Sanctus

In the interest of time, we'll skip the fourth and fifth parts, the offertory and communion, usually sung while the celebrant prepares the gifts for communion and while the gifts are distributed to the congregation.

These five alternate with the five parts of the mass ordinary, the Kyrie, the Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, and Agnus Dei, all of which we'll hear today in Palestrina's Missa Confitebor Tibi, I Will Praise Thee, O Lord, with my whole heart, mostly from Psalm one-eighteen.

Our introit text is In voluntate tua.

All things are submitted to your will, O Lord.

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We've heard the Credo of Palestrina's Missa Confitebor Tibi, which brings us to the fourth part of the mass ordinary, the Sanctus, the Holy, Holy, Holy.

Here again are Palestrina and the Schola Adventus.

Their primary vocation is liturgy.

They are forever crying, "Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of Hosts." This is a hymn that we echo in the Sanctus of every Mass.

The Book of Revelation opens Heaven's veil to reveal angels by the myriads, ten thousand times ten thousand, we are told, surrounding the throne crying, "Worthy is the Lamb who was slain." And Hahn observes, "Remember, Israel's tradition always had men worshiping in imitation of angels." So as Revelation shows, Heaven and Earth participate together in a single act of loving worship.

In that sense, we learn from the angels, and we repeat what we learn from the angels at Mass.

The other three will be sung in traditional Gregorian chant.

And we'll also enjoy all five parts of the Ordinary, the Kyrie, the Gloria, the Credo, the Sanctus, and the Agnus Dei in the form of William Byrd's Mass for five voices.

So let's get started with our introit, Nos Autem, from Psalm 66.

Let our glory be in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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That was our offertory for this Feast of St. Wenceslaus.

Now we've reached the Sanctus of the Mass Ordinary, the Holy, Holy, Holy.

And here are the members of the Pro Arte Singers with the Sanctus in Benedictus of William Byrd's Mass for five voices.

we he acclaim.

Sanctus, Sanctus, Sanctus Dominus Deus Sabaoth, pleni sunt celia terra, gloria tua, Hosanna in excelsis, benedictus, qui venit in nomine Domini, Hosanna in excelsis.

You are indeed holy, O Lord, the fount of all holiness.

Make holy, therefore, these gifts, we pray, by sending down your Spirit upon them like the dewfall, so that they become for us

O say does that star-spangled banner yet wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

During the Benedictus of the Sanctus, the celebrating priest will have finished blessing the gifts.

Now, after the Our Father, comes the final part of the Ordinary, the Unused Day, or Lamb of God.

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