Trinity Sunday

Lectionary Cycle B

Sunday, May 27, 2018

Entrance Hymn: Come, Thou Almighty King  (Italian Hymn)

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: On This Day, The First of Days (Lübeck)

Sanctus: Missa Jubilate Deo

Agnus Dei: Missa Jubilate Deo

Communion Antiphon: Tob 12: 6

Data est mihi omnis potestas in caelo et in terra, alleluia: euntes, docete omnes gentes, baptizantes eos in nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti, alleluia, alleluia.

All power has been given to me in heaven and on earth, alleluia; go therefore and teach all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, alleluia, alleluia.  

Communion Motet (10am):  Laudate Dominum  (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756 – 1791)

Communion Hymn:Father, We Thank Thee (Rendez À Dieu)

Marian Antiphon: Salve Regina

Recessional Hymn: Holy, Holy, Holy (Nicaea)

Notes on the Liturgy and Music

Laudate Dominum  of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

“Praise the Lord, all you nations!  Extol him, all you peoples!  His mercy for us is strong; the faithfulness of the Lord is forever.  Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit.  As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end.  Amen.”

Psalm 117, with the addition of the minor doxology.

Laudate Dominum is the 5th musical selection of Mozart’s Vesperae solennes de confessore, or Solemn vespers of a confessor.  The Solemn Vespers were composed in 1780 and scored for orchestra, choir, and vocal soloists.  Orginally, this work was intended for liturgical use in the Salzburg Cathedral.

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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