(Oooh, sorry, I was channeling The Jerk.)
Actually, the new psalter is in, and first I apologize for whining on TNLM, mine HAD arrived, but for some reason was sent attn: Bookkeeper, so I never looked at the box sitting on the mail drawers at the rectory.
And secondly, let me at first blush pronounce myself well PLEASED.
Fine job, Fr Martis*, well done, I think the Mundelein Psalter is gonna have legs. Beautifully produced, too, lovely binding paper print and layout, immensely readable.
And, perfect timing, I have a funeral tomorrow with a request for a psalm we never do, and for which the Dread Hymnal Gather offers a pleasant but skippy-dippy Joncas setting.
Himself didn't quite grasp the concept that this doesn't so much allow me to do something I didn't heretofore, but that it saves me IMMENSE amounts of work -- I was doing what the music books any sensible parish church purchases should have already done.
Thank you, Fr Martis et al and God bless you!
*Quite deservedly pointed out to me the last time I went to Mundelein as the epitome of Father Whatawaste. The Holy Spirit knows what He (or She,) is about -- the first fruits, the best of the harvest belong to the Almighty.
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Oooh. You have the Mundelein Psalter? I've been seriously looking at getting it, but my imminent unemployment has made that problematic.
Still...
Yes, Bede, and it is really well done, IMO.
I was hoping, I admit, for a By Flowing Waters -type blanket copyright permission for reproducing congregational parts, but you can't have everything.
And I should admit that in my current parish position, chant, even in English, has to be introduced at a pace that would bore a glacier.
(Save the Liturgy, Save the World)
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