Missa Orbis Factor

We practiced this new-to-us Mass setting, Mass XI. We weren't very good but it is worth persevering with it because it comes from the earliest, most traditional years of chant.
Father Ray Blake writes about the Kyrie in Orbis Factor. Here we see the certainty of Divine mercy.
"The word eleison has a connection with olive oil, the sinuous melody seems to be like thick olive oil penetrating into the soul, healing and cleansing. The rise on the last syllable of Christe seems to be about a drenching in the oil of mercy".
http://marymagdalen.blogspot.co.uk/2008/11/orbis-factor.html

This version of the Kyrie with 'tropes' is pretty remarkable:





1. Orbis factor rex aeterne, eleison
2. Pietatis fons immense, eleison
3. Noxas omnes nostras pelle, eleison
4. Christe qui lux es mundi dator vitae, eleison
5. Arte laesos daemonis intuere, eleison
6. Conservans te credentes confirmansque, eleison
7. Patrem tuum teque flamen utrorumque, eleison
8. Deum scimus unum atque trinum esse, eleison
9. Clemens nobis adsis paraclite ut vivamus in te, eleison.

1. Maker of the world, King eternal, have mercy upon us.
2. O immense source of pity, have mercy upon us.
3. Drive off all our evils, have mercy upon us.
4. Christ who art the light of the world and giver of life, have mercy upon us.
5. Consider the wounds produced by the devil's art, have mercy upon us.
6. Keeping and confirming thy believers, have mercy upon us.
7. Thou and thy Father, an equal light, have mercy upon us.
8. We know that God is one and three, have mercy upon us.
9. Thou, merciful unto us, art present with the Holy Spirit that we might live in thee, have mercy upon us.
(from Wikipedia)

We are aiming for this:

 Father Blake writes that one of the nice things about the Traditional Rite is that the Penitential Rite and absolution is a private affair, for the priest and server at the foot of the altar, a preparation for Mass
"so the Kyrie becomes a triumphant proclamation in which the Christian prays and as he prays, he receives. The priest might mutter about his sinfulness under his breath but in the "congregation of the Redeemed" he and the congregation proclaims God's mercy".
He writes that the priest's introduction to the Penitential rite in the modern Mass, using his own words, "can become downright tedious, almost Pelagian". On regular Sundays we stand and pray the Confiteor together.

When I serve at the Latin Mass, I bow low while on my knees at the foot of the Altar and confess my sins, on behalf of the rest of the congregation. I am older than these chaps and always comb my hair:

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