Offertory and Communion Chants for Third Sunday in Advent

 

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.  

Greek Credo in 11th Century Pontifical of Salzburg

 The circa 1050AD Pontifical of Salzburg contains the service for the Making of Catechumens.  Within the service, the Symbol of Faith, or Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed, is appointed to be given in both Greek and Latin. 

The Greek is written in Latin letters; of noticeable import would be the section concerning the Holy Ghost in the Creed, which reads: 

"Ke is to Penumato Agion to Kyrion ke Zopion to ek thu Patros ek porreugemenon to sin Patri ke Io sin proskinumenon ke sin doxa" 

Which, in English, would be:

"And in the Holy Ghost, the Lord and Life-Giver, from the Father Proceeding, with the Father and the Son together worshipped and glorified." 

When the Symbol is repeated in Latin on the next page, it has the notorious interpolation of "Filioque" in the section concerning the Procession. 

There does seem to have been a desire in areas when the Symbol was being interpolated in Latin, to retain the uncorrupted text in Greek, however. 

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.