"Omnium gentium litteris atque linguis, praecipue in Ecclesiis, Agnetis vita laudata est; quae et aetatem vicit et tyrannum, et titulum castitatis martyrio consecravit."
Saint Jerome, in the Roman Martyrology
So that it feels like Winter, and am going out, too, so the walk will be pleasant. The Mass is Me exspectaverunt, and the video recording from Saint-E. ought to be available at YouTube... but alas is not, yet. Later on, at ten o'clock here, the annual solemn Requiem for King Louis XVIII, on the anniversary of his martyrdom, will be sung.
Am returned from my shopping; it is almost time for Terce. The skies are grey and pink and otherwise opaque and beclouded (although there are scattered small patches of blue) and, while it is 'a bit nippy', as I heard one of the store suppliers put it, it is not very.
There is evidently not a new livret for today's Requiem, since we're being directed to last year's, here, at Liturgia. Violins and cellos today, as last year (at least one of each, ha; I cannot tell from the video of the choir loft who all is up there); it is the Introit of André Campra's Requiem being sung. Luceat eis. My, my, it has reduced me to tears, even.
Much of the proper is from one or the other Requiems of Louis Homet (1691-1767), as is the Dies irae; in addition to the Introit, the Sanctus and Agnus Dei are Campra's.
During the Communion, excerpts from the grand motet of Michel-Richard de Lalande's De profundis.
Pater Jean-François Thomas SJ is reading the Testament of Louis XVI, in place of the homily or sermon. He is also delivering a sermon; Pater Thomas is well known for his preaching.
At the Absolution, the Libera me of Abbé Auguste Chérion (1854-1904).
And at the sortie des clercs, the Domine salvum fac regem from the Mass Gaudete in Domino semper of François Giroust (1737-1799), composed for the Sacre in the Cathedral at Reims (1775).
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Introitus. Ps. 118, 95-96. Me exspectavérunt peccatores, ut pérderent me: testimónia tua, Dómine, intelléxi: omnis consummatiónis vidi finem: latum mandátum tuum nimis. Ps. ibid., 1. Beáti immaculáti in via: qui ámbulant in lege Dómini. V. Glória Patri.
Oratio. Omnipotens sempitérne Deus, qui infírma mundi éligis, ut fórtia quæque confúndas: concéde propítius; ut, qui beátæ Agnétis Vírginis et Mártyris tuæ sollémnia cólimus, ejus apud te patrocínia sentiámus. Per Dóminum.
Léctio libri Sapiéntiæ.
Eccli. 51, 1-8 et 12.
Confitébor tibi, Dómine, Rex, et collaudábo te Deum, Salvatórem meum. Confitébor nómini tuo: quóniam adjútor et protéctor factus es mihi, et liberásti corpus meum a perditióne, a láqueo linguæ iníquæ et a lábiis operántium mendácium, et in conspéctu astántium factus es mihi adjútor. Et liberásti me secúndum multitúdinem misericórdiæ nóminis tui a rugiéntibus, præparátis ad escam, de mánibus quæréntium ánimam meam, et de portis tribulatiónum, quæ circumdedérunt me: a pressúra flammæ, quæ circúmdedit me, et in médio ignis non sum æstuáta: de altitúdine ventris inferi, et a lingua coinquináta, et a verbo mendácii, a rege iníquo, et a lingua injústa: laudábit usque ad mortem ánima mea Dóminum: quóniam éruis sustinéntes te, et líberas eos de mánibus géntium, Dómine, Deus noster.
Graduale. Ps. 44, 3. Diffúsa est grátia in lábiis tuis: proptérea benedíxit te Deus in ætérnum. V. Ibid., 5. Propter veritátem et mansuetúdinem et justítiam: et dedúcet te mirabíliter déxtera tua.
Allelúja, allelúja. V. Matth. 25, 4 et 6. Quinque prudéntes vírgines accepérunt óleum in vasis suis cum lampádibus: média autem nocte clamor factus est: Ecce, sponsus venit: exíte óbviam Christo Dómino. Allelúja.
non sumpsérunt oleum secum: prudéntes vero accepérunt óleum in vasis suis cum lampádibus. Moram autem faciénte sponso, dormitavérunt omnes et dormiérunt. Média autem nocte clamor factus est: Ecce, sponsus venit, exíte óbviam ei. Tunc surrexérunt omnes vírgines illæ, et ornavérunt lámpades suas. Fátuæ autem sapiéntibus dixérunt: Date nobis de óleo vestro: quia lámpades nostræ exstinguúntur. Respondérunt prudéntes, dicéntes: Ne forte non suffíciat nobis et vobis, ite pótius ad vendéntes, et émite vobis. Dum autem irent émere, venit sponsus: et quæ parátæ erant, intravérunt cum eo ad núptias, et clausa est jánua. Novíssime vero véniunt et réliquæ vírgines, dicéntes: Dómine, Dómine, aperi nobis.
At ille respóndens, ait: Amen, dico vobis, néscio vos. Vigiláte ítaque, quia nescítis diem neque horam.
Offertorium. Ps. 44, 15 et 16. Afferéntur Regi Vírgines post eam: próximæ ejus afferéntur tibi in lætítia et exsultatióne: adducántur in templum regi Dómino.
Secreta. Hóstias, Dómine, quas tibi offérimus, propítius súscipe: et, intercedénte beáta Agnéte Vírgine et Mártyre tua, víncula peccatórum nostrórum absólve. Per Dóminum.
Communio. Matth. 25, 4 et 6. Quinque prudéntes vírgines accepérunt óleum in vasis suis cum lampádibus: média autem nocte clamor factus est: Ecce, sponsus venit: exíte óbviam Christo Dómino.
Postcommunio. Refécti cibo potúque cœlésti. Deus noster, te súpplices exorámus: ut, in cujus hæc commemoratióne percépimus, ejus muniámur et précibus. Per Dóminum.
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