The Roman Station is Santa Maria in Trastevere.
We hear from a sermon of St. Gregory The Great (+604). He put together many of the Mass formularies and traditional practices we use today. He reminds his listeners that they had had very bad times. Now that things were better, the Enemy had to change his approach to ruining souls. At the end, the beginning of an appropriate orchestral piece.
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What is the name of that orchestral piece? It is very pleasant.
Thank you, Fr. Z. This reminds me that I need to re-read the Book of Pastoral Rule by St. Gregory the Great.
VForr: it’s the well known hymn ” I heard the voice of Jesus say come unto me and rest.. ”
It’s based on an old English folk song. Vaughan Williams made the setting, as explained here:
“I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say” was written by the Scottish hymn writer Horatius Bonar in 1846.
The tune is ‘Kingsfold’, an English folk tune dating back to the Middle Ages. Ralph Vaughan Williams heard the tune in Kingsfold, Sussex, and arranged it as a hymn tune for The English Hymnal in1906″.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yYqgBMrmeZA
The Irish songwriter Percy French used it for an Irish folk song “Star of the County Down”:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_of_the_County_Down
Ooops, sorry, it wasn’t Percy French. He wrote “The mountains of Mourne” – which are also in County Down.
Here’s the orchestral version:
https://youtu.be/RQoP9iLwoos?feature=shared
@VForr, that piece is from Ralph Vaughan Williams’ haunting “Dives and Lazarus” variants: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQoP9iLwoos.