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Offertorium – 14
The Sunday within the Octave of the Epiphany is the Feast of the Holy
Family, but this is an innovation, instituted in 1921, and I will not
intrude it into a list devoted to Medieval Religion, except to note in
passing that it was transferred to the Sunday after Christmas in 1969,
and a new feast of the Baptism of the Lord moved into this spot.
An alternative Mass is provided for the same Sunday in the event that
“si ipsa Dom. a die 7 ad 11 Jan. occurrerit, reponitur in proximiorum
sequentem Feriam in qua Officium agatur de Octava;” and I take this to
be the older Mass for the first Sunday after the Epiphany. Beware
howeve, “si autem occurrerit die 13 Jan. resumitur die 19 ejusdem
mensis.”
The antiphon to the Introit is not identified with any particular
passage of scripture, and indeed, though it is reminiscent of several
passages of the Apocalypse, it does not seem to be a direct quotation:
In excelso throno vidi sedere virum, quem adorat multitudo Angelorum,
psallentes in unum: ecce cuius imperii nomen est in aeternum.
The theme however, is much like that of the Introit to the Epiphany,
which you may remember was from Malachi: “Ecce advenit dominator
Dominus: et regnum in manu eius, et potestas, et imperium.”
The psalm-verse is however straightforward enough, 99:1
Jubilate Deo omnis terra: servite Dominio in laetitia.
This verse is reprised as the Alleluia, and again as the Offertorium,
this time with the addition of verse 2:
Jubilate Deo omnis terra: servite Dominio in laetitia: intrate in
conspectu eius in exsultatione: quia Dominus ipse est Deus.
The Communio, Luke 2:48 and 49, is taken from the Gospel for the day,
the story of the Finding in the Temple:
Fili, quid fecisti nobis sic? ego, et pater tuus dolentes auaerebamus
te. Et quid est, quod me quaerebatis? nesciebatis, quia in his, quae
Patris mei sunt, oportet me esse?
The Gradual is verses 18 and 3 of psalm 71:
Benedictus Dominus Deus Israel, qui facit mirabilia magna solus a
saeculo.
Suscipiant montes pacem populo tuo, et colles justitiam.
This psalm was much in use in the Mass for the Epiphany, and generally
one could say that, except for the Communio, which is excerpted from
the Gospel for the day, the chants are similar to those of the
Epiphany.
Bill.
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