Twelve Responsories for Epiphany

 The Twelve Responsories used for Epiphany. They are also used in full for the Sunday within the Octave of Epiphany (this upcoming Sunday), as well as for the Octave Day of Epiphany; for days within the Octave, other than Sunday, only three are used.

Tenth Sunday after Trinity Mass Chant Propers

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

Example of Alleluia with verse:

Responsories for August Reading of Wisdom Books

 Responsories during the Nocturns reading of the Wisdom books, from the ancient Hartker Antiphoner, put into English.

The Hartker Responsories in the original Latin for Wisdom books.

Example of Responsory:

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:

Fourth Sunday after Trinity Mass Chant Propers

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

Example from the Introit:

Third Sunday after Trinity Mass Chant Propers

Third Sunday after Trinity Mass Chant Propers [includes Offertory with verses and Communion antiphon with verse], via google drive:

 https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1TRHdjZxsleNBnbi0cufW83j4RNTjlYgT?usp=sharing 

Example of Alleluia with verse:

Second Sunday after Trinity Mass Proper Chants

Second Sunday after Trinity Mass Chant Propers via google drive upload in pdf: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1YeNE2YQ9G0HJO34twkK-ciokmWodddrl?usp=sharing

example of Gradual and verse:

Responsory "Iste Sanctus" for One Martyr

 A Responsory for One Martyr; in this case, from the 12 Responsories of Vigils for the Feast of St. Kenelm the Royal Martyr today:

First Sunday after Trinity Mass Proper Chants [includes verses to Offertory]:

 First Sunday after Trinity Mass Proper Chants [includes verses to Offertory]:

Mass Proper Chants for 13th Sunday after Trinity

 

Mass Proper Chants for the Thirteenth Sunday after Trinity, via pdf files on Google Drive:

Introit

Gradual

Alleluia

Offertory [with verses]

Communion [with Psalm verse]

Alleluia for Third Sunday in Advent and Alleluia for Weekday Ferias

 

Gradual for Third Sunday in Advent

 

Introit for Third Sunday in Advent

 Introit:

Additional Prayer in the Canon of the Mass from the 1025 Subiaco Missal

 The 1025 Subiaco Missal is an interesting and important liturgical manuscript, as it provides a testimony of the liturgical practices of one of the centres of Benedictine Monasticism.  It is also known at Vat. Lat. 4770, and can be found in digitized form; here will look at the form the Canon of the Mass had at Subiaco.

After the "Supplices Te rogamus Omnipotens Deus"  prayer, is the following text  (a clearer version is printed here):

"Omnipotens sempiterne Deus, dignare suscipere hanc oblationem et hunc sacrificum, quas ego peccator presumo offero in memoriam incarnationisque nativitatis, resurrectionis, ascensionis, in honore beate et gloriose semper virginis Dei genitricis Marie sanctorumque omnium archangelorum, patriarcharum, prophetarum, apostolorum, martyrum, et confessorum, et virginum, et omnium sanctorum tuorum et eus ad quorum honore in isto altario reliquie habentur et cuius hodie festa celebrantur et pro me misero preccatore et pro omnes meos parentes et pro omnibus benefactoribus meis, ut et ipsi pro nobis omnibus dignentur intercedere in celis, cuius memoria facimus in terris. Per Christum Dominum nostrum."

The following is my brief translation of this text:

"Almighty Eternal God, do Thou deign to receive this Oblation and this Sacrifice, which I, a sinner, presume to offer in  Commemoration of the Incarnation, Nativity, Resurrection, and Ascension, and in honour of the Blessed and Glorious Ever-Virgin Birthgiver of God Mary, and of All the Saints, and of all the Archangels, Patriarchs, Prophets, Apostles, Martyrs, Confessors, Virgins, and all Thy Saints, and those to whose honour in this Altar have Relics and those whose feasts are celebrated today and on behalf of me, a miserable sinner, and for all mine ancestors, and for all my benefactors, that they may be deigned worth to intercede for us all in the heavens, whose memorial we make upon the Earth.  Through Christ Our Lord."

