Repeating Offertoria
  • Palestrina
    Posts: 422
    Once again, I expect that somebody here has thought of this already and done the legwork - so rather than going through things myself, I thought I should ask here before reinventing the wheel...

    Has anyone made a list of the Offertoria that repeat throughout the year? My initial instinct was to go through the Gregorian Missal, assuming that it would print each Offertorium only once and then refer the reader back to the first printing of it rather than reproduce it. That theory died when I discovered that Advent 1 and OT 15 had the same music!

    So does anyone have a list of repeating Offertoria? From a strategic standpoint, it makes sense to prioritise learning the ones we will get to use more than once annually!
  • matthewjmatthewj
    Posts: 2,700
    I know Medifabor appears twice.
  • eft94530eft94530
    Posts: 1,577
    Already been working on a Google Spreadsheet
    containing IN OF CO because of duplications as you too discovered.

    How soon do you need a finished product?
    Thanked by 1Paul F. Ford
  • Aristotle EsguerraAristotle Esguerra
    Posts: 1,186
    If the scope of this list is limited to Sundays and major feasts, offertory chants that repeat during the course of a liturgical cycle do so only twice a year:

    • Ad te Domine levavi: Advent 1, OT 15
    • In te speravi, Domine: Holy Family, OT 19
    • Benedic anima mea: Second Sunday after Nativity (often supplanted by Epiphany-on-Sunday), OT 21
    • Exaltabo te Domine: Ash Wednesday, OT 17
    • Meditabor in mandatis tuis: Lent 2, OT 29
    • Iustitiae Domini: Lent 3, OT 16
    • Illumina oculos meos: Lent 4 (Prodigal Son), OT 10
    • Improperium: Palm Sunday, Sacred Heart (truncated)
    • Dextera Domini: Easter Vigil, OT 3 (without alleluia)
    • Iubilate Deo universa terra: Easter 5, OT 2
    • Viri Galilaei & Ascendit Deus: Ascension, Easter 7 (often supplanted by Ascension-on-Sunday)
    • Sanctificavit Moyses: Corpus Christi (option), OT 18C & 24AB
    • Perfice gressus meos: OT 5, OT 12

    Many more repeats may be found if ferias, etc., are counted.
    Thanked by 1Richard Mix
  • Chris Garton-Zavesky
    Posts: 6,902
    Aristotle,

    I find it fascinating that these texts would be repeated in the time after Pentecost. Only one of these is repeated within a non-Pentecost cycle.

    What happens if we line them up this way?

    Iubilate Deo universa terra: Easter 5, OT 2
    Dextera Domini: Easter Vigil, OT 3 (without alleluia)
    Perfice gressus meos: OT 5, OT 12
    Illumina oculos meos: Lent 4 (Prodigal Son), OT 10
    Ad te Domine levavi: Advent 1, OT 15
    Iustitiae Domini: Lent 3, OT 16
    Exaltabo te Domine: Ash Wednesday, OT 17
    Sanctificavit Moyses: Corpus Christi (option), OT 18C & 24AB
    In te speravi, Domine: Holy Family, OT 19
    Benedic anima mea: Second Sunday after Nativity (often supplanted by Epiphany-on-Sunday), OT 21
    Meditabor in mandatis tuis: Lent 2, OT 29
  • Aristotle EsguerraAristotle Esguerra
    Posts: 1,186
    Only one of these is repeated within a non-Pentecost cycle.


    Chris,

    Forgive me, but could you clarify/specify which one?
  • Chris Garton-Zavesky
    Posts: 6,902
    Aristotle,

    … or, I could learn how to count. Viri Galilaei is repeated on Easter 7, and Improperium is repeated on the Sacred Heart.

    That would be 2, not 1. Sorry.

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