Listen to our very own Father Stefan discuss Septuagesima (and the current status of The Lutheran Missal) on the latest episode of the Gottesdienst Podcast. This interview was a follow-up to his previous blog post titled, Septuagesimal Strife.
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The previous articles in this series discussed the texts and melodies of the Mass Propers. This article concerns the technical elements of the melodies, which are wrapped up in a concept called modality. N.B.: in the process of writing this article, the author came across a detailed article on a similar topic, written by Angela…
Yesterday Monsignor Alan Detscher and I drove down to New Jersey for a meeting with Catholic Book Publishing. The Monsignor, recently retired, has been editing and publishing liturgical resources for decades. I met him by chance at a clergy association lunch, and he is very interested in The Lutheran Missal project. (His collection of Lutheran…
For several months we have been hard at work assigning scripture references to every lection in our sources—32,780 (lections) at present count. Some readings include the whole Latin or German text, while others give only a few words. In many cases extra detective work is required to determine which reading is intended by a given…
Of all the genres of liturgical Psalmody, the Alleluias have required the most editorial attention. Our sources generally agree concerning the Introits, Graduals, Communions, and Offertories, but not always so with the Alleluias, particularly for the latter half of Trinitytide. And the Alleluias of Easter? Fuhgeddaboudit. The map of the Alleluias for a given Sunday…
About two weeks ago, Fr. Stefan suggested that we start a blog for The Lutheran Missal. This was an excellent idea, but rather than starting in the middle of the project, we felt it necessary to give the history and impetus of the project from its inception. The posts before this date have actually been…
In The Lutheran Liturgy, Dr. Reed mentions that he had physical access to three pre-Reformation missals of Germany: Nuremberg 1484, Bamberg 1498, and Constance 1505 (p. 463). The missals were housed in the Krauth Memorial Library at Philadelphia and supplied the historic basis for the Common Service. In this regard the internet has changed our…