Music for OT-10-C (Jun 6) Corpus Christi

Prelude:           Ecce Panis (Opus 65 Book 6): Guilmant
Introit:           256: At The Lambs High Feast We Sing
Kyrie:             Deutsche Messe: Schubert
Gloria:            Deutsche Messe: Schubert
Readings:          577
Psalm:             (Corp-C Guimont p 183) You are a priest ...
Sequence:          Sequence "Lauda Sion" (see pew-sheet)
Acclamation:       (Corp-C Lassus sheet) I am the living ...
Intercessions:     115: Lord hear our prayer
Offertory:         432: Shepherd Of Souls In Love Come Feed
                   (11) (NCAB p 38) Ave Verum Corpus: William Byrd
Sanctus-Mem-Amen:  Deutsche Messe: Schubert
Agnus Dei          Deutsche Messe: Schubert
Communion:         850: Adoro Te Devote
Final Hymn:        306: Holy God We Praise Thy Name
Postlude:          Deo Gratias (Opus 65 Book 10): Guilmant

Music Notes:


This weekend the Solemnity of Corpus Christi
supersedes the Sunday Vigil/Day of Ordinary Time (Week 10).


Communion (Graduale Romanum Chant) (1 Cor 11:24,25)
Hoc corpus, quod pro vobis tradetur; hic calix novi
testamenti est in meo sanquine, dicit Dominus; hoc
facite, quotiescumque sumitis, in meam commemorationem.
(This is my body which is given up for you; this is
the cup of the new covenant in my blood", says the Lord.
"Each time that you partake thereof, do it in memory of me.")


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.