The Most Beautiful Offertory Chant - Stetit Angelus
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On September 29 we celebrate the feast of St Michael the Archangel and at the Offertory at Mass, we sing this most beautiful of chants. From Dom Gaspar Lefevre's commentary on the liturgy:
"September 29 was formerly dedicated to all the angels ([hence the text selection for the] Introit, Collect, Gradual and Communion) wherefore Pope Boniface II, about A.D. 530, chose that date to dedicate a church in the great circus, at Rome, to St Michael. The Mass composed for the occasion has since been appointed for the 18th Sunday after Pentecost [in the pre Vatican II Missal]; it still relates to the dedication of a church. The present Mass was composed more recently [dating from at least the 9th century]. ... It is [St Michael] who offers to God the prayers of the saints symbolized by incense whose smoke rises toward heaven (hence the text for the Offertory chant and the special Blessing of the incense)."
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