Low Sunday 2018 – Quasimodo

Quasimodo (Low Sunday) – April 8, 1028.   Today’s liturgy is known by a variety of names – most famously, it is called “Quasimodo Sunday” from the first word of the opening Introit (cf. 1 Peter 2:2-3).   Quasimodo reflects a Latin Scripture version predating what became the Vulgate. So, today’s Mass begins by exhorting the newly baptized.  It is called “Low Sunday” most likely in contrast to the celebration of the prior Sunday.  It is also known as “Mercy Sunday” and “Dominica in albis”.

(See Father Z’s post on Low Sunday for a deeper dive – http://wdtprs.com/blog/2018/04/wdtprs-quasimodo-sunday-in-albis-low-sunday/)

 

Translation of the introit:  “Like newborn infants, long for pure spiritual milk so that through it you may grow into salvation, for you have tasted that the Lord is good.”

Listed today are the choral selections which our choir will sing for this Sunday’s liturgy – Quasimodo Sunday 2018.

• Come Ye Faithful Raise The Strain
• Salve Mater
• Adoro Te Devote
• Stella Fulgens
• Ye Choirs of New Jerusalem

 

Organ selections include:

• Walther: Erschienen ist der herrliche tag (Chorale prelude and variations)
• Fasolo: Ad cenam agni providi
• Kyrie Rex Genitor (from the Lublin manuscript)
• Resurrection morn (Henry Balcombe – Organist’s Library Volume 23)

 

Recommended listening: Easter at Ephesus by the Benedictines of Mary – available from the Azure Hills Music store on Amazon.

Choir direction by Andrew Petracca at St. Mary Magdelen Catholic Church, Camarillo, California.   Traditional Latin Mass.

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Arthur Dobrucki, CAGO
Organist, Pianist, Composer – Simi Valley, California
Azure Hills Music – www.azurehillsmusic.com