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Dominica II “per annum” – 20 Ian 2019

Ant. ad introitum Ps 65, 4
Omnis terra adóret te, Deus, et psallat tibi;
psalmum dicat nómini tuo, Altíssime.

Collecta
Omnípotens sempitérne Deus,
qui cæléstia simul et terréna moderáris,
supplicatiónes pópuli tui cleménter exáudi,
et pacem tuam nostris concéde tempóribus.
Per Dóminum.

Super oblata
Concéde nobis, quǽsumus, Dómine,
hæc digne frequentáre mystéria,
quia, quóties huius hóstiæ commemorátio celebrátur,
opus nostræ redemptiónis exercétur.
Per Christum.

Ant. ad communionem Cf. Ps 22, 5
Parásti in conspéctu meo mensam,
et calix meus inébrians quam præclárus est!
Vel: 1 Io 4, 16
Nos cognóvimus et credídimus caritáti,
quam Deus habet in nobis.

Post communionem
Spíritum nobis, Dómine, tuæ caritátis infúnde,
ut, quos uno cælésti pane satiásti,
una fácias pietáte concórdes.
Per Christum.

Messalino in PDF con letture in lingua italiana (da stampare su fogli A3 fronte/retro)

Missalette in PDF with readings in English (to be printed on A3 sheets, front/back)

Messbuch in PDF mit Lesungen auf Deutsch (auf A3-Bogen, Vorder-/Rückseite drücken)

Old St. Mary’s Church – Cincinnati, Ohio

Sacred Music at Old St. Mary’s

At Old Saint Mary’s, the sacred music apostolate seeks to combine the rich heritage of Catholic music from the medieval, renaissance, baroque, classical, and romantic periods of music in the more “modern” context of the Mass of Paul VI. Below, you will find musical descriptions of the parish’s Masses.

9:15 a.m. Latin Mass

At this Mass, one can experience music almost entirely in Latin. The Oratory Schola Cantorum chants the propers of the Mass (Introit, Gradual, Alleluia, Offertory, and Communion) from the Graduale Romanum, the official music book of the Roman Catholic Church. The congregation joins the choir in the singing of the Ordinary of the Mass (Kyrie, Gloria, Creed, Sanctus, and Agnus Dei) using one of the chant settings of the Kyriale Romanum. These chant Mass settings change seasonally, as directed by the Church’s rubrics.

Twice per month and on special feasts of the Church year, the Ordinary is sung to a setting by a major composer of the renaissance, baroque, or romantic periods. All Sundays and feasts also include motets or special anthems, sung by The Oratory Schola Cantorum.

Organ music at the prelude, improvisations during the Mass, and the postlude are provided weekly (except during Advent and Lent).

11:00 a.m. German Mass

At this Mass, one can experience music entirely in German. Old Saint Mary’s has maintained the tradition, albeit in a modern adaptation, of the Deutsche Singmesse, or German Sung Mass.

Hymns from the German-speaking hymnal, the Gotteslob (2013), are sung by the congregation at the procession, Kyrie, Gloria, Gospel, Offertory, Sanctus, Agnus Dei, Communion, and retiring procession.

Organ music at the prelude, improvisations during the Mass, and the postlude are provided weekly (except during Advent and Lent).

12:30 p.m. English Mass

At this Mass, you can experience a blend of music in Latin and English. Congregational hymns are sung at the procession and retiring procession. The congregation also sings parts of the Ordinary of the Mass (Sanctus, and Agnus Dei) in Latin using Pope Paul VI’s Iubilate Deo setting promulgated following the Second Vatican Council.

Organ music, in the form of improvisation, is played during the Offertory and Communion. These improvisations are based on the chants of the day.

3:30 p.m. Sunday Vespers

The culmination of Sunday prayer is with the Church’s daily evening prayer, called Vespers. Each Sunday (mid-October through the last Sunday in May), the members of The Cincinnati Oratory, along with all those who wish to attend, chant second Vespers of Sunday according to the Liber Usualis 1962.

This service of evening prayer is sung entirely in Latin. There are Latin-English editions of the chants at each of the entrances of the church for the faithful to follow along.

Sunday Vespers is a wonderful way to “keep holy the Sabbath,” as the Lord commands.

We hope you will join us and sing heartily!

Old St. Mary’s Church
123 E. Thirteenth St.
Cincinnati, Ohio 45202

The Novus Ordo Latin Mass – part I
The Novus Ordo Latin Mass – part II

The Basilica of Ss Peter and Paul in Chattanooga, Tennessee (diocese of Knoxville)

From New Liturgical Movement site:

We recently reported on a very nice restoration project at the Basilica of Ss Peter and Paul in Chattanooga, Tennessee, in the diocese of Knoxville, in which three new altars were installed, along with a new reredos for the main sanctuary, and a good deal of carpeting removed from the church’s original hard pine flooring. A final stage of the project has now been completed, with installation of a new tabernacle in the main sanctuary, and the return of the altar rail around it. Fr J. David Carter, the pastor and rector of the basilica, wrote to his parishioners that the altar rail is being used as a way of encouraging people to kneel for the reception of Holy Communion, in the hopes that it will serve to foster belief in and greater reverence for the True Presence of Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament – feliciter!

