Author Topic: The Epiphany of Our Lord (Read 2917 times)

Hobbledehoy · « **on:** January 04, 2013, 12:06:25 AM »

Here is Mass, together with Vespers, for the Feast of the Epiphany of Our Lord, from the The Saint Andrew Daily Missal with Vespers for Sundays and Feasts by Dom Gaspar Lefebvre, O.S.B., of the Abbey of St- André (Bruges, Belgium: Liturgical Apostolate of the Abbey of St-André, 1956).

Hobbledehoy · « **Reply #1 on:** January 04, 2013, 12:09:37 AM »

From The Saint Andrew Daily Missal with Vespers for Sundays and Feasts by Dom Gaspar Lefebvre, O.S.B., of the Abbey of St- André (Bruges, Belgium: Liturgical Apostolate of the Abbey of St-André, 1956), here is the proper Preface for the Season of Epiphany.

Hobbledehoy · « **Reply #2 on:** January 04, 2013, 12:13:05 AM »

Here is a commentary upon the Mass for the Feast of the Epiphany of Our Lord, taken from the late Cardinal Schuster's The Sacramentary (Liber Sacramentorum): Historical and Liturgical Notes on the Roman Missal (vol. I, trans. Arthur Levelis-Marke; New York: Benziger Brothers, 1924).

Hobbledehoy · « **Reply #3 on:** January 04, 2013, 08:23:08 PM »

From the great Rev. Father Cornelius J. Ryan's The Epistles of the Sundays and Festivals with an Introduction, Notes and Moral Reflections, (Vol. I; Dublin: M. H. Gill and Son, Ltd., 1932), here is a commentary upon the Epistle lesson of the Mass for the Feast of the Epiphany of Our Lord.

Hobbledehoy · « **Reply #4 on:** January 04, 2013, 10:23:42 PM »

From the work of the great scholar Rev. Father Cornelius J. Ryan, The Gospels of the Sundays and Festivals with an Introduction, Parallel Passages, Notes and Moral Reflections (Vol. I; Dublin: Browne and Nolan, Ltd., 1914), here is a commentary upon the Gospel lesson of the Mass for the Feast of the Epiphany of Our Lord.

Hobbledehoy · « **Reply #5 on:** January 04, 2013, 11:05:40 PM »

De la traducción castellana y adaptación del Rdo. P. Germán Prado, O.S.B., del Misal diario y vesperal de Dom Gaspar Lefebvre, O.S.B. (Brujas, Bélgica: Desclée de Brouwer y Cía, 1953), he aquí el texto de la Misa para la festividad de la Epifanía de nuestro Señor.

Hobbledehoy · « **Reply #6 on:** January 04, 2013, 11:23:42 PM »

From The Missal According to the Carmelite Rite in Latin and English for Every Day in the Year (Rome: Vatican Polyglot Press, 1953), here is the Mass for the Feast of the Epiphany of Our Lord.

Hobbledehoy · « **Reply #7 on:** January 04, 2013, 11:36:33 PM »

From The Dominican Missal in Latin and English (Oxford: Blackfriars Publications, 1948), here is the Mass for the Feast of the Epiphany of Our Lord.

Hobbledehoy · « **Reply #8 on:** January 04, 2013, 11:45:12 PM »

The Sacred Order of Friars-Preachers has a beautiful Sequence authored by the great Saint Bernard for the Mass of the Feast of the Epiphany of Our Lord, which is also found in the third Christmas Mass in their Missal.

The following text, translation and commentary is taken from the tome Hymns of the Dominican Missal and Breviary (St. Louis, MO: B. Herder Book Co., 1943) Rev. Fr. Aquinas Byrnes, O.P.

Hobbledehoy · « **Reply #9 on:** January 05, 2013, 01:43:32 AM »

From the Messale Ambrosiano (Milan: Pia Società S. Paolo, 1954), here is the Mass for the Feast of the Epiphany of Our Lord.

Hobbledehoy · « **Reply #10 on:** January 05, 2013, 12:14:54 PM »

As can be seen in the above post, the Mass for the Feast of the Epiphany of Our Lord as found in the Ambrosian Missal contains the Indictio Paschatis whereby the date of Easter Sunday is announced after the chanting of the Gospel lesson.

A similar thing is to be found in the Roman Rite, though not in the text of the Mass itself. In the various Ordines of past ages, one may find a note stating that on the Feast of the Epiphany of Our Lord the moveable Feasts of the ecclesiastical year were announced according to the formula found in the Pontificale Romanum.

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The above is taken from the tome Ceremonies of the Roman Rite Described by Rev. Frs. Adrian Fortescue and J. B. O'Connell (10th ed.; London: Burns Oates & Washbourne, Ltd., 1958).

Here follows the text and chant of the solemn announcement of the movable Feasts in the solemn Mass of the Epiphany of Our Lord in Collegial and Cathedral Churches, taken from the Pontificale Romanum Summorum Pontificuм jussu editum a Benedicto XIV Et Leone XIII Pont. Max. recognitum et castigatum. [The Roman Pontifical, Published by Authority of the Sovereign Pontiffs, Revised and Corrected by the Supreme Pontiffs Benedict XIV and Leo XIII] (Ratisbon, Rome, New York, Cincinnati: Frederick Pustet, 1908).

It is most elegant that Holy Mother Church reminds her children that the Christmastide joys are but a prelude to exceeding great rejoicing of the solemn Paschal festivities: as a good Mother and instructress, Holy Church also gives us the sobering reminder that the joys of Christmas and Epiphany are to give way to austerities and penances of the great and sacred Quadragesimal fast, which alone makes one worthy of the Paschal joys.

Sigismund · « **Reply #11 on:** January 05, 2013, 10:09:07 PM »

Quo Vadis Petre · « **Reply #12 on:** January 05, 2013, 11:00:29 PM »

Epiphany (Sorry for some of the recordings, due to the poor recording)

Introit and Gradual:

Alelluia:

Offertory:

Communion:

Hobbledehoy · « **Reply #13 on:** January 06, 2013, 09:16:36 PM »

Quote from: Quo Vadis Petre

Epiphany (Sorry for some of the recordings, due to the poor recording)

Introit and Gradual:

Alelluia:

Offertory:

Communion:

Thank you so much for these resources. May Sts. Gregory and Cecilia bless you!

Quo Vadis Petre · « **Reply #14 on:** January 06, 2013, 10:24:59 PM »

I just wish I could have found more Solesmes recordings done by Dom Joseph Gajard and other beautiful Benedictine recordings, such as done by the Beuron monastic choir.