{"id":7835,"date":"2019-11-12T07:01:28","date_gmt":"2019-11-12T13:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/?p=7835"},"modified":"2019-11-13T14:44:30","modified_gmt":"2019-11-13T20:44:30","slug":"mount-calvary-music-november-17-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/mount-calvary-music-november-17-2019-7835.htm","title":{"rendered":"Mount Calvary Music: November 17, 2019: The Sun of Justice"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Christ as the Sun of Justice, Southwark Cathedral<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Mount Calvary Church<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

A Roman Catholic Parish<\/em><\/p>\n

The Personal Ordinariate of S. Peter<\/em><\/p>\n

Eutaw Street and Madison Avenue<\/p>\n

Baltimore, Maryland<\/p>\n

Trinity XXII<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Rev. Albert Scharbach, Pastor<\/em><\/p>\n

Dr. Allen Buskirk, Choirmaster<\/em><\/p>\n

Midori Ataka,\u00a0<\/em>Organist<\/i><\/p>\n

Sunday, November 17, 2019<\/p>\n

8:00 A.M. Said Mass<\/p>\n

10:00 A.M. Sung Mass<\/p>\n

Brunch to follow in the undercroft<\/p>\n

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Prelude<\/strong><\/p>\n

Praise God from Whom All Blessings Flow<\/em><\/a>, arr. Johann Pachelbel<\/p>\n

Postlude<\/strong><\/p>\n

Helmsley<\/em>, arranged by Charles Callahan<\/span><\/p>\n

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Anthems<\/strong><\/p>\n

Vigilate<\/em>, <\/a>William Byrd (1540-1623)<\/span><\/p>\n

Vigilate, nescitis enim quando dominus domus veniat, sero, an media nocte, an gallicantu, an mane. Vigilate ergo, ne cum venerit repente, inveniat vos dormientes. Quod autem dico vobis, omnibus dico: vigilate. <\/em><\/p>\n

Watch ye therefore (for you know not when the lord of the house cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cock crowing, or in the morning): Watch therefore, lest coming on a sudden, he find you sleeping. And what I say to you, I say to all: Watch.<\/em><\/p>\n

Vigilate<\/em>\u00a0is an early work by William Byrd (1540-1623) published in his Cantiones Sacrae<\/em> of 1589. It takes its text from Mark 13 where Christ exhorts his disciples to watch and prepare for the coming of the Lord. This work is unusual for its text painting characteristic of the secular, Italian madrigal style. Listen, for example, for \u201can galli cantu\u201d (at the cock-crow), where the voices imitate the rooster\u2019s crow with leaps and rapid runs. The phrase \u201cinveniat vos dormientes\u201d is set in a long, slow double canon reminiscent of sleepy disciples. And at \u201crepente\u201d (suddenly), a frantic burst of fast rhythms jumps out of the texture.<\/p>\n

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Audivi vocem de caelo<\/em>, <\/a>Thomas Tallis (1510-1585)<\/span><\/p>\n

Audivi vocem de caelo venientem: venite omnes virgines sapientissime; oleum recondite in vasis vestris dum sponsus advenerit. Media nocte clamor factus est: ecce sponsus venit.<\/em><\/p>\n

I heard a voice coming from heaven: come all wisest virgins; fill your vessels with oil, for the bridegroom is coming. In the middle of the night there was a cry: behold the bridegroom comes.<\/em><\/p>\n

The motet Audivi vocem de caelo by Thomas Tallis (1505-1585) offers a completely different take on the same theme, here portrayed with language from the parable of the wise and foolish virgins awaiting the coming of the bridegroom. This motet makes use of the Sarum Rite plainchant (the ancient liturgy of the English church that was finally abandoned in 1559) and several clues point to a very early date of composition prior to Mary\u2019s reign. English composers continued writing in the late Medieval style in the early 16th<\/sup> century long after composers on the continent had abandoned it; this motet is an example of that trend, with its avoidance of imitation between voices and its uninflected modal harmonies.<\/p>\n

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Hymns<\/strong><\/p>\n

The king shall come when morning dawns<\/em><\/strong> <\/a>(MORNING SONG) is by the Scottish Free Church minister John Brownlie (1857\u20131925). He translated many Eastern hymns, and this hymn bears the impress of Eastern theology. Infused with the imagery of morning light typical of early Greek hymnody, hymn stirs hope in the hearts of all who look forward to the return of Christ. It is a confession of faith in the sure return of our Lord; his coming again will occur in a blaze of glory, which will far surpass his earthly death and resurrection. The text concludes with a paraphrase of the ancient prayer of the church-\u201cMaranatha,\u201d or \u201cLord, come quickly\u201d (Rev. 22:20). We should not fear, but yearn for the coming of the One we love. MORNING SONG is a folk tune that has some resemblance to the traditional English tune for “Old King Cole.” The tune appeared anonymously in Part II of John Wyeth’s Repository of Sacred Music<\/em> (1813).<\/p>\n

