Second Sunday of Advent. "Our forerunner John calls us to repent for You are near....Kyrie Eleison...."
The RCIA candidates will be there.
It is the weekend before our massive Bead N' Bake Fundraiser.
Finals are upon the kids like a plague on the nations.
But we are cheerful, hopeful, bright eyed and happy to serve.
Our anthem at Offertory is "Create in Me a Clean Heart, O God" by P. Bouman. We sang it at the Mass for Life in October, and there is a lovely recording there, so I probably will not record it again.
Our anthem at Communion is something a little different. Taken directly from the propers for the day, Creator Alme Siderum is the chanted proper for the Second Sunday of Advent, and we are delighted to offer it as unaccompanied chant in the silence following communion.
The tune you will recognize as the familiar hymn "Creator of the Stars of Night." The text, however will be from the original Latin chant, so I will put it here. According to the Church Music Association of America's wonderful Parish Book of Chant, the text is replaced in modern collections by the Advent hymn from the Divine Office, Canditor alme siderum. This is Creator alme siderum's traditional text in full:
Creator alme siderum,
AEterna lux credentium,
Jesu, Redemptor Omnium,
Intende votis supplicum.
Qui daemonis ne fraudibus,
Periret orbis, impetu
Amoris actus, languidi
mundi medela factus es.
Commune qui mundi nefas
Ut expiares, ad crucem
E Virginis sacrario
Intacta prodis victima.
Cujus potestas gloriae,
Nomenque cum primum sonat,
Et caelites et inferi
Tremente curvantur genu.
Te deprecamur, ultimae
Magnum diei Judicem,
Armis supernae gratiae
Defende nos ab hostibus.
Virtus, honor, laus, gloria
Deo Patri cum Filio,
Sancto simul Paraclito,
In saeculorum saecula. Amen
TRANSLATION:
Blessed Creator of the stars, eternal light of the faithful, Jesus, redeemer of all, hear the prayers of thy servants.
Who, lest through frauds of the devil all perish, moved by love becamest the healer of the sick world.
To atone for the sin of the world thou camest from the Virgin's womb, a spotless victim, to the cross.
Thy glorious power and name when heard make angels and men trembling bend the knee.
We pray thee, great judge of the last day, to defend us from our enemies with arms of grace from above.
Power, honor, praise, and glory to God the Father, with the Son and the Holy Comforter, for ever and ever. Amen.
See you all at Mass!!!!!
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