Latin Mass Homeschool Family

Quick video of a piece. Someone asked which tune we knew, so here it is.

Day 94 of #100daysofchant 

So close to finishing!

For anyone new, I have been working on a course teaching people how to Sing the Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Latin since 2020. Recently someone asked about the Psalm tone I was using for Compline compared with page 158 of the Baronius Press book, so I made a technical video exploring what was going on there - you'll have to get the course to find the video. In the process, I updated the booklets - available at littleoffice.brandt.id.au. Today I got around to fixing up the Psalm tone in a recording with one of my sons.

So now you have the definitive way to sing Compline from the Little Office.

Except I've still got the Monastic Sub Tuum in there, but no one has asked me about that yet, so it's staying for now as a nod to Maternal Heart Church, Lewisham.

God bless  you!

Day 93 of #100daysofchant 

The Introit for the feast of the Transfiguration of Our Lord (6 August)

ILLUXÉRUNT coruscatiónes, tuæ orbi terræ: commota est, et contrémuit terra. Ps. Quam dilécta tabernácula tua, Dómine virtútum! concupíscit, et déficit anima mea in atria Dómini. Gloria Patri.

Thy lightnings enlightened the world: the earth shook and trembled. Ps. How lovely are Thy tabernacles, O Lord of hosts! my soul longeth and fainteth for the courts of the Lord. Glory be to the Father.

Day 92 of #100daysofchant 

Visionem quam vidistis, nemini dixeritis, donec a mortuis resurgat Filius hominis.

Tell the vision which you have seen to no man until the Son of Man is risen from the dead.

or Television to no man. No TV. Dixit Dominus.

Day 91 of #100daysofchant 

The visuals are pages 207 and 1600^4 from the Liber Usualis 1961.

Here's my earlier version using a Communion Antiphon:

https://youtu.be/XpEtkYi8vI0

Day 90 of #100daysofchant 

We sang this as an intermission procession for a production of The Man Born to Be King at the Great Hall in Sydney University. That was my introduction to it. The whole audience processed out after the Crucifixion, giving the stage crew time to change the set.

More Info:

https://newbookoldhymns.brandt.id.au/hymns/vexilla.html

Day 88 of #100daysofchant 

You guys probably all go to the Easter Vigil and sleep in on Easter Sunday, don't you? Well, some really cool stuff happens while you guys are all sleeping. Easter Sunday has this little known optional procession.

Do you need a translation here when the words are in the video?

Way back when I put A New Book of Old Hymns together, I could not find a translation anywhere. Now they seem to abound on the internet! So many different versions though! There are even variations for Ascension Thursday and Pentecost.

Salve festa dies toto venerabilis aevo

In tempore paschale:   qua Deus infernum vicit et astra tenet.

In die ascensione:   qua Deus ascendit victor et astra tenet.

In die pentecoste:   qua sacer accendit Spiritus igne suos.

Hail festal day, hallowed forever; On which God defeats hell and seizes heaven.

Ecce renascentis testatur gratia mundi

Omnia cum Domino dona redisse suo.

Behold the beauty of the world reborn bears witness that all gifts have returned with their Lord.

Namque triumphanti post tristia tartara Christo

Undique fronde nemus gramina flore favent.

For indeed, from every side leafy groves and meadow flowers greet Christ as he returns in triumph after the gloom of hell.

Qui genus humanum cernes mersisse profundo,

ut hominem eriperes, es quoque factus homo.

When Thou sawest mankind buried in sin Thou becamest man to rescue man.

Tristia cesserunt infernae vincula legis

Expavitque chaos luminis ore premi.

The cruel bondage of hell's tyranny has passed away, Chaos is in terror of being overwhelmed by the face of light.

Pollicitam sed redde fidem, precor, alma potestas,

Tertia lux redii, surge sepulte meus.

O Nourishing Power, fulfil Thy promise, I pray. The third day dawns. Arise, my buried Lord.

Solve catenates inferni carceris umbrae,

et revoca sursum, quiquid ad ima ruit.

