Author: Michael Joncas
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Retrospectives on Composing for the Church’s Worship, Part 5
MICHAEL JONCAS — Around 2020 I set myself a compositional project of setting all the Responsorial Psalms for the 3-year Sunday and Solemnity cycle of the Liturgical Year appearing in the English-language United States version of the Lectionary for Mass.
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Retrospectives on Composing for the Church’s Worship, Part 4
MICHAEL JONCAS — I awoke from a deep sleep sometime ca. 2 AM early that March with a single line of text and melody in my mind: “The way ahead is dark and difficult to see.”
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Retrospectives on Composing for the Church’s Worship, Part 3
MICHAEL JONCAS — The General Instruction of the Roman Missal #61 … opened up to me another compositional avenue for creating a setting of the Responsorial Psalm as an art song.
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Retrospectives on Composing for the Church’s Worship, Part 1
MICHAEL JONCAS — My first recorded collection of liturgical music, titled “Singing in the Light,” appeared in 1968.
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Addendum to “New English-language Hymns for the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe”
Since my recent posting about two English-language hymns for the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe that appear in The Divine Office Hymnal (2023), Stephen Kasperick-Postellon, the music director-liturgist at St. Paul’s Benedictine Monastery in Oakdale, MN, has provided a great deal of information that I had not been able to find prior to the…
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New English-language Hymns for the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe
One of the happy surprises contained in the new Divine Office Hymnal (Chicago, IL: GIA Publications, Inc, 2023) is the inclusion of two English-language hymns intended for use on 12 December, the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe in the USA. Almost all the hymns in this publication are translations from Latin originals, usually set to both metrical-chorale…
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Euchological Insights from 1983
If I am reading the information provided in the “Foreword” to the document correctly, the proper Preface of the Eucharistic Prayer provided for use at an anointing Mass was newly composed for the USA edition.
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Book Review: The Hunger Inside
I cannot think of better guides to the renewal of the Church’s life through the renewal of the Church’s worship than these two authors.
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A Hymn for the Holy Innocents
Here are the stanzas assigned to Morning Prayer for the Feast of the Holy Innocents in the present Liturgia Horarum, with my slavishly literal translation of the text, followed by the proposed English translation of the Hymnal for the Hours.