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I have been racking my brain and I can not for the life of me tell is this is an actual hymn or something made solely for the movie. If it is an actual hymn, what is it’s name? I would LOVE to sing this in my choir if it is an actual hymn.

youtube.com/watch?v=GbK3TiU-zPw
 
I have been racking my brain and I can not for the life of me tell is this is an actual hymn or something made solely for the movie. If it is an actual hymn, what is it’s name? I would LOVE to sing this in my choir if it is an actual hymn.

youtube.com/watch?v=GbK3TiU-zPw
The soundtrack’s on Amazon:
amazon.com/Cardinal-Classic-Music-Jerome-Moross/dp/B0000584VU/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1300499186&sr=1-1

(Clarification: I think the original soundtrack is out-of-print: there are two soundtracks that might be it.)
 
Oh how that took me back. The first time I saw that movie was when I was so young that it did not register with me how awful that choir sounds (but in a very authentic way for Rome, which is where that ceremony is taking place). Oh well, it is made up for I suppose by the beautiful Latin of the actor playing the bishop (whose mitre oddly changes color).

Anyway, to get to the point, I doubt that it was written for the movie, but it is also not, shall we say, a generally known hymn, and in spite of my youthful unawareness I am now a church musician of many decades’ experience. As the music accompanying the procession prior to Mass, it could be anything. I suppose I could spend more time figuring out the Latin words, but frankly, there are works of greater artistic merit out there.
 
The song itself is called Laetamini in Domino. The text (in a Gregorian chant version) is the offertory antiphon assigned for Mass at a feast of two or more martyrs in Paschal time, and on the feast of Sts. Fabian and Sebastian on January 20. (Really, it has no place as a processional hymn.) The words are Ps. 32 (31):11,
Laetamini in Domino, et exsultate justi: et gloriamini omnes recti corde.

Be glad in the Lord, and rejoice, ye just, and glory, all ye right of heart.
This offertory has been set to music by a number of composers, including Palestrina; I thought this setting by Richafort was cool. Unfortunately, I’m not familiar with the version in your video, and poking around for a bit I couldn’t find it. Maybe you’ll have better luck, but it’s very possible it’s just entirely unfamous and not findable. I’m pretty sure it was not composed just for the movie.

P.S.: yeah, jbuck, that choir is terrible! They warble like a bunch of old ladies – and need a reedy organ to back them up. I’ve got no doubt that it is very authentic, because in fact Catholic music 100 years ago was, by general consensus, pretty awful.
 
Laetamini in Domino, et exsultate justi: et gloriamini omnes recti corde.

Be glad in the Lord, and rejoice, ye just, and glory, all ye right of heart.
Verse 11, ps. 31. It is also an approved antiphon for that psalm in the Divine Office.
 
Oh well, it is made up for I suppose by the beautiful Latin of the actor playing the bishop (whose mitre oddly changes color).
Not odd at all. There are traditionally three kinds of mitre in the EF: precious, gold and simple. The precious mitre was worn for processionals, but replaced with the gold mitre for other parts of the rite. This is still done in places where the EF Pontifical Mass is celebrated.
 
Not odd at all. There are traditionally three kinds of mitre in the EF: precious, gold and simple. The precious mitre was worn for processionals, but replaced with the gold mitre for other parts of the rite. This is still done in places where the EF Pontifical Mass is celebrated.
I wondered if that was so. It seems that they went out of their way in that movie to be authentic, right down to the disheveled fringe on the fabric of a magnificent service (the already mentioned choir, that ridiculously fast procession, which I’m sure is just the way they would have done it). Can you tell me if, in a pontifical Mass, the prayers at the foot of the altar would be said standing up? it is the only other potential flaw that I noticed. Incidentally, portions of Stephan Fermoyle’s consecration as bishop are also on Youtube, and most of this was cut in many prints of the film.

Again remembering back to my childhood, I recall the “adsum” of all the candidates and at the time thought they must be saying something profound (like “I will serve God to the end”), when all they are really doing is acknowledging their presence to a roll call.
 
I wondered if that was so. It seems that they went out of their way in that movie to be authentic, right down to the disheveled fringe on the fabric of a magnificent service (the already mentioned choir, that ridiculously fast procession, which I’m sure is just the way they would have done it). Can you tell me if, in a pontifical Mass, the prayers at the foot of the altar would be said standing up? it is the only other potential flaw that I noticed. Incidentally, portions of Stephan Fermoyle’s consecration as bishop are also on Youtube, and most of this was cut in many prints of the film.

Again remembering back to my childhood, I recall the “adsum” of all the candidates and at the time thought they must be saying something profound (like “I will serve God to the end”), when all they are really doing is acknowledging their presence to a roll call.
You are VERY lucky to have been able to attend this type of ordination. I can only dream of it. I don’t know why, but I thought the procession was just right. I think too much attention is paid to a procession these days. I would MUCH rather have the old prayers than a long procession.

I am married with six children, but I seriously considered becoming a priest. In the late nineties the only real option was the SSPX for a young man who loved tradition. I have cried at times watching this ordination scene from the movie as I see so much of myself in what I HOPED to be.

All of the pomp and regalia only said to be that all of this is for GOD. To honor him. We bring our very best to Church.

As for the choir, I rather like it. Some of the slow midevil polyphony is nice, but I the “bad Catholic music” of the late 19th and early 20th century was quite nice. I found myself thinking “I could sing that”, which rarely happens with the slow polyphony of the renisance.
 
Found a piece of trivia about the film:

The Vatican bankrolled some of the film, and the Vatican liaison was a young Joseph Ratzinger, who in 2005 became the 265th Catholic Pope as Benedict XVI.

Probably the reason for the accuracy of all of the liturgical ceremonies.
 
I wondered if that was so. It seems that they went out of their way in that movie to be authentic, right down to the disheveled fringe on the fabric of a magnificent service (the already mentioned choir, that ridiculously fast procession, which I’m sure is just the way they would have done it). Can you tell me if, in a pontifical Mass, the prayers at the foot of the altar would be said standing up? it is the only other potential flaw that I noticed.
Only altar servers would kneel for the prayers at the foot of the altar. The sacred ministers at a Solemn Mass (celebrant, deacon, subdeacon) always stand. At a Pontifical Mass the assistant priest in cope, the two deacons of the throne and the chaplain to the Ordinary also stand.
 
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