Luke14: 16-17 [Latin] –Jesus said, A certain man prepared a great feast, and he sent his servant at the time of the feast to tell the guests to come, for all things were prepared.
Come, eat my bread, and drink the wine which I have mixed for you, for all things were prepared. [Glory be to the Father…]
Original Latin:
Homo quidam fecit coenam magnam et vocavit multos et misit servum suum hora coenae dicere invitatis ut venirent, quia omnia parata sunt. Alleluja.
Invitation to the Great Banquet – by Phillip Medhurst (Image via Wikimedia Commons)
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“Homo quidam fecit coenam,” sacred motet by Thomas Tallis (1505-1585), first published in The Baldwin Partbooks (1575).
7 Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the Lord, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
Derelinquit impius, no. 13, from Cantiones quae ab argumento sacrae vocantur (1575) – by Thomas Tallis (1505-1585)
1 How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people! how is she become as a widow! she that was great among the nations, and princess among the provinces, how is she become tributary!
2 She weepeth sore in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks: among all her lovers she hath none to comfort her: all her friends have dealt treacherously with her, they are become her enemies.
I heard a voice coming from heaven: Come, all ye most wise virgins, store up oil in your vessels, until the bridegroom cometh. A cry goes up at midnight: Behold, the bridegroom cometh.
10 As for me, behold, I will dwell at Mizpah, to serve the Chaldeans, which will come unto us: but ye, gather ye wine, and summer fruits, and oil, and put them in your vessels, and dwell in your cities that ye have taken.
6 And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him.
1 God be merciful unto us, and bless us; and cause his face to shine upon us; Selah.
2 That thy way may be known upon earth, thy saving health among all nations.
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[Psalter text by Archbishop of Canterbury Matthew Parker:]
God grant with grace, he us embrace,
in gentle part bless he our heart.
With loving face shine he in place,
his mercies all on us to fall.
That we thy way may know all day,
while we do sail this world so frail.
Thy health’s reward is nigh declared,
as plain as eye all gentiles spy.
1 Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?
2 The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord, and against his anointed,
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[Psalter text by Archbishop of Canterbury Matthew Parker:]
Why fum’th in fight the Gentiles spite, in fury raging stout?
Why tak’th in hand the people fond, vain things to bring about?
The Kings arise, the Lords devise, in counsels met thereto,
against the Lord with false accord, against His Christ they go.
Thomas Tallis: Tunes for Archbishop Parker's Psalter
Performed by Alamire, directed by David Skinner
Vaughan Williams - Fantasia sobre un tema de Thomas Tallis HQ
Performed by BBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Andrew Davis
“At the Gloucester Cathedral (where it in 1910 was played for the first time and conducted by Vaughan Williams himself)”
16 And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;
17 Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.
