Thursday, December 9, 2010

Oregon Catholic Press Will Produce New Missal

Editor: Well, some of the critics of the new Missal seem to be indicating that the New Missal won't be that great, "for many" translation notwithstanding.  It sounds like the rework of the 2008 Revision has been revised again.  It juts goes to show you if you try to please everyone, you please no one.  Do these people still worry about pleasing God?  The Music looks horrible.  Anything with Dan Schulte on it is bound to inspire revulsion, and if Oregon Catholic Press is doing it, you know it's got to be less than virile.  Just check out the cover art.  So, yes, the thing will be done, but the usual old Left apparachiks are going to benefit from it, to the further denigration of everything.

H/t: Stella Borealis

PORTLAND, Ore., Dec. 7 /Christian Newswire/ -- To help church leaders prepare their communities for the new English translation of the Roman Missal, OCP has given free download access, including unlimited reprint permissions, for assembly editions of every new and revised Mass setting the publisher offers.

"This access provides parish leaders a unique chance to teach their congregations the new and revised Mass parts," said Tom Tomaszek, OCP's Director of Artists and Repertoire and Product Development. "By offering assembly editions of the revised Order of Mass for download, free of charge, we can aid our partners in ministry in implementing these changes smoothly."

The downloadable assembly editions contain the lyrics and melodies for all the Mass parts in a single, easy to read PDF for each of the new and revised settings. Although the changes to the Roman Missal cannot be used during Mass until Advent 2011, these assembly editions give congregations everywhere the ability to learn and sing the new texts -- one year in advance.

"We want to encourage church leaders to take advantage of this opportunity to explore the changes and ultimately find Mass settings in styles that work well with each of their assemblies and musicians," said Tomaszek.


FREE Assembly Downloads of Parish-Tested Mass Settings

Help your congregation sing the new translation with FREE assembly edition downloads of new and revised Mass settings to engage your community.
For a limited time*, we are offering FREE assembly edition PDF downloads to help make the transition as smooth as possible for your community. Simply click below to download assembly editions of each Mass setting in its entirety—conveniently in a single PDF.
* Available through November 26, 2011

New Mass Settings

Title Composer Listen Assembly PDF
Mass of Christ the Savior Dan Schutte
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Mass of New Life
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Scott Soper
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Mass of Renewal Curtis Stephan
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Mass of the Resurrection Randall DeBruyn
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Mass of St. John
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Bobby Fisher
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Mass of St. Paul the Apostle Christopher Walker
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Misa Santa Cecilia/Mass of St. Cecilia Estela García-López & Rodolfo López
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5 comments:

Giovanni A. Cattaneo said...

Only one Randall DebBruyn passes mustard the rest are a joke.

Specially that last one what a train wreck.

Catholicity said...

The joke is on them, in a way. They say, "although the changes to the Roman Missal cannot be used during Mass until Advent 2011 ..."

It was announced that Advent 2011 is the drop dead date when implementation MUST take place, not that it is the official date we must wait for.

I'm sure that if the material was available, and a parish petitioned the bishop to begin using the new texts before then, there wouldn't be much standing in the way to stop them

Catholicity said...

And Giovanni, IMO, all of these were inferior, although Randall's seemed to be the best of the worst. OCP should just close up shop and rent the place out to Geek Squad.

Linda Worship Committe said...

We did a blind test in or Archdiocese and Schutte's Mass of Christ the Savior came in first cross the board parishes. Curtis Stephen's was well recieved for more youth orientated assemblies. Randall DeBryan was recomended for a smaller group of more traditional parishes - similar to Heritage Mass. The sky's the limit for our Cathedral but they have a four full time music staff plus paid musicians and choir. Haugen and Hass didn't seem up to par. Scott Sooper's mass from World Library was well recived. But we're looking for ease and singability for the new translation and Schutte hit the mark for our diocean representatives.

Tancred said...

Most parish boards are dominated by people who have no idea what the Catholic Church teaches, much less know anything about music.

Most people love the old Masters, and the various folk performers and jazz "artists" leave much to be desired even being measured in terms of music as a whole.

It really seems as though Schutte et al. were simply incapable of making a go of it in the popular market and chose instead to get a meal ticket in religion where their saccharine productions are imposed on an increasingly indifferent laity.

If you notice the difference between Liturgies executed with the use of sacred Music that's really sacred [we all know what it is], you notice a distinct difference in the congregation. The people who get their music from Oregon Catholic Press really seem like somnambulent spiritual zombies, contrast that to the laity I met at a truly sacred Liturgy for the first time and I resented that I'd been cheated for large parts of my life by a garrulous collection of effeminate busy bodies and crypto-Marxists.

My first experience of real sacred Music in a Liturgical context was hearing simple settings written by Mozart for the Archbishop of Salzburg at the Sebastienskirche and I've never looked back at the substandard impositions which are imposed by Diocesan apparachiks in favor of some infernal sub-theology.

Diocesan representatives should be arrested, interrogated by the Inquisition and when they're found guilty, turned over to the secular arm for punishment.

Ugliness is bad enough by itself, but when it's imposed by an body of elites without a sensus catholicus...well