For those who've never heard or sung the hymn "Long Live the Pope", seminarian Bryan Jerabek has posted a scanned copy suitable for parish use. Somehow I hadn't heard it before, but at the German parish in Boston, the music director has: we sang verses 1 and 4.
Enjoy!
As I write, Pope Benedict is giving his first address to the Cardinals at a concelebrated Mass in the SIstine Chapel, and I'm happy to report it's in Latin. Here's the text.
(Oh! He just gave us TV viewers the Apostolic Blessing! Deo gratias!)
Musically: the Mass ordinary was plainchant, Mass VIII. A cantor alternated with the congregation (which appeared to be about half Cardinals). At the end of mass, an organist played the "Alleluia" from Handel's The Messiah. It's not a very big-sounding organ, but then it's not that big a place.
Update: Art and AAE corrected my numbering: it was Mass IX ("cum jubilo").
Here's a MIDI file with ten bars of that cheesy piece we did on Sunday: Haec Dies by Bordese.
The text:
Haec dies quam fecit Dominus, alleluia, alleluia;
Haec dies quam fecit Dominus, alleluia, alleluia.
Exsultemus et laetemur in ea, alleluia;
Laetemur in ea, alleluia,
Alleluia;
Haec dies quam fecit Dominus, alleluia, alleluia;
Haec dies quam fecit Dominus, alleluia,
alleluia, alleluia, alleluia.
