The Key for Singing an OF Mass for the EF Musician
It’s almost 5 years since the new translation came out, but some EF musicians still haven’t caught up. Here are some pointers for the musician who has been hiding under a musical rock for a decade.
“Is it not true that prohibiting or suspecting the extraordinary form can only be inspired by the demon who desires our suffocation and spiritual death?” —The Vatican’s chief liturgist from 2014-2021; interview with Edw. Pentin (23-Sep-2019)
It’s almost 5 years since the new translation came out, but some EF musicians still haven’t caught up. Here are some pointers for the musician who has been hiding under a musical rock for a decade.
The last time we sing “Vidi Aquam” is Pentecost Sunday; now we go back to “Asperges Me.”
Anyone who knew him expected no less. But it was extraordinary to witness.
Fantastic photograph taken by our organist during Mass on Sunday…
Including rehearsal videos and special 13th-century hymn to the Most Holy Trinity.
“Once familiar features of the preconciliar rite are now as remote to us as some obscure aboriginal ritual.” —Msgr. McManus (1980)
For reasons I don’t fully understand, this chasuble was only worn once.
Throughout the movie, Hitchcock seems to imitate the liturgy.
At the height of their usage, there were proper sequences for nearly every Sunday and feast day.
Heads and shoulders, knees and toes, in Latin with square note notation, to the tune well known in Australia.
A plenary indulgence can be gained by singing the “Veni Creator Spiritus” publicly on Pentecost.
Two free resources for the Pentecost Sequence, “Veni Sancte Spiritus”
On Pentecost Sunday, the FSSP Superior General will visit our parish.
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