29th Sunday in Ordinary Time
Weekly Music List
Basilica of St. Mary, Alexandria, Virginia
29thSunday in Ordinary Time
Lectionary Cycle B – 679
October, 20, 21, 2018
Entrance Hymn: Praise to the Lord 721 Lobe Den Herren
Kyrie: Missa Jubilate Deo (Mass XVI, XI-XIII. s.)
Gloria: Missa de Angelis – 10am (Mass VIII, XVI. s.)
Mass of St. Michael – all other Masses (Michael Dominic O’Connor, O.P., ©2010)
Offertory Hymn: What Wondrous Love 828 Wondrous Love
Sanctus: Missa Jubilate Deo
Agnus Dei: Missa Jubilate Deo
Communion Antiphon: Ps 8: 2ab
Ave Verum Corpus William Byrd
(1538 – 1623)
Communion Hymn: Draw Near 509
Coena Domini
Marian Antiphon: Salve Regina 739
Recessional Hymn: Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee 601
Hymn to Joy
Notes on the Liturgy and Music
Ave Verum Coprus
William Byrd
Gradualia Volume 1, 1605
Ave, verum corpus natum, Hail the true body, born
de Maria Virgine. of the Virgin Mary.
vere passum, immolatum You who truly suffered and were sacrificied
in cruce pro homine on the cross for the sake of man.
cuius latus perforatum From whose pierced flank
unda fluxit et sanguine: flowed water and blood:
esto nobis praegustatum, be a foretaste for us
in mortis examine. In the trial of death.
O dulcis, O pie, O Jesu, O sweet, O merciful, O Jesus,
fili Mariae Son of Mary.
miserere mei. Amen Have mercy on me. Amen
Missa Jubilate Deo
This setting of the Mass, sent to all of the bishops of the world in April 1974 by Pope Paul VI in a booklet of the same title, contains what he called the “minimum chant repertoire” to be learned by all parishes throughout the world. The pope explained that the purpose of this booklet was, “to make it easier for Christians to achieve unity and spiritual harmony with their brothers and with the living tradition of the past. Hence it is that those who are trying to improve the quality of congregational singing cannot refuse Gregorian chant the place which is due to it.”
The full letter of Pope Paul VI accompanying this booklet entitled Voluntati Obsequenscan be found at the following link:
Communion Antiphon
The communion antiphon, also known as communio in Latin, is one of several Propertexts of the Liturgy. The proper texts, such as the Introit, Gradual, and Communio, are those texts that change with each liturgy. This is in contrast to the Ordinaryof the Mass, which contains those texts that do not change. These include the Gloria, Sanctus, and Agnus Dei. At the Basilica of St. Mary, we sing the communion antiphon at the beginning of communion, where it was traditionally always sung, at every Mass.
Marian Antiphon
The Marian Antiphon comes from the last of the sung hours of the Diving Office know as Compline. Traditionally, one of the four Marian Antiphons, Alma Redemptoris Mater (Advent),Ave Regina Caelorum (Lent),Regina Caeli (Easter), or Salve Regina (Ordinary Time) was sung at the end of this hour. In the reformed office of Paul VI, known as the Liturgy of the Hours, this final office is known as Night Prayer.
The Lectionary Cycle
The Ordinary Form of the Mass, promulgated by Pope Paul VI in 1969, uses a three- year cycle of readings. Cycle B began with the first Sunday of Advent on December 3, 2017
Vatican Chant Catalogue
The Vatican puts together all of the Gregorian Chant settings of the Ordinary of the Mass (or the parts of the Mass which do not change from week to week) in a collection called the Kyriale. The Missa de Angelisis the 8thsetting in this catalogue. As with the other chant settings in the Kyriale, different parts of the Missa de Angeliswere written in different centuries.
The complete collection of chants used for the Mass is called the Graduale Romanum.
Major Church Documents on Sacred Music
Sacrosanctum Concilium
- Chapter VI concerns sacred music
http://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_council/documents/vat-ii_const_19631204_sacrosanctum-concilium_en.html
Musicam Sacram
http://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_council/documents/vat-ii_instr_19670305_musicam-sacram_en.html
General Instruction of the Roman Missal
- Chapter II, paragraph 39, concerns sacred music.
http://www.usccb.org/prayer-and-worship/the-mass/general-instruction-of-the-roman-missal/