The following choral music will be sung Sunday, Nov. 1st at 9am mass in honor of All Saints Day:
Missa O Quam Gloriosum (Victoria)
Offertory Motet: O Quam Gloriosum est Regnum (Victoria)
Communion Motets: Justorum Animae (di Lasso)
Gaudent in Coelis (Richard Dering)
Translations for your Reflection/Meditation:
O Quam Gloriosum est Regnum
O how glorious is the kingdom
in which all the saints rejoice with Christ,
clad in robes of white
they follow the Lamb wherever he goes.
Justorum Animae
The souls of the Just are in the hand of God, and the torment of malice shall not touch them:
in the sight of the unwise they seem to die, but they are in peace.
Gaudent in Coelis
The souls of the saints rejoice in heaven,
they who have followed in the footsteps of Christ;
and because they shed their blood for love of Him,
they rejoice with Christ without end.
A Solemn High Mass on All Souls (Monday, 7pm) Schola Marianum will offer music for the Holy Souls, from two spanish requiem mass settings:
Missa Pro Defunctis by Cristobal de Morales
(Introit, Kyrie, Pie Jesu, and Lux Aeterna (comm. proper) from this mass setting)
Missa Officium Defunctorum by Tomas Luis de Victoria
(Taedet prelude piece, Sanctus, Agnus Dei, communion motet, and Libera Me from this mass setting)
Here are translations of the motets by Victoria, written for requiem masses:
Taedet Animam Meam (A lectio from the Office for the Dead; Text is Job 10: 1-7)
1 My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness
of my soul.
2 I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; shew me wherefore thou contendest with me.
3 Is it good unto thee that thou shouldest oppress, that thou shouldest despise the work of thine hands,
and shine upon the counsel of the wicked?
4 Hast thou eyes of flesh? or seest thou as man seeth?
5 Are thy days as the days of man? are thy years as man’s days,
6 That thou enquirest after mine iniquity, and searchest after my sin?
Thou knowest that I am not wicked; and there is none that can deliver out of thine hand.
Versa est in Luctum
My harp is tuned for lamentation,
and my flute to the voice of those who weep.
Spare me, O Lord,
for my days are as nothing.