{"id":52634,"date":"2020-07-08T20:46:52","date_gmt":"2020-07-09T01:46:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/?p=52634"},"modified":"2020-07-19T18:50:40","modified_gmt":"2020-07-19T23:50:40","slug":"sunday-mass-no-singing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2020\/07\/08\/sunday-mass-no-singing\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Mass, No Singing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No <em>congregational<\/em> singing, that is. In the diocese of St. Cloud, where Saint John\u2019s Abbey is, this is the regulation. The same is true in many places around the world.<\/p>\n<p>Up until now, our monastery liturgies have been closed to the public. With just the monks in attendance, we have been singing everything like always \u2013 with monks 6 feet apart in the choir stalls and wearing facemasks. But when, starting this past Sunday, we wished to begin inviting the public to our Sunday Mass again, we held ourselves to the diocesan regulations prohibiting congregational singing. Though now only cantors can sing, we still wanted the liturgy to be as festive and participative as possible.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s how we did it. (Here&#8217;s the <a href=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2020\/07\/08\/sunday-mass-no-singing\/14-a-july-5-2020-leaflet\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-52635\">leaflet<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Entrance antiphon: Two cantors sang the <a href=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2020\/07\/08\/sunday-mass-no-singing\/english-proper-chants-ainslie_page_138\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-52636\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-52636 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/English-Proper-Chants-Ainslie_Page_138-300x128.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"128\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/English-Proper-Chants-Ainslie_Page_138-300x128.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/English-Proper-Chants-Ainslie_Page_138-600x257.jpg 600w, https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/English-Proper-Chants-Ainslie_Page_138-768x329.jpg 768w, https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/English-Proper-Chants-Ainslie_Page_138.jpg 955w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>proper antiphon of the Sunday in English chant from <em>English Chant Propers<\/em> (Liturgical Press, 2015), with one psalm verse and the doxology <em>Glory to the Father\u2026<\/em> But we put the verses in Spanish \u2013 a nod to the increasing numbers of Hispanic monks joining our monastery. In these parts, we Catholics sing like Lutherans on organ-based congregational hymns, and it\u2019s no fun having to give that up. But we have gradually introduced introits in Latin or English on special occasions over the years, so it doesn\u2019t feel totally weird to have cantors alone do the processional chant.<br \/>\n<em>.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Gloria: In <em>Hymns, Psalms, and Spiritual Canticles <\/em>(Boston Archdiocesan Choir School, 1972), Theodore Marier wrote an intriguing recto tono <em>Gloria <\/em>setting <a href=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2020\/07\/08\/sunday-mass-no-singing\/marier-gloria-recto-tono-new-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-52641\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-52641 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Marier-Gloria-recto-tono-NEW-1-300x127.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"127\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Marier-Gloria-recto-tono-NEW-1-300x127.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Marier-Gloria-recto-tono-NEW-1-600x254.jpg 600w, https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Marier-Gloria-recto-tono-NEW-1-768x325.jpg 768w, https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Marier-Gloria-recto-tono-NEW-1-1536x650.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Marier-Gloria-recto-tono-NEW-1-2048x867.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>in which the congregation sings the entire text on one pitch while the organ plays increasingly tantalizing chords. In 2012, Dr. Clint Kraus at St. James Cathedral in Seattle handily adapted it for the new missal text. It worked just fine (not least with our <a href=\"https:\/\/saintjohnsabbey.org\/blessing\">newly expanded Holtkamp-Pasi pipe organ<\/a>) to have everyone recite rather than sing the text.<br \/>\n<em>.<\/em><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Responsorial Psalm: <a href=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2020\/07\/08\/sunday-mass-no-singing\/responsorial-psalm-145-14a-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-52642\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-52642 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Responsorial-Psalm-145-14A-1-300x95.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"95\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Responsorial-Psalm-145-14A-1-300x95.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Responsorial-Psalm-145-14A-1-600x190.jpg 600w, https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Responsorial-Psalm-145-14A-1-768x243.jpg 768w, https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Responsorial-Psalm-145-14A-1.jpg 941w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Congregation recited the refrain while the organ played Marier-like organ chords. Cantors sang the psalm verses in two-part (harmonized Meinrad psalm tone).<a href=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2020\/07\/08\/sunday-mass-no-singing\/responsorial-psalm-145-14a-b\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-52639\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-52639 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Responsorial-Psalm-145-14A-B-300x87.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"87\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Responsorial-Psalm-145-14A-B-300x87.