Solemnity of the Resurrection of the Lord/C
Massimo Palombella
“Who would not think the Lord Jesus of our human condition knowing that in his life there was room for food, rest, sleep, anxieties, sadness, compassion and tears?
Is it ours that He lay lifeless in the tomb, that He rose on the third day, that He ascended above all heights to the right hand of the Father’s majesty’ (from the ‘Discourses’ of St Leo the Great, Pope, Discourse 15 on the Lord’s Passion, 3-4; Latin Patrology 54, 366-367).
At a certain point in life, as adults, beyond all that has been communicated to us by the education we have received, the Resurrection becomes a choice that necessarily includes the cross, and that profoundly sculpts our identity.
We do not resurrect without the fullness of our humanity, our strengths, our abilities, our sufferings, our weaknesses and our unresolved…
Only through all this can we truly resurrect and believe, entrust ourselves to a real God, beyond all our inventions.
The Introit (the “Ingressa” in the Ambrosian Rite) of today’s celebration is taken from Ps 138 (Ps 138:18. 5-6) with the following text:
Resurrexi, et adhuc tecum sum, alleluia:
posuisti super me manum tuam, alleluia:
mirabilis facta est scientia tua, alleluia
(I am risen, and I am always with you, alleluia;
you have placed your hand upon me, alleluia;
your wisdom has been shown to be most wonderful, alleluia, alleluia).
The attached music, the “Ingressa” of the Ambrosian Rite (very similar to the Introit of the Roman Rite), comes from the Antiphonale Missarum Iuxta Ritum Sanctæ Ecclesiæ Mediolanensis, published in Rome in 1935.
The musical composition, originally written for the Papal Celebration of Easter Sunday and adapted thematically to the Ambrosian Rite, is a kind of “processional chant” towards the Introit (or the “Ingressa” in the Ambrosian Rite). In the case of the Ambrosian Rite, the processional chant leads to the characteristic “12 Kyrie” with the “Sallenda” followed by the singing of the “Ingressa”.
The live performance is by the Musical Chapel of the Duomo of Milan at the Celebration of 31 March 2024.
Happy Easter from the bottom of my heart.
