{"id":87803,"date":"2016-11-02T15:52:47","date_gmt":"2016-11-02T22:52:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/?p=87803"},"modified":"2025-10-31T14:29:33","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T21:29:33","slug":"the-chant-of-all-souls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/the-chant-of-all-souls\/","title":{"rendered":"The Chant of All Souls"},"content":{"rendered":"

C<\/span>an we talk about Gregorian chant? Because today has some doozies. I confess that I was a fan of chant long before I was a Catholic. Indeed, God used the beauty of this music to draw me to Him.<\/p>\n

Specific chants are prescribed for each Mass in both the Ordinary and the Extraordinary Forms of the Roman Rite. Each day’s Mass has its own chants. These are collected in a book called the Graduale Romanum<\/a><\/em>. There are dozens of English versions of these available for the Ordinary Form if you don’t like the Latin.<\/p>\n

\"plainchant\"<\/a>Mind you, in the Ordinary Form, it’s perfectly legitimate to replace them with hymns or other songs, and this is often what you get. Regardless of practice, it is clearly the preference to use the assigned chants.<\/p>\n

Usually, these take the form of an antiphon (or chorus, really) with verses from the psalms or sometimes elsewhere in scripture.<\/p>\n

They occur at the following places in the Mass:<\/p>\n