By Frank La Rocca (2024)
Frank La Rocca wrote Missa Pange Lingua with “holiness, beauty and universality” in mind. “Music in the liturgy takes on the role of a sacramental; it must prepare the faithful to receive grace and dispose them to cooperate with it. To do this, it must be fused to the Logos, the Word, in an intimate and filial relationship, not drawing undue attention to itself and thereby distracting from the primacy of the Word,” said La Rocca in the Catholic World Report.
“Missa Pange Lingua is a musical work that leads the worshippers into the depth and beauty of the Mass itself. The processional Pange Lingua aids the faithful to serenely reflect on the true presence of God in the Eucharist, the Kyrie is heartfelt and penitential, the Gloria is resolute, the Sanctus combines passion and grace to precede the Consecration, and finally the Agnus Dei provides clarity and peace.”
The patrons of the Missa Pange Lingua: A Mass for Eucharistic Renaissance, Sally and Frank Hanna, give profound thanks to our Lord for the accompaniment. He gave us with His Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity, and humbly pray for a renaissance of gratitude and appreciation for the sublime gift of the Eucharist.
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