The text itself is more reminiscent, in my view, of the various "Suscipe, Sancta Trinitas" prayers said by the Priest at the Offertory.  In other ancient Missals and Sacramentaries, such as that of Robert of Jumieges, we often see another text after the "Supplices Te" text, such as "Memento mei queso".

In this sense, the Canon of the Mass, for a large number of medieval usages, existed as a basic standard; those, local usages could be found that had additional text inserted in certain places.  

Images from Late 10th Century Sacramentary of Bishop Warmund of Ivrea

 Here are some of the images you can find via google images from the Sacramentary of Warmund, Bishop of Ivrea, circa 1000 AD.  Ivrea is in the extreme north-western part of modern Italy.  The first image is the Coronation of a King by a Bishop, the second is the Consecration of a Bishop by a Metropolitan with other Bishops participating, and the third is the Consecration of Christ on Holy Thursday by a Bishop. 

 

Consecration of Bishop from 8th Century Switzerland

 Consecration of a Bishop, from a wall painting in St. John's Church in Mustair, Switzerland.  The Bishop-Elect to be Consecrated is preparing to kneel at the Altar, while one Bishop behind him is placing the Gospel book on him, and the other Bishops are helping, and preparing to lay hands.  It's very difficult to find a lot of high quality, color, photos of the interior panel and church wall paintings in St. John's Abbey.  It contains probably some of the best preserved church paintings in Western Europe from the 8th century. 

The Humility of God

 "For this end the Only-Begotten Son of God took on Him the Form of our infirmity; for this the Invisible appeared not only Visible, but even despised; for this He endured the jests of contumely, the reproaches of derisions, and the torments of sufferings, that God in His Humility might teach man not to be proud.  How Great then is the Virtue of Humility, since for the sole purpose of truly teaching it, He Who above estimation is Great, became Little, even to Suffering?  For since the pride of the devil cause the origin of our fall, the Humility of God was found out as the Instrument of our Redemption.  For our enemy who was created great above all things, wished to appear exalted above all things.  But Our Redeemer remaining Great above all things, deigned to become Little among all things."

(St. Gregory the Great, the Dialogist [+604], Book 34, Sec. 54, "Morals on the Book of Job"] 

St. John Maximovitch (+1966) Celebrating Gallican Rite Mass

 "Never, never, never let anyone tell you that, in order to be Orthodox, you must also be eastern. The West was Orthodox for a thousand years, and her venerable liturgy is far older than any of her heresies."--St. John Maximovitch

From the Anglo-Saxon Pentiential

From the Old English Handbook for Confessors:

