Offertory Gloria et diviti.

Offertory Gloria et diviti of the Feast of the Transfiguration, sung at the St Catherine's Trust Summer School 2010.

We sang with this Offertory the ancient Offertory verses (available to download here) which originally accompanied it. Singing these verses remains an option in the Traditional Latin Mass. They are highly elaborate, and develop the theme of the Offertory both in terms of melody and text.

The usual structure of the verses is that the Offertory (as printed in the missal) is sung through, then a verse is sung, then the whole or the second half of the Offertory is sung again; this may be repeated if there is more than one verse.

The Offertory verses were rediscovered in the course of the revival of Chant in the late nineteenth century, and the Offertoriale containing them was printed in 1935.