{"id":2387,"date":"2010-06-07T11:57:46","date_gmt":"2010-06-07T16:57:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/?p=2387"},"modified":"2011-06-11T23:39:19","modified_gmt":"2011-06-12T04:39:19","slug":"a-mass-for-maryknoll-by-michael-joncas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2010\/06\/07\/a-mass-for-maryknoll-by-michael-joncas\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Mass Setting for Maryknoll"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Pray Tell <\/em>editors suggested that I write a short notice about a compositional project I\u2019ve been working on for the last year or so.\u00a0 Since many new musical settings of the Order of Mass prompted by the new translation of the English texts will appear in the next few years, it might be of interest to hear how one church composer is going about the task of providing scores for future sung prayer.<\/p>\n

I was deeply honored when, in preparation for the 2011 celebration of the centennial of papal approval of the Catholic Foreign Missions Society, Maryknoll officials through Fr. Michael Duggan contacted me about creating a musical setting of the new English translations of the texts for Roman Rite Eucharist that could be used both by the Maryknoll missioners and by the English-speaking churches. (For more information on Maryknoll visit the website at: http:\/\/home.maryknoll.org\/maryknoll\/<\/a>)<\/p>\n

One of the most intriguing parts of the commission was that the various movements should represent musically both Maryknoll\u2019s United States heritage and the diverse cultures in which Maryknoll missioners serve.\u00a0 From early 2009 through May 2010 I submitted the individual pieces as they were created to Michael who was assisted by Lucille Naughton, long-term music director at Maryknoll\u2019s houses of formation in Ossining, New York, in determining how well what I was writing fulfilled the commission.\u00a0 More than once Michael and Lucille sent me back to the drawing board and their comments have certainly improved the finished work.<\/p>\n

After some discussion we decided to call the work the \u201cMissa \u2018Ad Gentes\u2019\u201d (Mass \u201cTo the Peoples\u201d), drawing the title from the Second Vatican Council\u2019s document on missionary activity.\u00a0 We also decided to adopt \u201cMaryknoll Centennial Mass\u201d as a subtitle to recall the circumstances of the original commission.<\/p>\n

Early in 2010, the Gregorian Institute of America, Inc., (GIA) agreed to publish this project, thus making the Maryknoll Mass available to a wider audience.\u00a0 This brought a new round of collaboration during which Kelly Dobbs-Mickus, Joshua Evanovich, and Brian Streem made many detailed suggestions to improve the score.\u00a0 (I also want to acknowledge Fred Vipond\u2019s assistance in making the organ accompaniment more idiomatic, but due to time constraints I was unable to incorporate much of his work in the published scores.)<\/p>\n

After that introduction, it might be of interest to listen to part of one of the segments of this Mass setting.\u00a0 As is well known, at Roman Rite Eucharist the praying of the Our Father consists of four elements: 1) the priest\u2019s recited or chanted invitation to pray; 2) the body of the prayer chanted or recited by the assembly; 3) an embolism expanding the petitions of the prayer recited or chanted by the priest; and 4) a concluding acclamation by the assembly. \u00a0\u00a0In my setting the priest\u2019s parts are in free speech rhythm, while the assembly\u2019s texts are set metrically, but with great freedom in performance. Since at the time of this posting, the changed texts of the new English translation are still embargoed, I can only post the (unchanged) congregational portion of my new setting<\/a> of the \u201cLord\u2019s Payer.\u201d\u00a0 While it would be wonderful if the congregation were able to chant the prayer in four parts, I have deliberately kept the soprano tessitura in mid-range so that the congregation can sing the melody in unison in the soprano line. This setting is intended to evoke Russian Orthodox liturgical chant as filtered through my harmonic language in honor of Maryknoll\u2019s mission in Siberia, a parish of which was entrusted to my friend and fellow liturgist from the Maryknoll community, Fr. Joe McCabe, MM.<\/p>\n

