Chants of the Vatican Graduale - MusicaSacra

78 Feast of the Holy Name of Jesus
sized God's sublimity and holiness, the latter places His goodness and
mildness and fullness of His mercy in the fore. In this resounding song
of praise a tender note insinuates itself—rapture at the Lord's sweetness.
Mitis in a way is a repetition of sudvis. Alleluia, here treated as an
independent phrase, usually brings Offertories of the first mode to a
close during Eastertide; but the original, peculiarly, here has the shorter
form, generally used at the end of Communions.
COMMUNION (Ps. 85: 9, 10)
1. Omnes gentes quascumque 1. All the nations thou hast
fecisti, venient,etadorabuntcoramte, made shall come and adore before
Domine, 2. et glorificabunt nomen thee, O Lord, 2. and they shall glotuum:
3. quoniam magnus es tu, et rify thy name: 3. for thou art great
faciens mirabilia: 4. tu es Deus and dost wonderful things: 4. Thou
solus, alleluia. art God alone, alleluia.
The melody has been drawn from the sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost.
There is, however, a difference in the phrasing of several passages;
the close over Deus solus is more fluent than in the original, while magnus
es tu seems to have been composed specially for this text.
All the nations, says the psalm, shall come and adore. How many
of them have come today? We at least shall glorify His name after He
has entered into us again in Holy Communion. Let us say to Him:
Thou alone art God, art my God!
In content and feeling the Communion is related to the Introit.
We are to glorify God's name because He is great. Thus two virtues are
exemplified in the Mass chants: reverence for the most holy name of
Jesus (God Himself chose it), and love and confidence. With what tender
love did not the Mother of God speak this name; and millions of
men have experienced that Jesus is their Saviour and Redeemer.
VIGIL OF EPIPHANY
The chants are the same as those for the Sunday within the octave
of Christmas.