Iustus es Domine, et rectum iudicium tuum - You are just, O Lord, and all your judgements are right. Today’s Introit Chant was one of the items we recorded for our “Tempus per annum” CD.
Homily for Sunday 25C, 22 September 2019
Homily given at Quarr Abbey, Wednesday 17 July by the Prior of Pluscarden
We began our Mass today with a very fine Introit, set in the Third mode. This is the “tonus iratus” – the angry mode – or the anguished mode – or the mode of heightened emotion. Dum clamarem ad Dominum exaudivit vocem meam – When I cried to the Lord he heard my voice; he saved me from those who surrounded me. The text is from…