THE PARISH OF ST. VINCENT FERRER AND ST. CATHERINE OF SIENA

The Very Reverend Walter C. Wagner, O.P., Pastor

James D. Wetzel, Director of Music and Organist

FIRST SUNDAY OF ADVENT

November 29, 2020

BEGINNING OF LITURGICAL YEAR B

The setting of the Mass Ordinary at the 12:00 Noon Mass is Missa Ad te levavi oculos meos by Philippe de Monte (1521-1603).

Take this leaflet with you after Mass. Do not leave it in the pews or return it to the tray.

PRELUDE Felix Mendelssohn SAINT PAUL, OP. 36 (1809-1847) Overture (Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme) [Awake, the voice is calling us]

INTRODUCTORY RITES

ENTRANCE ANTIPHON (OFFICIUM) Psalm 24 (25):1-3, 4 Chant, mode viii

Ad te levavi animam meam: To you have I lifted up my soul;

Deus meus in te confido, my God, in you I put my trust,

non erubescam: let me not be ashamed;

neque irrideant me inimici mei: neither let my enemies laugh at me,

etenim universi, qui te exspectant, for anyone who waits for you

non confundentur. shall not be confounded.

V. Vias tuas Domine demonstra mihi: V. Show, O Lord, your ways to me,

et semitas tuas edoce me. and teach me your paths.

SIGN OF THE CROSS, GREETING, AND PENITENTIAL RITE

KYRIE Missa XVIII: Deus Genitor alme Chant, mode iv

COLLECT

Grant your faithful, we pray, almighty God, the resolve to run forth to meet your Christ with righteous deeds at his coming, so that, gathered at his right hand, they may be worthy to possess the heavenly kingdom. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

LITURGY OF THE WORD

FIRST READING Isaiah 63:16b-17, 19b; 64:2-7

You, Lord, are our father, our redeemer you are named forever. Why do you let us wander, O Lord, from your ways, and harden our hearts so that we fear you not? Return for the sake of your servants, the tribes of your heritage. Oh, that you would rend the heavens and come down, with the mountains quaking before you, while you wrought awesome deeds we could not hope for, such as they had not heard of from of old. No ear has ever heard, no eye ever seen, any God but you doing such deeds for those who wait for him. Would that you might meet us doing right, that we were mindful of you in our ways! Behold, you are angry, and we are sinful; all of us have become like unclean people, all our good deeds are like polluted rags; we have all withered like leaves, and our guilt carries us away like the wind. There is none who calls upon your name, who rouses himself to cling to you; for you have hidden your face from us and have delivered us up to our guilt. Yet, O Lord, you are our father; we are the clay and you the potter: we are all the work of your hands. 2

GRADUAL (RESPONSORIUM) Psalm 24 (25):3, 4 Chant, mode i

Universi, qui te exspectant, Anyone who waits for you

non confundentur, Domine. shall not be confounded, O Lord.

V. Vias tuas, Domine, notas fac mihi: V. Show, O Lord, your ways to me,

et semitas tuas edoce me. and teach me your paths.

SECOND READING I Corinthians 1:3-9

Brothers and sisters: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

I give thanks to my God always on your account for the grace of God bestowed on you in Christ Jesus, that in him you were enriched in every way, with all discourse and all knowledge, as the testimony to Christ was confirmed among you, so that you are not lacking in any spiritual gift as you wait for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ. He will keep you firm to the end, irreproachable on the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. God is faithful, and by him you were called to fellowship with his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.

ALLELUIA Psalm 84 (85):8 Chant, mode viii

Alleluia, alleluia. Alleluia, alleluia.

V. Ostende nobis, Domine, V. Show us, O Lord,

misericordiam tuam, your mercy,

et salutare tuum da nobis. and grant us your salvation.

Alleluia. Alleluia.

GOSPEL Mark 13:33-37

Jesus said to his disciples: “Be watchful! Be alert! You do not know when the time will come. It is like a man traveling abroad. He leaves home and places his servants in charge, each with his own work, and orders the gatekeeper to be on the watch. Watch, therefore; you do not know when the Lord of the house is coming, whether in the evening, or at midnight, or at cockcrow, or in the morning. May he not come suddenly and find you sleeping. What I say to you, I say to all: ‘Watch!’”

HOMILY

3 CREDO (sung at 12:00 Noon) Chant, mode iv

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5 UNIVERSAL PRAYER

LITURGY OF THE EUCHARIST

OFFERTORY ANTIPHON Psalm 24 (25):1-3 Chant, mode ii

Ad te Domine levavi animam meam: To you, O Lord, have I lifted up my soul;

Deus meus, in te confido, my God, in you I put my trust,

non erubescam: let me not be ashamed;

neque irrideant me inimici mei: neither let my enemies laugh at me,

etenim universi qui te exspectant, for anyone who waits for you

non confundentur. shall not be confounded.

OFFERTORY Psalm 24 (25):1-3 (at 12:00 Noon) Jacob Regnart (c. 1540-1599)

Ad te, Domine, levavi animam meam: To you, O Lord, have I lifted up my soul;

in te confisus sum. I have trusted in you,

Respice in me, look upon me,

ne confundar, nor may I be confounded,

ne laetentur inimici mei super me. nor let my enemies rejoice over me.

Inclina ad me aurem tuam Incline your ear to me,

quoniam servus tuus sum ego. for I am your servant.

PRAYER OVER THE OFFERINGS

Accept, we pray, O Lord, these offerings we make, gathered from among your gifts to us, and may what you grant us to celebrate devoutly here below gain for us the prize of eternal redemption. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.

6 PREFACE

It is truly right and just, our duty and our salvation, always and everywhere to give you thanks, Lord, holy Father, almighty and eternal God, through Christ our Lord.

