Friday, August 1, 2025

Sixth Sunday after Trinity Mass Chant Propers

 Mass Chant Propers for the Sixth Sunday after Trinity in pdf via google drive. 


Example of Offertory with verses from the above:





Fifth Sunday after Trinity Mass Proper Chants

 Mass Proper Chants for the Fifth Sunday after Trinity in pdf via google drive.


Example of the Offertory "Benedicam Domino" with verses:





Fourth Sunday after Trinity Mass Chant Propers

 Mass Proper Chants for Fourth Sunday after Trinity via google drive.  


Example from the Introit:




Rusticus the Deacon's "Disputation Against the Acephali" Part I

 Preface to Rusticus the Deacon's "Disputation Against the Acephali [Monophysites]"

[Rusticus lived in the late 500s, and was a Deacon of the Orthodox Church of Old Rome; text needs cleaning up and I have to go through it a few times, since below is google translate from the Latin; which is an whole lot better than it used to be, especially with the new LLM programs]


I, indeed, knowing both my sins and my necessities and my measure, have often proposed to prefer silence to dogmatism, especially since never have things pertaining to Christians been so disturbed as in our times: first, indeed, because no one emulates the efforts of the ancients, but rather discusses their effects; and they do not confess themselves sons of those who have long since rested in the Lord, but rather appoint them as judges, adding to them calumnies which are too numerous to count. And this is true among the Acephali, as it must be said, all of them; but among those who have recently appeared, only the laity in particular: among whom also those who are called bishops and presbyters and deacons, and the rest of the clergy and monks, some through error, some through avarice, some through ambition, but more generally all through every evil, have cast aside the freedom and confidence and healthy zeal of Christians to such an extent that, as far as they are concerned, they no longer even leave hope of correction. 


With these, indeed, all the virtue of Christians has departed, while no one truly cares for what is common and of the Lord Christ, nor does he consider it worthy of a word: but all are more keenly interested in what is their own (Phil. 2:11), and they place all their hope in those through whom they hope to enjoy this abundantly. But that these things are true, the facts themselves testify: indeed every trace of virtue has departed, and every flood of wickedness has drowned the Roman Republic. Therefore, proposing these things to my mind, I judged that I should indeed abstain from such abominations, but that I should only take my time in weeping, and that I should unceasingly bear the divine sentence, which has been frequently and strongly thundering from above upon many for a long time. But what shall I say, of leaving the world, although I am altogether hasty in will, yet very weak in virtue? All that remains for me is to hope in your prayers. I will return, therefore, to what I have proposed. As I thought about these and similar things with great care, my zeal did not cease, but reason suggested the opposite: Why are you constrained, O man, and do you only think that you must despair, looking only at human impiety and forgetting the divine will?

The Confession of the Faith of the Fathers of the Synod of Milan

  Confession of Faith of St. Mansuetus of Milan and the Synod held in 679, and sent to the Emperor Constantine IV to confirm the Orthodox Fa...