O Bone Jesu - Marc'Antonio Ingegneri (1535-1592)
Cor Unum Chorale
Paul Jernberg, conductor
Recorded at St. John the Guardian of Our Lady Parish
Clinton, Massachusetts
January 4, 2022

O Bone Jesu - Marc'Antonio Ingegneri

The Responsory "Collegerunt" is a Gregorian Chant sung during the Palm Sunday liturgy. The text is taken from the Gospel of St John, chapter 11, where it speaks of the hatred the Pharisees had against Jesus Christ and their conspiracy to put him to death after He had worked so much good and so many miracles. We can see ourselves in this as we conspire to put Him to death every time we consent to sin. The earliest musical sources for this chant are the MS of Einsiedeln 121 from Switzerland  from the early 11th century (pictured at beginning of recording) and the MS of Laon 239 from the beginning of the 10th century. The style of singing in this recording is according to the principles of Semiology (i.e. ancient manuscripts), as opposed to the old "Solesmes Method" of Dom Mocquereau. Nevertheless, I am still a big fan of Solesmes' recording of this chant under the direction of Dom Gajard.

Resp. Collegerunt

Offertory Chant: You will save the humble people
Mass for Persecuted Christians
Texts: Roman Missal / Gregorian Missal (in English Translation)
Music: Paul F. Jernberg

Cor Unum Artists
Paul Jernberg, director

Recorded at St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church
Clinton, Massachusetts

Joel Conrad, recording engineer

Offertory Chant: You will save the humble people

Universal Prayer - Mass for Persecuted Christians
(from the Great Litany in the Byzantine Vespers service, composed by Roman Hurko and adapted to the English text by Paul Jernberg)

Universal Prayer (Roman Hurko, composer)

This is one of my all time favorite chants... perhaps even my #1. This is the devotional chant "Rorate Caeli," different and separate from the Introit chant of the same title, but obviously related. According to a Wikipedia article, "In the seventeenth century, [the] Rorate Caeli was arranged into a hymn combining the traditional text with other scriptural passages used in the liturgy for Advent. The earliest known version is in the Oratorian Officia Propria (1673); it also appears in French diocesan rites, such as the Rouen Processional of 1729 and 1763. The text is a collection of excerpts taken from the book of Isaiah (though sometimes given a poetic rendering). When the text speaks of Sion and Jerusalem being desolate and destroyed, we can see this as representative of our own souls, ruined by sin, but restored by penance and God's grace. The harmony in this song is by my good friends, Harpa Dei.

Rorate Caeli - Devotional

Messe in canto gregoriano

Ave Maria - I modo

Introit "Spiritus Domini" from Pentecost Sunday

Intr. Spiritus Domini

This Alleluia comes from a 14th century Swiss codex and is in honor of the Blessed Virgin Mary.  It is melodically unusual for chant in the sense that it includes intervals of 7ths and octaves.

All. O Maria Rubens Rosa

Quão Formosa Sois, Ó Maria!

Lord have mercy
Missa Parva
Paul Jernberg, composer

Sung by the Cor Unum Chorale
Paul Jernberg, director
Corey Dalton Hart, Cantor
February 1, 2019
St. John the Evangelist Church
Clinton, Massachusetts

Lord Have Mercy - Missa Parva

The Lord's Prayer: Mass of St. Philip Neri
Cor Unum Chorale
Paul Jernberg, composer and conductor
February 1, 2019
St. John the Evangelist Church
Clinton, Massachusetts

The Lord's Prayer - Mass of St. Philip Neri

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Resp. Collegerunt

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