After a splendid Mass for Holy, Maundy Thursday. This neighborhood of Eugene had a fall of hail during the last minutes of the Mandatum-- the largest (in the size of the hailstones) of the several of the last few days; Spring indeed.
The antiphon Divisérunt sibi vestiménta mea and its Psalm 21, the second of Matins, was used at the stripping of the altars earlier.
The lessons from the Lamentations of the Prophet Jeremias are from the 2nd and 3rd chapters today. The first responsorium.
R. Omnes amíci mei dereliquérunt me, et prævaluérunt insidiántes mihi: trádidit me quem diligébam:
* Et terribílibus óculis plaga crudéli percutiéntes, acéto potábant me.
V. Inter iníquos projecérunt me, et non pepercérunt ánimæ meæ.
R. Et terribílibus óculis plaga crudéli percutiéntes, acéto potábant me.
And the 2nd responsorium.
R. Velum templi scissum est,
* Et omnis terra trémuit: latro de cruce clamábat, dicens: Meménto mei, Dómine, dum véneris in regnum tuum.
V. Petræ scissæ sunt, et monuménta apérta sunt, et multa córpora sanctórum, qui dormíerant, surrexérunt.
R. Et omnis terra trémuit: latro de cruce clamábat, dicens: Meménto mei, Dómine, dum véneris in regnum tuum.
And the 3rd responsorium.
R. Vínea mea elécta, ego te plantávi:
* Quómodo convérsa es in amaritúdinem, ut me crucifígeres et Barábbam dimítteres?
V. Sepívi te, et lápides elégi ex te, et ædificávi turrim.
R. Quómodo convérsa es in amaritúdinem, ut me crucifígeres et Barábbam dimítteres?
R. Vínea mea elécta, ego te plantávi: * Quómodo convérsa es in amaritúdinem, ut me crucifígeres et Barábbam dimítteres?
Am not going to continue this since I want to concentrate on listening. But it never ceases to amaze me how much good and even great music has been composed for Tenebrae and indeed all the sancta officia of Holy Week. And we at the parish hear... comparative dreck, alas.
The responsoria today and presumably tomorrow are Giovanni Battista Martini's; he was a Conventual Fransiscan friar who lived from 1706 to 1784.Among Martini's pupils: the Belgian André Ernest Modeste Grétry, the Bohemian Josef Mysliveček, the Ukrainian Maksym Berezovsky, his fellow Conventual Franciscan friar, Stanislao Mattei, who succeeded him as conductor of the girls choir, as well as the young Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Johann Christian Bach and the famous Italian cellist Giovanni Battista Cirri.
That sentence is from English Wikipedia. There is an album of his sonatas for organ and harpsichord that I've put on the 'Listen!' list.
Christus factus est pro nobis obédiens usque ad mortem, mortem autem crucis.
LDVM
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