Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Responsive; specifically, sung in response to or alternation with a lector or precentor.
- noun An office-book formerly in use, containing the responsories or these and the antiphons for the canonical hours.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Responsory; antiphonal.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
book orliturgical responses - adjective Of or pertaining to a
response (in all senses) - adjective
Responsive
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Examples
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Whatever the human author's conscious intent may have been, the Spirit is clearly speaking through this text of Jesus Christ and the motives of those who brought him to his earthly end—as does the "responsorial" psalm that follows.
The wisdom that soothes is the wisdom that hurts Mike L 2006
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Whatever the human author's conscious intent may have been, the Spirit is clearly speaking through this text of Jesus Christ and the motives of those who brought him to his earthly end—as does the "responsorial" psalm that follows.
Archive 2006-09-01 Mike L 2006
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This was a peculiar kind of responsorial singing in which an Alleluia formed the responsorium or refrain.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913
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Long gone were the days when they used to sell the papers outside the local church after mass, but he headed down that way, anyway, past the imposing single-spired, grey stone building from which the mumble of a responsorial psalm was already reverberating through the chill morning air.
The Priest Gerard O’Donovan 2011
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The liturgical chant of our Catholic tradition, on the other hand, privileges the responsorial, dialogical, antiphonal and acclamatory modes of performance.
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Between each Lesson the soloists sang a responsorial chant whilst the Pope, assisted by the cardinals, incensed the tomb of the apostle.
27 July -- Bl Titus Brandsma, O. Carm. John 2009
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Between each Lesson the soloists sang a responsorial chant whilst the Pope, assisted by the cardinals, incensed the tomb of the apostle.
The Station at St Paul John 2009
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“It's like a man upon a street corner,” they sputter to themselves, in a well conditioned responsorial guffaugh,
s a compromising situation... Jim Conway 2010
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Our man approaches to lead us in the responsorial psalm.
Tattoos on the Heart Gregory Boyle 2010
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As I watched that same tool bar as you gave your responsorial speech, the lines divided.
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