It is my hope that the \u201cMissa \u2018Ad Gentes\u2019\u201d will not only celebrate the great contributions Maryknoll has made to people in physical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual need over the past century, but will also assist English-speaking Roman Rite Catholics to worship with the new liturgical texts, faithful to their heritage but enriched by the great diversity of languages and cultures that make up the Church Catholic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It might be of interest to hear how one church composer is going about the task of providing scores for future sung prayer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[14,1394,24],"tags":[62,250,249],"class_list":["post-2387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inculturation","category-music-mass-settings","category-translation-new-missal","tag-gia","tag-maryknoll","tag-our-father"],"yoast_head":"\nA New Mass Setting for Maryknoll - Home<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2010\/06\/07\/a-mass-for-maryknoll-by-michael-joncas\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"A New Mass Setting for Maryknoll - Home\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"It might be of interest to hear how one church composer is going about the task of providing scores for future sung prayer.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2010\/06\/07\/a-mass-for-maryknoll-by-michael-joncas\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Home\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2010-06-07T16:57:46+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2011-06-12T04:39:19+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/pt.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"411\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"90\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Michael Joncas\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Michael Joncas\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/praytellblog.com\\\/index.php\\\/2010\\\/06\\\/07\\\/a-mass-for-maryknoll-by-michael-joncas\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/praytellblog.com\\\/index.php\\\/2010\\\/06\\\/07\\\/a-mass-for-maryknoll-by-michael-joncas\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Michael Joncas\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/praytellblog.com\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/201cd62fc298764277b119d6ef510d4f\"},\"headline\":\"A New Mass Setting for Maryknoll\",\"datePublished\":\"2010-06-07T16:57:46+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2011-06-12T04:39:19+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/praytellblog.com\\\/index.php\\\/2010\\\/06\\\/07\\\/a-mass-for-maryknoll-by-michael-joncas\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":678,\"commentCount\":23,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/praytellblog.com\\\/#organization\"},\"keywords\":[\"GIA Publications\",\"Maryknoll\",\"Our Father\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Inculturation\",\"Music: Mass settings\",\"Translation \\\/ New Missal\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/praytellblog.com\\\/index.php\\\/2010\\\/06\\\/07\\\/a-mass-for-maryknoll-by-michael-joncas\\\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/praytellblog.com\\\/index.php\\\/2010\\\/06\\\/07\\\/a-mass-for-maryknoll-by-michael-joncas\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/praytellblog.com\\\/index.php\\\/2010\\\/06\\\/07\\\/a-mass-for-maryknoll-by-michael-joncas\\\/\",\"name\":\"A New Mass Setting for Maryknoll - Home\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/praytellblog.com\\\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2010-06-07T16:57:46+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2011-06-12T04:39:19+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/praytellblog.com\\\/index.php\\\/2010\\\/06\\\/07\\\/a-mass-for-maryknoll-by-michael-joncas\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/praytellblog.com\\\/index.php\\\/2010\\\/06\\\/07\\\/a-mass-for-maryknoll-by-michael-joncas\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/praytellblog.com\\\/index.php\\\/2010\\\/06\\\/07\\\/a-mass-for-maryknoll-by-michael-joncas\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/praytellblog.com\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"A New Mass Setting for Maryknoll\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/praytellblog.com\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/praytellblog.com\\\/\",\"name\":\"Home\",\"description\":\"Worship, Wit & Wisdom\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/praytellblog.com\\\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/praytellblog.com\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/praytellblog.com\\\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Home\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/praytellblog.com\\\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/praytellblog.com\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/praytellblog.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2023\\\/09\\\/cropped-BlogHeaderFinal2.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/praytellblog.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2023\\\/09\\\/cropped-BlogHeaderFinal2.jpg\",\"width\":1340,\"height\":209,\"caption\":\"Home\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/praytellblog.com\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\"}},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/praytellblog.com\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/201cd62fc298764277b119d6ef510d4f\",\"name\":\"Michael Joncas\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/praytellblog.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2024\\\/01\\\/2023-Father-Joncas-headshot-1-96x96.jpg?crop=1\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/praytellblog.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2024\\\/01\\\/2023-Father-Joncas-headshot-1-96x96.jpg?crop=1\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/praytellblog.