The England-Rome Reapproachment Continues

The USCCB has put out a document of music resources for the resignation and election of the Pope. There?s a big drum roll here but once you get to the resources you get?a bunch of song/hymns, stuff you encounter in most mainline parishes every week. ?

Charles Cole?s schola spent some time in Rome singing with the St. Peter?s schola. And next Sunday

Next Sunday (24 February) at St Peter?s, Rome, The Schola Cantorum of the London Oratory School will join the Basilica?s own choir, the Cappella Giulia, to sing Capitular Mass and Vespers. 2013 marks the 500th anniversary of the Cappella Giulia?s foundation and during the course of the year, this venerable choir will be joined by others from around the world to sing at St Peter?s. Next Sunday is the first such collaboration. At Mass, the Ordinary will be sung by both choirs and the Propers will be sung by the Cappella Giulia. The Motets, by Spanish renaissance composer Cristobal de Morales and the English Tudor composer William Byrd, will be sung by the Schola Cantorum. At the end of Mass, both choirs, situated opposite each other in the two transepts of the Altar of the Chair, will sing the sublime double-choir motet Adoramus te, Christe by the late renaissance Slovenian composer Jacob Handl.

At Vespers, the Hymn, Psalms and Magnificat will be sung to Gregorian Chant with polyphonic alternatims by Ingegneri, Cima and Lassus. At the close of Vespers, the Schola will sing Ave Maria by the English Tudor composer Robert Parsons. The full music list is as follows:

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Some of our readers have probably been tasked with programming hymns for the Feast of the Chair of Peter this coming Friday, or for another celebration honoring Pope Benedict or praying for guidance for the upcoming conclave. Since this text came to my mind, I thought I would offer it, in case it?s more useful than, say,?Pescador de Hombres.

Verse 3 focuses on a relatively neglected scripture reference for the Petrine ministry. We all know ?Tu es Petrus,? but this other expression, the mission of ?confirming the brethren,? is also very important. Peter is responsible for strengthening the faith of?his brother bishops.

Verse 4?paraphrases?a Gospel dialogue between Jesus and Peter, quite relevant to the willing sacrifices made by Pope Benedict.

Please feel free to use this during the coming weeks. I would recommend the tune Iste Confessor.

Saint Peter
lives! The gatekeeper of heaven,

Once young and
free, once bound for crucifixion,

Now crowned in
splendor, prince among the elders.

Pray for your
people.

Saint Peter lives!
The binding and the loosing,

Bridging the
earth unto the highest heavens,

Servant of servants,
bishop of that city

Where Peter
witnessed.

?Hell shall not win. The Church will stand forever.

?Peter, I prayed
that your faith will not fail you.

And when the time
comes, and you have converted,

Strengthen your
brethren.?

All those who
give up riches and possessions,

They shall
inherit, in that endless Kingdom,

And in the
present, many times the blessings

With persecution.

Praise to the
Father who sent us Christ Jesus.

Praise to the
Son, who came as the Messiah.

Praise to the
Spirit, Guardian of the teaching,

Trinity blessed.

In hymnody as in iconography, Sts. Peter and Paul usually appear together. This is true of?the?three hymns provided below for use in the papal transition.

The first two are my translations of office hymns. Both may be sung to any Long Meter or iambic 8.8.8.8. melody.

Aurea luce, from the 8th or 9th century, calls St. Peter the ?janitor??the keeper of the keys?and St. Paul is as always the teacher of the whole world.?The hymn?plays continually upon the idea of doubling. These two great saints are both like, and equal, and yet unlike. They are equal in dignity, irreducible to one another, and always ?at work? together for the good of the Church.

O light of dawn,
O rosy glow,

O Light from
Light, all ages show

Your beauty, and
the martyrs fame,

That gain us
pardon from our blame.

The heaven?s
porter, and earth?s sage,

The earth?s
bright lights who judge the age.

One wins by
cross, and one by sword,

And life on high
is their reward.

These are your
princes, happy Rome!

Their precious
blood clothes you, their home.

We praise not
you, but praise their worth,

Beyond all beauty
of the earth.

One love, one
hope, twin olive trees,

One great strong
hope filled both of these.

Full fonts, in
your matched charity,

Pray that we may
in heaven be.

Give glory to the
Trinity

And honor to the
Unity,

And joy and
pow?r, for their reign stays

Today and through
all endless days.

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Apostolorum passio is usually attributed to St. Ambrose of Milan, though we are not entirely sure that he wrote it. It is certainly?a rich, theologically dense poem. Like Aurea luce above, it attributes the dignity of Rome to these two saints, pre-eminently in their martyrs? blood.

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Blest day by suff?ring sanctified:
Christ?s chosen high apostles
died.
Today St. Peter wins renown.
Today St. Paul accepts the
crown.

Together, equally, they bled:
Together: the victorious
dead.
They followed God and sacrificed
And now their faith is crowned by
Christ.

St. Peter holds the highest place,
Yet Paul is not the less by
grace.
An equal faith was giv?n to Paul:
The chosen vessel of God?s
call.

St. Peter, downward crucified?
To honor God in how he
died?
Securely tied, he sees unfold
The death his Shepherd once
foretold.

On such foundations Rome may claim
The highest service of
God?s name.
His noble blood has dignified
The city where this prophet
died.

Let all the world, then, run to Rome.
Let families of nations
come!
The head of nations teaches there
Beside the nations? teacher?s
chair.

O Lord, we ask that we may be
In their exalted company,
And
with our princes sing Your praise
Forever, to unending days.

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And?last let me offer a hymn published by CanticaNOVA Publications and printed here with their kind permission to be used by anyone during this special time of papal transition. It was sung as below at the CMAA Colloquium this past year on the Feast of Sts. Peter and Paul, and this setting may be found on page 151 of the Colloquium music packet.?The?outstanding organist is Jonathan Ryan.

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The Son of Man
has come to save

The lost and dark
of mind.

All men and women
bound in chains

In Him their
freedom find.

In Him the blind
shall come to see,

The deaf shall
understand,

For Jesus guides
the erring soul

With His
redeeming hand.

So Peter learned
to call Him Christ,

And Paul to call
Him Lord;

So Peter died
upon a cross,

And Paul beneath
a sword.

And on their
martyrs? witness grows

The Church of
endless days.

Its rock no more
denies the Lord

Its foe now leads
His praise.

The Son of Man
has come to serve

To seek and save
the lost.

Blest be the Lord
whose saints reveal

The triumph of
His Cross.

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Copyright ? 2005
CanticaNOVA Publications. Duplication restricted.

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