The Lord will come and not be slow<\/strong><\/em><\/a> (YORK) is a cento by John Milton (1608-1674) of words from Psalms 82, 85, 86. The tune YORK is an old Scottish melody.<\/p>\n

Lo, He comes with clouds descending<\/em>\u00a0<\/strong><\/a>is by John Cennick (1718\u20131755) and Charles Wesley (1707\u20131788). The content of the text and particularly the title are derived from Rev 1:7, which tells of the Second Coming. As the liturgical year approaches the coming of Christ at the Nativity, we keep in mind His coming that we await, when He shall come as Judge to make known the truth about the entire history of the human race and indeed of the universe. How will we respond when He shows us the truth about our lives and how they are part of His whole plan of salvation? With wailing or exultation?<\/p>\n

The tune HELMSLEY is by Thomas Olivers (1725\u20131799), who heard the tune whistled in the street and derived his melody from music, a sequence is a short melody that is repeated at a different pitch level. In this case (\u201cAlleluia! alleluia! alleluia!\u201d), the melody is repeated once a step lower and then a step higher. Such repetition intensifies the text that is repeated.<\/p>\n

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The Sun of Justice<\/span><\/p>\n

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The first reading today is from Malachi, indeed the very last prophetic words of the Old Testament:<\/p>\n

1<\/b><\/a><\/span>\u00a0\u201cFor behold, the day is coming, burning like an oven, when all the arrogant and all evildoers will be stubble. The day that is coming shall set them ablaze, says the\u00a0LORD<\/span>\u00a0of hosts, so that it will leave them neither root nor branch.\u00a02 <\/b><\/a><\/span>But for you who fear my name, the sun of righteousness shall rise with healing in its wings. You shall go out leaping like calves from the stall.\u00a03 <\/b><\/a><\/span>And you shall tread down the wicked, for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet, on the day when I act, says the\u00a0LORD<\/span>\u00a0of hosts.<\/p>\n

4<\/b><\/a><\/span>\u201cRemember the law of my servant Moses, the statutes and rules that I commanded him at Horeb for all Israel.<\/p>\n

5<\/b><\/a><\/span>\u201cBehold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and awesome day of the\u00a0LORD<\/span>\u00a0comes.\u00a06 <\/b><\/a><\/span>And he will turn the hearts of fathers to their children and the hearts of children to their fathers, lest I come and strike the land with a decree of utter destruction.”<\/p>\n

The image in this blog is a bas relief by Sir Ninian Comper in the Missionary Chapel of Southwark Cathedral.\u00a0 Christ stands in front of the sun with its healing rays. He holds the globe of the world, because he is the light of all nations (Isaiah); kneeling on either side of him are a figures from mission lands.<\/p>\n

From the blog UNAM SANCTAM CATHOLICAM:<\/a><\/p>\n

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As the last prophetic book, Malachi is brimming with references to the coming Messiah who will restore all things and usher in the Kingdom of God. The coming of St. John the Baptist in the spirit and power of Elijah is prophesied (3:1; 4:5-6); Christ’s cleansing of the Temple (3:1); the institution of a new priesthood that will offer a pure sacrifice (1:11; 3:3), the universality-catholicity of God’s new covenant (1:5; 1:11), the destruction of the Levitical priesthood (2:1-3). It is a book that perfectly sets the stage for the New Covenant.<\/div>\n
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In Malachi 4:2, we see the Messiah referred to as the “Sun of Justice”, sometimes called the “Sun of Righteousness”; the Latin Vulgate translates this title as\u00a0Sol Iustitiae<\/i>, “Sun of Justice.” This is an appropriate allegorical name for the Messiah. The period of waiting for the Messiah was a period of long darkness; but though the night is long, eventually the sun peaks above the horizon, casting its light slowly at first, but eventually illumining the entire earth under its brilliance.<\/div>\n
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Thus the name “Sun of Justice” denotes a period of expectation through the darkness. Psalm 130:6 says,\u00a0“My soul waits for the Lord more than the watchmen [wait] for the morning, more than the watchers for the morning.” The prophet Isaiah also says:\u00a0“Arise, shine; for your light has come, and the glory of the LORD has risen upon you. For behold, darkness shall cover the earth, and thick darkness the peoples; but the LORD will arise upon you, and his glory will be seen upon you. And nations shall come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your rising” (Is. 60:1-3). This is also why in the Easter Vigil liturgy, the church is shrouded in darkness for the Old Testament readings until the eruption of the “Sun of Justice” into the fallen world, allegorically signified by the Easter candle.<\/div>\n
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This should call to mind Resurrection; just as the sun symbolically “dies” at the end of the day and “rises” in the morning, so the Messiah will be put to death, descend into the earth, and then rise again in glory. Again, this is potently set forth in the rites of the Easter liturgy, where light and Resurrection are synonymous.<\/div>\n
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“Sun of Justice” also implies glory. Obviously, the sun is the most glorious body in the heavens. It “rules the day” (cf. Gen 1:16) just as Christ rules the cosmos. This glorious light denotes the power and salvation of the Messiah to the entire world. As it is written in Isaiah,\u00a0“It is a small thing that thou shouldst be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to convert the dregs of Israel. Behold, I have given thee to be the light of the nations [Lat.\u00a0lumen gentium<\/i>], that thou mayst be my salvation even to the farthest part of the earth” (Is. 49:6). The coming of the Messiah and His universal kingship are associated with the glory of God filling the earth,\u00a0“For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD as the waters cover the sea” (Hab. 2:14).<\/div>\n

