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In our revised master\u2019s degree in Liturgical Music<\/a> at Saint John\u2019s, the course formerly called \u201cPsalmody and Hymnody\u201d is now called \u201cLiturgical Song,\u201d and I\u2019m teaching it this semester. It\u2019s still the \u201chymnody\u201d course, and much of the content carries over from before. But the revised title better reflects that we don\u2019t just study psalmody and hymnody, although we do lots of that. We study all the songs and chants of the liturgy. That includes the responses and litanies and acclamations and service music, and so forth. And it all starts with the liturgy, for singing is not something added on to the liturgy, it is<\/em> the liturgy.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re starting the course by reading Joseph Gelineau, Liturgical Song, Liturgical Assembly<\/em><\/a> (Pastoral Press\/OCP, 2002).<\/em> Do you know this book? It\u2019s a classic, and I can\u2019t recommend it highly enough. Joseph Gelineau (1920-2008), of \u201cGelineau psalms\u201d fame, is a towering figure in the renewal of Catholic liturgy and music. He was involved in the drafting of the Vatican II liturgy constitution Sacrosanctum Concilium,<\/em> and he was also involved in the development of the 1969 reformed rite of Mass. He is the go-to source for understanding the nature of the reformed liturgy and the role of music in each part of the liturgy. Not only does he \u201cget\u201d it theoretically, he also asks probing questions about what is working (or not) in the real world. His starting point is exactly right: What is the assembly, understood theologically, and what is its purpose?<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s a taste of Gelineau\u2019s wisdom: he takes on the \u201cright proportion\u201d for the revealed word from which everything else flows (see pp. 41-42). He writes:<\/p>\n

The choice and the ordering of the readings provided by the Lectionary for Sunday Mass<\/em> constitute a remarkable treasure and give rich nourishment. Nevertheless, it is necessary in every individual case to ask if the quantity, and sometimes the choice, of the texts offered actually correspond to the ability of the listeners to assimilate them. Too many texts read out, but not understood and not explained, can overwhelm and engender fatigue and disinterest.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Gelineau dares to question whether there is too much text in the reformed liturgy because, as he notes,<\/p>\n

\u2026the rites do not exist for themselves and they do not give glory to God except through the human beings that are sanctified by them. We still need to remind ourselves of this, even after Vatican II, for ritualism incessantly rears its ugly head.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Gelineau names the ritualism as it sometimes plays out:<\/p>\n

\u2026it still happens that the readings are read too quickly and in a boring, humdrum tone.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This all seems right to me, across the board. The Liturgy of the Word is, for many people, something of a bore, and it\u2019s just too much to take in. The Gospel readings probably go over the best. (You know what I mean.) But it\u2019s all too easy to tune out the Old Testament reading, especially if it has difficult names of unknown people and places. Same with the epistle, which is sometimes rather abstract, and in the nature of things rarely preached on.<\/p>\n

In all this, Gelineau has little or nothing in common with those who reject the reformed liturgy and want to go back to the pre-Vatican II one-year lectionary which had just two readings and a snippet of a psalm. His starting point is not<\/em> the sacred cow (or to be more precise, idol)<\/em> of a supposed \u201cMass of all times\u201d that is supposedly untouchable. He knows that the lectionary needed reform, and he supports the call of the fathers of Vatican II for the lectionary to have a greater range of Scripture readings. He knows that this is all organically tied to the reform as a whole, which re-established the primacy of the assembly of the baptized who share in Christ\u2019s priesthood in their worship of the Father.<\/p>\n

But how to make that work? What to do with the lectionary readings?<\/p>\n

I suppose one could talk about a two-year lectionary. I suppose there could be either<\/em> an Old Testament reading or<\/em> an epistle before the Gospel, with a Vatican II-type Responsorial Psalm in between the two readings. But frankly, I don\u2019t think it\u2019s constructive to float such proposals just now. Now is not the time for a \u201cReform of the Reform\u201d \u2013 in any direction. Pope Benedict XVI succeeded, alas, in destabilizing and weakening the reformed liturgy, and it will be the work of at least another generation to solidify it and reestablish it as the rite for the entire Latin church. Pope Francis is reading the signs of the times rightly when he asks us not to speak of a \u201cReform of the Reform.\u201d Only when we\u2019re all reunited around the Church\u2019s liturgy will we be in a position to talk about tweaking and improving it. (I don\u2019t expect that in my lifetime.)<\/p>\n

The reformed three-year lectionary, then, is a given. I see few possible paths forward.<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Better proclamation! Train the readers! Have fewer readers and make them learn how to read publicly.<\/li>\n
  2. More Bible study. Promote more reading of the Bible, and especially of the lectionary readings.<\/li>\n
  3. Promote lectio divina. <\/em>Give people more assistance in learning how to pray with the Bible, especially the lectionary readings.<\/li>\n
  4. Better preaching! Send every priest in the country to required, game-changing preaching instruction. Double \u2013 triple! \u2013 the amount of homiletics required in seminary. Make every seminarian and every priest attend 10 non-denominational or mega-church services at places known for attention-grabbing, life-changing preaching. Knock off already all this dull preaching that no one listens to that draws no one into the biblical Word.<\/li>\n
  5. I have mixed feelings about this, but it is foreseen as an option in the official Roman documents: give short introductions that truly help people want to listen to the reading and get an important message from it. I personally think this needs to be done by the preacher, who knows best what needs to be said to drive things toward the homily. If someone else reads out what he wrote, we\u2019re all too likely back to dull, routine reading of a required text, which would kill it.<\/li>\n
  6. Do you think one could bend the rules and omit the second reading? Or \u2013 since we\u2019re thinking outside the box, and willing to think daring thoughts in response to a real crisis \u2013 could one do the second reading, then the psalm, then the acclamation and Gospel? I know, the psalm is thematically a response to the Old Testament reading, so I suppose this doesn\u2019t work. The most one could say is that the psalm has an indirect connection to the Gospel it precedes, since the psalm is related to the Old Testament reading and the Old Testament reading is related to the Gospel reading.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    What do you folks think? I think Fr. Gelineau has raised a question we best not avoid.<\/p>\n

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