6th Sunday after Pentecost 2025
Processional hymn: Hail, True Victim, Life and Light, 904
Recessional hymn: Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence, 900
Kyriale: Mass XI, 740; Credo II, 772
Offertory Motet: Anima Christi, Msgr. Marco Frisina
Hymn at Communion: Salve Mater, Carmelite Chant arr. Paul Thomas May
The motet after the offertory chant is perhaps the most famous setting of the prayer Anima Christi by Msgr. Marco Frisina. Monsignor’s setting can be accompanied with either strings or organ and alternates full choir with a solo voice.
Salve Mater is a hymn composed in the 11th century and exemplifies Mary’s role as Mother of all Christians. The hymn is structured with a refrain and verses. Text of the refrain reads: Hail, Mother of mercy, Mother of God and Mother of pardon, Mother of hope and Mother of grace, Mother, full of holy gladness. O Mary!
Msgr. Marco Frisina (b. 1954) is an Italian priest who was ordained in 1982. Msgr. Frisina graduated with a degree in composition from the Conservatory of Santa Cecilia and obtained his license in Sacred Scripture from the Pontifical Biblical Institute. He began directing sacred music in Rome in 1984 when he founded the Choir of the Diocese of Rome and has held numerous other music positions in service to the Vatican.