The Recovering Choir Director

With all the talk about musical styles regarding today’s Papal Mass in Washington D.C., it might be useful to take a look at what the 1974 Graduale Romanum—the official songbook of the ordinary form of the Latin Rite—prescribes for today’s concluded Mass; after all, according to the GIRM, the texts and music found in the Graduale Romanum are those that receive the most weight in the Latin Rite.

According to the Ordo, today’s Mass at Nationals Park was a Votive Mass of the Holy Spirit.

The proper chants for this Mass in Paschal time as found in the Graduale Romanum, selected audio clips of these chants, and translations of the Scripture verses cited by the proper antiphons are available after the break.

PROPER CHANTS WITH AUDIO EXAMPLES

• Introit:
  • Caritas Dei diffusa est (Romans 5:5, 10-11; Psalm 102:1)
  • or Spiritus Domini replevit orbem (Wisdom 1:7; Psalm 67:1)
    [audio:http://www.christusrex.org/www2/cantgreg/cantus/in_spiritus_domini.mp3]
    See also a polyphonic setting by William Byrd
• Alleluia*: Emitte Spiritum tuum (Psalm 103:30)
  [audio:http://www.christusrex.org/www2/cantgreg/cantus/al_emitte_spiritum_tuum.mp3]
  See also a polyphonic setting by William Byrd
• Alleluia: Veni, Sancte Spiritus[audio:http://www.christusrex.org/www2/cantgreg/cantus/al_veni_sancte_spiritus.mp3]
  See also a polyphonic setting by William Byrd
• Offertory:
  • Confirma hoc, Deus (Psalm 67:29-30)
    [audio:http://www.christusrex.org/www2/cantgreg/cantus/of_confirma_hoc_deus.mp3]
    See also polyphonic settings by William Byrd, Jacob Handl, Palestrina, and Antonio Salieri
  • or Emitte Spiritum tuum (Psalm 103:30-31)
• Communion:
  • Spiritus qui a Patre procedit (John 15:26, John 16:14 or John 17:1, 5)
  • or Spiritus Sanctus docebit vos (John 14:26)
    [audio:http://www.christusrex.org/www2/cantgreg/cantus/co_spiritus_sanctus_docebit_vos.mp3]

*In Paschal time, an Alleluia and verse replaces the Gradual.

TRANSLATIONS

Introit: Caritas Dei diffusa est

Romans 5:5,10-11

5And hope confoundeth not: because the charity of God is poured forth in our hearts, by the Holy Ghost, who is given to us.

10For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son; much more, being reconciled, shall we be saved by his life.

11And not only so; but also we glory in God, through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received reconciliation.

Psalm 103:1

1For David himself. Bless the Lord, O my soul: and let all that is within me bless his holy name.

Introit: Spiritus Domini replevit orbem

Wisdom 1:7

7For the spirit of the Lord hath filled the whole world: and that, which containeth all things, hath knowledge of the voice.

Psalm 68:2

2Let God arise, and let his enemies be scattered: and let them that hate him flee from before his face.

Alleluia*: Emitte Spiritum tuum

Psalm 104:30

30Thou shalt send forth thy spirit, and they shall be created: and thou shalt renew the face of the earth.

Alleluia: Veni, Sancte Spiritus

From the Roman Missal

Come, O Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of Thy faithful: and kindle in them the fire of Thy love.

Offertory: Confirma hoc, Deus

Psalm 68:29-30

29Command thy strength, O God: confirm, O God, what thou hast wrought in us.

30From thy temple in Jerusalem, kings shall offer presents to thee.

Offertory: Emitte Spiritum tuum

Psalm 104:30-31

30Thou shalt send forth thy spirit, and they shall be created: and thou shalt renew the face of the earth.

31May the glory of the Lord endure for ever: the Lord shall rejoice in his works.

Communion: Spiritus qui a Patre procedit

John 15:26

26But when the Paraclete cometh, whom I will send you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceedeth from the Father, he shall give testimony of me.

John 16:14

14He shall glorify me; because he shall receive of mine, and shall shew it to you.

John 17:1,5

1These things Jesus spoke, and lifting up his eyes to heaven, he said: Father, the hour is come, glorify thy Son, that thy Son may glorify thee.

5And now glorify thou me, O Father, with thyself, with the glory which I had, before the world was, with thee.

Communion: Spiritus Sanctus docebit vos

John 14:26

26But the Paraclete, the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things, and bring all things to your mind, whatsoever I shall have said to you.