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1 week ago | 
newliturgicalmovement.org | Gregory DiPippo
Qui manducat meam carnem et bibit meum sanguinem, * In me manet, et ego in eo. V. Non est alia natio tam grandis, quæ habeat deos appropinquantes sibi, sicut Deus noster adest nobis. In me manet. (The seventh responsory of Matins of Corpus Christi.)He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, in me abideth, and I in him. V. There is no other nation so great, that hath gods that come nigh them, as our God is present to us. In me he abideth.
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1 week ago | 
newliturgicalmovement.org | Gregory DiPippo
This year, the Church is commemorating the fifth centenary of the birth of one of the greatest composers of liturgical music in her history, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525-94). Yesterday, in the Sala Regia of the Apostolic Palace, Pope Leo was present for an event in celebration of Palestrina, organized by the Cardinal Domenico Bartolucci Foundation.
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1 week ago | 
newliturgicalmovement.org | Gregory DiPippo
O how delightful, * o Lord, is thy Spirit, Who, that Thou may show Thy sweetness unto Thy children, having granted them most sweet bread from heaven, fillest the hungry with good things, and sendest away empty the scornful rich. (The Magnificat antiphon for First Vespers of Corpus Christi.)Aña O quam suávis est, * Dómine, spíritus tuus, qui, ut dulcédinem tuam in filios demonstráres, pane suavíssimo de caelo prǽstito, esurientes reples bonis, fastidiósos dívites dimittens inánes.
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1 week ago | 
newliturgicalmovement.org | Gregory DiPippo
Our Ambrosian writer Nicola de’ Grandi recently visited the abbey of Salem in southern Germany, about 18 miles to the west of Ravensberg, half that distance from the city Constance to the south-west. It was founded as a Cistercian house within the lifetime of St Bernard, in the 1130s, and quickly grew to become of the large and most important abbeys in all of the German Empire; by the end of the 13th century, the community had 300 members.
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1 week ago | 
newliturgicalmovement.org | Gregory DiPippo
Like earlier medieval writers on the liturgy, Durandus simply takes it for granted that the Church’s received liturgical texts are full of allegories, and may be explained as having a mystical significance greater than their mere letter. In this, his attitude to the liturgy is similar to that of the Church Fathers to the Holy Scriptures, and that of the Biblical authors themselves to earlier parts of the Bible.
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1 week ago | 
newliturgicalmovement.org | Gregory DiPippo
To Thee be praise, to Thee be glory, to Thee be thanksgiving unto the everlasting ages, * o blessed Trinity. R. And blessed be the holy name of Thy glory, and praiseworthy and exalted above all unto the ages, o blessed Trinity. (The fifth responsory of Trinity Sunday.)R. Tibi laus, tibi gloria, tibi gratiarum actio in saecula sempiterna, * o beata Trinitas. V. Et benedictum nomen gloriae tuae sanctum, et laudabile et superexaltatum in saecula, o beata Trinitas.
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2 weeks ago | 
newliturgicalmovement.org | Gregory DiPippo
Repleátur os meum laude tua, allelúja: ut possim cantáre, allelúja: gaudébunt labia mea, dum cantávero tibi, allelúja, allelúla. Ps. 70 In te, Dómine, sperávi, non confendar in aeternum: in justitia tua líbera me, et éripe me. Gloria Patri. Sicut erat. Repleátur... Let my mouth be filled with Thy praise, alleluia: that I may be able to sing, alleluia. My lips shall rejoice as I sing to Thee, alleluia, alleluia.
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2 weeks ago | 
newliturgicalmovement.org | Gregory DiPippo
This article by Henri de Villiers was originally posted in 2014. While in the use of Rome, the prose Veni, Sancte Spiritus is sung on the day of Pentecost and at all the Masses within the octave, the old use of Paris celebrates each day of the octave with a different sequence. Here is how Paris used to arrange the sequences during the octave of Pentecost:Pentecost Sunday: Fulgens præclara Paraclyti Sanctia subdivision of an old French prose for Easter, prior to the year 1000.
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2 weeks ago | 
newliturgicalmovement.org | Gregory DiPippo
At the end of this month, our holy father Leo XIV will celebrate the feast of Ss Peter and Paul as pope for the first time. Our readers have perhaps read that the custom will be restored by which during the celebration of Mass in St Peter’s basilica, the pope blesses the pallia which are to be given to those who have lately been made metropolitan archbishops, and personally impose it on them.
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2 weeks ago | 
newliturgicalmovement.org | Gregory DiPippo
The late 12th-century liturgical commentator Sicard of Cremona explains the texts of the Mass of Ember Wednesday in the Octave of Pentecost, and why the summer Ember Day fasts are united to the solemnity. “The Office of Wednesday preaches on knowledge, which is a gift of the Holy Spirit, who even unto this day has enlightened the Saints.
