EDITED: Merry Christmas!/Holy Father's 2009 Midnight Mass, etc

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Please do not let this thread degenerate into a discussion about chant and whether it’s relevant. If you want to know about that, look at our Holy Father’s Mass at St. Peters, or start a new thread. This is only supposed to be a nice, lighthearted thread. As your mother always said, if you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say it at all. 🙂

Midnight Mass Introit: Dominus díxit ad me

The Lord hath said to me: Thou art My Son, this day have I begotten Thee.

By the way, Dominus díxit is my favorite chant of all time, followed closely by Puer Natus, and the Te Deum simplex.

What are y’all’s favorite chants?
 
Great post! I almost forgot about some old favorites, like the Veni Creator Spiritus and both tones of the Salve Regina.
 
Puer natus is a great introit, though Dominus dixit has a flaccid, honking quality that has never struck my ears well. To each his own, though.

Among my favorites would have to be the introits Qui meditabitur (vide infra), the unexcelled Gaudeamus (in any of its incarnations, such as for All Saints), and Laetetur cor quaerentium (a gorgeous specimen which was rescued from its quondam obscurity on some Lenten ferial day and promoted to OT30). Among alleluias, Magnus Dominus (OT14 / VIIIº Sunday after Pentecost) and Beatus vir qui suffert (Common of a confessor not a pontiff) have to be two of the most beautiful and expressive. The prince of the communios is without doubt Pentecost’s Factus est repente, which has the same trumpeting fifth that you see in Puer natus; next I would put Narrabo omnia, another one unearthed on an intrepid expedition into darkest jungles of Lenten ferias and now placed on display on OT7. Oh, and the responsory Libera me from funerals.
 
Well since it’s Christmas, how about Palestrina’s Mass Hodie Christus Natus Est. One of our choirs sings that style of music and I’ve suggested that if they start at Midnight Mass, they may just have reached the Agnus Dei by the Dawn Mass.

Here’s a taster youtube.com/watch?v=h_ysMHsxSiQ
 
TheMc said:
Please do not let this thread degenerate into a discussion about chant and whether it’s relevant. If you want to know about that, look at our Holy Father’s Mass at St. Peters, or start a new thread. This is only supposed to be a nice, lighthearted thread. As your mother always said, if you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say it at all. 🙂

Midnight Mass Introit: Dominus díxit ad me

The Lord hath said to me: Thou art My Son, this day have I begotten Thee.

By the way, Dominus díxit is my favorite chant of all time, followed closely by Puer Natus, and the Te Deum simplex.

What are y’all’s favorite chants?
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That chant is beautiful. That little blond boy looks like he knows how to sing well, ha ha.

I love: Sin iniquitates.

Question about midnight mass: Is is a joyful mass because Christ is born or is it more of a pensive, reflective, solemn (in spirit) mass, because God has deigned to become flesh?
 
TrueLight said:
That chant is beautiful. That little blond boy looks like he knows how to sing well, ha ha.

I love: Sin iniquitates.

Question about midnight mass: Is is a joyful mass because Christ is born or is it more of a pensive, reflective, solemn (in spirit) mass, because God has deigned to become flesh?
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In my (one) experience, it’s a mixture of both. It’s not as starkly deprived and severe as your average Lent mass, but at the same time, it’s not as joyful as the Easter Vigil. It technically has all the same parts as a normal Sunday mass, as in the Gloria and whatnot, but has an air of expectation of the Lenten season.

The Christmas Proclamation (analogous to the Exsultet of the Easter Vigil) is extremely beautiful with all the historical and biblical references, like the Chaldeans of Ur and of the reign of Octavian Augustus. I find that second reference sublime; it puts the Roman in “Roman Catholic” like nothing else.
 
YoungTradCath said:
In my (one) experience, it’s a mixture of both. It’s not as starkly deprived and severe as your average Lent mass, but at the same time, it’s not as joyful as the Easter Vigil. It technically has all the same parts as a normal Sunday mass, as in the Gloria and whatnot, but has an air of expectation of the Lenten season.

The Christmas Proclamation (analogous to the Exsultet of the Easter Vigil) is extremely beautiful with all the historical and biblical references, like the Chaldeans of Ur and of the reign of Octavian Augustus. I find that second reference sublime; it puts the Roman in “Roman Catholic” like nothing else.
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Thanks!
 
So… How was everyone’s christmas? I got those nice breviary ribbons I was looking for (see that old thread I started).

Lots of family time and all that good stuff, and of course, midnight Mass and being able to sing the christmas proclamation.
 
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