{"id":7869,"date":"2019-12-27T06:40:13","date_gmt":"2019-12-27T12:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/?p=7869"},"modified":"2019-12-27T06:40:13","modified_gmt":"2019-12-27T12:40:13","slug":"mount-calvary-music-december-29-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/mount-calvary-music-december-29-2019-7869.htm","title":{"rendered":"Mount Calvary Music: December 29, 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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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

December 29, 2019<\/p>\n

The Feast of the Holy Family<\/strong><\/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

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

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

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

__________________<\/p>\n

Common<\/strong>, Merbecke<\/p>\n

__________________<\/p>\n

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

Born in a stable so bare<\/em><\/a>, John Rutter<\/p>\n

Born in a stable so bare
\nBorn so long ago
\nBorn ‘neath light of star
\nHe who loved us so
\nFar away, silent he lay
\nBorn today, your homage pay
\nFor Christ is born for aye
\nBorn on Christmas Day
\nCradled by mother so fair
\nTender her lullaby
\nOver her son so dear
\nAngel hosts fill the sky
\nFar away, silent he lay
\nBorn today, your homage pay
\nFor Christ is born for aye
\nBorn on Christmas Day
\nWise men from distant far land
\nSheperds from starry hills
\nWorship this babe so rare
\nHearts with his warmth he fills
\nFar away, silent he lay
\nBorn today, your homage pay
\nFor Christ is born for aye
\nBorn on Christmas Day
\nLove in that stable was born
\nInto our hearts to flow
\nInnocent dreaming babe
\nMake me thy love to know
\nFar away, silent he lay
\nBorn today, your homage pay
\nFor Christ is born for aye
\nBorn on Christmas Day<\/p>\n

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A virgin most pure<\/em><\/a>, arr. Charles Wood<\/p>\n

A virgin most pure, as the prophets do tell,
\nHath brought forth a baby, as it hath befell,
\nTo be our Redeemer from death, hell and sin,
\nWhich Adam’s transgression hath wrapped us in.<\/p>\n

Chorus
\nAye, and therefore be you merry,
\nRejoice and be merry,
\nSet sorrows aside!
\nChrist Jesus, our Saviour,
\nWas born on this tide.<\/p>\n

In Bethlehem in Jewry a city there was,
\nWhere Joseph and Mary together did pass,
\nAnd there to be taxed with many a one more,
\nFor Caesar commanded the same should be so.<\/p>\n

But when they had entered the city so fair,
\nThe number of people so mighty was there
\nThat Joseph and Mary, whose substance was small,
\nCould find in the inn there no lodging at all.<\/p>\n

Then were they constrained in a stable to lie,
\nWhere horses and asses they used for to tie;
\nTheir lodging so simple they took it no scorn
\nBut against the next morning our Saviour was born.<\/p>\n

The King of all kings to this world being brought,
\nFine number of linen to wrap him was sought;
\nAnd when she had swaddled her young son so sweet,
\nWithin an ox’s manger she laid him to sleep.<\/p>\n

Then God sent an angel from heaven so high,
\nTo certain poor shepherds in fields where they lie,
\nAnd bade them no longer in sorrow to stay,
\nBecause that our Saviour was born on this day.<\/p>\n

Then presently after, the shepherds did spy
\nA number of angels that stood in the sky.
\nThey joyfully talked, and sweetly did sing,
\n\u201cTo God be all Glory, Our heavenly King.\u201d<\/p>\n

This is one of the most venerable and widely distributed of all English Christmas carols. The earliest known version of the text is in New Carolls for this Merry Time of Christmas<\/em> (London, 1661), published after the feast of Christmas was restored after the death of Oliver Cromwell, who had abolished Christmas (which was also outlawed in Massachusetts). This version begins \u201cIn Bethlehem city, in Jewry it was\u201d. The familiar first verse, \u201cA virgin unspotted\u201d or \u201cA virgin most pure\u201d had been added when the carol next surfaced in the 18th century.<\/p>\n

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

#20 Of the Father\u2019s love begotten<\/strong>\u00a0<\/em>is\u00a0a translation of\u00a0corde natus ex parentis<\/em>\u00a0by Aurelius Clemens Prudentius (ca. 348-ca. 413), The translation is by Sir Henry Williams Baker (1821-1877) based on John Mason Neale (1818-1866).<\/p>\n

#117 Sing<\/strong><\/em> of Mary\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>is by Roland F. Palmer (1892\u20131985, an Anglo-Catholic priest, who entered the Society of St. John the Evangelist (\u201cCowley Fathers\u201d) at Cambridge, Massachusetts. The tune PLEADING SAVIOR was composed by American Congregational minister Joshua Leavitt (1794\u20131873).<\/p>\n

#13 While shepherds watched their flocks by night<\/em><\/strong> is a Christmas carol describing the Annunciation to the Shepherds, with words attributed to Irish hymnist, lyricist and England’s Poet Laureate Nahum Tate (1692-1715).<\/p>\n

The tune WINCHESTER or WINCHESTER OLD was originally published in Este’s psalter The Whole Book of Psalmes from 1592<\/em>. This tune was, in turn, arranged from chapter VIII of Cambridgeshire composer Christopher Tye’s setting of the Acts of the Apostles in 1553.<\/p>\n

George Kirbye, an East Anglian madrigalist about whom little is known, was employed by Este to arrange some of tunes featured in his The Whole Book of Psalmes<\/em> and it is his arrangement of Tye’s work that appears in the psalter to accompany Psalm 84 “How Lovely is Thy Dwelling Place.”\u00a0 The tune and hymn text were probably first published together in an arrangement by William Henry Monk for Hymns Ancient and Modern<\/em> in 1861.<\/p>\n

Professor Jeremy Dibble of Durham University has noted that “While shepherds watched” was “the only Christmas hymn to be approved by the Church of England in the 18th century and this allowed it to be disseminated across the country with the Book of Common Prayer.” This was because most carols, which had roots in folk music, were considered too secular and thus not used in church services until the end of the 18th century.<\/p>\n

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Note on the icon of the Holy Family<\/strong><\/p>\n

In the middle ages the Holy Family was Jesus, Mary, and Anne, Mary’s mother. Joseph was shown in icons of the Nativity as an old man who was somewhat befuddled by what was going on. He was presumably shown as elderly to avoid doubts about Mary’s perpetual virginity.<\/p>\n

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Murillo (1617-1682)<\/em><\/p>\n

However, when the Reformers emphasized the role of the father in the family, the Catholics of the Counter-Reformation transformed the image of Joseph into a young, vigorous man, who was the provider and protector for Mary and Jesus, and a model for Catholic manhood. Young Catholic men were called to be chaste, like Joseph, and to avoid the siren call of donjuanismo.<\/p>\n

The image at the head of this post is therefore not a traditional iconographic theme, but a modern one. I find it especially poignant because\u00a0 the three figures are not shown as separate. but are included in a single outline, with Joseph enfolding and protecting both Jesus and Mary. This emphasizes the unity of the family. Jesus is giving Mary a chin-chuck, a medieval gesture of affection (note the similar gesture in the Murillo).<\/p>\n

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