Wherever this glory spreads also goes the justice and universal dominion of God. This is the meaning of one of the most famous passages in Isaiah – and one which no one familiar with Handel’s Messiah can ever read without humming:<\/p>\n

Every valley shall be raised up, every mountain and hill made low; the rough ground shall become level, the rugged places a plain. And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh will see it together. For the mouth of the Lord has spoken (Is. 40:4-5)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

The “glory” shall be seen by all flesh, like the rising sun that breaks upon the earth. And it will establish justice. This is the meaning of the Hebrew idiom “every valley shall be raised up; every mountain and hill made low”; in other words, there will be a great leveling. God will dispense justice that will throw down the mighty and elevate the lowly. This is all implied in the title “Sun of Justice.”<\/div>\n
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We can see how it is a very fitting title for the Messiah. It also has an important liturgical connection. We know that for most of the Church’s history, the Mass was always offered facing east, a position called\u00a0ad orientem<\/i>. This usually meant geographically east, but there is also a “liturgical east” which means the priest and the people facing the same direction as the Mass is offered, the position\u00a0ad dominum<\/i>, “facing the Lord” (as opposed to\u00a0versus populum<\/i>, “facing the people”).<\/div>\n
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It is beyond the scope of this article to explain the liturgical, historical, and theological reasons for worship facing east; but we can note that, symbolically, it is very fitting. The Messiah is likened to the sun, which rises in the east. This ties in to a very ancient Christian tradition that when Christ returns, He will return from the east. And this is not based solely on an allegorical connection between Jesus and the sun; Christ Himself says in the Gospel of Matthew,\u00a0“For as lightning comes out of the east, and appears even into the west: so shall the coming of the Son of man be” (Matt. 24:27).<\/p>\n

Now, Christ certainly may not be teaching that He will literally appear in the east first; but symbolically, it makes sense to associate His coming with the east. The sun, our Lord’s symbol, rises in the east. Jesus says His coming will be like lightning that comes from the east. In classical antiquity, the east signified brightness and daylight while the west signified darkness. In English etymology, the word\u00a0east<\/i>\u00a0means towards dawn; daybreak, while the word\u00a0west<\/i>\u00a0means “evening, night.” The same connotation exists in Greek and Latin.<\/p>\n

Thus, it makes sense that the liturgy should be oriented towards the east, for from here – symbolically at least – the faithful may expect the return of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the\u00a0ad orientem<\/i>\u00a0posture demonstrates the Church’s faith in Christ’s return, professed in the Creed when we say, “He will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead.”<\/p>\n

May the Sun of Justice rise upon us. As we prepare to enter Advent, may we recall the words of the traditional hymn,\u00a0Hark, the Herald Angels Sing,<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Hail the heav\u2019nly Prince of Peace!
\nHail the Sun of Righteousness!
\nLight and life to all He brings,
\nRis\u2019n with healing in His wings.<\/div>\n
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Christ as the Sun of Justice, Southwark Cathedral Mount Calvary Church A Roman Catholic Parish The Personal Ordinariate of S. Peter Eutaw Street and Madison Avenue Baltimore, Maryland Trinity XXII Rev. Albert Scharbach, Pastor Dr. Allen Buskirk, Choirmaster Midori Ataka,\u00a0Organist Sunday, November 17, 2019 8:00 A.M. Said Mass 10:00 A.M. Sung Mass Brunch to follow […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1229,1318,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hymns","category-mount-calvary-church","category-music","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7835"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7846,"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7835\/revisions\/7846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}