{"id":24798,"date":"2011-01-20T01:09:24","date_gmt":"2011-01-20T01:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/community\/theanchoress\/?p=24798"},"modified":"2017-03-09T21:02:48","modified_gmt":"2017-03-09T21:02:48","slug":"new-gloria-for-new-roman-missal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/theanchoress\/2011\/01\/20\/new-gloria-for-new-roman-missal\/","title":{"rendered":"New "Gloria" for New Roman Missal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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\nHaving long begged my musician sons<\/strong> to please try<\/em> to compose a singable, non-bombast-filled-nor-sickly-sweet-nor-plodding \u201cGloria\u201d to replace the two (just two) versions all of the local parishes have used for at least three decades, I rejoiced to see a new \u201cGloria\u201d being made available<\/strong><\/a> in accordance with the soon-to-be released revisions to the Roman Missal.<\/p>\n

I admit, on my first listen of Jeff Ostrowski\u2019s treatment<\/strong><\/a>, I was not sure I liked it.<\/p>\n

On re-listening a few times<\/strong>, I have decided that the composition itself is pretty good, and I could find myself happily singing this as opposed to the stuff we\u2019re singing now \u2013 there is a reverence and seriousness to the piece, but it is not overly somber, and I like that; the Gloria is a perfect hymn of praise \u2013 there\u2019s gotta be a little joy in that!<\/p>\n

But I am as convinced as ever that no Gloria composed to fit English can fully serve; the Gloria needs the Latin, and I say this as someone who has no particular desire to return to the Latin mass. I\u2019d be very happy with a Mass that was mostly in English, but brought in the Latin for the Gloria<\/em>, the Pater Noster<\/em> and the Angus Dei<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Your thoughts?<\/p>\n