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Our Sacred
Music and Gregorian Chant A
typical program illustrating the beautiful and reverent Latin music that our
biweekly traditional Mass at St. John Neumann features: Feast of Christ the King (October 29, 2006) Processional Hymn --To Jesus Christ, Our Sovereign King -- Non nobis Domine (Byrd) --O Salutaris Hostia --Vexilla Regis --Tantum Ergo Recessional Hymn --Crown Him with Many Crowns Frequently, the Asperges me that accompanies the opening sprinkling rite replaces
the processional hymn, and an organ postlude replaces the recessional hymn. The red-coded prayers
(Kyrie, Gloria, etc) constitute the fixed "Ordinary parts" of
the Mass. In the 1974 booklet entitled
Jubilate
Deo that he sent to all the world's bishops, Pope Paul VI urged that
all Catholic congregations learn to sing the Ordinary of the Mass in Latin
and Gregorian chant (as do we at this Mass). The green-coded
parts are the variable "Proper prayers" — which change from one
Sunday to another — that the choir sings in Gregorian chant. The Ordinary and Proper chants are integral parts
of the liturgy, rather than additions to it. With them we don't merely sing at
Mass, we sing the Mass. For a simple key relating these parts of the old
Mass to the familiar parts of the new Mass, click here. |