Loose the gloomy chains of hell's prison house and call back whatever is plummeting.

Redde tuam faciem, videant ut saecula lumen

redde diem, qui nos, te moriente, fugit.

Show us Thy face again, that the world may see its light. Show us the daylight that fled from us while Thou wast dying.

Day 87 of #100daysofchant 

I went with the "est vera" version thinking that it would be the better version as the new books were using it - like the way some of the Pre-Urbanite versions of hymns were being revived. Unfortunately, this isn't the way most of the groups I sing with sing it. "Ubi caritas et amor" is pretty entrenched. If I ever get around to the new version of A New Book of Old Hymns, this is one of many little changes to be made.

https://newbookoldhymns.brandt.id.au/hymns/ubicaritas.html

Day 82 of #100daysofchant

This is the day that the Lord hath made. Let us rejoice and be glad in it.

Haec dies quam fecit Dominus: exsultemus et laetemur in ea.

Day 81 of #100daysofchant 

This is the Communion Antiphon for this Sunday. I've sung it with the extra verses as found in the Goupil Gradual from Corpus Christi Watershed.

INCLÍNA aurem tuam, accélera ut erípias me.

Bow down Thy ear, make haste to deliver me.

Day 80 of #100daysofchant

This is the offertory antiphon for Mass this Sunday 

SICUT in holocáustis aríetum et taurórum, et sicut in míllibus agnórum pínguium: sic fiat sacrifícium nostrum in conspéctu tuo hódie, ut pláceat tibi: quia non est confúsio confidéntibus in te, Dómine.  

As in holocausts of rams and bullocks, and as in thousands of fat lambs; so let our sacrifice be made in Thy sight this day, that it may please Thee: for there is no confusion to them that trust in Thee, O Lord.

Day 79 of #100daysofchant 

This is the Introit for Mass this Sunday

OMNES gentes, pláudite manibús: jubiláte Deo in voce exsultatiónis. 

Ps. 46. 3. Quóniam Dóminus excélsus, terribílis: Rex magnus super omnem terram. V. Glória Patri. 

Clap your hands, all ye nations: shout unto God with the voice of joy. 

Ps. For the Lord is most high, He is terrible; He is a great King over all the earth. V. Glory be to the Father. 

Day 66 of #100daysofchant

I didn't do a great job here - I missed a verse accidentally and went flat, but hoping that on the balance, it may illuminate another corner of the treasure trove of the Church's patrimony of sacred music.

Refrain: Hail, Mother of mercy, Mother of God, and Mother of pardon, Mother of hope, and Mother of grace, Mother full of holy joy, O Mary!

1. Hail, honor of mankind; hail, Virgin worthier than others, who surpass all virgins and in heaven occupy the highest seat of honor, O Mary!

2. Hail, happy child-bearing Mother, for He Who sits at the right hand of the Father, ruling heaven, earth, and sky, didst enclose Himself within Thy womb, O Mary!

3. The Father created thee, the Only-Begotten One loved thee, the Holy Spirit made thee fruitful, thou art made wholly divine, O Mary!

4. God wondrously created thee; looks on thee, the humble handmaid; seeks thee, the amiable spouse; no one was made similar to thee, O Mary!

5. All the just desire to praise thee, but it is never sufficient; Many praises of thee they receive, but they are utterly deficient, O Mary!

6. O Mother, be our solace; thou Virgin, be our joy; at last, after this exile, join us, rejoicing, to the heavenly choirs, O Mary!

Day 67 of #100daysofchant 

Regina Mundi - the communion antiphon for the feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel coming up on the 16th July

REGÍNA mundi digníssima, María Virgo perpétua, intercéde pro nostra pace et salúte, quæ genuísti Christum Dóminum, Salvatórem ómnium.

Most worthy queen of the world, Mary, ever a virgin, intercede for our peace and safety, who didst bring forth Christ, Our Lord, the Saviour of all. 