Latin Novus Ordo Masses:

11:30 am Sun. – Sung Novus Ordo Mass in English & Latin with schola, incense, ad orientem
1:30 pm Sun. – Sung Novus Ordo Misa en Español & Latín with choir, incense, ad orientem seasonally

The Basilica of Sts. Peter & Paul
214 E. 8th Street, Chattanooga Tennessee
423 266 1618
Website

“Mass Facing the People: A Good Idea?” — Fr. Schmitz

Fr. Mike Schmitz gave a talk at the 2019 FOCUS conference, and here is an excerpt:

Basically, Fr. Schmitz says celebration facing the people leads people to “sit there and watch” Mass—whereas Mass “ad orientem” reminds us we’re called to assist at Mass rather than sit as “detached and silent spectators” (as Pope Pius XI put it).

(source)

Il card. Hume sulla Comunione nella mano

Avrei voluto dividere con altri un’inquietudine concernente la fede del nostro popolo nella Presenza reale del Cristo nell’Eucaristia. La Comunione nella mano, lo spostamento del Santissimo Sacramento dall’altar maggiore, l’assenza di genuflessione hanno, secondo la mia esperienza, indebolito il rispetto e la devozione dovuta a un così grande sacramento. I gesti esterni esprimono una disposizione interiore e, allo stesso tempo, contribuiscono a favorire l’atteggiamento adeguato.

Card. Basil Hume, in La Documentation Catholique n. 2211 del 3/10/1999.

Communion in the hand, moving the Blessed Sacrament from the high altar, failure to genuflect, have in my experience weakened the respect and devotion due to so great a sacrament.

(Catholic Herald 3rd September 1999)

In Epiphania Domini – 6 Ian 2019

Sollemnitas

Ubi sollemnitas Epiphaniæ non est de præcepto servanda, assignatur, tamquam diei proprio, dominicæ a die 2 ad diem 8 ianuarii occurrenti.

Ad Missam in Vigilia

Hæc Missa adhibetur vespere pridie sollemnitatis sive ante sive post I Vesperas Epiphaniæ.

Ant. ad introitum Cf. Bar 5, 5
Surge, Ierúsalem, et circúmspice ad oriéntem et vide
congregátos fílios tuos a solis ortu usque ad occásum.

Dicitur Glória in excélsis.

Collecta
Corda nostra, quǽsumus, Dómine,
tuae maiestátis splendor illústret,
quo mundi huius ténebras transíre valeámus,
et perveniámus ad pátriam claritátis ætérnæ.
Per Dóminum.

Dicitur Credo.

Super oblata
Súscipe, quǽsumus, Dómine, múnera nostra
pro apparitióne Unigéniti Fílii tui
et primítiis géntium dicáta,
ut et tibi celebrétur laudátio
et nobis fiat ætérna salvátio.
Per Christum.

Præfatio de Epiphania.

Ant. ad communionem Cf. Ap 21, 23
Cláritas Dei illuminávit civitátem sanctam Ierúsalem
et ambulábant gentes in lúmine eius.

Post communionem
Sacra alimónia renováti,
tuam, Dómine, misericórdiam deprecámur,
ut semper in méntibus nostris tuæ appáreat stella iustítiæ
et noster in tua sit confessióne thesáurus.
Per Christum.

Adhiberi potest formula benedictionis sollemnis.

Ad Missam in die

Ant. ad introitum Cf. Mal 3, 1; 1 Chr 29, 12
Ecce advénit Dominátor Dóminus;
et regnum in manu eius et potéstas et impérium.

Dicitur Glória in excélsis.

Collecta
Deus, qui hodiérna die Unigénitum tuum
géntibus stella duce revelásti,
concéde propítius, ut, qui iam te ex fide cognóvimus,
usque ad contemplándam spéciem tuæ celsitúdinis
perducámur.
Per Dóminum.

Ubi mos est, pro opportunitate, publicari possunt post Evangelium festa mobilia anni currentis iuxta formulam positam.

Dicitur Credo.

Super oblata
Ecclésiæ tuæ, quǽsumus, Dómine, dona propítius intuére,
quibus non iam aurum, thus et myrrha profértur,
sed quod eísdem munéribus
declarátur, immolátur et súmitur, Iesus Christus.
Qui vivit et regnat in sǽcula sæculórum.

Præfatio de Epiphania Domini.

Quando adhibetur Canon romanus, dicitur Communicántes proprium.

Ant. ad communionem Cf. Mt 2, 2
Vídimus stellam eius in Oriénte,
et vénimus cum munéribus adoráre Dóminum.

Post communionem
Cælésti lúmine, quǽsumus, Dómine,
semper et ubíque nos prǽveni,
ut mystérium, cuius nos partícipes esse voluísti,
et puro cernámus intúitu, et digno percipiámus afféctu.
Per Christum.

