Music for Lent-6-A (Mar 16) Palm-Passion

Prelude:           -none-during-Lent--SILENCE--
Palm Blessing:     517
Processional Hymn: 244: All Glory Laud And Honor
Gloria:            -none-during-Lent-
Readings:          520 (gospel 521)
Intercessions:     138: Lord hear our prayer
Offertory:         250: O Sacred Head Surrounded
Sanctus/Mem/Amen:  Missa XVIII (simplex): chant
Agnus Dei:         Missa XVIII (simplex): chant
Communion Hymn:    311: Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence
Final Hymn:        -none-
Postlude:          -none-during-Lent--SILENCE--

Music Notes:


The official church music for members of the
assembly (congregation) at Mass are the chanted
Ordinary (Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, Agnus Dei).


There are eighteen sets of Ordinary chants; parishioners
of St David are familiar with four (VIII de angelis,
XI orbis factor, XVII salve, XVIII simplex)!


This week, on Palm-Passion Sunday and on Holy Thursday,
the Sanctus and Agnus Dei we sing are the shortest and
simplest chants from among these sets (XVIII);
this Sanctus dates from the 1200s, and this Agnus Dei
dates from the 1100s.


In 1974, these two were included in a selection of chants
(Jubilate Deo) accompanying a letter by Pope Paul VI
to all the bishops in the world; its contents echoed the
Vatican II directives to ensure that the faithful are able
to chant together in Latin those parts of the Ordinary
of the Mass which pertain to them.


These chants express our unity, not only with Catholics back
through the centuries, but also with all in the many nations
at the present moment, and into the future, especially with
those who enter the Church through our own parish at the
Easter Vigil.


The Communion Antiphon (Graduale Romanum Chant Proper):
Pater, si non potest hic calix transire, nisi biban illum:
fiat voluntas tua (Father, if this cup cannot pass away
unless I drink it, thy will be done).