Priests to get a course in chanted Latin Mass
Missa in Cantu is the normative form of the Mass of the Roman Rite of the Catholic Church but is largely ignored. A parish in Chicago IL is trying to change that by offering a course for priests to learn the chanted Mass.
Sunday, August 26, 2007
By Spero News

The sung Mass remains the normative form in the Roman Rite of the Catholic Church – but it is not the norm in most parishes. “A liturgical service takes on a nobler aspect when the rites are celebrated with singing,” says the Constitution on Sacred Liturgy (1964). Another church document refers to the sung or chanted Mass, saying “For the celebration of the Eucharist with the people, especially on Sundays and feast days, a form of sung Mass (Missa in cantu) is to be preferred as much as possible, even several times on the same day.” (Musicam Sacram, 1967). Chanting the Mass was once common in England, for example, before the Reformation and the reign of Henry VIII. the rest