4th Sunday after Pentecost 2025
Processional hymn: Soul of My Savior, 938
Recessional hymn: Jesus, My Lord, My God, My All, 899
Credo: II, 772
Kyriale: Mass for Four Voices, William Byrd (c. 1543–1623)
Offertory Antiphon: Illumina oculos meos, Orlandus Lassus
Chant: Anima Christi, Chant II
Marian Antiphon: Salve Regina, Solemn Tone
This Sunday the Offertory antiphon is a polyphonic setting by Orlandus Lassus. The text is from Psalm 12:4-5: Enlighten my eyes, that I sleep not in death. Lest my enemy say “I have prevailed against him.” Lassus begins with each voice entering separately with a large leap for the first interval–perhaps to convey enlightening. The latter two thirds of the motet are spent on the final line repeated over several times in different groups and shifting harmonic structure.
Orlandus Lassus (c.1532–1594) is known for the mature polyphonic style in the Franco-Flemish school. He wrote over 2,000 works in Latin, French, Italian, and German both sacred and secular. Lassus along with Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina and Tomás Luis de Victoria are the most influential composers of the late Renaissance.