Roman Mass Propers: Epistle: St. Paul I Cor, II, 20-32

Submitted by Rick.Wheeler on Fri, 2011/04/15 - 4:48pm
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ID: 
1894
This is part of: 
Maundy Thursday Solemn Evening Mass
Original Source
Official Liturgical Book: 
Missale Romanum
Can be Found in
Book: 
Liber Usualis 1961 ed.
Page: 
668
Composition Date: 
1st Century
Composer: 
St. Paul the Apostle (5-67)
Arrangers / Editors: 
Institute of Christ the King
Proper Liturgical Usage: 
Epistle
Proper Liturgical Time: 
Feria Quinta in Coena Domini (Maundy Thursday)
Proper Liturgical Day: 
Thursday
Votive: 
F
Performance Time: 
4 min
Composition Type: 
Epistola
Texture: 
Monophonic
Voices: 
Unison
Language: 
Latin
Difficulty: 
Easy
Musical Style: 
Gregorian
Gregorian Tone: 
Tonus Epistolae (ad libitum)
Lyrics: 

Lectio Epistolae beati Pauli Apostoli ad Corinthios

Fratres: Convenientibus vobis in unum, iam non est dominicam coenam manducare. Unusquisque enim suam coenam praesumit ad manducandum. Et alius quidem esurit: alius autem ebrius est. Numquid domos non habetis ad manducandum et bibendum? aut ecclesiam Dei contemnitis, et confunditis eos qui non habent? Quid dicam vobis? Laudo vos? In hoc non laudo. Ego enim accepi a Domino, quod et tradidi vobis, quoniam Dominus Iesus in qua nocte tradebatur, accepit panem, et gratias agens fregit, et dixit: Accipite, et manducate: hoc est corpus meum, quod pro vobis tradetur: hoc facite in meam commemorationem. Similiter et calicem, postquam coenavit, dicens: Hic calix novum testamentum est in meo sanguine: hoc facite, quotiescumque bibetis, in meam commemorationem. Quotiescumque emin manducabitis panem hunc, et calicem bibetis, mortem Domini annuntiabitis donec veniat. Itaque quicumque manducaverunt panem hunc, vel biberit calicem Domini indigne, reus erit corporis et sanguinis Domini. Probet autem seipsum homo, et sic de pane illo edat, et de calice bibat. Qui enim manducat et bibet indigne, iudicium sibi manducat et bibit: non diiudicans corpus Domini. Ideo inter vos multi infirmi et imbecilles, et dormiunt multi. Quod si nosmetipsos diiudicaremus, non utique iudicaremur. Dum iudicamur autem, a Domino corripimur, ut non cum hoc mundo damnemur.

Translated Lyrics: 

Lesson from the first Epistle of Blessed Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians

Brethren, When you come therefore into one place, it is not now to eat the Lord's supper. For every one taketh before his own supper to eat. And one indeed is hungry and another is drunk. What, have you not houses to eat and to drink in? Or despise ye the church of God and put them to shame that have not? What shall I say to you? Do I praise you? In this I praise you not. For I have received of the Lord that which I also delivered unto you, that the Lord Jesus, the same night in which He was betrayed, took bread, and giving thanks, broke and said: Take ye and eat: This is My Body, which shall be delivered for you. This do for the commemoration of Me. In like manner also the chalice, after He had supped, saying: This chalice is the new testament in My Blood. This do ye, as often as you shall drink, for the commemoration of Me. For as often as you shall eat this bread and drink the chalice, you shall show the death of the Lord, until He come. Therefore, whosoever shall eat this bread, or drink the chalice of the Lord unworthily, shall be guilty of the Body and the Blood of the Lord. But let a man prove himself; and so let him eat of that bread and drink of the chalice. For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily eateth and drinketh judgment to himself, not discerning the Body of the Lord. Therefore are there many infirm and weak among you: and many sleep. But if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged. But whilst we are judged, we are chastised by the Lord, that we be not condemned with this world.