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Bill East wrote:
>
> Offertorium - 5
Could I just say that I find it somewhat confusing to be discussing Advent
in June! Not preparing to record your Christmas CD, by any chance?
> The Third Sunday of Advent is still known as "Gaudete" Sunday, from
> the first word of the Introit. Its antiphon is taken, not from any
> psalm, but from verses from St Paul's letter to the Philippians,
> chapter 4:
>
> Antiphon: Philippians 4:4-6
>
> Gaudete in Domino semper: iterum dico, gaudete. Modestia vestra nota
> sit omnibus hominibus: Dominus enim prope est. Nihil solliciti sitis:
> sed in omni oratione petitiones vestrae innotescant apud Deum.
>
> This derives from the Epistle for the day; indeed it uses almost all
> of it, for the full text is Philippians 4:4-7.
Not in the Sarum Use it isn't: there it's 1 Corinthians 4:1-5 - Tyndale
concurs, and it's still there in the Book of Common Prayer!
> The antiphon imparts a note of rejoicing to the whole Mass. In many
> churches it is the custom to wear rose vestments on this Sunday,
> rather than the purple ones for the other days of Advent.
I can't find anything resembling this in the Sarum Use.
> The psalm-verse for the Introit is 84:2. Stan Metheny has already
> pointed out the frequency with which this psalm is employed in
> Advent, and its suitability for the season:
>
> Benedixisti, Domine, terram tuam: avertisti captivitatem Jacob.
No, in the Sarum Use that was used in Offertory verse for Advent II. The
Sarum Use has:
Et pax Dei, quae exuperat omnem sensum, custodiat corda vestra, et
intelligentias vestras
whici is from Philippians 4:7, logically enough.
> This verse is reprised, in a slightly amplified form, as the
> Offertorium:
>
> Benedixisti, Domine, terram tuam: avertisti captivitatem Jacob:
> remisisti iniquitatem plebis tuae.
That's one of the Advent II verses in the Sarum Use, and is used today as
the Response. The two alternate verses are:
V. Operuisti omnia peccata eorum: mitigasti omnem iram tuam.
(second part of verse 3 and first part of verse 4)
V. Ostende nobis, Domine, misericordiam tuam: et salutare tuum da nobis.
(verse 8)
> The Gradual is taken from another old friend, Ps. 79; we saw verse 2
> of this used in the Introit for the Second Sunday of Advent. Another
> verse from the same psalm, is added here, and repeated in the
> Alleluia which follows on immediately from the Gradual, making
> clearer the link between the psalm and Advent:
>
> Gradual: Qui sedes, Dominie, super Cherubim, excita potentiam tuam,
> et veni. Qui regis Israel, intende: qui deducis, velut ovem, Joseph.
>
> Alleluia, alleluia. Excita, Domine, potentiam tuam et veni, ut salvos
> facias nos. Alleluia.
Not quite. It will become clearer if I give verses 2 and 3 of the Psalm:
2 Qui regis Israël, intende ;
qui deducis velut ovem Joseph.
Qui sedes super cherubim, manifestare
3 coram Ephraim, Benjamin, et Manasse.
Excita potentiam tuam, et veni,
ut salvos facias nos.
and point out that, in the Sarum Use, the first sentence of the Gradual is
the Response and the second the Versicle - similarly with the Alleluia.
> There remains the Communion Antiphon, which is not from a psalm, but
> selected from the Book of Isaiah, 35, verse 4, and as one might
> expect, is appropriate to the season:
>
> Dicite: pusillanimes confortamini, et nolite timere: ecce Deus noster
> veniet, et salvabit nos.
Except that the meaning has been subtly changed! This is what Isaiah 35:4
really says:
Dicite pusillanimis: confortamini, et nolite timere: ecce Deus vester
ultionem adducet retributionis; Deus ipse veniet, et salvabit vos.
John Briggs
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