MOUNT CALVARY CATHOLIC CHURCH Baltimore, Maryland † Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter TWENTIETH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY OCTOBER 29, 2017 • 10:00 A.M. Notes on Today’s Music Come, Thou Almighty King is by an unknown author and predates 1757. Similarities between “Come, Thou Almighty King” and the British national anthem “God Save the King” suggest that the hymn was written as a parody to that national anthem. There is a story that, during the American Revolution, some British soldiers surprised an American congregation on Long Island and ordered them to sing “God Save the King.” The Americans responded by singing the correct tune, but the words of “Come, Thou Almighty King.” In his first letter to Timothy, the apostle Paul warns him that the Christian life is a constant war against evil. He commands Timothy to “Fight the good fight of the faith” (1 Timothy 6:12). A few verses later, Paul describes the one for whose sake we fight: “He who is the blessed and only Sovereign, the King of kings and Lord of lords, who alone has immortality, who dwells in unapproachable light, whom no one has ever seen or can see. To Him be honor and eternal dominion. Amen” (1 Timothy 6:15-16). In this hymn, we praise God as our King and Ruler, addressing each Person of the Trinity in turn, and end with a request that “His Sovereign majesty / May we in glory see.” The tune MOSCOW was composed by Felice Giardini, who born in Turin. When it became clear that he was a child prodigy, his father sent him to Milan. There he studied singing, harpsichord and violin but it was on the latter that he became a famous virtuoso. By the age of 12, he was already playing in theater orchestras. Giardini was a prolific composer, writing for virtually every genre which then existed. His two main areas, however, were opera and chamber music. Virtually all of his music is out of print with the exception of a few songs and works of chamber music. He is known among Protestant churches for his “Italian Hymn” or “Moscow”, which often accompanies the text to the hymn “Come, Thou Almighty King” and also John Marriott’s hymn “Thou whose almighty word”. Draw nigh and take the Body of the Lord is a translation by the Anglican clergyman John Mason Neale (1818—1866) of the seventh-century Latin hymn Sancti venite, corpus Christi sumite. From a devout Evangelical family, Neale attended Cambridge, which like Oxford was influenced by the revival of Catholicism. The hymn begins with the New Testament understanding of Psalm 34:8: “Oh, taste and see that the LORD is good! Blessed is the man who takes refuge in Him!” The only way to “taste and see that the LORD is good” is to “draw near and take the body of the Lord.” Jesus gives us His body and blood to taste God’s goodness. In God’s goodness, He rules and shields His saints. He gives everlasting life with heavenly bread and living water. SANCTI VENITE was composed at Bangor Abbey in the 7th century AD, making it the oldest known Eucharistic hymn. It was carried to Bobbio Abbey and was first published by Ludovico Antonio Muratori in his Anecdota Latina ex Ambrosianæ Bibliothecæ codicibus (1697–98), when he discovered it in the Biblioteca Ambrosiana. According to a legend recorded in An Leabhar Breac, the hymn was first sung by angels at St. Seachnall’s Church, Dunshaughlin, after Secundinus had reconciled with his uncle Saint Patrick. O God, our help in ages past is considered one of the finest paraphrases written by Isaac Watt (1674-1748), the hymn expresses a strong note of assurance, promise, and hope in the LORD as recorded in the first part of Psalm 90. It contrasts the ephemeral quality of human life with the unshakeable eternity of God. Watts is often called the “Father of English hymnody” - that is, hymns on a wider range of topics rather than metrical versions of the psalms in the English language. Before him, congregational song focused almost exclusively on singing strict metrical versions of the psalms. The hymn tune ST. ANNE was composed by William Croft in 1708 while he was the organist of the church of St. Anne, Soho. J. S. Bach’s Fugue in E-flat major BWV 552 is often called the “St. Anne” because of the similarity of its subject to the first line of the hymn tune, though there is some debate as to whether Bach used the actual tune after hearing it, or coincidentally created the very similar tune used as the fugal theme. Mount Calvary Church A Roman Catholic Parish of the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter Holy Sacrifice of the Mass 20TH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY October 29, 2017 † 10:00 a.m. 816 North Eutaw Street † Baltimore, Maryland Organ Prelude Schmücke dich, o liebe Seele J. Brahms The People stand Sprinkling with Holy Water Asperges plainsong Priest O Lord, show thy mercy upon us. People And grant us thy salvation. Priest O Lord, hear my prayer. People And let my cry come unto thee. Priest The Lord be with you. People And with thy Spirit. Priest Let us pray. Priest Graciously hear us, O Lord, Holy Father, Almighty, everlasting God, and send thy Holy Angel from Heaven to guard, cherish, protect, visit, and defend all who dwell in this Holy Temple, through Christ our Lord. Amen. THE INTRODUCTORY RITES Hymn, #271 Come, Thou Almighty King Anon. 1757 / F. de Giardini, Moscow Introit, chanted by the Choir as the Priest censes the Altar Omnia quæ fecísti plainsong Everything that thou hast brought upon us, O Lord God, thou hast done in righteousness and judgment: for we have trespassed against thee, and have not obeyed thy commandments; but give glory and honor to thy Name, and deal with us according to the multitude of thy tender mercies. Blessed are those that are undefiled in the way: and walk in the law of the Lord. Glory be to the Father... | Everything that thou hast brought upon us... Collect for Purity The Priest says Almighty God, unto whom all hearts be open, all desires known, and from whom no secrets are hid: Cleanse the thoughts of our hearts by the inspiration of thy Holy Spirit, that we may perfectly love thee, and worthily magnify thy holy Name; through Christ our Lord. Amen. The Summary of the Law, proclaimed by the Priest Hear what our Lord Jesus Christ saith: Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it: Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets. Kyrie H. Willan Gloria in excelsis H. Willan Collect of the Day The Priest chants the Collect, the People singing ‘Amen.’ O Almighty and most merciful God: of thy bountiful goodness keep us, we beseech thee, from all things that may hurt us; that we, being ready both in body and soul, may cheerfully accomplish those things which thou commandest; through Jesus Christ thy Son our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, ever one God, world without end. Amen. THE LITURGY OF THE WORD The First Lesson Exodus 22:21-27 Thus says the LORD: “You shall not wrong a stranger or a creditor, and you shall not exact interest from him. If oppress him, for you were strangers in the land of ever you take your neighbor’s garment in pledge, you Egypt. You shall not afflict any widow or orphan. If you shall restore it to him before the sun goes down; for that do afflict them, and they cry out to me, I will surely hear is his only covering, it is his mantle for his body; in what their cry; and my wrath will burn, and I will kill you with else shall he sleep? And if he cries to me, I will hear, for the sword, and your wives shall become widows and I am compassionate.” your children fatherless. If you lend money to any of my Lector The Word of the Lord. people with you who is poor, you shall not be to him as People Thanks be to God. Gradual, chanted by the Choir Oculi omnium Ps. 145:15, 16 / plainsong The eyes of all wait upon thee, O Lord: and thou givest them their meat in due season Thou openest thine hand: and fillest all things living with plenteousness. The Second Lesson 1 Thessalonians 1:5c-10 Brethren: You know what kind of men we proved to be everywhere, so that we need not say anything. For they among you for your sake. And you became imitators of themselves report concerning us what a welcome we us and of the Lord, for you received the word in much had among you, and how you turned to God from idols, affliction, with joy inspired by the Holy Spirit; so that to serve a living and true God, and to wait for his Son you became an example to all the believers in from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, Jesus who Macedonia and in Achaia. For not only has the word of delivers us from the wrath to come. the Lord sounded forth from you in Macedonia and Lector The Word of the Lord.