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2024\\\/01\\\/2023-Father-Joncas-headshot-1-96x96.jpg?crop=1\",\"caption\":\"Michael Joncas\"},\"description\":\"Ordained in 1980 as a priest of the Archdiocese of St. Paul-Minneapolis, MN, Fr. (Jan) Michael Joncas holds degrees in English from the (then) College of St. Thomas in St. Paul, MN, and in liturgical studies from the University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN and the Pontificio Istituto Liturgico of the Ateneo S. Anselmo in Rome. He has served as a parochial vicar, a campus minister, and a parochial administrator (pastor). He is the author of six books and more than two hundred fifty articles and reviews in journals such as Worship, Ecclesia Orans, and Questions Liturgiques. He has composed and arranged more than 300 pieces of liturgical music. He has recently retired as a faculty member in the Theology and Catholic Studies departments and as Artist in Residence and Research Fellow in Catholic Studies at the University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minnesota.\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/praytellblog.com\\\/index.php\\\/author\\\/mjoncas\\\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"A New Mass Setting for Maryknoll - Home","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2010\/06\/07\/a-mass-for-maryknoll-by-michael-joncas\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"A New Mass Setting for Maryknoll - Home","og_description":"It might be of interest to hear how one church composer is going about the task of providing scores for future sung prayer.","og_url":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2010\/06\/07\/a-mass-for-maryknoll-by-michael-joncas\/","og_site_name":"Home","article_published_time":"2010-06-07T16:57:46+00:00","article_modified_time":"2011-06-12T04:39:19+00:00","og_image":[{"width":411,"height":90,"url":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/pt.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Michael Joncas","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Michael Joncas","Est. reading time":"3 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2010\/06\/07\/a-mass-for-maryknoll-by-michael-joncas\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2010\/06\/07\/a-mass-for-maryknoll-by-michael-joncas\/"},"author":{"name":"Michael Joncas","@id":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/#\/schema\/person\/201cd62fc298764277b119d6ef510d4f"},"headline":"A New Mass Setting for Maryknoll","datePublished":"2010-06-07T16:57:46+00:00","dateModified":"2011-06-12T04:39:19+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2010\/06\/07\/a-mass-for-maryknoll-by-michael-joncas\/"},"wordCount":678,"commentCount":23,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/#organization"},"keywords":["GIA Publications","Maryknoll","Our Father"],"articleSection":["Inculturation","Music: Mass settings","Translation \/ New Missal"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2010\/06\/07\/a-mass-for-maryknoll-by-michael-joncas\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2010\/06\/07\/a-mass-for-maryknoll-by-michael-joncas\/","url":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2010\/06\/07\/a-mass-for-maryknoll-by-michael-joncas\/","name":"A New Mass Setting for Maryknoll - Home","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/#website"},"datePublished":"2010-06-07T16:57:46+00:00","dateModified":"2011-06-12T04:39:19+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2010\/06\/07\/a-mass-for-maryknoll-by-michael-joncas\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2010\/06\/07\/a-mass-for-maryknoll-by-michael-joncas\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2010\/06\/07\/a-mass-for-maryknoll-by-michael-joncas\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"A New Mass Setting for Maryknoll"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/","name":"Home","description":"Worship, Wit & Wisdom","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/#organization","name":"Home","url":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/cropped-BlogHeaderFinal2.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/cropped-BlogHeaderFinal2.jpg","width":1340,"height":209,"caption":"Home"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"}},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/#\/schema\/person\/201cd62fc298764277b119d6ef510d4f","name":"Michael Joncas","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/2023-Father-Joncas-headshot-1-96x96.jpg?crop=1","url":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/2023-Father-Joncas-headshot-1-96x96.jpg?crop=1","contentUrl":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/2023-Father-Joncas-headshot-1-96x96.jpg?crop=1","caption":"Michael Joncas"},"description":"Ordained in 1980 as a priest of the Archdiocese of St. Paul-Minneapolis, MN, Fr. (Jan) Michael Joncas holds degrees in English from the (then) College of St. Thomas in St. Paul, MN, and in liturgical studies from the University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN and the Pontificio Istituto Liturgico of the Ateneo S. Anselmo in Rome. He has served as a parochial vicar, a campus minister, and a parochial administrator (pastor). He is the author of six books and more than two hundred fifty articles and reviews in journals such as Worship, Ecclesia Orans, and Questions Liturgiques. He has composed and arranged more than 300 pieces of liturgical music. He has recently retired as a faculty member in the Theology and Catholic Studies departments and as Artist in Residence and Research Fellow in Catholic Studies at the University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minnesota.","url":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/author\/mjoncas\/"}]}},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2387"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10032,"href":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2387\/revisions\/10032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}