Adhiberi potest formula benedictionis sollemnis.

Messalino in PDF con letture in lingua italiana (da stampare su fogli A3 fronte/retro)

Missalette in PDF with readings in English (to be printed on A3 sheets, front/back)

Twelve Things I Like About the Novus Ordo Mass

Fr. Dwight Longenecker

Like many, I’m critical of the abuses of the new Mass–the dreadful architecture, banal art, saccharine and heterodox music, poor preaching etc etc that too often has gone along with the reforms of the Second Vatican Council, but my point has always been that these are abuses and when you take the Ordinary Form of the Mass–simply what’s in the book–just the words and rubrics–there’s not much wrong with it. Can there be some improvements? Sure, but I’ve asked traditionalists if they can tell me what is so terribly wrong with it–just the words in the book–not all the other abuses and things they don’t like that are associated with Vatican II.

Nobody’s given me a good answer yet.

In keeping with my own view that one should always give the benefit of the doubt and try to find what’s right rather than always find what’s wrong I thought I’d put together this list of what’s GOOD about the Novus Ordo Mass.

(…)

It’s flexible. We’re supposed to honor Latin as the language of our church and it is easy enough to integrate a little or a lot of Latin into the Novus Ordo Mass. It is also flexible musically. You don’t have to use Haagan Daz, hootenany and soft rock music. Learn Gregorian chant and polyphony. It fits.

(…)

It can be celebrated ad orientem, with altar rails, communion administered to the faithful kneeling and on the tongue, well-trained altar servers, good music, vestments, architecture and art. Yes, bland and banal is possible, but so is grand and glorious.

(…)

It’s simple. The plain words and actions of the Novus Ordo provide for a celebration with noble simplicity. Just saying the black and doing the red has a down to earth dignity–not overly ornate and fancy nor banal and vulgar.
Does this mean I am against traditionalists and disapprove of the Extraordinary Form of the Mass? No. It’s good to have both and each should inform the other. A person is most often right in what he affirms and wrong in what he denies. It is possible therefore to be critical of a thing without rejecting it entirely just as it is possible to see the good in a thing without endorsing it 100%.

Read full article here.

Adoratio Eucharistica ad Orientem

Eucharistic Adoration can and should always be conducted with the priest (or the deacon) and the people facing the monstrance together. The priest (or the deacon) can give the Benediction from the people’s side of the altar rather than moving behind the altar.

L’adorazione eucaristica può e dovrebbe sempre essere fatta con il sacerdote (o il diacono) e il popolo rivolti insieme verso l’ostensorio. Il sacerdote (o il diacono) può impartire la benedizione stando sul lato anteriore dell’altare (verso il popolo), senza girarci intorno per andare dietro.

Msgr. Charles Pope

How to Popularize ‘Ad Orientem’ Without Disorienting People

Here’s how to better acquaint God’s people with the beauty and naturalness of the ad orientem posture at Mass

Msgr. Charles Pope

The fact is, most people see the eastward orientation as a very big change. As such, it is bound to be controversial; simply presenting scholarly arguments isn’t going to be enough to warm many people up to the idea. Those of us who see value in this orientation are going to have to do a lot more to accustom people to the idea.

A further obstacle is that not all priests, even those open to the ad orientem posture, are willing to withstand the ire of their bishop in such a matter—and perhaps that is a good thing. Bishops do moderate the liturgy in their dioceses and priests should instinctively want to maintain unity with their bishop. There may be times when it is best for a priest to accept his bishop’s preference rather than insist upon his rights. This is less a question of law than one of prudence and respect. Upon ordination, every priest promises respect and obedience to his ordinary. Thus, if a bishop indicates that he does not want Mass to be celebrated ad orientem as a general practice, a priest should think long and hard before insisting upon his right to make that consistent change in his parish.

With all this in mind, I wonder if those of us who support the eastward orientation for the Eucharistic Prayer might consider some more subtle ways of acclimating the faithful to it. There are a number of points in the liturgy and in liturgical practice when the celebrant is addressing a prayer to God and can make this more obvious by “facing” God.

Read full article here.

An Idiot’s Guide to Square Notes

By Arlene Oost-Zinner and Jeffrey Tucker

You can’t get too far into Catholic sacred music without running into “neumes,” those little square notes on four lines that look beautiful if oddly antiquated. Most people have no idea how to read them, and most trained musicians are as much at a loss as anyone else. They don’t teach reading neumes (pronounced “nyoomz”) in graduate school.
What to do?
There are two typical responses. An ambitious person scrambles to find the same chant in modern notation, and usually fails. Modern-note editions of chant are out there but they are difficult to find and the repertoire is limited. A less ambitious person assumes that he or she doesn’t need to know this old notation anyway, since it is too complicated and outmoded in any case.
Either response leads the person out of chant, and back into the status quo. Well, be not afraid. This is your time-saving, ten-minute, clip-n-save intro to chant.

Download PDF here.