Earlier today, while I was picking up groceries, I had to endure listening to Hillsong praise and worship songs being played in the building, and it made me wonder how it would have felt if, instead of these overrated number oozing with feel-good vibe, Gregorian chants were to be included in the playlist of groceries? What would be the mood of the people while buying their necessities? Will sacred Gregorian chant stem the possible transmission of COVID-19 in the grocery by (1) excorcising the air, and/or (2) calming or slowing down the people so they don’t panic buy?
After we’ve admitted the possibility, the next obvious question, of course, is “Which chants, then, are appropriate for the grocery?” And the Traditional community is never short of creativity! After half a day of musing on this question, here’s what we’ve come up with:
For the beauty, perfume, and personal care section
- Nigra sum sed formosa
- Asperges me
- Ecce odor filii mei
- Splendida facta est facies Moysi
- Ostende mihi faciem tuam
- Pulchriora sunt
For the laundry section
- Candidi facti sunt Nazaræi
- Isti sunt triumphatores
- Vidi coniunctos viros
- Isti sunt agni novelli
For the wine and beverage section
- Ego sum vitis vera
- Sicut cervus
- Vidi aquam
- Hic est, qui venit
For the bread and comestibles section
- Panis angelicus
- Ego sum panis
- Cibavit eos
- Unus panis
- Homo quidam fecit cœnam magnam
- O panis dulcissime
For the meat section
For the seafood section
- Cum deambularet Dominus
- Mox ut vocem Domini
- Procedens Iesus
For the dairy and honey section section
- Quasi modo geniti
- Iustitiæ tuæ
- Iesu dulcis memoria
- Gustate et videte
- Favus distillans
For the flower section
- Flos Carmeli
- Germinans germinabit
- Iustus germinabit sicut lilium
- Iustus ut palma florebit
- Surge, propera, amica mea
Cappella Gregoriana Sanctæ Cæciliæ olim Xicatunensis 
Reblogged this on Veronica's miscellaney and commented:
Gustate et videte 🙂
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