Roman Missal Chants

The Liturgical Music Department has received many requests to provide access to the chants for the Roman Missal III that will be used in our monastic community’s celebration of the Eucharist. We now have PDF files of Fr. Columba Kelly, OSB’s settings of the following:

1. Orations Chants for Sundays and Feast Days (updated 2/09/2012)
2. Most of the “Prefaces and all the Eucharistic Prayers”
   (Corrected version 1/16/2012)
   
   Only Eucharistic Prayers I and III are set for concelebration chanting, although all 10 Eucharistic Prayers are available in both the Prefaces and Eucharistic Prayers PDF file and a PDF labeled:
3. Eucharistic Prayers for Concelebrants (Corrected version 1/16/2012)
4. Chants for the Penitential Act and Dismissal options
5. Instructions for Chanting Orations
6. Book of Altar Chants
   
   Includes The Preparation of Gifts prayers, Prayers over the Offerings for Sundays and Major Feasts and the Communion Rite, in addition to Prefaces and Eucharistic Prayers
7. Book for Use at the Chair (Updated March 2012)
8. The Paschal Proclamation
9. Palm Sunday and Triduum Book
10. Kyriale 2011 (Corrected version 4/13/2012)

These audio files are also available for downloading.

1. Chanting the Orations
2. Chanting the Preface Dialogue and Preface (Corrected version 11/28/2011)
3. The Paschal Proclamation

Christmas Chants

1. Announcement of Date of Easter and other Feasts to be used at Epiphany 2012
   (Text - Roman Missal III- 2011 with Chant from St. Meinrad )
2. Announcement of Dates of Easter and other Feasts in 2012 to be used at Epiphany 2012 ( Text and Chant- St. Meinrad)
3. Christmas Mass during the Day Gospel John 1.1-18
4. Christmas Midnight Mass Gospel Lk 2.1-14
5. Christmas Proclamation (Text - Roman Missal III - 2011 with Chant from St. Meinrad)
6. Christmas Proclamation (Text and Chant - St. Meinrad)
7. Epiphany Gospel Mt 2.1-12

1. Announcement of the Date of Easter 2012
2. Christmas Proclamation

These are the only files currently available. They may be downloaded for free with the usual understanding of copyright and licensing restrictions.

Please note: Musical compositions and texts that are Copyright Saint Meinrad Archabbey are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.

These files are subject to corrections and changes. We will be adding more files as time permits. We are posting them now because of requests before the November 27, 2011, date of implementation. We hope to have some MP3 recordings available soon.

At this time, we cannot handle requests for clarifications. Thank you for your understanding.