In its normative and noblest form, virtually every word of the Mass (including the Eucharistic Prayer) is meant to be sung…

The General Instruction of the Roman Missal offers the primary basis for singing the entire Mass, including the Eucharistic Prayer, when it says: “in the rubrics and in the norms that follow, words such as ‘say’ and ‘proclaim’ are to be understood either of singing or of reciting” (GIRM, 38). Put differently, any word that can be spoken in the Mass can also be sung. More explicitly, it goes further to say that “it is most appropriate that the Priest sing those parts of the Eucharistic Prayer…

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