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The Roman Missal: a Broader Perspective Advertising: Phone: (503) 289-3615 NATIONAL ASSOCIATION of PASTORAL MUSICIANS PASTORAL September 2011 Music The Roman Missal A Broader Perspective Newest edition of the best-selling Spanish Catholic hymnal Fl r y Cant Tercera Edición Unite your diverse Hispanic community in song with a balanced Now collection of 740 songs—including 200 new songs from the Caribbean, Central and South America, Spain and more! Available! Full guitar and keyboard accompaniment books 24-CD library of recordings NEW! Psalter Edition NEW! Words and Chords Guitar Accompaniment Book Plus, enjoy a complete Order of Mass and updated Mass settings, like Misa del Pueblo Inmigrante, as well as eucharistic acclamations from the new Misa Santa Cecilia. Visit ocp.org/fyc3 for exclusive content! Order Today! 1-800-LITURGY (548-8749) | ocp.org Visit us at: www.petersway.com Newest edition of the best-selling Peter’s Way Tours Inc. 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HOLY LAND - Songs of Scriptures JANUARY 12 -21, 2012 • $1,095 (plus tax) ROME, ASSISI, VATICAN CITY - Roman Polyphony JANUARY 26 - FEBRUARY 2, 2012 • $795(plus tax) IRELAND - Land of Saints and Scholars FEBRUARY 16 - 22, 2012 • $795(plus tax) Continuing Education Programs for Music Directors Enjoy these specially designed programs at substantially reduced rates. Fully refundable from New York (excluding tax/fuel surcharge) 1-800-LITURGY (548-8749) | ocp.org when you return with your own choir! From the President As most of us begin a new program year, a major read their stories of heroic discipleship, I was struck focus of our planning is implementation of the third by the richer diversity and the truly universal call to edition of The Roman Missal and the new English holiness now reflected in the Roman calendar. translation of the Mass that will be introduced over Just a few weeks ago we witnessed a very spirited the coming months. This issue of Pastoral Music offers NPM convention in Louisville, an event that left a number of helpful resources for musicians and me with the very strong impression that many—if other pastoral ministers in these final weeks before not most—musicians are rather excited about the full implementation on November 27. You will find in new missal. Although the convention provided a these pages both “big picture” articles to enrich our wide variety of workshop offerings and musical understanding and practical resources to support our experiences, a great deal of attention was devoted ministry and bolster our leadership. to the Roman Missal in the plenum addresses, NPM Senior Editor Dr. Gordon Truitt introduces workshop sessions, Hovda lectures, and publisher this issue with a very insightful essay on the place showcases. Based on the “feel” of the convention and of the new missal and the new translation in the the evaluations that we’ve received so far, it seems history of the liturgical renewal begun at Vatican II. as though musicians are reveling in an opportunity Unfortunately there have been way too many “byte- to re-evaluate parish repertoire, re-examine musical size” analyses of the new texts, particularly on blogs, priorities, and dig into new music crafted for the new that fail to provide adequate depth to consideration texts. of the new Missal. Dr. Truitt’s article is a really fine Over the course of the next three months, most contribution to understanding the context of this of us will be doing our very best to introduce new Missal in the ongoing renewal of the liturgy and of the texts and new music in a way that fosters the full, Church. conscious, and active participation of the people. Is your parish already well informed about the Now is also a good time to be considering the follow- coming changes or have you barely started the up to November 27. Only after people have become preparation process? Michael Prendergast provides accustomed to the new translation will they really be a user-friendly guide to parish implementation with able to pray the texts. Only then will all of us really helpful questions and suggestions for parishes of all begin to reflect on new layers of meaning for our faith types. and life of discipleship. Have you been wondering about the work of In the November issue of Pastoral Music we will be composers in preparing musical settings of the new including some very insightful addresses delivered texts? NPM Board member Father Ricky Manalo, at this year’s NPM convention that will help us in our csp, offers the perspective of one composer on the movement from implementation to appropriation, so challenge of writing music for new words. that on November 28 our work can continue. Do you really know what’s in the new Missal? With so much attention focused on the new translation, many of us have not yet taken time to explore some of the new features of the missal. Chief among these are texts for the celebrations of many new saints that have been added to the calendar. As I glanced through some J. Michael McMahon of the saints who have been added to the calendar and President 2 September 2011 • Pastoral Music NATIONAL ASSOCIATION of PASTORAL PASTORAL MUSICIANS September 2011 Volume 35:5 Music Pastoral Music (ISSN 0363- 6569) is published five times Contents per year in January, March, May, September, and Novem- Readers’ Response 5 Association News 6 ber by the National Associa- tion of Pastoral Musicians (NPM), 962 Wayne Avenue, Suite 210, Silver Chanting Scripture: Insights from the Jewish Experience 9 Spring, MD 20910-4461. By Henry Bauer, Abaham Lubin, and Janice Lent NPM is an organization of musicians and Reflections on Of Gods and Men 43 clergy dedicated to fostering the art of By J. Michael Joncas musical liturgy. Member services include the electronic newsletterPastoral Music Notebook, discounts on NPM conventions and insti- “Nimble Fingers” Was There: 45 tutes, and other benefits. 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