Missa Jubilate Deo

The Missa Jubilate Deo contains simple Latin chant settings, accompanied by handbells, of the parts of the Ordinary of the Mass including Kyrie, Gloria, Sanctus, and the Agnus Dei. Dynamic markings are just suggestions. Music directors may use different dynamics that are more suited to given situations.
In April 1974, Pope Paul VI sent to every bishop in the world a booklet of some of the simplest selections of Gregorian Chant, much of it drawn from the Graduale Romanum. This booklet, called Jubilate Deo, was intended as a "minimum repertoire of Gregorian chant" and as an official Latin core repertoire for the Roman Rite. Pope Paul VI permitted the selections in Jubilate Deo to be freely reprinted. The Pope issued the Jubilate Deo Mass "... as his gift to the Catholic Bishops of the world and the heads of religious orders." The purpose was to make it easier for Christians to achieve unity and spiritual harmony with their brothers and sisters and with the living tradition of the past by improving the quality of congregational singing and giving Gregorian chant the place to which it is due.