Hobart Missa Cantata

Our Missa cantata for the 6th Sunday after Pentecost went well.  Fr Quinn heard confessions from 11 till 11.20, as he had foreshadowed previously, so that Mass began promptly and on time at half past eleven.  The eight of us forming the choir sang the Propers of course, plus Mass XI (Orbis factor) and Credo III; the one motet was Dona nobis pacem as a round, while for a recessional we sang the Sub tuum.  Mass took 70 minutes; Father does take his time during the Offertory and Canon and Communion, since, as he only celebrates the Extraordinary Form once a month, he has to carefully read the rubricks as he goes.

There were just over sixty present, all told, which apparently is the same number as last month.

Sunday Low Mass; Alert: Fratres Oratorii, Sessio VI

A great start to the day - a good sleep in, since I wasn't needed to sing at Mass!

I don't normally like missing the sung liturgy on Sunday, but once in a while it's okay, I find, and it was nice to attend the 11.15 am Low Mass.

Here is the glorious collect of the day, the 6th after Pentecost:

Deus virtútum, cujus est totum quod est óptimum: ínsere pectóribus nostris amórem tui nóminis,et præsta in nobis religiónis augmentum: ut quæ sunt bona, nútrias, ac pietátis stúdio, quæ sunt nutrita, custódias. Per...

Here is its Cranmerian version, infinitely better than any ICEL version of course:

LORD of all power and might, who art the author and giver of all good things; Graft in our hearts the love of thy Name, increase in us true religion, nourish us with all goodness, and of thy great mercy keep us in the same; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

Since Fr Rowe has headed off after lunch to Bunbury on his monthly supply there, we will have a Monday evening Mass this week, which I can attend after work.

Better still, on Tuesday, being the feast of St John the Baptist, there will be a second evening Mass (at 6.30 pm), and before it, at 5.30 pm, we will have Sessio VI of the on-again, off-again Brothers of the Oratory:

• Solemn Exposition (as more congruent to the solemnity of the day)
• Litanies of the Saints (invoking all the saints and angels, among them the great Precursor)
• Half-an-hour of mental prayer
• Solemn Benediction
• Salve Regina
• Hymn to St Philip