Musical Resources • 4th Sunday of Advent (EF)
“Look with favor, we beseech Thee, O Lord upon these offerings here before Thee…”
Pope Saint Paul VI (3 April 1969): “Although the text of the Roman Gradual—at least that which concerns the singing—has not been changed, the Entrance antiphons and Communions antiphons have been revised for Masses without singing.”

“Look with favor, we beseech Thee, O Lord upon these offerings here before Thee…”

We won’t be singing “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” for Offertory!

Unfortunately we live in a society in which parents can no longer allow the culture to help form their children, and in most instances are forced to fight such an un-cultural leviathan.

When I print this entire booklet, the Communion inexplicably erases every clivis in the psalmody.

A sure sign of an insecure leader is one whose first instinct is to blame others when something goes wrong.

Make sure to read the translation of the Offertory Hymn—so gorgeous!

If Christmas day arrives and you haven’t been to confession, your daily prayer has suffered, and you haven’t eaten supper with your family at least five nights a week during Advent, you’re in too far.

“…there are, in the core of the Church’s sacramental teaching and experience, good contentions and corollary arguments to be made for both practices.” —Archbishop Naumann
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