Liturgia defunctorum – YouTube Playlists

A new section has been added to the YouTube Playlists page, featuring chants for the Liturgy of the Dead. Requiem aeternam dona eis Domine, et lux perpetua luceat eis… Missa pro Defunctis – Requiem (EF) Ordo Exsequiarum GR1974 – Missae in exsequiis, in aniversario et in diversis commemorationibus: Antiphonae ad introitum Gradualia Versus alleluiatici Tractus […]

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Ad Lotionem Pedum

Maybe you can use following resources for the ceremony of the washing of the feet on Maundy Thursday: Antiphons from Graduale Romanum (pdf) Recordings of the Antiphons (youtube) Antiphon “Mandatum novum” with selection of verses from Psalm 118 according to Graduale Simplex (pdf) The same Antiphon with simplified verses in Slovak (pdf)

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Paléographie musicale

On the website of the Abbey of Solesmes (which is celebrating its 1000th year since its foundation in 1010) we can read: In 1833, a young priest of the diocese of Le Mans, Dom Prosper Guéranger, undertook the restoration of benedictine monastic life on the site of an old priory at Solesmes, after forty years […]

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