Chants of the Vatican Graduale - MusicaSacra

Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost 331
rected his steps according to God's ordinances. It pains him to realize,
that, like the men in today's Gospel, he has given more care to his fields
and his business than to the invitation to the King's banquet. Bitterly
he repents the fact that he has several times lost the wedding garment.
Hence, filled with contrition and the consciousness of his own weakness,
he asks for God's grace. In the spirit of the following Postcommunion
he prays that the salutary effects of the Holy Eucharist may serve to
free him from his evil inclinations, may renew him in Christ and make
him imitate Christ, so that he may always cling to God's commandments.
The second half of the third phrase has seconds exclusively.
Justificati-(ones) faithfully repeats the melody of (cus)-todien-(das). All
in all, it is a simple, humble prayer.
TWENTIETH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST
In the Epistle for today the Apostle gives us the guiding principles
for all our work with ecclesiastical music: "Be ye filled with the Holy
Spirit, speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns, and spiritual canticles,
singing and making melody in your hearts to the Lord: giving
thanks always for all things, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to
God and the Father" (Eph. 5: 18-20).
INTROIT (Dan. 3: 31, 29, 35)
1. Omnia quae fecisti nobis, Do- 1. All that thou hast done to us,
mine, in vero judicio fecisti, 2. quia OLord, thou hast done in true judgpeccavimus
tibi, et mandatis tuis ment: 2. because we have sinned
non obedivimus: 3. sed da gloriam against thee and we have not obeyed
nomini tuo, 4. et fac nobiscum se- thy commandments; 3. but give
cundum multitudinem misericordiae glory to thy name, 4. and deal with
tuae. Fs.Beati immaculati in via: * us according to the multitude of thy
qui ambulant in lege Domini. mercy. Ps. Blessed are the undefiled
in the way: * who walk in the law
of the Lord.
It is rare that the preliminary prayers and the Introit accord, for
in origin and development they are quite distinct from one another. On
this Sunday, however, the agreement could scarcely be more manifest.
At the foot of the altar the priest, bowing profoundly, prays: "I have
sinned," while the choir sings: "We have sinned against Thee and have
not obeyed Thy commandments." Thus prayed Azarias in the fiery
furnace at Babylon, acknowledging his guilt together with that of his