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Offertorium – 22
The chants for the First Sunday in Lent are all taken from psalm 90.
This is without doubt because it is quoted in the Gospel for the day:
“Scriptum est enim: Quia Angelis suis mandavit de te, et in manibus
tollent te, ne forte offendas ad lapidem pedem tuum” – “For it is
written, He will give his angels charge over you, lest you dash your
foot against a stone.”
It would be tedious to copy out the rather long selections from this
psalm which occur, particularly in the tract, so I shall just mention
the verse numbers. The antiphon to the Introit consists of verses 15
and 16, with verse 1 as the psalm verse. The Gradual consists of verses
11-12, and the Tract verses 1-7 and 11-16.
The Offertorium consists of verses 4-5:
Scapulis suis obumbrabit tibi Dominus, et sub pennis eius sperabis:
scuto circumdabit te veritas eius.
And the Communio is exactly the same:
Scapulis suis obumbrabit tibi Dominus, et sub pennis eius sperabis:
scuto circumdabit te veritas eius.
It is unusual to find an Offertorium and a Communio which are
identical, and indeed the selection of all the chants may be considered
a bit lacking in imagination. They remain unchanged in the modern
Graduale Romanum. The music is of course different for each chant, even
though the words may be identical, and this lessens the sense of
repetition.
Bill.
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