Category: Simple Propers

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Simple Propers for the Season of Easter

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As you can see, the Simple Propers Project is swiftly moving along! Somehow we skipped Holy Week in our eagerness to get to the Easter Season–you can expect this and the Solemnities at the conclusion of the Easter Season by the end of the week.

A special thanks to all of those who have been reporting errors in the early drafts that have been posted. This is the beauty of the “beta” process. It will help ensure a reliable collection when it is completed.

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Simple Propers for the Presentation of the Lord

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And for a deeper penetration of the riches of this feast, following are the Collect and Prayer after Communion from the Revised Translation of the Roman Missal:

COLLECT:

Almighty ever-living God, we humbly implore your majesty that, just as your Only Begotten Son was presented on this day in the Temple in the substance of our flesh, so, by your grace, we may be presented to you with minds made pure. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever.

PRAYER AFTER COMMUNION:

By these holy gifts which we have received, O Lord, bring your grace to perfection within us, and, as you fulfilled Simeon’s expectation that he would not see death until he had been privileged to welcome the Christ, so may we, going forth to meet the Lord, obtain the gift of eternal life. Through Christ our Lord.

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Simple Propers for the Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time

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A few strategic changes (can you tell which?) have been applied to the Simple Propers Project, which will allow our production pace–until this point a steady week-to-week crawl–to now push forward in a much more accelerated way. You can look for the the remainder of the next stretch of Ordinary Time, including the Presentation of the Lord, by the end of the week. And you can begin look for propers for the Lenten and Easter Seasons next week.

We’re primed now to push forward and complete this book!

Thank you to all who send notes on your progress with singing Simple Propers in your parishes and cathedrals. We look forward to helping you be more prepared for your singing, and, most importantly, to getting a completed collection of propers in your hands in the very near future.