Chants of the Vatican Graduale - MusicaSacra

St. Luke, Evangelist—SS. Simon and Jude, Apostles 459
so accepted the invitation of Mary in today's Lesson: "Come over to
me, all ye that desire me, and be filled with my fruits." The same Lesson
closes with the words: "They that explain me shall have life everlasting."
This promise of the eternal Truth and—in the sense of the Liturgy—of
the Mother of God should be a source of inspiration and consolation to
all singers. The opportunities to sing the praises and virtues of Mary
are abundant. Let us make use of them to show our ever-increasing awe
and reverence for her exalted dignity as Mother of God, and to chant
with ever-renewed love and gratitude the praises of her whom the Lesson
calls "the Mother of fair love," who possesses "all grace of the way
and of the truth.. .all hope of life and virtue."
ST. LUKE, EVANGELIST
(October 18)
The INTROIT and the OFFERTORY are the same as those on
the feast of St. Andrew.
GRADUAL (Ps. 18:5, 2)
1. In omnem ten am exivit sonus 1. Their sound went forth into
eorum: 2. et in fines orbis terrae all the earth: 2. and their words to
verba eorum. t. 1. Caeli enarrant the ends of the world. $. 1. The
gloriam Dei: 2. et opera manuum heavens show forth the glory of God:
ejus annuntiat firmamentum. 2. and the firmament declareth the
work of his hands.
This melody belongs to the type explained on the first Sunday of
Lent. Its first phrase and first half of the second phrase are very closely
related to the somewhat freer form found in the first and second phrases
in the first Mass for Christmas. The text of the Offertory was explained
on the feast of St. James.
The ALLELUIA VERSE is the same as that on the feast of St.
James.
The COMMUNION is the same as that on the feast of St. Matthias.
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SS. SIMON AND JUDE, APOSTLES
This feast, occurring on October 28, is not celebrated on a Sunday
if it is only of the second class, since the feast of Christ the King falls
upon the last Sunday of October.