John20: 27 [Latin] – Then he saith to Thomas: Put in thy hand, and know the place of the nails [alleluia]; and be not faithless, but believing [alleluia, alleluia].
Original Latin:
Mitte manum tuam, et cognósce loca clavórum, allelúia: et noli esse incrédulus, sed fidélis, allelúia, allelúia.
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The Incredulity of Saint Thomas by Caravaggio
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“Mitte manum tuam,” Communion chant for Low Sunday (Sunday after Easter), the Octave of Easter
Matthew2: 20; Psalm93: 1-2 [Latin] –[Saying, Arise, and] Take the young child and his mother, and go into the land of Israel: for they are dead which sought the young child’s life.
The Lord reigneth, he is clothed with majesty; the Lord is clothed with strength, wherewith he hath girded himself: the world also is stablished, that it cannot be moved. Thy throne is established of old: thou art from everlasting.
Original Latin:
Tolle puerum et matrem ejus, et vade in terram Israel: defuncti sunt enim qui quaerebant animam pueri.
Dominus regnavit! Decorem indutus est; indutus est Dominus, fortitudine praecinxit se. Etenim firmavit orbem terrae, qui non commovebitur. Firmata sedes tua ex tunc.
“Saint Joseph and the Christ,” – painting by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (1617–1682)
Psalm77: 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…]
Matthew17: 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 – 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).