For he assumed at his first coming the lowliness of human flesh, and so fulfilled the design you formed long ago, and opened for us the way to eternal salvation, that, when he comes again in glory and majesty and all is at last made manifest, we who watch for that day may inherit the great promise in which now we dare to hope.

And so, with Angels and Archangels, with Thrones and Dominions, and with all the hosts and Powers of heaven, we sing the hymn of your glory, as without end we acclaim:

7 SANCTUS Missa XVIII: Deus Genitor alme

MYSTERY OF FAITH

AMEN

8 COMMUNION RITE

PATER NOSTER

SIGN OF PEACE

9 AGNUS DEI Missa XVIII: Deus Genitor alme

COMMUNION ANTIPHON Psalm 84 (85):13 Chant, mode i

Dominus dabit benignitatem: The Lord will give goodness,

et terra nostra dabit fructum suum. and our earth shall yield her fruit.

COMMUNION MOTET Joel 2:1 (at 12:00 Noon) (1564-1612)

Canite tuba in Sion, Blow the trumpet in Zion,

vocate gentes, address the nations,

annuntiate populis et dicite: announce to the people and say:

Ecce Deus salvator noster adveniet. Behold, God our Savior shall come.

Annuntiate et auditum facite Announce and make heard

loquimini et clamate: by speaking and shout:

Ecce Deus salvator noster adveniet. Behold, God our Savior shall come.

POST-COMMUNION PRAYER

May these mysteries, O Lord, in which we have participated, profit us, we pray, for even now, as we walk amid passing things, you teach us by them to love the things of heaven and hold fast to what endures. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.

10 CONCLUDING RITES

BLESSING AND DISMISSAL

POSTLUDE Johann Sebastian Bach SCHÜBLER CHORALS (1685-1750) Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, BWV 645 [Awake, the voice is calling us]

MUSIC NOTES

Today is the First Sunday of Advent which marks the beginning of the new liturgical year: Year B in the three-year lectionary cycle. The season of Advent (from the Latin adventus meaning ‘coming’) looks forward to the birth of Christ, calling the faithful to prepare for his arrival: first in meekness and mercy and ultimately in judgment and glory. Liturgies during this ‘privileged’ season of Advent strike a note of anticipation and repentance that is mingled with joy and hope; hence, although penitential violet is the season’s liturgical color, the Gloria is omitted, and the use of the organ is moderated, the Alleluia is retained. The congregational Ordinary (Kyrie, Sanctus, and Agnus Dei) at Sung Masses changes to the Latin-version of Missa XVIII.

For the four Sundays of Advent, the Schola will sing music drawn from the Franco- Flemish and German Schools. These are two of six major compositional “Schools” or traditions of Renaissance polyphony, the others being English, Iberian, Roman, and Venetian. The Franco-Flemish School encompasses compositions originating from modern-day Belgium, northern France, and the southern Netherlands in the 15th and 16th centuries over five generations of composers. During Advent, we will offer works by (c. 1505-c. 1557), Philippe de Monte (1521-1603), Orlando di Lasso (1532-1594), Jacob Regnart (c. 1540-1599), and Ferdinando di Lasso (1560-1609), the son of Orlando.

The German School displays an mix of Franco-Flemish and Venetian influence that may seem surprising to the lay observer; but the cross-pollination of Germanic and Italian composers during the late Renaissance was quite extensive. Many German composers wrote for both the Catholic and Protestant establishments, including the three featured this Advent: Jacob Handl (1550-1591), Hieronymus Praetorius (1560-1629), and Hans Leo Hassler (1564-1612)

11 Philippe de Monte was one of the most prolific composers of the Renaissance, perhaps of all time, penning over a thousand madrigals in 34 books, 38 settings of the Mass, about 250 , and 144 madrigali spirituali (sacred madrigals). Monte began his training as a choirboy at the Church (now Cathedral) of St. Rombout in Mechelen in modern Belgium. Like many Flemish composers of that time, he traveled through and studied in Italy, working in Naples and Rome. In the 1550s he sang in the chapel of Philip II of Spain. Upon the death of in 1567, Monte was appointed Kapellmeister to the Austrian Habsburg court, serving Maximilian II and Rudolf II, in Vienna, and after 1583, in , until his death in 1603.

The Douai-born Jacob Regnart was one of five brothers who were all ecclesiastical musicians. Jacob entered Habsburg service around 1557 as a chorister, though by 1564 he was being paid the standard salary for an adult singer. Apart from a spell studying in Italy in the late 1560s, Regnart remained with the Habsburgs until his death; during that time he worked under the emperors Maximilian II and Rudolf II and the Archduke Ferdinand, in Vienna, , and Prague (where he served as Vicekapellmeister under de Monte).

Hans Leo Hassler, born in Nuremberg, was the son of an organist and received his first training from his father. In 1584, Hassler became the first of many German composers of the period to study in where he befriended Giovanni Gabrieli and studied with his uncle, Andrea Gabrieli. He returned to late in 1585 where he worked as a composer and an organist, briefly in Augsburg for the Fugger family. His final appointment was in Dresden as Kapellmeister to the Elector Christian II of Saxony, succeeded by Michael Praetorious and Heinrich Schütz. Although a Protestant, much of Hassler’s music was written for the Roman liturgy.

Choral music at next Sunday’s Solemn Mass for the Second Sunday of Advent: Thomas Crecquillon’s Missa Domine da nobis auxilium; Ferdinando di Lasso’s Inter natos mulierum; and Hieronymus Praetorius’s Fuit homo.

ST. ANDREW

Monday, November 30 is the Feast of St. Andrew, Apostle. There will be a Sung Mass at 6:00 PM at St. Vincent Ferrer.

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