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Bill East wrote:
>
> Offertorium - 8
>
> The first Mass for Christmas, 'In nocte'
In the "Liber Usualis", 'Midnight Mass' (or 'Mass of Midnight') - in the
Sarum Use, of course, 'Missa in Gallicantu', 'Mass at Cock-crow'.
Immediately following Matins, of course. In the Sarum Use, the service of
this First Mass is more like that of a Major double feast.
> takes its introit antiphon from Psalm 2, verse 7:
>
> Dominus dixit ad me: Filius meus es tu, ego hodie genui te.
>
> The psalm-verse is the first verse of the same psalm:
>
> Quare fremuerunt gentes: et populi meditati sunt inania?
>
> The Gradual is Psalm 109, verses 3 and 1
>
> Tecum principium in die virtutis tuae: in splendoribus sanctorum, ex
> utero ante luciferum genui te. Dixit Dominus Domino meo: Sede a
> dextris meis: donec ponam inimicos tuos, scabellum pedum tuorum.
>
> The Alleluia reprises the Introit:
>
> Dominus dixit ad me: Filius meus es tu, ego hodie genui te.
>
> The Offertorium takes a rather different tack with Psalm 95, verses
> 11 and 13
>
> Laetentur coeli, et exsultet terra ante faciem Domini: quoniam venit.
Yes, no Offertory Verse in the Sarum Use either.
> The Communion once more draws on Psalm 109
>
> In splendoribus sanctorum, ex utero ante luciferum genui te.
John Briggs
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