EF Low Mass question for St. John Lateran (November 9)
  • Brian Michael Page
    Posts: 152
    I am currently playing a 12:30 Extraordinary Form Low Mass at my parish on Sunday afternoons. I am working alone (playing and singing from the console), and I usually do an Entrance and Recessional hymn in English (one or two verses, tops - basically walking music), I improvise at the Offertory, and I usually do a hymn of some sort in Latin at Communion.

    What would one suggest for a hymn in Latin for the St. John Lateran Basilica feast on November 9 in the EF? I was almost toying around with the idea of using the Communion from the "Graduale Simplex", then realized that the Simplex is geared for the OF, so if anyone knowledgeable is in the pew, I would probably not get away with it.

    Or should I just do a Eucharistic hymn?

    Any ideas would be appreciated.
    Thanks much.
    BMP
  • tomjaw
    Posts: 2,704
    The Office Hymns for the Day are from the Common of the Dedication of a Church...

    Caelestis urbs Jerusalem (Vespers Hymn)
    Alto ex Olympi (Lauds Hymn)
    The above hymns can be found in the L.U. / Antiphonale, and are the texts as modified by Urban VIII.
    Other options are the original texts,
    Urbs Jerusalem Beata
    Angularis fundamentum
    These can be found in the Dominican / Monastic books online.

    There are Hymns to St.John, which could also be used.
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  • matthewjmatthewj
    Posts: 2,694
    http://imslp.org/wiki/Messe_basse,_Op.30_(Vierne,_Louis)

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  • Brian Michael Page
    Posts: 152
    Thanks much. I'm going to go with the Caelestis Urbs.
    BMP
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