{"id":36115,"date":"2017-03-29T14:29:56","date_gmt":"2017-03-29T19:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/?p=36115"},"modified":"2024-09-26T18:34:26","modified_gmt":"2024-09-26T23:34:26","slug":"non-solum-what-does-baptism-and-penitence-sound-like-in-lent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2017\/03\/29\/non-solum-what-does-baptism-and-penitence-sound-like-in-lent\/","title":{"rendered":"Non Solum:<\/i> What Does Baptism and Penitence Sound Like in Lent?"},"content":{"rendered":"

How is your music going at the Sunday liturgies of Lent? What styles and genres of music are you using for the service music, antiphons, and hymns and songs?<\/p>\n

Article 27 of the General Norms for the Liturgical Year and Calendar<\/em> of 1969 says this about Lent:<\/p>\n

27. Lent is a preparation for the celebration of Easter. For the Lenten liturgy disposes both catechumens and the faithful to celebrate the paschal mystery: catechumens, through the several stages of Christian initiation; the faithful, through reminders of their own baptism and through penitential practices.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The emphasis is on baptism and penitence \u2013 more of the former than the latter, in fact.<\/p>\n

In various communities where I have been music minister, and now in the abbey, I typically program more English chant during Lent, perhaps more Latin chant, and avoidance of overly \u2018bright,\u2019 \u2018glorious,\u2019 \u2018triumphalistic\u2019 music that will be coming at Easter. I try to get all the musicians on board with no instrumental solos. When the prep hymn or chant is done, for example, there can be silence rather than organ improv or literature.<\/p>\n

What I intend to capture in musical imagery is the simplicity and seriousness of the invitation to repent, be converted, and live out ones baptism. This is not the time for distraction, excess, sentimentality, comfort, or frivolity. It\u2019s the time to focus on what is essential.<\/p>\n

But\u00a0this doesn\u2019t mean it should hurt. There is\u00a0deep joy in living according to one\u2019s real priorities. There is true delight in hearing God\u2019s Word and responding to it.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve sometimes made the mistake of programming too much simple, unaccompanied music, thinking it would be serious and stunning. But it wasn\u2019t \u2013 it was just dull and depressing. I certainly don\u2019t want to use more Latin chant in Lent, or use it only in Lent,\u00a0on the misguided notion that chant is penitential. (If you program a simple Latin Agnus Dei<\/em> in Lent, consider using it throughout the Great 50 Days until Pentecost).<\/p>\n

Finding the right balance is the key. We use only proper introits in the abbey, no hymns or songs, at the entrance in Lent. They are in English and congregational. If the congregational introit is in chant style, then perhaps the Responsorial Psalm could be a metered setting. Or vice versa. If there is much chant in English and Latin \u2013 I\u2019m all in favor of this, of course! \u2013 then there might be some congregational music accompanied by organ that fits well within a context of chant but has the right kind of energy about it. In some contexts, spirituals can say \u201cLenten conversion\u201d even if, or precisely if, they are rhythmically upbeat. “Somebody\u2019s Knockin\u2019 at Your Door,” anyone?<\/p>\n

How do you think about and put into practice the music in Lent?<\/p>\n

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