O Sacrum Convivium
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O Sacrum Convivium is a Latin prose text honoring the Blessed Sacrament. It was written by Saint Thomas Aquinas. It was included in the Latin Catholic liturgy as an antiphon on the feast of Corpus Christi. Its sentiments express the profound mystery of the Eucharistic miracle: "O sacred banquet at which Christ is consumed, the memory of his Passion is recalled, our souls are filled with grace, and the pledge of future glory is given to us."[1]
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[edit] Text
- Original Latin (punctuation from Liber Usualis)
- O sacrum convivium!
- in quo Christus sumitur:
- recolitur memoria passionis eius:
- mens impletur gratia:
- et futurae gloriae nobis pignus datur.
- Alleluia.
- Translation of original Latin
- O sacred banquet!
- in which Christ is received,
- the memory of his Passion is renewed,
- the mind is filled with grace,
- and a pledge of future glory to us is given.
- Alleluia.
[edit] Various settings
O Sacrum Convivium exists in Gregorian and Ambrosian chant forms. Some of the many composers who have set the text are as follows:
- Jacques Arcadelt
- Gregor Aichinger
- Hendrik Andriessen
- Jason Bahr
- Giuseppe Antonio Bernabei
- James Biery (With an alternate English text by Marilyn Biery)[2]
- Douglas Brooks-Davies
- Javier Busto
- William Byrd
- Giovanni Paolo Cima
- Giovanni Croce
- Don Michael Dice
- Eugene E. Englert[1]
- Rolande Falcinelli
- Richard Farrant
- Andrea Gabrieli
- Noel Goemanne
- Francisco Guerrero
- Matthew Harris
- Gabriel Jackson
- Kenneth Leighton
- Franz Liszt
- Luca Marenzio
- Peter Mathews
- Olivier Messiaen
- Vytautas Miškinis
- Philip Moore[3]
- Francisco J. Nunez
- Don Lorenzo Perosi[4]
- Roger T. Petrich[5]
- Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
- Giovanni Battista Pergolesi
- Roberto Remondi[6]
- Fredrik Sixten
- Steven Stucky[7]
- Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck
- Thomas Tallis
- Francisco Valls[8]
- Ludovico da Viadana
- Tomas Luis de Victoria
- Nicholas Wilton[9]
- Jules Van Nuffel
- Johann Emanuel Faulhaber (1772-1835) compositore della "Reggia Città di Louny" (Bohemia)
[edit] References
- ^ a b "Englert's O Sacrum Convivium". http://www.canticanova.com/catalog/products/g_osacrum.htm. Retrieved December 13, 2006.
- ^ James Biery, ed. (1995). O Sacrum Convivium. Morning Star Music Publishers.
- ^ "Philip Moore's compositions, 1957 to the present". York Minster. http://www.yorkminster.org/documents/264/philip-moores-worksmdashanthems.pdf. Retrieved 2009-02-12.
- ^ "Perosi's O Sacrum Convivium" (PDF). http://simoneolivieri.altervista.org/file/pdf/convivium.pdf. Retrieved February 19, 2008.
- ^ "Petrich's O Sacrum Convivium". http://www.selahpub.com/Choral/ChoralTitles/410-462-OSacrumConvivium.html. Retrieved December 13, 2006.
- ^ "Remondi's O Sacrum Convivium". http://junior.apk.net/~bmames/ht0106_.htm. Retrieved March 24, 2007.
- ^ "L. A. Master Chorale - Almost a capella". http://www.classicalvoice.org/reviews/nnotes052008.htm. Retrieved April 4, 2010.
- ^ "O Sacrum Convivium at cpdl". http://www.cpdl.org/wiki/index.php/O_sacrum_convivium. Retrieved March 24, 2007.
- ^ Treacy, Susan (Summer 2006). "The Majesty of Wilton's Music". Sacred Music 133 (2): 45–47. ISSN 0036-2255. http://musicasacra.com/publications/sacredmusic/pdf/sm133-2.pdf. Retrieved May 2, 2010.
