Nidaros ordo

Sunday 8 November. Octave Day of All Saints, semidouble. Commemorations of the Twenty-Third Sunday after Trinity, and of the Four Crowned Saints, martyrs. Anthem after Compline: Ave regina celorum.
Monday 9. THE CROWN OF THORNS OF THE LORD, major double. Commemoration of St Theodore, martyr. Sub tuum presidium.
Tuesday 10. St Menna, martyr, three lessons. O florens rosa.
Wednesday 11. ST MARTIN, bishop and confessor, double. Rogamus te.
Thursday 12. Feria V in Oct. St. Mart. Ave stella matutina.
Friday 13. St Brictius, bishop and confessor, three lessons. Com. Oct. St Mart. Mundi domina.
Saturday 14. Sabbath in Oct. St. Mart. Salve regina.

Monday's feast is a good excuse for this:

Part of the Song of the Three Children, sung by Hartkeriana

Whole thing lasts about twenty minutes, I believe.

Nidaros ordo

Sunday 1 November. ALL SAINTS, summum. Commemoration of the Twenty-Second Sunday after Trinity. Anthem after Compline: Ave regina celorum.
Monday 2. Feria II in Oct. All Ss. Commemoration of the Souls. Sub tuum presidium.
Tuesday 3. Feria III in Oct. All Ss. Com. St Eustachius and his companions, martyrs. O florens rosa.
Wednesday 4. Feria IV in Oct. All Ss. Rogamus te.
Thursday 5. Feria V in Oct. All Ss. Ave stella matutina.
Friday 6. St Leonard, abbot, nine lessons. Com. Oct. All Ss. Mundi domina.
Saturday 7. Sabbath in Oct. All Ss. Com. St Willead, bishop and confessor. Salve regina.

Willead (properly Willehad) was a Northumbrian missionary, bishop of Bremen, friend of Alcuin.

Nidaros ordo

Sunday 25 October. Twenty-first Sunday after Trinity. Commemoration of Saints Crispin and Crispinian, martyrs. Anthem after Compline: Ave regina celorum.
Monday 26. Feria II. Sub tuum presidium.
Tuesday 27. Feria III. O florens rosa.
Wednesday 28. SS SIMON AND JUDE, apostles, double. Rogamus te.
Thursday 29. Feria V. Ave stella matutina.
Friday 30. St Quintin, martyr, three lessons. Mundi domina.
Saturday 31. VIGIL OF ALL SAINTS. Alma redemptoris.

More of Hildegard on Ursula

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Sunday 18 October. Saint Luke, evangelist, semidouble. Com. Twentieth Sunday after Trinity. Anthem after Compline: Ave regina celorum.
Monday 19. Feria II. Sub tuum presidium.
Tuesday 20. Feria III. O florens rosa.
Wednesday 21. Eleven thousand virgins, three lessons. Rogamus te.
Thursday 22. Feria V. Ave stella matutina.
Friday 23. St Severinus, bishop and confessor, three lessons. Mundi domina.
Saturday 24. Sabbath. Salve regina.

The 11,000 were the supposed companions of St Ursula, celebrated thusly by St Hildegard:

Nidaros ordo

Sunday 11 October. Nineteenth Sunday after Trinity. Anthem after Compline: Ave regina celorum.
Monday 12. Feria II. Sub tuum presidium.
Tuesday 13. FEAST OF RELICS, major double. O florens rosa.
Wednesday 14. Saint Calixtus, pope and martyr, three lessons. Rogamus te.
Thursday 15. Feria V. Ave stella matutina.
Friday 16. Feria VI. Mundi domina.
Saturday 17. St Martha, virgin not a martyr, three lessons. Com. St Justus, martyr. Salve regina.

Nelly Gasparyan sings Armenian Chant

... in the former cathedral of the Holy Cross, Akdamar Island, Lake Van. The church was abandoned after the genocide of 1915, saved from demolition in 1951, and restored as a museum in 2005. For four minutes, it was once again the house of God and the gate of heaven.

Nidaros ordo

Sunday 4 October. SAINT FRANCIS, confessor, double. Commemoration of the Eighteenth Sunday after Trinity. Anthem after Compline: Ave regina celorum.
Monday 5. Feria II. Sub tuum presidium.
Tuesday 6. St Faith, virgin martyr, three lessons. Com. St Eskill, bishop and martyr. O florens rosa.
Wednesday 7. St Birgitta, widow, semidouble. Com. St Mark, pope, Ss Marcellus & Apuleius. Rogamus te.
Thursday 8. St Demetrius, martyr, three lessons. Ave stella matutina.
Friday 9. St Denis and his companions, martyrs, single. Mundi domina.
Saturday 10. St Gereon and his companions, martyrs, three lessons. Salve regina.

Twa-three items of local interest here. St Eskill was an Anglo-Saxon missionary to Sweden; in most places his feast is observed on 12 June - why not here? St Bridget of Sweden is rather grudgingly categorised as a vidua in the Breviary calendar; in the body of the book she is a sponsa christi.

Nidaros ordo

Sunday 27 September. Seventeenth Sunday after Trinity. Commemoration of Saints Cosmas and Damian, martyrs. Anthem after Compline: Ave regina celorum.
Monday 28. Feria II. Sub tuum presidium.
Tuesday 29. ST MICHAEL, archangel, major double. O florens rosa.
Wednesday 30. St Jerome, presbyter and confessor, semidouble. Rogamus te.
Thursday 1 October. Ss Remi and German, bishops and confessors. Ave stella matutina.
Friday 2. St Leodegar, bishop and martyr, three lessons. Mundi domina.
Saturday 3. Sabbath. Salve regina.

Is that the third St German(us) in the calendar? I will not attempt to "disambiguate" them! St Leodegar is also known as St Leger; the horse race, being named after a Colonel St Leger, does not take place on the feast day.

Nidaros ordo

Sunday 20 September. Sixteenth Sunday after Trinity. Anthem after Compline: Ave regina celorum.
Monday 21. SAINT MATTHEW, apostle and evangelist, double. Sub tuum presidium.
Tuesday 22. St Maurice and his companions, single. O florens rosa.
Wednesday 23. Feria IV. Rogamus te.
Thursday 24. Feria V. Ave stella matutina.
Friday 25. Saint Firmin, bishop and martyr, three lessons. Mundi domina.
Saturday 26. Sabbath. Salve regina.

Fingergull 850

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.