CMAA questions?
You may notice that among the new pages in the redesigned CMAA website is a list of contacts. These CMAA members have graciously agreed to answer questions and provide whatever assistance is possible in implementing the norms of true musica sacra in parishes, schools, and dioceses. Should you be thinking of organizing a local or regional chant conference, choir retreat, performance, or so forth, the CMAA would be delighted to help point you in the right direction! Start by contacting one of these people.
Thanks to Arlene Oost-Zinner for this marvelous idea and its implementation.
Thanks to Arlene Oost-Zinner for this marvelous idea and its implementation.
2 Comments:
I have a general question that all may answer (hopefully).
I used to do the music for a 1962 Missal Parish, but I am starting a job that uses the current Rite of Mass. The priest is very good, and does things just as Pope Benedict does. However, the New Mass is slightly more different (from the 1962) than I initially thought.
I need a site that explains what SHOULD be going on at the New Mass, especially with regards to the music. But I keep running into sites like this one:
http://myweb.lmu.edu/fjust/Mass.htm
"Communicants are encouraged to receive the consecrated bread in their hands, but may also receive communion on the tongue."
I don't understand because I thought the Pope was against Communion in the hand.
Anyway, if anyone knows any good resources, please let me know!!!
God bless you,
JVN
As always, we must return to the authoritative documents. I suggest that you begin with Musicam sacram and then work through the Institutio Generalis Missalis Romani or GIRM. This English translation also includes the approved American adaptations to the Institutio.
You will certainly find more information at the Adoremus Society Web site, and there are many articles from Sacred Music on the EWTN Web site; you can search on "music" with this form. I hope that we will soon have at least links to those articles from our Sacred Music page; perhaps after the Colloquium.
Receiving Holy Communion in the hand is permitted in the United States but is not by any means universally allowed. As you can see on the referenced page, the italicized words are merely individual commentary.
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