Day 64 of #100daysofchant 

Wikipedia interleaves the text with the English translation:

Maria, mater gratiae,

Mary, gracious mother,

Dulcis parens clementiae,

Sweet fount of mercy,

Tu nos ab hoste protege,

Protect us from the foe,

Et mortis hora suscipe.

And receive us in our hour of death.

Jesu, tibi sit gloria,

Jesu, glory be to Thee,

Qui natus es de Virgine,

Born of the Virgin,

Cum Patre et almo Spiritu,

With the Father and the Holy Spirit,

In sempiterna saecula. Amen.

For ever and ever. Amen.

Day 62 of #100daysofchant

The Introit for the 5th Sunday after Pentecost (that's next Sunday, so get practising!)

EXAUDI, Dómine, vocem meam, qua clamávi ad te: adjútor meus esto, ne derelínquas me, neque despícias me, Deus salutáris meus. Ps. 26. 2. Dóminus illuminátio mea, et salus mea, quem timébo? V. Glória Patri.

Hear O Lord, my voice with which I have cried to Thee: be Thou my helper, forsake me not, nor do Thou despise me, O God, my Saviour. Ps. The Lord is my light, and my salvation, whom shall I fear? V. Glory be to the Father. 

Day 61 of #100daysofchant

UNAM pétii a Dómino, hanc requíram: ut inhábitem in domo Dòmini ómnibus diébus vitæ meæ.

One thing I have asked of the Lord, this will I seek after: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life.

Day 60 of #100daysofchant 

DÓMINUS firmaméntum meum, et refúgium meum, et liberátor meus: Deus meus adjútor meus. 

The Lord is my firmament, and my refuge, and my deliverer, my God is my helper.

Day 57 of #100daysofchant 

The feast of the Most Precious Blood is on 1st July. This is the Introit or Entrance Antiphon:

REDEMISTI nos, Dómine, in sanguine tuo, ex omni tribu, et lingua, et pópulo, et natióne: et fecísti nos Deo nostro regnum. Ps. 88.2. Misericórdias Dómini in ætérnum cantábo: in generatiónem et generatiónem annuntiábo veritátem tuam in ore meo. Gloria Patri. 

Thou hast redeemed us, O Lord, in Thy Blood, out of every tribe and tongue and people and nation, and hast made us to our God a kingdom. Ps. The mercies of the Lord I will sing forever: I will show forth Thy truth with my mouth to generation and generation. Glory be to the Father.

Day 56 of #100daysofchant 

Jesu Rex Admirabilis is one part of St Bernard of Clairvaux's Really Long Poem. The other popular part is Jesu Dulcis Memoria.

Giovanni Pierluigi Palestrina arranged it in this beautiful three part motet.

Here we alternate between the Palestrina and the Gregorian chant.

1  Jesu, Rex admirabilis

Et triumphator nobilis

Dulcedo ineffabilis

Totus desiderabilis.

2  Mane nobiscum Domine

Et nos illustra lumine

Pulsa mentis caligine

Mundum reple dulcedine.

3  Te saeculorum Principem,

Te, Christe, regem gentium,

Te mentium, Te cordium

unum fatemur arbitrum.

4  Amor Iesus continuus

Mihi languor assiduus

Mihi Iesus mellifluus

Fructus vitæ perpetuus

5  Quocumque loco fuero

Semper Iesum desidero

Amore Iesus langueo

& corde totus ardeo

1  O Jesu, King most wonderful,

Thou Conqueror renowned,

Thou sweetness most ineffable,

In whom all joys are found!

2  When once thou visitest the heart,

Then truth begins to shine;

Then earthly vanities depart;

Then kindles love divine.

3  O Jesu! Light of all below!

Thou Fount of life and fire,

Surpassing all the joys we know,

And all we can desire:

4  May every heart confess thy name,

And ever thee adore;

And seeking thee, itself inflame

To seek thee more and more.

5  Thee may our tongues forever bless,

Thee may we love alone;

And ever in our lives express

The image of thine own.

Translation by Edward Caswall