The Simple English Propers for the Advent Season are now complete:
- Simple Propers for the 3rd Sunday of Advent
- Simple Propers for the 4rd Sunday of Advent
- Complete Simple Propers for the Advent Season
As a reminder, the complete Simple English Propers project is now being indexed on the Church Music Association of America website. Bookmark this page and refer to it often as updates are made.
I have printed off copies of the Advent Season materials for my choirs in a simple 8.5 x 11 booklet, folded and stapled, with a few simple clicks using our parishes standard office grade printer/copier. I didn’t fit to page or anything. The book size will be 6 x 9, but the contents still fit quite nicely on the 5.5 x 8.5 page which is the result when a booklet is made out of 8.5 x 11 size paper, though the bottom margin is a bit tight.
Here is a shot of the inside contents:
I don’t know if this capability is extraordinary to you, but I find it to be quite remarkable. That we can print this sort of resource on demand on standard office copiers and give it to our choirs to use in liturgy immediately is rather astounding, I think. What a world we live in today. How different is it from the days when we had to rely on commercial publishers to sell us paper?
Of course when this book is completed it will be released into the commons and the digital PDF files will be shared with the world for free forever on the internet. You will be able to make custom resources such as these ad infinitum for your music program. Thanks be to God for all that we can do with modern technology!
Can I tell you what I’m really excited about though…