Immaculata

Amaris · Post by **Amaris** » Sat Sep 27, 2008 8:00 am

In need of help. I am involved in a visit of the "old girls" to my school and have been asked by them if we can sing the Immaculata at their Christmas Carol event.

I'm struggling to find out what they mean. They sang something to me, but there were few words remembered and the tune sounded very rum-te-tum.

This is my first posting, so please be gentle with me.

musicus · Post by **musicus** » Sat Sep 27, 2008 2:35 pm

Hello Amaris, and welcome to the forum!

I'm afraid I can't answer your question. I got to page 12 of a Google search before giving up, having discovered Catholic universities, snails and a Goth band, but no music. I guess it's a Marian devotional hymn from a universe parallel to the one I choose to live in.

I have no doubt the collective wisdom of the forum will know...

Psalm Project · Post by **Psalm Project** » Sat Sep 27, 2008 2:45 pm

I don't suppose it refers to the hymn 'Immaculate Mary'? - aka 'The bells of the angelus' - the popular Marian Hymn sung frequently in Lourdes...
That's the only association I can muster... rum ti tum.. hmmm... 3/4 timing ambling along as it does...

Amaris · Post by **Amaris** » Sat Sep 27, 2008 3:35 pm

Thank you for your efforts so far.

It seems to have been a hymn sung only in Advent or possibly Christmas, but not for the last thirty years!

The School is part of the Sacred Heart tradition if that is a clue.

Unfortunately we have no Priest in Residence at the moment, so that source of information isn't open to me.

VML · Post by **VML** » Sat Sep 27, 2008 11:06 pm

They did not perhaps mean 'O Sanctissima'
which I found immediately I googled. It is a Marian hymn we sang too many years ago at my Marist Convent.
Take a look.

musicus · Post by **musicus** » Mon Sep 29, 2008 7:53 am

VML wrote:They did not perhaps mean 'O Sanctissima'?

Ah. Half-remembered nostalgia. The most insidious kind. :twisted:

Amaris · Post by **Amaris** » Fri Oct 03, 2008 7:56 pm

I have now discovered an old music folder with an "Immaculata Litany". The music is terrible (no composer is attributed!) and it seems to consist of a simple tune for the main (Latin) text of the hymn with the words immaculata and ora pro nobis sung in answer.

I will have to check with some of the old girls, but I think I may have found it. Sadly, it will not be the musical or liturgical gem I might have hoped for. Glorious nostalgia for some though.

quaeritor · Post by **quaeritor** » Tue Oct 21, 2008 2:22 pm

I'm probably too late with this - but that wouldn't be the first time (nor yet the last!)

I conferred with my sister, sometime organist and Notre Dame schoolgirl circa 1955. We dredged our collective memories and thought it might be "the one that mother used to sing" (sometime occasional organist and Notre Dame schoolgirl circa 1925) which started "O Mother, I could weep for mirth . . ", the refrain ending "And I keep singing in my heart, Immaculate! Immaculate!" - That probably gives you an impression. :roll:

Does this ring any bells with anyone? (I could re-construct the first verse, chorus and tune)

docmattc · Post by **docmattc** » Tue Oct 21, 2008 3:46 pm

quaeritor wrote: "O Mother, I could weep for mirth . . ",

If it carries on like that, so could I.

gwyn · Post by **gwyn** » Tue Oct 21, 2008 4:02 pm

docmattc wrote:
quaeritor wrote: "O Mother, I could weep for mirth . . ",
If it carries on like that, so could I.

I love it. We use it occasionally.

quaeritor · Post by **quaeritor** » Tue Oct 21, 2008 4:28 pm

docmattc wrote: If it carries on like that, so could I.

It does - O how it does!

Try this for all the words (Found since my first post):

http://jdtreat.com/Service%20Sheets/021 ... eption.pdf

(How do I turn that into a link? - maybe it will happen when I submit it?)

pirate · Post by **pirate** » Tue Oct 21, 2008 8:14 pm

Faaaantastic! I see they're also having a collection for Christmas Greens which has prompted me to check the gas under the Brussels Sprouts...

nazard · Post by **nazard** » Wed Oct 22, 2008 7:18 am

Whatever sect does that service sheet come from?

johnquinn39 · Post by **johnquinn39** » Wed Oct 22, 2008 10:22 am

quaeritor wrote:I'm probably too late with this - but that wouldn't be the first time (nor yet the last!)

I conferred with my sister, sometime organist and Notre Dame schoolgirl circa 1955. We dredged our collective memories and thought it might be "the one that mother used to sing" (sometime occasional organist and Notre Dame schoolgirl circa 1925) which started "O Mother, I could weep for mirth . . ", the refrain ending "And I keep singing in my heart, Immaculate! Immaculate!" - That probably gives you an impression.

Does this ring any bells with anyone? (I could re-construct the first verse, chorus and tune)

Yes. The hymn is 'Immaculate, Immaculate' (the first line being 'O Mother!, I could weep for mirth'). This is published in 'The Catholic Hymn Book' - Gracewing ISBN 0852443593 and is no.158.

johnquinn39 · Post by **johnquinn39** » Wed Oct 22, 2008 10:29 am

Gwyn wrote:
docmattc wrote:
quaeritor wrote: "O Mother, I could weep for mirth . . ",
If it carries on like that, so could I.

I love it. We use it occasionally.

Are there better hymns to the Blessed Virgin Mary that could be sung? - Maybe Owen Alstott's 'Holy dwelling place of God', or one of the Marian antiphons in 'By flowing waters'.

Our Lady is 'the highest honour of our race', 'Mother of the Word of God', 'Noble tower of David' etc.

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