Monday of the Fifth Week of Easter - May 11th, 2009
The Mass Readings for the Ordinary Form today are found here . Notice that the Psalm Response is " Not to us, O Lord, but to your name give the glory." In the play, Henry V by William Shakespeare, King Henry, after the glorious triumph at Agincourt, bids his men to sing the "Te Deum" and "Non nobis ." The "Non nobis" in the King James Version was Psalm 115 while in the Vulgate it was Psalm 113:9. The Psalm response for today is thus, " non nobis Domine non nobis sed nomini tuo da gloriam " ( "Not to us, O LORD, not to us but to your name give glory"). Here is a beautiful and rousing example used in the movie of the Kenneth Branagh adaptation of Henry Vth , a marvelous film.