10th Sunday after Pentecost 2026
Processional hymn: O Sanctissima, 915
Recessional hymn: O Glorious Maid Exalted Far, 911
Kyriale: Mass XI, 740; Credo II, 772
Offertory antiphon: Ad Te Levavi, Reverend Franz Xaver Witt
Communion antiphon: Acceptabis, Nobuaki Izawa (b. 1972)
The Offertory antiphon assigned for this Sunday is shared with the First Sunday of Advent taken from Psalm 24:1-2 “Unto thee, O Lord, will I lift up my soul; my God, I have put my trust in thee: O let me not be confounded, neither let mine enemies triumph over me. For all they that hope in thee shall not be ashamed.” Reverend Franz Xaver Witt sets this antiphon in a mostly homophonic style and the only repetition of text—“shall not be ashamed”—he uses is the final portion of the text in three different musical iterations creating tension and resolving with a major chord.
Reverend Franz Xaver Witt (1834–1888) was ordained as a priest in 1856 and taught Gregorian chant at the seminary at Regensburg. In 1868 Fr. Witt founded the Caecilia Society in order to revive the use of Gregorian chant and polyphony, and to promote the composition of new liturgical music in an older style in Catholic churches. Pope Pius IX recognized his society in 1870.