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Psalm 77: 18b; Psalm 84: 1-2a [Latin] – The voice of thy thunder in a wheel. Thy lightnings enlightened the world: the earth shook and trembled.

How lovely are thy tabernacles, O Lord of hosts! my soul longeth and fainteth for the courts of the Lord. My heart and my flesh have rejoiced in the living God.

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ILLUXÉRUNT coruscatióne tu orbi terræ: commóta est et contrémuit terra.

Quam dilécta tabernácula tua, Dómine virútum! concupíscit et déficit ánima mea in átria Dómini. [Gloria Patri…]

Lightning over Schaffhausen and Kohlfirst, photographed from Dörflingen. Image via Wikimedia Commons (licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.)
Lightning over Schaffhausen, Switzerland, and Kohlfirst, photographed from Dörflingen. Image via Wikimedia Commons (licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.)

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Introitus: Illuxerunt, chant for The Transfiguration of Our Lord Jesus Christ (August 6 feast day). From Graduale Romanum (Solesmes, 1961) and The Liber Usualis (Solesmes, 1961).

Introitus "Illuxerunt".

Sung by Luca Cipriani (@docdotorg) in Munster, Germany

Free sheet music at Corpus Christi Watershed – includes English translation under the neumes and original Latin text

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Matthew 17: 9 [Latin] – And as they came down from the mountain, Jesus charged them, saying: Tell the vision you have seen to no man, till the Son of Man be risen from the dead.

VISIÓNEM quam vidístis némini dixéritis, donec a mórtuis resúrgat Fílius hóminis. [Eructavit cor meum verbum bonum dico ego opera mea regi. Apeciosus forma es prae filis homium diffusa est gratia in labis tuis propterea benedixit te deus in aeternum.]

The Transfiguration of Christ by Carl Bloch
The Transfiguration of Christ by Carl Bloch – Image via Wikimedia Commons

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Visionem, chant for Communio/Communion from Graduale Romanum (Solesmes) or The Liber Usualis (Solesmes). For 2nd Sunday of Lent and The Transfiguration of Our Lord Jesus Christ (August 6).

Communio: Visionem quam vidistis

Sung by Marek Klein, Graduale Project

Free sheet music at GregoBase

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Psalm 122: 1, 4-7 – I was glad when they said unto me: We will go into the house of the Lord.

For thither the tribes go up, ev’n the tribes of the Lord: to testify unto Israel, and to give thanks unto the Name of the Lord. For there is the seat of judgement: even the seat of the house of David. O pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love thee. Peace be within thy walls: and plenteousness within thy palaces.

James II of England, then Duke of York by John Riley
James II of England, then Duke of York by John Riley

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“I was glad when they said unto me,” anthem originally sung for the Coronation of James II (1685), composed by Henry Purcell (1659-1695)

“I was glad” by Henry Purcell, sung by Quire Cleveland, dir. Ross W. Duffin

Performed by Quire Cleveland

Free sheet music at Choral Public Domain Library

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Revelation (Apocalypsis) 7:12 [Latin] – Saying: Amen. Benediction, and glory, and wisdom, and thanksgiving, honour, and power, and strength to our God for ever and ever. Amen.

Benedictio et claritas et sapientia et gratiarum actio, honor, virtus et fortitudo Deo nostro in saecula saeculorum. Amen.

Philippe de Monte in 1594 (73 years old) - Image via Wikipedia
Philippe de Monte in 1594 (73 years old) – Image via Wikipedia

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Benedictio et claritas, a sacred motet for 12 voices, published first in Sacrarum cantionum cum sex et duodecim vocibus (1585), and composed by Philippe de Monte (1521-1603)

Philippe de Monte: Benedictio et claritas - Currende

Performed by Currende

Free sheet music at Choral Public Domain Library