As you'll know, I try not to be more than a few hundred years behind the curve with this blog, so I'll not worry that I am nearly a week late in reporting this news:
Exactly 850 years ago last Saturday, a relic of the Holy Blood of Christ arrived at Nidaros Cathedral (Trondheim, Norway), having been sent as a gift from Jerusalem. A liturgical office was composed in honour of this relic, and the Feast of the Reception of the Holy Blood was kept at the Cathedral on 12 September until the Reformation. The Norwegian choir Schola Sanctae Sunnivae, a few years ago, released a CD of excerpts from Matins from this office (the Fingergullofficiet, or 'Finger Gold Office', presumably so called because the relic was enclosed in a gold ring).
Well, now they have recorded the whole thing! (Or at least, the musically distinctive elements of the office.) The new CD Fingergull was launched at Nidaros Cathedral on Saturday.
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Thursday, 17 September 2015
Monday, 14 September 2015
Sunday, 6 September 2015
Nidaros ordo
Sunday 6 September. Fourteenth Sunday after Trinity. Anthem after Compline: Ave regina celorum.
Monday 7. Feria II. (The office of St Adrian is celebrated today by anticipation.) Sub tuum presidium.
Tuesday 8. NATIVITY OF THE VIRGIN MARY, double (?). St Adrian, bishop and martyr, three lessons (see yesterday's entry). O florens rosa.
Wednesday 9. Feria IV in the Octave of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary. Commemoration of St Gorgon, martyr. Rogamus te.
Thursday 10. Feria V in Oct. Nat. Mar. Com. St Audomarus, bishop. Ave stella matutina.
Friday 11. Feria VI in Oct. Nat. Mar. Com. Ss Prothus and Iacinctus, martyrs. Mundi domina.
Saturday 12. Sabbath in Oct. Nat. Mar. Salve regina.
With St Adrian and the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, we have a situation similar to that involving Ss Hermes and Augustine a couple of weeks ago: an annual clash of celebrations. Here the same solution has been arrived at - to anticipate the lesser feast on the previous day, which happens to be vacant - but here the transfer has not gone as far as changing the date of Adrian's feast day. Instead, we have a rubric on the 7 September: Hic cantentur de eo iii. lc. noct. (Here the three matins lessons about him are sung.) All this doesn't leave the kalendarist enough room to give us the rank of Mary's feast, but as it is printed in red and has an octave, we can assume it is at least a double feast.
The Nativity of the Virgin is one of those offices which survives in the Choir Antiphoner of Nidaros Cathedral, and it has been recorded by the Schola Sanctae Sunnivae.
Monday 7. Feria II. (The office of St Adrian is celebrated today by anticipation.) Sub tuum presidium.
Tuesday 8. NATIVITY OF THE VIRGIN MARY, double (?). St Adrian, bishop and martyr, three lessons (see yesterday's entry). O florens rosa.
Wednesday 9. Feria IV in the Octave of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary. Commemoration of St Gorgon, martyr. Rogamus te.
Thursday 10. Feria V in Oct. Nat. Mar. Com. St Audomarus, bishop. Ave stella matutina.
Friday 11. Feria VI in Oct. Nat. Mar. Com. Ss Prothus and Iacinctus, martyrs. Mundi domina.
Saturday 12. Sabbath in Oct. Nat. Mar. Salve regina.
With St Adrian and the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, we have a situation similar to that involving Ss Hermes and Augustine a couple of weeks ago: an annual clash of celebrations. Here the same solution has been arrived at - to anticipate the lesser feast on the previous day, which happens to be vacant - but here the transfer has not gone as far as changing the date of Adrian's feast day. Instead, we have a rubric on the 7 September: Hic cantentur de eo iii. lc. noct. (Here the three matins lessons about him are sung.) All this doesn't leave the kalendarist enough room to give us the rank of Mary's feast, but as it is printed in red and has an octave, we can assume it is at least a double feast.
The Nativity of the Virgin is one of those offices which survives in the Choir Antiphoner of Nidaros Cathedral, and it has been recorded by the Schola Sanctae Sunnivae.
Saturday, 15 August 2015
Thursday, 16 July 2015
Wednesday, 15 July 2015
Thursday, 9 July 2015
Wednesday, 1 July 2015
Saturday, 20 June 2015
Nidaros ordo
Sunday 21 June. Third Sunday after Trinity. Commemoration of Saint Leofred, abbot. Anthem after Compline: Ave regina celorum.
Monday 22. St Alban, martyr, three lessons. Sub tuum presidium.
Tuesday 23. VIGIL OF THE NATIVITY OF SAINT JOHN THE BAPTIST. At Mass, com. St Etheldreda, virgin not a martyr. Alma redemptoris mater.
Wednesday 24. NATIVITY OF SAINT JOHN THE BAPTIST, summum. Rogamus te.
Thursday 25. Feria V. Ave stella matutina.
Friday 26. Ss John and Paul, martyrs, three lessons. Mundi domina.
Saturday 27. Sabbath. Salve regina.
Saint Leofred (Leufroy), Abbot of St-Croix, is not terribly well known, but Professor Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira found him to be a man after his own heart. Is that a good thing? You decide.
Sorry to be so slow in catching up with these posts. I have been (among other places) here:
Monday 22. St Alban, martyr, three lessons. Sub tuum presidium.
Tuesday 23. VIGIL OF THE NATIVITY OF SAINT JOHN THE BAPTIST. At Mass, com. St Etheldreda, virgin not a martyr. Alma redemptoris mater.
Wednesday 24. NATIVITY OF SAINT JOHN THE BAPTIST, summum. Rogamus te.
