Our parish celebrates a solemn Latin Mass every Sunday, Missal of Paul VI, with the support of professional musicians.\u00a0The music itself ranges from modern composers to polyphony and chant; the standard of music is very high. The Kyrie<\/em> is always sung in Greek, the Gloria<\/em> in Latin.<\/p>\n The celebrant, servers and congregation stand at the start of the Kyrie<\/em>, then sit while the choir completes it. Everyone then rises as the celebrant sings Gloria in excelsis Deo<\/em>, and then everyone sits while the choir completes the Gloria<\/em>.<\/p>\n What do people think about sitting for the Kyrie<\/em> and Gloria<\/em>,when these are sung by the choir?\u00a0Please assume, as you reflect on this, that our choices of music for the Kyrie<\/em> and Gloria<\/em> are not going to change, nor is the practice of having the choir rather than the congregation sing these.<\/p>\n In a similar situation (e.g. with the Kyrie<\/em> and Gloria<\/em> from the Mozart Missa Brevis K 275) would your congregation sit or stand?<\/p>\n I should add that the congregation does sing many responses during the Mass, including the Creed in Latin, a Latin Marian anthem during the universal prayer, as well as an entrance hymn in English, something like \u201cO Worship the King\u201d or \u201cO Praise Ye the Lord.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Our parish celebrates a solemn Latin Mass every Sunday, Missal of Paul VI, with the support of professional musicians. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,20,3813],"tags":[2754,2591],"class_list":["post-24536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mass","category-music-general","category-non-solum","tag-gloria","tag-kyrie"],"yoast_head":"\n