Category: New Missal Implementation
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Hymnal Review, Part Five: Conclusion, Hymnody and Justice
By James E. Frazier Neither the Vatican II Hymnal nor the Adoremus Hymnal provides a listing of copyright permissions.
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Hymnal Review, Part Four: The Vatican II Hymnal
The Vatican II Hymnal is at once the most complete, the most limited, and in some ways the most traditional of all three hymnals reviewed in this series.
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Hymnal Review, Part Three: The St. Michael Hymnal
by James E. Frazier. “Despite my reservations about St. Michael Hymnal, the hymnal will serve any parish well that wants a traditional hymnal of this sort, with a fair range of non-traditional options.”
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Hymnal Review, Part Two: The Adoremus Hymnal
by James E. Frazier. “The several theological problems that I have noted in the Adoremus Hymnal were clearly not perceived as such by the editors.”
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The New Missal and the Law of Unintended Consequences
Whenever you change a complex system, things occur that you did not foresee.
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This Week’s Discussion Question: The presider’s responsibilities
The Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy, Sacrosanctum Concilium, says in §11: “But in order that the liturgy may be able to produce its full effects, it is necessary that the faithful come to it with proper dispositions, that their minds should be attuned to their voices, and that they should cooperate with divine grace lest…
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Infrequent Worshipers and the new Mass texts
I was at a funeral yesterday, and in the packed church it was quite obvious that there were two linguistic groups, about evenly matched: those still routinely praying the older English texts, and those who have by now settled into the new ones.
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What Mass Settings Are We Using?
At the recent Collegeville Conference on Music, Liturgy, and the Arts, Michael Silhavy (now at GIA Publications) gave a plenum presentation on Mass settings with the revised Missal translation. This post is based on his remarks and the participants’ comments.