"Concerning the priest's discretion

He who is the physician of men's souls and the counsellor of their deeds must consider that distinction and that difference: how he shall assign penance to men for their deeds, and yet not condemn them or cause them to despair. When one wishes to confess his misdeeds to him, first listen to him patiently (and learn) how his condition might be advised. If he wishes and knows how to confess his deeds humbly, and you perceive that his sins cause him sorrow, instruct him kindly and compassionately. If he does not know how to confess his deeds and to consider his offenses, ask him about his condition, and wrest the offenses from him, and search out his deeds, and be mindful yourself that you must never pass judgment in the same way on the powerful and the lowly, the free and the enslaved, the old and the young, the well and the sickly, the humble and the proud; the strong and the weak, those in orders and lay people. In every act a prudent judge must distinguish wisely how it was done, and where and when. At no time is wrongdoing allowed, and nevertheless one must also most earnestly be on guard against it during festival seasons and in times of fasting and in festival places. And always, as one is mightier or greater of rank, so must he repent wrongdoing more deeply before God and before the world. For the powerful and the weak are not able to lift up a similar burden, nor the one who is well. And therefore one must take the measure of and discreetly distinguish between after After this let him arise humbly to his confession and then say, first:"I believe in God the great Father, Ruler of all things, and in the Son, and in the Holy Spirit; and I believe in life after death; and I believe that I will arise on Doomsday, and all this I believe will come to pass through God's power and mercy."And then, with contrite mind and humbly, let him say his confession to his confessor, bending humbly; and say thus "I confess to Almighty God and to my confessor, the spiritual physician, all the sins that ever through cursed spirits, have happened to me in defilement, in deed or in thought, with men or with women or with any creature, natural or unnatural sins of the body. "I confess greediness in eating both before and after time." "I confess all covetousness and envy, and calumnies and deceits, lies and evil boasts, and idle words and wrongful choices, and every ornament that has ever contributed to the injury of my body. "I confess that I was too often a worker of sins, and a helper of sins, and an accomplice of sins, and a teacher of sins. "I confess the mortal sins of my mind, and false oaths, and strife, and pride, and disregard of God's commandments. "I confess all that I have ever seen with my eyes in covetousness or calumny, or heard with my ears to ill use, or said to ill use with my mouth. "I confess to you all the sins of my body, for skin, for flesh, for bone, for sinews, for veins, for gristle, for tongue, for lips, for gums, and for teeth, for hair, and for marrow, for everything soft or hard, wet or dry. "I confess that I have kept to my baptism worse than I promised to my Lord, and my rank, which I ought to have kept in praise of God and his holy ones and for my own eternal salvation, I have held unworthily. "I confess that I have often neglected my canonical hours and sworn false oaths on my Lord's life, and taken my Lord's name in vain. "For all that I ask for my Lord's forgiveness, that the devil may never charge me with fault, so that I (might be) without confession and repentance of my sins. "So today I confess all my sins before the Lord Savior Christ, who rules heaven and earth, and before this holy altar, and this reliquary, and before my confessor and the Lord's masspriest, and am in pure and true confession, and with good will for the repenting of all my sins, and afterwards to desist from those that ever I might commit. "And you, Christ the Savior, be merciful to my soul and forgiving and blot out my sins and my offenses that ever I did, late or early, and lead me to your high kingdom so that I might dwell there with your holy and chosen ones in eternity ever without end. "Now I ask you humbly, priest of the Lord, that you be my witness on Doomsday, so that the devil might not obtain power over me, and so that you be my intercessor with the Lord, so that I might be able to repent all my sins and offenses, and cease from such things. For that may the Lord, he who lives and reigns ever without end in eternity, sustain me. Amen.

And if anyone does something wrong unintentionally, that is not like the one who does wrong wilfully and intentionally; and also he who is the involuntary agent of that in which he does wrong, he is always deserving of protection and the milder judgment, because he was the unwilling agent of that which he did. Let each one distinguish each deed truly before God and before the world.

http://www.anglo-saxon.net/penance/index.php?p=TOEH201_115

 "It is fitting that the priest should ponder the repentance of sinful men, according to the bishop's judgment; and he should never hesitate, neither for the rich nor for the poor, to prescribe correctly for them as the book teaches him. For the Savior says that if the priest does not wish to prescribe penance for the sinful one for his sins, that he (the Savior) would afterwards ask him (the priest) about the soul. That is, the Savior will hold the priest responsible for the lost soul. [Ezekiel 3:18: If, when I say to the wicked, Thou shalt surely die: thou declare it not to him, nor speak to him, that he may be converted from his wicked way, and live: the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity, but I will require his blood at thy hand.] St. Isidore said that it was his opinion that a man's true confession and conversion on his last day would be acceptable to God, for the Savior said, "On whatever day of life a man turns to a good life, he shall live and shall not die." [see Ezekiel] On that account genuine conversion is not to be shunned in whatever time that it might be; for God sees every man's mind and knows the secrets of every man's heart."

[Old English Penitential]
http://www.anglo-saxon.net/penance/index.php?p=TOEP482_1b

Gloria Patri for Introit and Assorted Responsory Verses

 The Gloria Patri in different tones as sung for the Introit; also, assorted Responsory Verses and Gloria Patri's in different tones; I uploaded them to google drive; all in English. 

Gloria Patri for Introit

Responsory Verses