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What Monks Sing on Saturday Night

Posted by Kathleen Pluth on June 16th, 2013

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Primo dierum
omnium

The first
of all the days is here,

the day
God made the world appear,

the day
His rising made us free,

and
vanquished death in victory.

Our
sleepiness is put to flight,

so let us
speedily alight

to watch
and seek the night hours through

as
Prophets from of old would do.

May God
be list’ning as we stand,

and
forward stretch his strong right hand,

that
cleansed of stains, we may arise

enthroned
by Christ among the skies.

So that
the Lord in kindness may,

in this
most sacred time of day,

the
favors of the blessed bring

to those
who through the silence sing.

All glory
to the Father be

and to
His Son eternally,

whom with
the Spirit we adore

forever and
forevermore.

The Gregorian tune and a literal translation may be found here.

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Directory for the Ministry and the Life of Priests

Posted by Kathleen Pluth on June 15th, 2013

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On Thursday, the Congregation for the Clergy issued a new edition of its Directory for the Ministry and the Life of Priests. The document makes a clear call for rediscovery of the sacredness of the priesthood within our secularist world.

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First and
foremost is the priest’s relationship with the Triune God. The
revelation of God as Father, Son and Holy Spirit is linked
to the manifestation of God as Love which creates and saves. Now,
if redemption is a sort of creation and an extension thereof
(in fact it is called “new”), then the priest, the minister of
redemption and in light of his being a source of new life, thereby
becomes an instrument of the new creation. This already
suffices to project the greatness of the ordained minister,
independently from his capacities and his talents, his limits and his
miseries. This is what led St. Francis of Assisi to write in his
Testament: “I am determined to reverence, love and honour these and
all the others as my superiors. I refuse to consider their
sins, because I can see the Son of God in them and they are my
superiors. I do this because in this world I cannot see the
most high Son of God with my own eyes except for his most holy
Body and Blood which they receive and they alone
administer to others”. That is the Body and Blood which regenerate
humanity.

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The "Remote" vs. "Close" Theological Fallacy

Posted by Kathleen Pluth on June 15th, 2013

Someone has gone again and propounded a misunderstanding about God. Like many theological misunderstandings, its basis is the reduction of God to human terms.

Pepinster says that there has been a tension

between those who want to describe God as a …

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New Bach manuscript found

Posted by Kathleen Pluth on June 12th, 2013

It’s a Mass by Gasparini. More here.

H/T Lewis King

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Rhythm and concord most of all sink down to the inmost soul and cling to her most vigorously

Posted by Kathleen Pluth on June 12th, 2013

Such
is the power of music to grab hold of the soul that Socrates warns us
of its dangers. “So then,” Socrates says to his young interlocutor,
Glaucon, “isn’t this why upbringing in music is most sovereign? It’s
because rhythm and concord most of all sink down to the inmost soul and
cling to her most vigorously as they bring gracefulness with them; and
they make a man graceful if he’s brought up correctly, but if not, then
the opposite.” Socrates points to ‘rhythm and concord’ for the source of
music’s power, not its tones, intervals, melodies, and harmonies. Is he
right in that? Do we think he is right about the power of music for
good and for ill?

My alma mater’s President reflects upon the place of music in a liberal education.

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When Musicians’ Flights Are Delayed

Posted by Kathleen Pluth on June 10th, 2013

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Hermeneutic of Reform

Posted by Kathleen Pluth on June 9th, 2013

In his inaugural address to the curia in Advent 2005, Pope Benedict spoke against reading the Second Vatican Council as though it had made a rupture with the past.

The historical reasons that contributed to a sense of rupture–it was the sixties…

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Tags: Hermeneutic, pope benedict, Pope Emeritus, Second Vatican Council

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Hymn for the Solemnity of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus

Posted by Kathleen Pluth on June 7th, 2013

A mysterious stranger posting on the Musica Sacra Forum under the codename MHI offers his/her translation of the office hymn Auctor beate sæculi, for the Feast of the Day.

Like the office hymns in general, it is chock-full of theology, and the translation is really well done.

Auctor beate sæculi

O blessèd Founder of the world,
O Christ, who dost all things redeem,
art very God of very God,
and gleaming of the Father’s gleam.

Thy love it was that earth and sea
and stars with bounteous craft did make,
took pity when our fathers strayed,
and did our own confinements break.

Thy love it was did thee constrain
on thee to take the mortal clay,
the latter Adam, to restore
that which the former took away.

Let not that force of noble love
out of his proper seat depart,
and let the nations draw the grace
of pardon at that spring, thy Heart.

The which for this did suffer pangs,
for this also the bitter spear:
that us, who were in filthy state,
its flowing wave and blood might clear.

O Jesu, glory be to thee,
who from thy Heart thy grace dost pour,
to Holy Ghost and to thy Sire
for ages hence and evermore.

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By the streams of Babylon

Posted by Kathleen Pluth on June 5th, 2013

Music has died now I’ve thrown away my CDs and only listen on my laptop

Is this an inevitable dynamic?

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Hymn Tune Introits for June

Posted by Kathleen Pluth on June 3rd, 2013

My article in the current Adoremus Bulletin includes these Hymn Tune Introits for the Sundays and major feast days of June.

Sorry, a day late and a dollar short for Corpus Christi!

June 2, Corpus Christi

He fed them with the finest wheat,
Alleluia, alleluia,
And honey from the rock to eat,
Alleluia, alleluia.

June 7, Sacred Heart

His heart’s designs forever stand,
From age to age His loving plan,
That He may save their souls from death,
In famine save their life and breath.

June 9, Tenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

The Lord, my stronghold and my light
My saving help — whom shall I fear?
The evil-doers, with their might,
Will fall themselves, when they draw near.

June 16, Eleventh Sunday in Ordinary Time

My voice, O Lord, incline to hear.
I call to You: my help, be near.
My faithful God and Savior be.
O Lord, do not abandon me.

June 23, Twelfth Sunday in Ordinary Time

The Lord God is His people’s might,
Protecting His anointed’s right.
Your heritage, Lord, save and bless,
And lead them, Lord, in righteousness.

June 24, Birth of Saint John the Baptist (during the day)

God sent a man; John was his name,
For testimony to the light.
To make God’s people fit he came:
A people righteous in God’s sight.

June 28, Evening, Vigil of Saints Peter and Paul

Th’apostle Peter, guide of all,
Worked with the Gentiles’ teacher, Paul,
And we enjoy their work’s reward:
To know the precepts of the Lord.

June 29, Saints Peter and Paul (during the day)

These men drank from the Lord’s own cup,
In triumph o’er their weakness trod.
They helped the Church to be built up,
And they became the friends of God.

June 30, Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

All people dwelling on the earth,
O clap your hands, rejoice, applaud,
And with resounding shouts of joy
Cry out unto the living God.