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Musical Resources • 11th Sunday after Pentecost

Jeff Ostrowski · July 27, 2016

PROCESSIONAL

Organist.

ASPERGES

PDF Score (Singer) • Practice Audio (Singer) • Organist

We also add a polyphonic section, which is #4550.

INTROIT • Sung by the men.

PDF Score (Singer) • Practice Audio (Singer)

KYRIE ELEISON

Go to this website and locate #3347, #3661, and #3579.

GLORIA IN EXCELSIS

We will probably sing #7709.

If not, we will use Campion Hymnals to sing Gloria IX with organ accompaniment by Flor Peeters. Another Gloria we know is #3610.

GRADUAL & ALLELUIA

We sing #3524 with the verses which you don’t need to practice.

CREDO IV • Alternatim

We sing this version: #3445.

OFFERTORY ANTIPHON

PDF Score (Singer)

Organist will play during the Offertory.

SANCTUS & HOSANNA

We have been singing #3496.

AGNUS DEI

Here is the musical score. To learn this piece, visit this website and locate #2978. The words are different, but the music is the same.

COMMUNION ANTIPHON • Sung by the ladies.

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Accompanied from these markings.

COMMUNION

The chant verses from THIS accompanied by this organist score.

BENEDICTION :

After the Last Gospel, Celebrant changes into Cope at the chair. Then he walks to the center of the Altar to expose the Sanctíssimum. He intones “O Salutaris Hostia” (Number 968 in the Campion Missals) which we continue. Organist accompanies using this score.

Celebrant incenses the Sanctíssimum.

Consecration is not prayed.

We count to twenty, then begin singing “Tantum Ergo” (Number 969 in the Campion Missals). Organist accompanies using this file.

After the Blessing with the Monstrance, Divine Praises will be prayed, and Tabernacle door is closed, we sing “Adoremus.”

RECESSIONAL HYMN • #896 The Blessed Sacrament Of The Altar

From the Campion Hymnal. Click here to hear the tune, but that’s slower than we’ll take it.

PRAYER WITH THE CHOIR (taken from the CAMPION HYMNAL) :

Here’s the most common conclusion:

407 Christ Saves

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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).

Father Adrian Fortescue on the “Agnus Dei”

Speaking about the AGNUS DEI, Father Fortescue wrote: “Agnus as a vocative is curious, evidently in order to reproduce the original text (John 1:29) exactly.” [Altera die vidit Joannes Jesum venientem ad se, et ait: Ecce agnus Dei, ecce qui tollit peccatum mundi.] Father Fortescue, as usual, is correct; but in some medieval manuscripts you can find “Agne Dei.” Here’s an an example of that.

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List • Responses by each bishop!

This incredible website gives each bishop’s response to the recent MOTU PROPRIO Traditionis Custodes, a decree by Pope Francis which seeks to reduce the number of celebrations of the “Extraordinary Form” (Traditional Latin Mass): traditioniscustodes.info

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Tomorrow is Sunday…

When you were in school, you would have gotten in trouble if you wrote the Roman Numeral “9” as viiii. You were supposed to write: IX. But look how an ancient manuscript writes “9” as a Roman Numeral. That’s the Introit Ecce Deus for tomorrow’s feast in the Extraordinary Form: The 9th Sunday after Pentecost.

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Impelled by the weightiest of reasons, we are fully determined to restore Latin to its position of honor, and to do all We can to promote its study and use. The employment of Latin has recently been contested in many quarters, and many are asking what the mind of the Apostolic See is in this matter. We have therefore decided to issue the timely directives contained in this document, so as to ensure that the ancient and uninterrupted use of Latin be maintained and, where necessary, restored.”

— Pope John XXIII (22 February 1962)