Everything I've always been taught/read says that the Propers (and Ordinary) which are chanted by the schola are read sotto voce by the celebrant, and I have assumed that this also means the Communion antiphon. This past Sunday (at a Missa Cantata offered for our first-Sunday-of-the-month diocesan EF stable group, Missa Cantata for the first time in months), my pastor insisted that he was supposed to have read aloud/chanted the Communion antiphon, so I should have made certain that the schola was finished chanting it by the time the missal was moved, before he began his prayers at the center of the altar. (I do understand that Psallite sapienter says that the music should conclude as soon as possible after the missal being moved; in this case, the missal was moved as he was praying at the center, while we were in mid-antiphon. I have a few new members in my schola, so the antiphon was probably not sung as quickly as it might have been, but we did finish as soon as we could.) Advice? My pastor trained at Fontgombault, so perhaps there is a different custom than the rubrics there? Or have I misread the rubrics? Psallite sapienter was not specific enough on the point, and I would really need a citation of some sort. Thank you.
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