Organ Prelude: Intonatio del settimo tono (Andrea Gabrieli)H/T massinformation
Invitatory: Deu in adjutorium meum (Croce)
Antiphons and Psalms: 110, 111, 112, 113, 117 (Plainsong)
Hymn: Iste confessor (Palestrina)
Antiphon: Hic vir despiciens (Plainsong)
Canticle: Magnificat octavi toni (Victoria)
Motet: O viridissima virga (Hildegard of Bingen)
Antiphon of Our Lady: Salve Regina (Philips)
Organ Voluntary: Chaconne in F (Fischer)
Organist: John McGreal
Celebrant: The Very Rev Ignatius Harrison
Director of Music: Patrick Russill.
Thursday, 18 September 2008
Vespers from the Oratory on Radio 3
Yesterday, Radio 3 broadcast Vespers from the London Oratory for the feast of the Stigmata of St Francis. You can listen via the programme page on the Radio 3 website for up to a week after the programme (which is also being repeated on Sunday at 4pm). Here is the summary:
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I thought Radio 3 had bumped Vespers/Evening Prayer to Sunday at 16:00?
Have they reverted to Wednesday (it would be good if they have)?
Father,
Could you please explain what rite this was? In the 1962 Ordo vespers were ferial that day.
The feast of the Stigmata of St Francis had been reduced to a commemoration in the universal calendar by 1962. I expect the Oratory were observing it more fully as a votive Mass and Office but please don't ask me for detailed rubrical guidance on commemorations & votives as I have never quite got the hang of all that!
Votive office of the Impression of the Stigmata of St Francis?
Sounds like make-it-up-as-you-go Cafeteria Catholicism to me - Fifth Floor Harvey Nick's of course.
I listened to the broadcast on BBC 'iplayer.'
The music is very beautiful but the whole thing rubrical nonsense in the best 'High Church' fashion. Such a vespers would not have been celebrated since before 1659, or thereabouts.
However, the one thing the celebration illustrates very well is the quality of the liturgy before the 1911-13 reform: some of the psalm tones I had not heard before with their respective antiphons.
What I found profoundly irritating is that someone could not have given the choir the proper stroph unique to the feast Hac die laetus meruit beata Vulnera Christi in the hymn Iste Confessor. To just sing Scandere sedes must have insulted St. Francis very much.
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