Propers (preferably Latin) for Votive Mass of Mercy?
  • UrsiEngebretsen
    Posts: 12
    Hello!

    I have a question. My parish is having a parish mission this week, and for the closing Mass of the mission, the visiting priest is planning to celebrate the Votive Mass of Mercy (Novus Ordo, but we're doing a lot of Latin). My pastor would like us to sing the propers in Latin if at all possible, but there isn't anything in the 1974 Graduale Romanum--my usual Novus Ordo propers resource--for the Votive Mass of Mercy.

    Does anybody know if chant versions of these propers exist, in Latin (or even in English)? Any help would be greatly appreciated!
  • MatthewRoth
    Posts: 2,544
    Well what are the propers in the missal?

    The OCM doesn’t have anything. I would simply celebrate a Mass with real propers, or I would take the propers from the votive Mass for whatever necessity and use those with the parts proper to the priest taken from this Mass for mercy.
  • MatthewRoth
    Posts: 2,544
    Well what are the propers in the missal?

    The OCM doesn’t have anything. I would simply celebrate a Mass with real propers, or I would take the propers from the votive Mass for whatever necessity and use those with the parts proper to the priest taken from this Mass for mercy. But you could try to pick something that kind of matches the missal texts.
  • GerardH
    Posts: 507
    There's discussion on the forum from 2016 which might help.
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  • chonakchonak
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    In an old Quebec Gradual, I found a reference for the feast of Our Lady of Mercy (Notre Dame de la Merci); the instructions were to sing the Common of the Blessed Virgin, hence:

    INTROIT: Salve sancta Parens

    GRADUAL: Benedicta et venerabilis es

    ALLELUIA (in Advent): Ave Maria
    ALLELUIA (in Christmastide and Epiphanytide, and after Pentecost): Post partum
    ALLELUIA (in Paschaltide):
    TRACT (in Septuagesima and Lent) : Gaude Maria Virgo

    But in Paschaltide, omit the Gradual and instead sing:
    FIRST ALLELUIA: Virga Jesse floruit
    SECOND ALLELUIA: Ave Maria

    OFFERTORY: Ave Maria
    COMMUNION: Beata viscera

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  • GerardH
    Posts: 507
    Obviously not official, but introits Miseris omnium and Misericordia Domini would both seem appropriate.
  • tomjaw
    Posts: 2,813
    Our Lady of Mercy is celebrated on the 24th September, this feast is also known as Our Lady of Ransom. It is still in the G.R. 1962, with the above Propers posted by @chonak.

    A Proper Mass and sequence can be found in the Mercedian supplement, and in the Spanish supplement. Links can be found on the following page,

    https://societyofstbede.wordpress.com/2024/09/24/our-lady-of-ransom-2/
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  • ServiamScores
    Posts: 2,962
    Perhaps the propers for the Votive Mass of the Eucharistic Heart of Jesus would be an appropriate substitute: (especially considering the topics and emphasis of the parish mission taking place)

    https://bbloomf.github.io/jgabc/propers.html#mass=votiveECJ
  • ServiamScores
    Posts: 2,962
    Someone shared on FB:
    https://www.ibreviary.com/m2/preghiere.php?tipo=Preghiera&id=884&fbclid=IwY2xjawIquQBleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHQySe9DfP_fMcqfInFycBzr9qn6glEuUDYYOwApkz7N8tv33LzRElH5IqQ_aem_aQVYVeimyb3XNwNsNTpaXg

    With that in mind, the incipit for the second option of the introit is "Misericordias domini in aeternum"
    And gregobase has this to offer:
    https://gregobase.selapa.net/chant.php?id=4015

    For the communio, the incipit is "misericordia autem" but I'm not finding anything at the moment.
  • smvanroodesmvanroode
    Posts: 1,012
    The Graduale novum II (p. 477) has the following propers for the Missa Votiva De Dei Misericordia:

    IN Domine, in tua misericordia
    GR Miserere mei, Deus
    AL Verba mea or Deus iudex iustus
    OF Miserere mihi, Domine
    CO In salutari tuo
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  • CGM
    Posts: 717
    In volume IV of Fr. Weber's Proper of the Mass (p.296), he gives the following propers for a Votive Mass of The Mercy of God:

    IN In caritate perpetua dilexi nos Deus or Misericordias Domini
    OF Benedic anima mea, Dominum
    CO Misericordia autem Domini ab æterno
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  • GerardH
    Posts: 507
    @CGM there's a volume IV?
  • ServiamScores
    Posts: 2,962
    Yes, there are four volumes. All worth having, IMHO.

    Vols 2-4 are downloadable, although physical books are available as well (Lulu, I believe). I have the physical volumes and use them for weekday / special masses. We use his Sunday propers (volume 1) every weekend.

    https://www.ccwatershed.org/2020/10/22/pdf-download-mass-propers-for-weekdays-commons-and-saints-1294-pages/
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