Tag: Responsorial Psalm
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Unnecessary Impoverishments: The Psalter/Part 1
For any number of years now, I’ve thought of the responsorial psalm less and less as a response to the first reading, and more as the second of four proclamations of scripture. Therefore, it seems logical to me that we treat it as we treat the other three proclamations.
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The Organ is Too Loud! And So Is the Piano. Part I
I’m an organist. That means I’m entirely sympathetic to the position that the organ should always be louder.
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Did the pre-Vatican II Mass really have more Scripture than now?
I thought it’d be interesting once to do the math. So I made a little chart with the 1962 Scripture readings (including the propers) on the left and the reformed lectionary readings (presuming no propers) on the right for the coming Sunday, July 7.