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Benedictus & Hosanna • “Missa Beata Mater”

Jeff Ostrowski · April 20, 2016

HEN THE SANCTUS is sung in polyphony, it is divided thus: the SANCTUS & HOSANNA before the Consecration, the BENEDICTUS & HOSANNA after the Consecration. When sung in plainsong, it is not to be divided. These rules are according to the 1958 legislation. Today, I present the second part of the “Missa Beata Mater” SANCTUS by Francisco Guerrero, who died in 1599AD.

I recorded the voice parts, but please pardon the high notes: I’m a baritone!

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543 Pope John Paul II NE OF MY FRIENDS was in charge of picking the music for papal Masses at St. Peter’s Basilica during the 1980s. The pope does not offer Mass there as frequently as one might guess; normally he offers Mass in a private chapel. On one of the occasions when the (young) John Paul II was scheduled to sing Mass in the basilica, my friend chose a setting by Morales, the teacher of Guerrero. The proper way to do it—and remember, this was a Novus Ordo liturgy—is to split the Sanctus & Benedictus.

So, the Sanctus went really well. Then, after the Consecration, Pope John Paul II intoned the “Mystérium fídei.” Now it was time for the Benedictus, and my friend says he began to sweat a little—fearing the pope might be annoyed or confused. But then a wonderful thing happened: Pope John Paul II bent over the altar and started praying as the choir continued singing the Benedictus! According to my friend, the effect was marvelous. Everyone in the basilica, including the cardinals, suddenly realized they also should be praying—so they all closed their eyes and began. What Pope St. John Paul II did is called being a leader!

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Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: Francisco Guerrero Composer, Missa Beata Mater Last Updated: January 1, 2020

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About Jeff Ostrowski

Jeff Ostrowski holds his B.M. in Music Theory from the University of Kansas (2004). He resides with his wife and children in Los Angeles.—(Read full biography).

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    Vespers Booklet (4th Sunday of Lent)
    The organ accompaniment booklet (24 pages) which I created for the 4th Sunday of Lent (“Lætare Sunday”) may now be downloaded, for those who desire such a thing.
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    The organ accompaniment I created for the 3rd Sunday of Lent (“Extraordinary Form”) may now be downloaded, if anyone is interested in this.
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    Listening to this Easter Alleluia—an SATB arrangement I made twenty years ago based on the work of Monsignor Jules Van Nuffel—one of our readers left this comment: “I get tears in my eyes each time I sing to this hymn.” I hope this person is weeping for joy!
    —Jeff Ostrowski

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Ambrose and Prudentius took something classical and made it Christian; the revisers and their imitators took something Christian and tried to make it classical. The result may be pedantry, and sometimes perhaps poetry; but it is not piety. “Accessit Latinitas, discessit pietas.”

— Fr. Joseph Connelly (1954)

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