What would cause this system to move to the 2nd page? Seems to be plenty of room on the first page.
How is your casting off set in Layout Options?
Yes it does look like there is enough room however, your settings are probably pushing it to the next page. Try this and see if it helps.
Go to Layout Options | Vertical Spacing | and change the “inter-system gap”. The default is 10 spaces. Set it lower between 6 and 8. Hope that works for you.
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Also, I can see you have Signposts turned on but maybe just check that Breaks are turned on (to check if you have accidentally put a break in).
View > Signposts > (Breaks etc)
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Looking here led me to the “Allow open bars to be split” which was the next thing for me to figure out. Thanks!
I’m going to hijack this thread to ask Dennis a few questions about how he made the initial liturgy setting, as I do this most every week (in Finale).
Are your bars measured with hidden time signatures or are you using unmeasured bars?
Where do you go for stemless notes?
You have word extensions enabled. Where do I go to turn those off?
There are probably easy answers to those three questions, but your answers will save a Dorico newbie lots of frustration digging through the manual. Thank you.
::: Bill
P.S. This is not in Dennis’ example, but for chanting notes, is there a way to have the double whole note with just one vertical mark on each side of the whole note? Would I have to use another font, such as Maestro, to find that note?
You can tell by the X signposts that open meter is used and barlines changed to tick.
You can hide stems in Engrave properties.
You can’t turn them off, as such, but you can set the minimum length for an extension line to something like 4000 spaces. 
(Engraving Options > Lyrics.) Though as a singer, I always feel naked without them.
Bravura (and most good SMuFL fonts) should have a single stroked breve. You’ll need to either change the existing breve in NoteHead Sets Editor; or create a new Notehead set using that glyph, and apply the set to the notes you want.
The glyph is at U+F40E: you’ll need to repurpose another notehead, like a diamond shape or something, and then swap the glyph.
I’m glad others answered those questions. I’m a 2 week Dorico convert from Finale myself and find myself feeling my way around the program for each new project.
I started this project with no time signature, btw, so didn’t have to worry about hidden time signatures. In a previous project the antiphon was metered with chant verses and I had to hide the time signatures.
If you use enter the meter as shift-M open there is nothing to hide. Then at any point you can add a (say, a tick) barline and a new hidden open time signature will be applied.
Thanks for all the help. I gave up after an hour and will try again later.
Bill
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I’m back after transferring my frustration to heavy lifting for my wife. I have everything figured out now except for changing the double-whole notehead. In Edit Notehead Sets I change the notehead from square to round but I’m missing something because it doesn’t change in the score.
FWIW the secret ingredient I was missing in chant was needing to add barlines in X measures.
Bill
Engraving Options > Notes > Noteheads
Scroll down a little.
Thanks, Mark. A much simpler solution that what I was trying. My preference would be the double whole notehead with just one vertical line on each side. Ben gave a suggestion that I’m still working on, but this will do for now.
Bill
There’s an option for square or round breves, but not one for single-stroke round breves, instead of the usual two-stroke. Is there?
The alternate glyph with single-strokes is at U+F43F. You have to find it via the “Unicode” picker (instead of “SMuFL”) in the symbol designer.
I would just change the glyph in the notehead set you’re using, which is “Larger Noteheads” (unless you changed that in Engraving Options), rather than create a new set.
Almost there. In the notehead editor I can find and select the proper glyph, but it shows up alongside the existing one. Ben mentioned repurposing another notehead, but I don’t get it.
Bill
Now that you have both, use the small arrows below the editing area to change which element is selected. With the wrong one selected, click the bin icon.
Very slightly easier to delete the old one first and then add the desired one.
Thanks again. The notehead is correct in the editor but doesn’t change in the score. What step am I missing?
Bill
Sorry I didn’t explain this confusing situation more explicitly:
You’ve edited the notehead set named “Default Noteheads” which unfortunately is not the actual default! It’s not the notehead set currently in use, which is why the change doesn’t show in the score. You want to change the (actual default) “Larger Noteheads” set, as I mentioned above.
(I can link to the historical explanation for this naming confusion if you want to know.)