Saturday, 11 April 2015

Hristos anesti!

Nidaros ordo

Sunday 12 April. FIRST SUNDAY AFTER EASTER.
Monday 13. Feria II.
Tuesday 14. Saints Tiburtius and Valerian [martyrs], three lessons.
Wednesday 15. Feria IV.
Thursday 16. ST MAGNUS, martyr, double.
Friday 17. Feria VI.
Saturday 18. Sabbath.

The anthem after Compline is Regina celi.

The Feast of St Magnus was presumably of higher rank (major double or even summum) in Orkney and Shetland, and evidence from, e.g., petitions for indulgences, suggest that the feast was kept with an octave at St Magnus Cathedral, Kirkwall. Quite right too.

Saturday, 4 April 2015

Christ is risen!


Nidaros ordo

Sunday 5 April. EASTER DAY.
Monday 6. Feria II of Easter.
Tuesday 7. Feria III of Easter.
Wednesday 8. Feria IV of Easter.
Thursday 9. Feria V of Easter.
Friday 10. Feria VI of Easter.
Saturday 11. Sabbath of Easter.

The anthem after Compline is Regina celi.

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.

Saturday, 28 March 2015

Nidaros ordo

Sunday 29 March. PALMS SUNDAY. Anthem after Compline: Ave regina celorum.
Monday 30. Feria II in Palms Week. Sub tuum presidium.
Tuesday 31. Feria III in Palms Week. O florens rosa.
Wednesday 1 April. Feria IV in Palms Week. Rogamus te.
Thursday 2. FERIA V IN THE LORD'S SUPPER.
Friday 3. THE PREPARATION.
Saturday 4. HOLY SATURDAY: THE PASCHAL VIGIL.

The combined office of Matins and Lauds, commonly called Tenebrae, is celebrated (1) on Holy Thursday, (2) "in the night of the preparation", and (3) on Holy Saturday. That description of Good Friday Tenebrae suggests that the office was sung on the previous evening, as was (and sometimes is) the custom elsewhere. Holy Saturday continues until None on Saturday; the rites of the Paschal vigil (the blessing of the candle, the prophecies, and first Mass of Easter) follow immediately.

There is no Marian antiphon after Compline during the sacred triduum.

Saint Ambrose, bishop, whose feast is normally kept on 4 April with semidouble rite, is not commemorated this year.

Saturday, 21 March 2015

Nidaros ordo

Sunday 22 March. SUNDAY IN THE PASSION OF THE LORD. Anthem after Compline: Ave regina celorum.
Monday 23. Feria II in the passion of the Lord. Sub tuum presidium.
Tuesday 24. Feria III in the passion of the Lord. Alma redemptoris.
Wednesday 25. THE ANNUNCIATION TO SAINT MARY, summum. Rogamus te.
Thursday 26. Feria V in the passion of the Lord. Ave stella matutina.
Friday 27. Feria VI in the passion of the Lord. Mundi domina.
Saturday 21. Sabbath in the passion of the Lord. Salve regina.

Compline after first Vespers of a summum festum ends with the anthem Alma redemptoris. This anthem, so closely associated with Advent and Christmastide in the Roman office, is never sung during those seasons in the use of Nidaros.

Saturday, 14 March 2015

Nidaros ordo

Sunday 15 March. FOURTH SUNDAY IN LENT. Anthem after Compline: Ave regina celorum.
Monday 16. Feria II. Sub tuum presidium.
Tuesday 17. Saint Gertrude, virgin not a martyr, nine lessons. Commemoration of St Patrick, bishop and confessor. O florens rosa.
Wednesday 18. Feria IV. Rogamus te.
Thursday 19. Feria V. Ave stella matutina.
Friday 20. St Cuthbert, bishop and confessor, nine lessons. Mundi domina.
Saturday 21. St Benedict, abbot, nine lessons. Salve regina.

Saturday, 7 March 2015

Nidaros ordo

Sunday 8 March. THIRD SUNDAY IN LENT. Anthem after Compline: Ave regina celorum.
Monday 9. Feria II. Sub tuum presidium.
Tuesday 10. Feria III. O florens rosa.
Wednesday 11. Feria IV. Rogamus te.
Thursday 12. SAINT GREGORY, pope and confessor, double. Ave stella matutina.
Friday 13. Feria VI. Mundi domina.
Saturday 14. Sabbath. Salve regina.