Trinity Sunday (Year C, 2013)

Sunday, 26 May 2013

 

Entrance	Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God almighty
Kyrie	Kyrie Eleison from Missa Ubi Caritas (Bob Hurd)
Gloria	Missa Ubi Caritas
Psalm	Ps 8 (Sebastian Wolff)
Gospel Acclamation	Sing a New Song (John Bell)
Preparation of the Gifts	A Hymn to the Trinity (P.I. Tchaikovsky, 1840-1893)
Sanctus, Acclamation B, Amen	Missa Ubi Caritas
Agnus Dei	Missa Ubi Caritas
Communion	God beyond all names (John Bell) & Benedicta sit sancta Trinitas (chant)
Postcommunion	Tibi Laus (Orlande de Lassus, 1532-1594)
Recessional	Father, Lord of all creation

 

In the short motet Tibi Laus, Lassus sets the central invocation of the Angelic Trisagion, a litany of devotions to the Trinity:

To you praise,
to you glory,
to you thanksgiving forever,
O blessed Trinity.

CPDL calls the prayer a matins responsory for Trinity Sunday, but I can’t find it in my copy of the Liber Usualis. We shaped the piece by beginning with joy and ending with warm affection.

Sabine von Hünerbein directed us in Tchaikovsky’s setting of the Cherubic Hymn from the Orthodox liturgy, in W.G. Rothery’s freely amplified translation, which emphasises the Trinitarian element in the original.