Music for Lent-4-A (Mar 2)

Prelude:           -none-during-Lent--SILENCE--
Processional Hymn: 342: Amazing Grace
Kyrie:             Missa XI (orbis factor): chant
Gloria:            -none-during-Lent-
Readings:          511
Intercessions:     138: Lord hear our prayer
Offertory:         297: I Want To Walk As A Child Of The Light
                   (11) Ave verum corpus: Byrd
Sanctus/Mem/Amen:  (5) 103-104-105: Mass of Creation: Haugen
                   (11) Missa XI (orbis factor): chant
Agnus Dei:         Missa XI (orbis factor): chant
Communion Hymn:    849: The King Of Love My Shepherd Is
Final Hymn:        423: Lift High The Cross
Postlude:          -none-during-Lent--SILENCE--

Music Notes:


The Communion Antiphon (Graduale Romanum Chant Proper):
Lutum fecit ex sputo Dominus, et linivit oculos meos:
et abii, et lavi, et vidi, et credidi Deo (The Lord made
some clay with his spittle, and he spread it over my eyes;
and I went forth, I washed myself, I began to see, and I
put my faith in God).


William Byrd (1534-1623) was born in England, and
remained Catholic during the religious turbulence under
Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary I, Elizabeth I. The last,
ignoring his religion, granted him a monopoly of printing
music-paper and music.


The 1300s text ("Ave verum corpus, natum de Maria Virgine,
vere passum, immolatum in cruce pro homine, cujus latus
perforatum unda fluxit sanguine: esto nobis praegustatum in
mortis examine. O dulcis, O pie, O Jesu fili Mariae, miserere
mei. Amen.")(Hail true body born of the Virgin Mary, truly
suffered, sacrificed on the cross for man, from whose pierced
side blood and water flowed: be our food in our final trial.
O sweet, O kind, O Jesus, son of Mary, have mercy on me. Amen.)
was a source of meditation for Byrd; he reflected on "the very
sentences" as he composed "diligently and earnestly turning them
over in his mind"; he revised his music at least twice before
his final 1605 version.