The Second Sunday of Easter, no matter which way you slice it. Traditionally known as "Low Sunday" (to contrast with the high feast of Easter the Sunday before) or "Quasimodo Sunday" ("Quasimodo" is the first word of the Introit of the day in Latin which translates, "Like newborn babes, alleluia, crave for pure spiritual milk, alleluia, alleluia, alleluia"), this day is now "Divine Mercy Sunday", as declared by Pope John Paul II in 2000. It seems fitting that the first versicle of the day's Responsorial Psalm triples down on the words "His mercy endures for ever."
Without further ado...
MUSIC FOR HOLY MASS
ORDINARY OF THE MASS: Messa "Cristo Riscuciti" (Luigi Picchi)
- NOTE: The Memorial Acclamation (We proclaim your death, O Lord...) and Amen are adaptations thereof. Since the Mass setting was written in 1948, there was no memorial acclamation at that time. The memorial acclamation was a 1969 add-on in the "Novus Ordo", what is now known as the "Ordinary Form of the Mass". So, to keep with the same setting, I simply adapted the acclamation and the amen (which was simply a single "amen" at that time) to passages from Picchi's Mass.
- NOTE: The Memorial Acclamation (We proclaim your death, O Lord...) and Amen are adaptations thereof. Since the Mass setting was written in 1948, there was no memorial acclamation at that time. The memorial acclamation was a 1969 add-on in the "Novus Ordo", what is now known as the "Ordinary Form of the Mass". So, to keep with the same setting, I simply adapted the acclamation and the amen (which was simply a single "amen" at that time) to passages from Picchi's Mass.
ALLELUIA "O Filii et Filiae" (Mode II, arr. BMP; versicle tone by BMP) (PDF)
The rest:
Entrance hymn: Jesus lives, thy terrors now ("St. Albinus") (Listen)
Psalm 118: Give thanks to the Lord for he is good; his love is everlasting (Owen Alstott)
Offertory hymn: He is risen, he is risen ("Unser Herrscher") (Listen)
Communion responsory: O sons and daughters ("O Filii et Filiae", Mode II)
Meditation hymn: Christians, to the Paschal Victim (Mode I - Sequence of Easter)
Recessional hymn: Jesus Christ is ris'n today ("Easter Hymn")
Entrance hymn: Jesus lives, thy terrors now ("St. Albinus") (Listen)
Psalm 118: Give thanks to the Lord for he is good; his love is everlasting (Owen Alstott)
Offertory hymn: He is risen, he is risen ("Unser Herrscher") (Listen)
Communion responsory: O sons and daughters ("O Filii et Filiae", Mode II)
Meditation hymn: Christians, to the Paschal Victim (Mode I - Sequence of Easter)
Recessional hymn: Jesus Christ is ris'n today ("Easter Hymn")
Quod scripsi, scripsi!
BMP
