From: Elizaphanian (Elizaphanian@members.v21.co.uk)
Date: Mon Dec 02 2002 - 18:21:37 GMT
Joe - that's a heartwarming thought. (Aquinas was responsible for most of
the Corpus Christi liturgy). Are you a chorister?
Sam
"Ask yourselves when are we going to see the first journal of bio-hacking
oriented toward teenage males, so they can create molecules in their
bedroom. Well, that journal came out in 1998. Be very afraid." (Bill Joy)
> joe:I am not too much into dates, but I have read that toward the end of
his
> life Aquinas was asked to compose the office for a new feast, Corpus
> Christi. The sequence he wrote for the office, Lauda Sion, is a
magnificent
> piece. I keep practicing it hoping I wll be able to sing it at mass each
> year. It is long and latin is not used too much in our parish, so no
luck.
>
> In most verses he uses the same endings to different words for a
similarity
> of sound. Usually two repetitions are enough to satisfy his ear. In
verse
> 22 he takes off on the ending "atur." In figuris praesignatur, Cum Isaac
> immolatur, Agnus Paschae deputatur. I think I am finished the the "atur"
> sound, but he adds a further phrase, Datur manna patribus. When I
practice
> it I hear him chuckle and say: "You didn't expect that did you?" or
perhaps
> "Gee that was fun." Perhaps, this process was the dq he remenbered at
mass.
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