tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35539648.post3455497990205008517..comments2023-10-18T14:53:28.622+01:00Comments on Forest Murmurs: Paul Inwood`s listFr Michael Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15320336535138538635noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35539648.post-28122209363204739652011-05-11T11:06:53.928+01:002011-05-11T11:06:53.928+01:00Father,
The priest extending his hands is required...Father,<br />The priest extending his hands is required by the rubrics at certain points of the Mass (such as the greeting #2, Orate fraters #25, Pax#128, final blessing #142); it is commonly but irregularly done prior to the proclamation of the Gospel. Perhaps this is what Paul Inwood is referring to.<br /><br />As to the ‘opening song', he omits to say that songs/hymns are way down on the Church’s list of permissions for use at Mass, and are not permitted at all unless the moments of greater solemnity are sung, these being the Opening Greeting, the Acclamations (greeting & response) before the Gospel (not the Alleluia), the Prayer over the Gifts, the Per Ipsum Our Father, Pax and the Formulas of dismissal. Hymns are of the lowest degree, along with the Gospel Alleluia. <br /><br />Rarely do we see the 1970 Missal celebrated according these instructions (cf Musicam sacram #29).Fr Gary Dicksonnoreply@blogger.com