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JillD
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| Location: | Visalia, California USA |
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| First Name: | Jill | | Gender: | Female | | Faith History: | heathen, EvFree, Messianic, LC-MS, Catholic 2007 |
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Posted: Mon Apr 21st, 2008 04:43 am |
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I think I mentioned that our priest has been transferred  and we are having to learn a new thing from the new priest. Fr. Farrow never had us say the Communion antiphon. The "new" priest (3 priests now serve 4 parishes, 20,000 Catholics) asked us to remember to say it at a certain point, but I didn't catch what he said. Was it right after he partook of the Body? I guess I could ask him, but, needless to say, he's terribly busy... Do you all recite that short passage during the liturgy of the Eucharist?
Jill
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DrDave
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| Location: | Mildura, Australia |
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Posted: Mon Apr 21st, 2008 05:13 am |
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General Instruction of the Roman Missal Including Adaptations for the Dioceses of the United States of America :wrote
86. While the priest is receiving the Sacrament, the Communion chant is begun. Its purpose is to express the communicants’ union in spirit by means of the unity of their voices, to show joy of heart, and to highlight more clearly the “communitarian” nature of the procession to receive Communion. The singing is continued for as long as the Sacrament is being administered to the faithful.74 If, however, there is to be a hymn after Communion, the Communion chant should be ended in a timely manner.
Care should be taken that singers, too, can receive Communion with ease.
87. In the dioceses of the United States of America there are four options for the Communion chant: (1) the antiphon from the Roman Missal or the Psalm from the Roman Gradual as set to music there or in another musical setting; (2) the seasonal antiphon and Psalm of the Simple Gradual; (3) a song from another collection of psalms and antiphons, approved by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops or the Diocesan Bishop, including psalms arranged in responsorial or metrical forms; (4) a suitable liturgical song chosen in accordance with no. 86 above. This is sung either by the choir alone or by the choir or cantor with the people.
If there is no singing, however, the Communion antiphon found in the Missal may be recited either by the faithful, or by some of them, or by a lector. Otherwise the priest himself says it after he has received Communion and before he distributes Communion to the faithful.
So "While the priest is receiving the Sacrament", if there is to be no singing, the Communion antiphon is said by one, many or all. In my experience this has only been at weekday Masses, as I cannot recall a Sunday Mass that did not have singing at commuion. A couple of times at Cathedral massed I have heard the Communion antiphon set to music, either in latin or english, which is then followed by a song.
Regards Doc
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