5th Sunday after Pentecost 2024
Processional hymn: My God, Accept My Heart This Day, 942
Recessional hymn: Lord, Enthroned in Heav’nly Splendor, 939
Kyriale: Mass IX, 740; Credo IV, 780
Motet after Offertory: Jesu Rex, Admirabilis, G.P. Palestrina (c. 1525–1594)
Communion Antiphon: Unam petii, Rev. Giovanni Francesco Anerio
The communion antiphon is taken from Psalm 26:4 which says, “One thing I ask of the Lord; this I seek: to dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life.” Rev. Giovanni Francesco Anerio sets this verse and adds the continuation of the verse, “to behold the fair beauty of the Lord, and to visit his temple.” Rev. Anerio arranges the four voices to sing in pairs or trios for the first half of the motet and all voices move together during the second half of the motet. Neither the rhythms nor the harmonies become too complex in this composition, which may be a choice inspired by the Psalm’s text.
Rev. Giovanni Francesco Anerio (c.1569–1630) was a priest associated with the Oratory of St. Philip Neri and composer of the Roman school in the late Renaissance and early Baroque eras. Father Anerio’s compositional output was prolific and includes one of the first ever sacred oratorios, the Teatro armonico spirituale, wherein he made settings of the parable of the Prodigal Son and the Conversion of Saul.