Sunday, May 6, 2018
Entrance Hymn: Be Joyful, Mary – Regina Caeli, Jubila
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: Love Divine, All Loves Excelling (Hyfrydol)
Sanctus: Missa Jubilate Deo
Agnus Dei: Missa Jubilate Deo
Communion Antiphon: John 15: 16
Ego vos elegi de mundo, ut eatis, et fructum afferatis: et fructus vester maneat, alleluia.
I have chosen you from the world, in order that you might go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should last, alleluia.
Communion Motet (10am): A new commandment – Thomas Tallis (c.1505-1585)
Communion Hymn: With All The Powers My Poor Soul Hath (Rockingham)
Marian Antiphon: Regina Caeli
Recessional Hymn: Alleluia, Alleluia – Hymn to Joy
“A new commandment give I unto you, saith the Lord, that ye love together, as I have loved you, that e’en so ye love one another. By this shall ev’ry man know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.”
A new commandment was written by Tallis for the post-reformation church services of England. Along with other works of Tallis written during this period, he employs a vernacular text and a more simple compositional style compared to his earlier works for the Latin liturgy. It is a testament to genius of Thomas Tallis that no matter the prevailing musical aesthetic he is able to compose a richly evocative setting of the given text as is certainly the case in this work.
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:
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.
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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