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Marjorie Greene wrote:
> July 11th is by the way the Translation (or 'Deposition') of the venerable
> Benedictus
This is an interesting one, as there were two instances of the March 21 feast.
The first (on the general kalendar) was "St. Benedict, Abbot., greater double."
The Mass was from the Common of Abbots (Os justi), with Commemoration of the
Feria in Lent in non-Conventual Masses, with the Gospel at end.
The second one is for observance among Benedictines: "The Holy Father Benedict,
Abbot, Patriarch of Monks; Double of I Class." It is also taken from the
Common of
Abbots, but has its own propers. Introit (Gaudeamus); Collect, Epistle (taken from
the August 28th feast of St. Augustine, but changing the opening words to "Behold
a great Confessor); Secretum; and Post Communion. It uses the Sequence from the
July 11th feast (but changes the word "feast" to "rest.), and it uses the Proper
Preface of St. Benedict, from that feast.
The July 11th observance is "The Solemnity of St. Benedict, Abbot, Patriarch of
Monks; Double of I Class with common Octave." It has a full set of Propers. The
Introit, "Faciam te." Collect. Lesson from Sirach. Gradual & Alleluia. Sequence,
"Laeta quies magni ducis." Gospel from the Common. Offertory. Secretum. Proper
Preface. Communio. And, Postcommunion.
(The "Octave Day of St. Benedict, Abbot, greater double" on July 18th has the
Introit, "Vir Dei Benedictus," a proper Collect, and Lesson from Sirach.)
From the July 11th Solemnity, the beautiful Sequence is below, in the translation
in Use by Benedictines of the Anglican Catholic Church. Note that the meter is
such that it could be sung to almost any tune for the "Tamtum ergo sacramentum."
Below the Sequence is the Proper Preface.
Pax,
Terrill
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SEQUENCE: "Laeta quies magni ducis."
Joy our Founder's Feast hath taught us,
Many gifts of new light brought us
Who do set this day apart.
To the pious man is given
Grace, to strive as he hath striven,
Love to warm the ardent heart.
We, in wonder at that vision
Which above the east hath risen,
Praise our glorious Patriarch.
Countless seed did he engender--
Thus as Abraham in splendour,
Day-star dawning in the dark.
Served by ravens, like Elias,
We do see him, pure and pious,
Dwelling in his little cave.
Like Eliseus, power shewing,
Spake he to the torrent flowing,
Bade the axe float on the wave.
Great was Jacob's prophesying,
Pure was Joseph's lust-defying,
Dear as these his life is priced.
For his children interceding,
May he by his mighty pleading,
Lead us to the joys of Christ. Amen.
PROPER PREFACE OF SAINT BENEDICT
Because thou didst set the most blessed Confessor Benedict to be a leader and a
heavenly master to an innumerable multitude of sons ; whom also, filled with the
fullness of the spirit which endueth all the just, and caught up, as it were, to
heaven, thou didst illumine with the splendour of thine own light ; so that, by
reason of the light of his heavenly vision, his mind, set free from every bond of
darkness, might learn the meanness of all earthly things ; through Jesus Christ
our Lord. Therefore, etc.
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