Old Roman chant - Letentur celi et exultet terra

Medieval Old Roman Chant (6th century AD).
Title: "Offertorium: Letentur celi et exultet terra".
Service: Mesonycticon (Midnight Mass).
Performers: Ensemble Organum, Director: Marcel Peres
Album: "Chant de l'Eglise de Rome (VIe - XIIIe Siècles)"

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[KittenButter]

I know I keep asking this, but does anyone know the lyrics to this one too? This is my new favourite :P

[Callixtinus]

@KittenButter :

L(a)etentur c(o)eli, et exsultet terra ante faciem Domini: quoniam venit.

Cantate Domino canticum novum, cantate Domino, omnis terra.

Cantate Domino, et benedicite nomen ejus: bene annunciate de die in diem salutare ejus.

Ante faciem Domini: quoniam venit.

[PaleoThomist]

Exquisite.

I understand that Ensemble Organum or a group affiliated with them are working on transcribing the Old Roman repertoire into later neume or contemporary western notation (I cannot remember which). It would be wonderful to be able to read this wonderful music without needing an advanced degree.

As I have said before, I'll say it again: this needs to be restored to liturgical usage. (I know, I know, don't hold my breath, but one can dream.)

[Symphony2DX]

haunting power.... it kinda reminds me of how powerful GOd is. God bless the Holy Roman Church through the intercessions of Sts. Peter and Paul.

[Judas130]

@poetcomic1 Atheists tend to define themselves against that which they are not, the theist. This polarity bores me but, without it, you feel patronised. All this is, is two people with different worldviews appreciating the same piece of dramatic art. We also belong to the same heritage. I'm not the original 'pagan' commenter. I spoke because nobody is a 'fraud' or 'liar'. As St Francis once said, 'No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm.'

[poetcomic1]

I've lost interest in this discussion as your arguments are not top-rate: I've argued with the cutting edge of atheists before. Nothing less interests me. Study some more to be a more stimulating atheist!

[Judas130]

@poetcomic1 You're need for an external 'meaning', telos, end purpose is what is truly pitiful. Mankind is and has always been the steward of its own meaning. We are both proving this at the moment. Nothing is incomprehensible. everything can be reduced. It is a shame that you're love of the Catholic aesthetic is based, like many others, on a will to ignorance.

[Judas130]

@poetcomic1 Its inhuman for a reason. We are part of the universe, not subject and separate to it. I never suggested the Big Bang was not fact. Were you're Prime Mover, First Cause, a reality, then the God of Abraham as a personal god, within the Universe, is an impossibility. Regardless, you are staring at the end product of innumerable years of destruction and entropy, recreation, material processes, and assuming it designed. it is not. mankind occupies less than 1% of its history.

[poetcomic1]

Your "absolutely everything" is pitiful, inhuman and counterintuitive. The Big Bang is proven fact. It was discovered by a Catholic priest Father Georges Lemaitre and it reveals a primordial 'atom' of extreme 'potency' which is so charged with intelligence that it is incomprehensible. Just as a fetus contains detailed instructions for every whisker of an old man's beard. Accidental universe? You are truly and deeply insane.

[Judas130]

@poetcomic1 and should 'god' be that state of affairs, 'He' is but a synonym. I appreciate the culture for what it is, materially, and how it performs. I study Art and Literature professionally. there's nothing 'mentally nihilistic' about it. Perhaps you ought to give people such as Carl Sagan a chance, and see how - with no designer - amazing it all really is. or wail, like Kierkegaard, because Daddy isn't there.

[poetcomic1]

@Judas130  "Ontologically incorrect?" Everything that exists, every object around you came into existence and will cease to exist. Being is 'imparted to it'. Being is contingent, not essential to anything. God IS. Is-ness is the indubitable sign of God's reality. God's most ancient name is I AM. Atheism is a cosmic denial of all that is seen and unseen, felt and even imagined. It is pure mental nihilism and....not a lot of fun!

[Judas130]

@poetcomic1 not frauds or liars. just ontologically incorrect about how the universe functions. as an atheist, from a catholic background, I still appreciate this culture. It is because the culture is performative, as the English Protestants used to say.