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Responsorial-Psalm-145-14A-B-600x173.jpg 600w, https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Responsorial-Psalm-145-14A-B-768x222.jpg 768w, https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Responsorial-Psalm-145-14A-B.jpg 935w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Alleluia: I recall many years ago a British abbot remarking that he supports the liturgical reform and the involvement of the congregation, but truly misses the old Gregorian alleluias. The alleluias in the <em>Graduale Romanum<\/em> don\u2019t fit the reformed three-year lectionary as well as the new cycle of texts, and I made my peace with never using the <em>Graduale<\/em> alleluias in this life. Until COVID-19. Only cantors can sing now? Make hay while the sun shines! <a href=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2020\/07\/08\/sunday-mass-no-singing\/alleluia-5\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-52643\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-52643 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Alleluia-300x140.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Alleluia-300x140.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Alleluia-600x281.jpg 600w, https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Alleluia.jpg 613w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The cantor sang the florid chant Alleluia unaccompanied. Then he led the congregation in reciting the Gospel acclamation verse \u2013 flip it, and find a new way to involve the congregation! Then, to make the lead-in to the Gospel reading just a bit more \u201cup,\u201d the cantor was accompanied by the organ on the repeat of the chant Alleluia. Incoherent compromise? Or best of both worlds? (I only played organ chords, not the melody, freeing the cantor to sing with semiologically free rhythms.)<br \/>\n<em>.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Eucharistic Acclamations: Recited by all. For the <em>Sanctus<\/em> (music below), one monk played wood block on the word stresses, which made it a bit like the Hebraic \u201csprung rhythm\u201d of the Gelineau psalm tones. Until the \u201cHosanna in the highest,\u201d which had a <a href=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2020\/07\/08\/sunday-mass-no-singing\/hosanna-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-52647\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-52647 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Hosanna.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"279\" height=\"147\" \/><\/a>big crescendo of an organ chord along with a tambourine shake \u2013 both ending with a bang. Fun! Simple recited MemAcc. Then, the congregation recited the Amen <em>six<\/em> times \u2013 two groups of three \u2013 with increasingly loud organ chords on the last syllable of each Amen, plus a bit of a musical exclamation mark at the end (music below).<br \/>\n<em>.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Agnus Dei: recited by all in Spanish. It\u2019s high time we start incorporating more Spanish into our monastic liturgies \u2013 we\u2019re massively behind the curve on this. COVID-19 is a good opportunity to begin at the easier level of recitation. <a href=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2020\/07\/08\/sunday-mass-no-singing\/cordero\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-52648\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-52648 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Cordero-300x52.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"52\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Cordero-300x52.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Cordero.jpg 575w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Then someday, when congregational singing comes back, we\u2019ll be ready for sung versions of various Mass acclamations in Spanish. Somehow, reciting it in Spanish made it more interesting and engaging \u2013 at least for me.<br \/>\n<em>.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Communion: no more Psallite refrains with congregation, alas. One cantor sang the English antiphon and verses from <em>English Proper Chants.<\/em> Then another cantor, who went to Communion first, sang the same antiphon in Latin chant from the <em>Antiphonale<\/em> while the first cantor went to Communion. What\u2019s the Latin for tag team?<br \/>\n<em>.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Postcommunion hymn: The hymn text \u201cI Heard the Voice of Jesus Say\u201d was perfect for the 14A readings. All stood to recite the text: cantors on stanzas 1 and 3, everyone on stanzas 2 and 4. Organ played light background accompaniment. This text is most often sung to KINGSFOLD. I didn\u2019t want to play that melody directly, lined up with the text, for that could make it seem like singing to that tune was intended. Rather, I sustained chords and played little, suggestive melodic snippets here and there from the hymn tune to evoke its ethos.<br \/>\n<em>.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>And then, blessing, dismissal, and a loud organ postlude.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Reviews were generally positive, but mixed. (This is a monastic community!)<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ll run it again this coming Sunday, with a few variants. Our Vietnamese student monks will sing the entrance chant in Vietnamese. At prep we\u2019ll have organ and percussion improvisation on the Latin chant <em>Qui manducat.<\/em> That\u2019s the proper communio in the <em>Graduale <\/em>this Sunday. Like last week, it will be sung in English and Latin \u2026 and, because one of the Vietnamese monks is now in my online Gregorian chant class, also in Vietnamese! The recited post-communion hymn will be \u201cAlmighty God, your word is cast.\u201d That text is sung to so many different tunes, I\u2019m not yet sure what the soft underlying organ accompaniment will suggest, if anything, by way of a tune.<\/p>\n<p>awr<\/p>\n<p>Music: <a href=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2020\/07\/08\/sunday-mass-no-singing\/eucharistic-acclamations\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-52644\">Eucharistic Acclamations<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How we did it at Saint John&#8217;s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":52646,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3118,3406],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ars-celebrandi-new-ws","category-how-to"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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