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There are endless such errors.
For example, in Psalm 145 (144) for the Fifth Sunday of Easter Year C, the response is now two lines earlier than it was. The result is a final verse which makes no sense without the preceding pair.
Psalm 146 (145) has identical verses for five Sundays of the cycle but ...

Ros Wood wrote: Mon Feb 17, 2025 2:06 pm My interpretation is that things that are not of God will not last.

Can't help feeling that, if this were of God, it would be in rather better English.

If only the CTS would publish the Lectionary in a cruelty-free edition!

I'm finding it all too much. I'm now worshipping with a community which uses the pre-2024 Lectionary and the pre-2010 Missal – and has no immediate plans to change. The music isn't quite what I'd like, but it's such a joy to celebrate the Liturgy in English, rather the gobbledegook.

Apologies. Accidental double post. Please delete.

Might they still need approval for publication, though?

I will continue to use my own setting: "Glory to you, Lord Jesus Christ, the living word who calls us to life".
The more proscriptive our liturgy becomes, the more I feel called to be elsewhere.

Looking at the CTS New Sunday Missal, one of those given is "Praise to you, O Christ, King of eternal glory". Already well-known setting by James Walsh in Laudate and in the (old) Collins A Responsorial Psalm Book for Sunday and Feastdays.

Have to admit to not having used a chant-style psalm since the late 1980s so I'm not really in a position to comment.

And there's the annoyance that a setting, which once fitted comfortable across two pages, now takes three or four pages. Grrrrrr!

Yes, have been through all of this. Repeating phrases, reharmonising etc.

Much worse than Palm Sunday is Good Friday, where an extra phrase suddenly appears at the end of Verse 1:
Previously: Into your hands I commend my spirit.
It is you who will redeem me, Lord.

Now: Into your hands I commend ...

The question is whether in general such issues are so prolific as to make a translation really awkward for composers to work with. More to the point, the texts are very difficult for the average parish cantor. The days of the music for one verse fitting the music for the others are gone. As an ...

Yes, it is true I was making a generalisation; to which of course there might well be exceptions. However I am afraid the examples you give do not qualify.
And quite a few exceptions: Many extra words appear, whole clauses are inserted all over the place and extra lines appear willy-nilly. Re ...

In the same psalm we have: "The LORD who opens the eyes of the blind,
the LORD who raises up those who are bowed down."

In the present Lectionary two words are added to make this into a sentence: "It is the Lord..."

Totally agree that "composers have an opportunity to rethink how music is composed for them". However, the psalms were only available from 09 May and the process for applying for Permission to Publish was only made known mid-August. Much scrabbling around at the moment. And I, like others, have been ...