmallow

Wow, a bold step!


10 posted on 01/31/2016 2:39:56 PM PST by Biggirl ("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
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To: marshmallow

Finally a good move from our bishops.


15 posted on 01/31/2016 3:58:13 PM PST by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: marshmallow
When I was in 7th and 8th grade (1963-64) us older-graders were taught the chant, Missa IX 'Cum Jubilo'. This was with the intention of then recruiting the whole congregation to participate more readily because of the strong support of us trained young-teens.

It was 50+ years ago. The "whole congregation" part, as I remember it, never happened because it was swamped by the appalling post-V2 tsunami.

But anyway, the whole congregation basically "saying" what the acolytes said, and "chanting" what the choir was chanting, was what was then called "Liturgical Reform": the "Dialogue Mass." I'm still for it.

16 posted on 01/31/2016 4:00:25 PM PST by Mrs. Don-o (Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, miserere nobis.)
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Archbishop Sample is a great blessing to the Portland, OR, area. I have family there, and they send me some of his letters. We just need a few hundred more like him.


17 posted on 01/31/2016 4:33:21 PM PST by Montana_Sam (Truth lives.)
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