Corpus Christi

Lectionary Cycle B

Sunday, June 3, 2018

Entrance Hymn: Praise to the Lord  (Lobe Den Herren)

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: Humbly We Adore Thee (Adoro Te Devote)

Sanctus: Missa Jubilate Deo

Agnus Dei: Missa Jubilate Deo

Communion Antiphon: John 6:54

Qui manducate meam carnem, et bibit meum sanguinem, in me manet, et ego in eo, dicit Dominus.

He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood, abides in me, and I in him, says the Lord.

Communion Motet (10am):  O quam suavis  (Alonso Lobo 1555 – 1617)

Communion Hymn: Draw Near (Coena Domini)

Marian Antiphon: Salve Regina

Recessional Hymn: Praise to the Holiest in the Height (Newman)

Notes on the Liturgy and Music

O quam suavis  of Alonso Lobo

“O how sweet is thy spirit, Lord, thou who, in order to demonstrate thy sweetness to thy children, send down from heaven the sweetest bread unsurpassed, filling the hungry with good things, sending away empty the disdainful rich!” – Wisdom 12: 1, 16: 21

Alonso Lobo was a Spanish composer and maestro de capilla at the Toledo Cathedral from 1593 until 1604 and later the cathedral of Sevilla until his death.  O quam suavis est is taken from the Liber primus missarum of Lobo, first published in 1602 in Madrid.  As is characteristic of Lobo and his Spanish contemporaries, the work combines the fluid, imitative counterpoint of Palestrina, with frequent mode mixture and soaring melodic lines that give the music its particular emotional poignancy.

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 Obsequens can be found at the following link: https://adoremus.org/2007/12/31/Voluntati-Obsequens/

Communion Antiphon

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.

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 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.

 

Major Church Documents on Sacred Music

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