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  • What you don't get, modus pontus, is what powerline has said:

    Is That Legal?: Stop the "Wellstone Funeral" Meme In Its Tracks! 2006

  • Here's an mp3 the cantor from LLPB singing #63 above; this is "The God Whom Earth and Sea and Sky" the English version of Quem terra, pontus, ethera posted at Oremus Hymnal.

    "The Feast of the Purification of the B. V. Mary (Feb. 2)" (also called "Candlemas," and "The Presentation") bls 2009

  • Here's an mp3 the cantor from LLPB singing #63 above; this is "The God Whom Earth and Sea and Sky" the English version of Quem terra, pontus, ethera posted at Oremus Hymnal.

    Archive 2009-02-01 bls 2009

  • I don't have the list of office hymns that are sung specifically on this day - but the LLPB appoints this hymn, "The God Whom Earth and Sea and Sky" (that's the mp3) (Quem terra, pontus, aethera) to "The Common of Saints - A hymn about the Blessed Virgin Mary."

    Archive 2008-05-01 bls 2008

  • I do know, though, that the hymns listed for Mattins and Lauds in Hymn-melodies for the whole year from the Sarum service-books (which hymns are notated "as on the Feast of the Conception") are sung to the same tune; the hymn is called "O gloriosa femina" (or "O gloriosa domina") at Lauds, and "Quem terra, pontus, ethera" at Mattins.

    Archive 2008-04-01 bls 2008

  • Here's an mp3 the cantor from LLPB singing #63 above; this is "The God Whom Earth and Sea and Sky" the English version of Quem terra, pontus, ethera posted at Oremus Hymnal.

    Archive 2008-08-01 bls 2008

  • I do know, though, that the hymns listed for Mattins and Lauds in Hymn-melodies for the whole year from the Sarum service-books (which hymns are notated "as on the Feast of the Conception") are sung to the same tune; the hymn is called "O gloriosa femina" (or "O gloriosa domina") at Lauds, and "Quem terra, pontus, ethera" at Mattins.

    Archive 2008-08-01 bls 2008

  • I do know, though, that the hymns listed for Mattins and Lauds in Hymn-melodies for the whole year from the Sarum service-books (which hymns are notated "as on the Feast of the Conception") are sung to the same tune; the hymn is called "O gloriosa femina" (or "O gloriosa domina") at Lauds, and "Quem terra, pontus, ethera" at Mattins.

    Office Hymns, etc, for the Feast of the Annunciation bls 2008

  • Here is a quick mp3 link for Quem terra, pontus, ethera and O gloriosa femina both use the same melody.

    Archive 2008-09-01 bls 2008

  • I do know, though, that the hymns listed for Mattins and Lauds in Hymn-melodies for the whole year from the Sarum service-books (which hymns are notated "as on the Feast of the Conception") are sung to the same tune; the hymn is called "O gloriosa femina" (or "O gloriosa domina") at Lauds, and "Quem terra, pontus, ethera" at Mattins.

    August 15: The Feast of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Part I bls 2008

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