IV. 4. SANCTUS BENEDICTUS

Mass: Praefationes

LATIN

Missale Romanum

1. Sanctus, Sanctus, Sanctus Dominus, Deus Sabaoth. Pleni sunt c�li
et terra gloria tua.
2. Hosanna in excelsis. Benedictus, qui venit in nomine Domini.
Hosanna in excelsis.

NB SOURCES
1: Isaiah 6:3: sanctus sanctus sanctus Dominus exercituuum plena
est omnis terra gloria eius, and thus Apoc. 4:8, sanctus sanctus
sanctus Dominus Deus omnipotens qui erat et qui est et qui venturus
est. Also Num. 14:21, et implebitur gloria Domini universa terra.
2: Matt. 21:9: osanna Filio David benedictus qui venturus est in
nomine Domini osanna in altissimi, also Matt. 23:39, benedictus qui
venit in nomine Domini, Luke 13:35, benedictus qui venit in nomine
Domini, and Luke 19:38, benedictus qui venit rex in nomine Domini,
pax in caelo et gloria in excelsis.
O.T. original source is Ps. 117:26, [Gall.] benedictus qui venturus
est in nomine Domini/ [Heb.] benedictus qui venit in nomine Domini,
and Ps. 148:1 [Gall./Heb.] Laudate Dominum de caelis, laudate eum
in excelsis. Consider also Luke 2:14, gloria in altissimis Deo et
in terra pax in hominibus bonae voluntatis.

LITURGICAL COGNATES:

Gloria in excelsis.

HOMILIES

AELFRIC

CATHOLIC HOMILIES II

I. "In Letania Maiore. Feria Tertia"; B.1.2.25; Godden XX, 195.
in MSS CUL Gg.3.28, fols 199v-202v; Oxford, Bodley 342, fols 27v-
34; Oxford, Bodleian Hatton 115, fols 37v-53v; BL Cotton Vespasian
D.xiv, fols 123-30v.

[partial]: "SANCTUS SANCTUS SANCTUS. Dominus deus sabaoth".

LIVES OF SAINTS

I. "Passio Sancti Marci, Evangeliste"; B.1.3.16; Skeat XV, 334.
in MSS CUL Ii.1.33, fols 110-14; CCCC 198, fols 295-8v; BL Cotton
Julius E.vii, fols 74-77; BL Cotton Vitellius D.xvii, fols '48',
'50', [fire-damaged] (context also Apoc. 4:8):

"SANCTUS. SANCTUS. SANCTUS. dominus deus omnipotens. qui erat. et
qui est. et qui venturus est."

AELFRIC: ON THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENT

I. B.1.8.4. Crawford 1922, 68-9.
in MSS Oxford, Bodleian Laud Misc. 509, fols 120v-141v; Oxford,
Bodleian Bodley 343, fols. 129-132.

[partial] "Sanctus, sanctus, sanctus, Dominus Deus Sabaoth"