Proceedings of the North American Academy of Liturgy 2020

Issues in Medieval Liturgy Convener: Daniel J. DiCenso, Associate Professor of Music, College of the Holy Cross (Dan was ill and unable to attend; Walter Knowles filled in as Convener pro tem for the meeting.)

Members in Attendance: Katie Bugyis, Michael Driscoll, Barbara Haggh-Huglo, Walter Knowles, Rebecca Maloy, Anthony Ruff, Tyler Sampson, Michael Witczak, Anne Yardley Visitors in Attendance: Cara Apesi, Elaine Stratton Hild, Christopher Hodkinson, Katherine Steiner Papers and Presentations: • Michael Witczak continued his series of comparisons of the apologies at the Eucharistic liturgy (the private prayers of the priest in the Roman liturgy).

The communion rite of the 1962 and 2008 Roman Missals served as the topic. The theological key to the comparison was the theology of priesthood expressed in each prayer. Of particular interest was a 1962 private prayer in the first person singular (“I”) converted in the post Vatican II reform into a public prayer (“We”) that introduces the sharing of the sign of peace by the whole community. Next year should bring a comparison of the concluding rites and final conclusions of the project.

• Christopher Hodkinson presented a performance edition of ferial Compline according to the Use of Sarum, based upon manuscript sources from the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Questions discussed included editorial methodology, the interpretation of rubrics regarding posture and tone of voice, and the adaptation of the Sarum Office for parochial use. Suggestions were made regarding further development of the project and possibilities for publication.

• Kate Kennedy Steiner presented “Local music and the early Lady Mass in insular sources.” The paper argued that music for early Lady mass (a daily solemn Marian mass in her own chapel) in the British Isles developed locally primarily through contrafacta on common sets of chants. In the thirteenth century the Lady mass absorbed the creative output of musicians serving it, and as such it becomes for us an important witness to the ritualization of Marian theology at the local level.