Two mode 7 Communion Antiphons

Spot the similarities!

This weeks online lesson serves double duty as a bit of preparation for a homeschool camp including five sung Masses next week. More information on preparing for that here under “Online Choir”.

We have different propers for Mass every day, but turns out Monday’s Votive Mass in honour of the Holy Spirit and Thursday’s Votive Mass in honour of the Blessed Sacrament have very similar Communion Antiphons.

Here’s the original one, written long before anyone knows for the feast of Pentecost:

And here’s the 13th century one written for the new feast of Corpus Christi:

This is a great way to make “new” chant. Next time someone wants to write a new Mass this is very much the way I would prefer that they do this. Now go and figure out whether they did this for the feast of St Joseph the Worker.

Another funny thing is that the Offertory for Pentecost and Corpus Christi are also very similar.

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