Good Friday



The Improperia chant from today's Mass of the Presanctified can be downloaded from St Benedict's Abbey in Brazil. Due to the huge size of the file it is in four parts:

(1) Popule Meus,
(2) Quia eduxi te,
(3) Ego propter te flagellavi Ægyptum, and
(4) Ego te potavi.

It took a good deal of time to download even with my fairly fast connection; there is just slightly less than 20 minutes of music all tolled. But if you have never heard the Improperia, it is worth the wait: "My people, O my people. What have I done to you? Or wherein have I offended you that you should prepare a cross for your saviour? Answer me."