Sunday, May 20, 2018
Entrance Hymn: Come, Holy Ghost (Lambillotte)
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 Down, O Love Divine (Down Ampney)
Sanctus: Missa Jubilate Deo
Agnus Dei: Missa Jubilate Deo
Communion Antiphon: Acts 2: 2, 4
Factus est repente de caelo sonus, tamquam advenientis spiritus vehementis, ubi errant sedentes, alleluia: et replete sunt omnes Spiritu Sancto, loquentes magnalia Dei, alleluia, alleluia.
Suddenly, a sound came from heaven like the rush of a mighty wind, in the place where they were sitting, alleluia; and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and announced the great things God had done, alleluia, alleluia.
Communion Motet (10am): Non vos relinquam orphanos (William Byrd c.1540-1623)
Communion Hymn: Panis Angelicus (Lambillotte)
Marian Antiphon: Regina Caeli
Recessional Hymn: God We Praise You (Nettleton)
“I will not leave you comfortless, Alleluia. I go, and I will come to you. Alleluia. And your heart shall rejoice. Alleluia.”
Antiphon to the Magnificat for First Vespers at Pentecost
One of William Byrd’s greatest contributions to the repertoire of sacred choral music is his two volume Gradualia published in 1605 and 1610 which contains settings of the proper texts of the major feasts of the Catholic liturgical year. Non vons relinquam orphanos is taken from Volume II of the Gradualia which covers Christmas, Epiphany, Easter, Pentecost, and Corpus Christi. This short, but evocative motet with its especially memorable overlapping alleluias, beautifully expresses the range of emotions at the departure of the Lord into heaven and the arrival of the Holy Spirit.
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/.
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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