Thursday 25. Feria V. Ave stella matutina.
Friday 26. Ss John and Paul, martyrs, three lessons. Mundi domina.
Saturday 27. Sabbath. Salve regina.
Saint Leofred (Leufroy), Abbot of St-Croix, is not terribly well known, but Professor Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira found him to be a man after his own heart. Is that a good thing? You decide.
Sorry to be so slow in catching up with these posts. I have been (among other places) here:
Monday, 8 June 2015
Sunday, 31 May 2015
Saturday, 16 May 2015
Nidaros ordo
Sunday 17 May. Sunday in the Octave of the Ascension.
Monday 18. St Eric, king and martyr, semidouble. Commemoration of the Oct. of the Asc.
Tuesday 19. St Dunstan, bishop and confessor, three lessons. Comm. Oct. Asc.
Wednesday 20. Feria IV in Oct. Asc.
Thursday 21. Octave day of the Ascension.
Friday 22. Feria VI.
Saturday 23. Vigil of Pentecost.
The anthem after Compline is Regina celi.
St Eric is the Swedish king whose relics are venerated in Uppsala Cathedral:
Monday 18. St Eric, king and martyr, semidouble. Commemoration of the Oct. of the Asc.
Tuesday 19. St Dunstan, bishop and confessor, three lessons. Comm. Oct. Asc.
Wednesday 20. Feria IV in Oct. Asc.
Thursday 21. Octave day of the Ascension.
Friday 22. Feria VI.
Saturday 23. Vigil of Pentecost.
The anthem after Compline is Regina celi.
St Eric is the Swedish king whose relics are venerated in Uppsala Cathedral:
Thursday, 7 May 2015
Saturday, 25 April 2015
Thursday, 23 April 2015
Saturday, 11 April 2015
Saturday, 4 April 2015
Friday, 3 April 2015
Wednesday, 1 April 2015
News from Nowhere 8
A new issue of Latin Liturgy is out this month, and my "News from Nowhere" column is concerned with liturgy-related videos online. I shall embed some videos in this post, for your convenience, and provide links to other web pages mentioned in the article. N.B. Some of these links play videos automatically, so have your volume turned down if you don't want to startle your colleagues/upset the librarian/wake the cat up.
Steve George's chant training video series is explained here.
An example:
(A video of "Video caelos"; see what i did there?)
Cf. Marek Klein's "Graduale Project".
Example:
Although I mention it a little later in the article, this is also a good place to link to the chant videos from Corpus Christi Watershed.
Example:
Lent - Third Sunday: Introit Oculi Mei from Corpus Christi Watershed on Vimeo.
Jeremy de Satgé's 2010 talk to the Latin Liturgy Association (USA):
The National Trust's short film about the Lyme Park Missal:
A post on the New Liturgical Movement blog about this film clip from Christmas Holiday (1944):
The opening titles of True Confessions (1981):
Elvis sings the Offertory in Change of Habit (1969):
The Vatican channel on Youtube.
The PapalMusic channel; and an example of it what it provides:
A series of short films about the Birmingham Oratory.
A video about the Gregorian Chant Network's annual course:
(The GCN has a blog too.)
The Picard music collection put online by "Firminus". (These fascinating recordings were being circulated on cassette tapes, like pop bootlegs, when I first heard them nearly twenty years ago. The internet does make some things so much easier!)
The British Pathé archive website, which includes footage of the consecration of Downside Abbey church (1935); the coronation of Pope Paul VI (1963); and Mass in the trenches.
The Greek Divine Liturgy at the monastery of Veljusa, Macedonia:
A blog post by Fr Simon Henry including some films made at Ushaw College in the 1960s, including Midnight Mass (1962):
Another Christmas Mass (2008) from Notre Dame de Paris:
And a final reminder: Latin Liturgy is the journal of the Association for Latin Liturgy. It is free to members; join today! And please visit and "like" our Facebook page, as over 1100 people have done already.
Steve George's chant training video series is explained here.
An example:
(A video of "Video caelos"; see what i did there?)
Cf. Marek Klein's "Graduale Project".
Example:
Although I mention it a little later in the article, this is also a good place to link to the chant videos from Corpus Christi Watershed.
Example:
Lent - Third Sunday: Introit Oculi Mei from Corpus Christi Watershed on Vimeo.
Jeremy de Satgé's 2010 talk to the Latin Liturgy Association (USA):
The National Trust's short film about the Lyme Park Missal:
A post on the New Liturgical Movement blog about this film clip from Christmas Holiday (1944):
The opening titles of True Confessions (1981):
Elvis sings the Offertory in Change of Habit (1969):
The Vatican channel on Youtube.
The PapalMusic channel; and an example of it what it provides:
A series of short films about the Birmingham Oratory.
A video about the Gregorian Chant Network's annual course:
(The GCN has a blog too.)
The Picard music collection put online by "Firminus". (These fascinating recordings were being circulated on cassette tapes, like pop bootlegs, when I first heard them nearly twenty years ago. The internet does make some things so much easier!)
The British Pathé archive website, which includes footage of the consecration of Downside Abbey church (1935); the coronation of Pope Paul VI (1963); and Mass in the trenches.
The Greek Divine Liturgy at the monastery of Veljusa, Macedonia:
A blog post by Fr Simon Henry including some films made at Ushaw College in the 1960s, including Midnight Mass (1962):
Another Christmas Mass (2008) from Notre Dame de Paris:
And a final reminder: Latin Liturgy is the journal of the Association for Latin Liturgy. It is free to members; join today! And please visit and "like" our Facebook page, as over 1100 people have done already.
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