Sunday, May 13, 2018
Entrance Hymn: Sing We Triumphant Hymns of Praise (Lasst Uns Erfreuen)
Kyrie: Missa de Angelis (Mass VIII, XV-XVI. 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: Come Ye Faithful Raise the Strain (Gaudeamus Pariter)
Sanctus: Missa Jubilate Deo
Agnus Dei: Missa Jubilate Deo
Communion Antiphon: John 15: 16
Signa eos, qui in me credunt, haec sequentur: daemonia eicient: super aegros manus imponent, et bene habebunt.
These signs will accompany those who believe: they will cast out demons, and when thy lay their hands upon the sick, these will recover, alleluia.
Communion Motet (10am): O Clap Your Hands Together (Thomas Tomkins, c. 1572-1656)
Communion Hymn: O Food of Exiles Lowly (Innsbruck)
Marian Antiphon: Regina Caeli
Recessional Hymn: Holy God, We Praise Thy Name (Grosser Gott)
“O clap your hands together, all ye people. O sing unto God with the voice of melody. For the Lord is high and to feared: he is the great King upon all the earth. He shall subdue the people under us, and the nations under our feet. He shall choose out an heritage for us, even the worship of Jacob whom he loved. God is gone up with a merry noise, and the Lord with the sound of the trump. O sing praises, sing praises to our God, O sing praises, sing praises to our King. For God is King of all the earth, sing ye praises with understanding. God reigneth over the heathen, God sitteth upon his holy seat. The princes of the people are joined unto the people of the God of Abraham: for God, which is very high exalted, doth defend the earth, as it were with a shield. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost: as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen. ”
O Clap Your Hands Together is a setting of Psalm 47 by Tomas Tomkins, a psalm which has long been associated with the feast of the Ascension. Tomkins was an English composer, organist and a student of William Byrd. He composed prolifically in all of the musical forms of the day including sacred anthems, psalm settings, keyboard works, and madrigals.
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 Obsequens can be found at the following: http://www.liturgyoffice.org.uk/Resources/Music/Jubilate/Voluntati.pdf.
The communion antiphon, also known as communio in Latin, is one of several Proper texts 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 Ordinary of 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.
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 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
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 Angelis is the 8th setting in this catalogue. As with the other chant settings in the Kyriale, different parts of the Missa de Angelis were written in different centuries.
The complete collection of chants used for the Mass is called the Graduale Romanum.
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