{"id":36419,"date":"2017-04-27T13:44:22","date_gmt":"2017-04-27T18:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/?p=36419"},"modified":"2017-09-07T09:38:26","modified_gmt":"2017-09-07T14:38:26","slug":"liturgy-lines-singing-the-pentecost-sequence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2017\/04\/27\/liturgy-lines-singing-the-pentecost-sequence\/","title":{"rendered":" Liturgy Lines: <\/em> Singing the Pentecost Sequence"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Elizabeth Harrington.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

This article originally appeared at<\/em> Liturgy Brisbane <\/a>on April 27th, 2017.<\/em><\/p>\n

With Pentecost just over five weeks away, liturgy planners and musicians will be choosing and rehearsing music for this important feast.<\/p>\n

Pentecost is one of the two times in the year when a Sequence is obligatory, the other being Easter Sunday. Sequences developed out of the practice of the cantor extending the final \u2018a\u2019 of the gospel Alleluia <\/em>on important celebrations.\u00a0 Gradually, words were added to the melody and by about the year 1000, the texts had been organised into extended rhyming verse.\u00a0 The words focussed on the particular feast or mystery being celebrated. These poems were always sung as hymns, never recited.<\/p>\n

Sequences were once a common feature of the liturgy. By the time of the Council of Trent in the mid-sixteenth century, thousands of sequences had been composed, one of the most famous being the Dies Irae<\/em> (\u2018Day of Wrath\u2019) of the Requiem Mass. In the reform of the liturgy following Trent, only those for Easter, Pentecost, Corpus Christi and the Funeral Mass were included in the Roman Missal. A fifth for the Seven Sorrows of Mary was added later.<\/p>\n

The Tridentine missal prescribed the sequence to be sung after the Alleluia<\/em> and the Gospel acclamation verse but before the Alleluia <\/em>was repeated. In other words, it was an embellishment of the Gospel acclamation. In reality, however, sequences were considered to be meditative hymns to which the assembly listened while seated, rather than as a preparation for the Gospel to be sung by all while standing.<\/p>\n

Although the sequence began as an extension of the Alleluia<\/em>, it is now often read or sung after the second reading and before the Gospel acclamation, thus thwarting its purpose of highlighting the acclamation and lengthening the Gospel procession.<\/p>\n

The change of order after Vatican II occurred because of the way the new lectionary was printed. The sequence text appeared before the Gospel acclamation, so people started to insert it there in the liturgy. There was no guidance given by the 1975 General Instruction of the Roman Missal<\/em>. To avoid any ambiguity the 2000 General Instruction <\/em>added the sentence: \u201cThe sequence is sung after the Alleluia\u201d<\/em>. When sung as intended, the sequence serves as a processional hymn for an elaborate Gospel procession on two of the most important days of the Church year.<\/p>\n

It is a challenge to liturgy planners to ensure that the sequence is a joyful expression of the feast in which all can participate. On Pentecost Sunday the whole assembly could be invited to join in one of the many sung settings of Veni, Sancte Spiritus<\/em> (\u2018Come, Holy Spirit\u2019) as the Gospel Book is carried through the assembly in solemn fashion accompanied by candles and incense, culminating in the joyful acclamation: \u201cCome Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of your faithful and kindle in them the fire of your love.\u00a0 Alleluia!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cLiturgy Lines\u201d are short 500-word essays on liturgical topics written by Elizabeth Harrington, <\/em>Liturgy Brisbane\u2019s education officer. They have been published every week in <\/em>The Catholic Leader since 1999.<\/em><\/p>\n

Copyright \u00a9 2017 Elizabeth Harrington, Archdiocese of Brisbane.<\/p>\n

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