presbyter wrote:Mind you, CTS have managed to publish both their
Simple Prayer Book and similar size basic Missal with a small paragraph of the
Roman Canon missing. Ha! Methinks they could not have put a proof beneath the gaze of Dr McFarland
Sometimes we strain at gnats and swallow camels. Not real gnats and camels, just in case anyone doesn't catch my drift.
presbyter wrote:I'm sorry to go on about this - but how on earth can a composer begin a Sanctus with a Hosanna refrain? The seraphim are not singing Hosanna (Save us!) - they have no need of salvation. The Preface leads us to the song of the angels - Holy, Holy, Holy. In my opinion, the composer really does not understand the nature of the liturgical text.
Sorry not to be serious. By the time 'hosanna' was sung at our Lord's entry into Jerusalem, the use of the term at Sukkoth was already a joyful acclamation rather than a vexed petition. At this point in the mass, we may already have sung, "Glory to God in the highest," and understand "the highest" to be "the highest heavens". Wouldn't the use of the term "the highest" here indicate that the angels are singing it too? "Heaven AND earth are full of your glory," so we sing their angelic 'agios' and they sing our human 'hosanna'.
It wouldn't be my taste either to start a sanctus with the word hosanna. If it ever occurred to me to use this set, I'd just drop the opening hosanna, hosanna, hosanna sequence and start at the holy, holy, holy.
