Perhaps the most significant item we’ve yet had the honor of producing is an English translation of an extremely rare document from 1970. A member of the Consilium—Father Adalbert Franquesa Garrós—explains why the reformers felt it necessary to destroy most of the ancient Mass propers. In particular, this reformer priest claims that unless verses of Sacred Scripture are sung to particular melodies, “they they lose almost all of their meaning.” Certainly a bizarre (heretical?) claim; but the 1960s zeitgeist was formidable…
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