Monthly Archives: March 2015

Music for the Fourth Sunday of Lent
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Prelude: An Wasserflüssen Babylon (BWV 653) (Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685-1750)
Missa Cantate (John Sheppard, c.1515-1558)
Gregorian Mass of the Fourth Sunday of Lent: Laetare
Kyrie Salve (plainsong, mode i)
Offertory: Laudate Dominum (plainsong, mode ii, with verses)
Motet at the Communion: Audi benigne Conditor (Guillaume Dufay, c.1400-1474)
Postlude: Partitas on Ach, was soll ich Sünder machen? (BWV 770) (Bach)

Music for the Fourth Sunday of Lent
(Missale Romanum of 2002, 11:30 a.m.)
Hymn at the Procession: Christ Is the World’s Light (Christe sanctorum)
Introit: Laetare (plainsong, mode v)
Missa pro Dominicis Adventus & Quadragesimae (Vatican Gradual, Mass XVII)
Offertory: Laudate Dominum (plainsong, mode ii)
Hymn at the Offertory: Call to Remembrance (Richard Farrant)
Hymn at the Offertory: All You Who Seek a Comfort Sure (Kingsfold)
Communion: Jerusalem, quae aedificatur (plainsong, mode iv)
Motet at the Communion: God So Loved the World (from The Crucifixion) (John Stainer, 1840-1901)
Marian antiphon: Ave Regina caelorum (plainsong, mode vi)
Organ music as above

Saturday, 14 March 2015, 9:00 a.m.
Music for the Saturday of the Third Week of Lent
(Missale Romanum of 1962)
Missa pro Feriis Adventus & Quadragesimae (Vatican Gradual, Mass XVIII)
Gregorian Mass of the Saturday after the Third Sunday of Lent: Verba mea
Hymn at the Offertory: Parce Domine (plainsong, mode i)
Hymn at the Communion: Audi benigne Conditor (plainsong, mode ii)

The second Saturday of every month is a Missa cantata celebrated
for the intentions of the Gospel of Life Society at St. Mary’s.

Thursday, 12 March 2015, 5:30 p.m.
Music for Vespers of the Feast of St. Gregory
Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite
Ecce sacerdos magnus & Psalm 109 (mode vii)
Non est inventus & Psalm 110 (mode vii)
Ideo jurejurando & Psalm 111 (mode viii)
Sacerdotes Dei & Psalm 112 (mode vii)
Serve bone & Psalm 131 (mode iii)
Hymn: Iste Confessor (plainsong, mode viii)
Magnificat antiphon: O Doctor optime (mode ii)
Commemoration of the Thursday of the Third Week of Lent: Omnes qui habebant (plainsong, mode i)
Marian antiphon: Ave Regina caelorum (plainsong, mode vi)

The St. Gregory Student Schola
The St. Cecilia Student Schola

Music for the Third Sunday of Lent
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Missa In illo tempore à 6 (Claudio Monteverdi, 1567-1643)
Gregorian Mass of the Third Sunday of Lent: Oculi mei
Motet at the Offertory: In illo tempore (Nicolas Gombert, c.1495-c.1560)
Motet at the Communion: Lamentabatur Jacob (Cristóbal de Morales, c.1500-1553)
Marian antiphon: Ave Regina caelorum (plainsong, mode vi)

Music for the Third Sunday of Lent
(Missale Romanum of 2002, 11:30 a.m.)
Hymn at the Procession: Lord, Who Throughout These Forty Days (St. Flavian)
Introit: Oculi mei (plainsong, mode vii)
Missa pro Dominicis Adventus & Quadragesimae (Vatican Gradual, Mass XVII)
Offertory: Justitiae Domini (plainsong, mode iv)
Motet at the Offertory: Lord, For Thy Tender Mercy’s Sake (John Hilton the Elder, 1565-c.1609)
Hymn at the Offertory: I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say (Kingsfold)
Communion: Passer invenit (plainsong, mode i)
Hymn at the Communion: The Perfect Law of God (Leoni)
Marian antiphon: Ave Regina caelorum (plainsong, mode vi)

Music for the Second Sunday of Lent
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Missa in honorem Sanctæ Catharinæ (David J. Hughes, b.1980)
Gregorian Mass of the Second Sunday of Lent: Reminiscere
Motet at the Offertory: O bone Jesu (Robert Parsons, c.1530-1572)
Motet at the Communion: Et numerum dierum (O bone Jesu, continued) (Parsons)
Marian antiphon: Ave Regina caelorum (plainsong, mode vi)

Music for the Second Sunday of Lent
(Missale Romanum of 2002, 11:30 a.m.)
Hymn at the Procession: The Glory of These Forty Days (Erhalt uns Herr)
Introit: Reminiscere (plainsong, mode iv)
Missa pro Dominicis Adventus & Quadragesimae (Vatican Gradual, Mass XVII)
Offertory: Meditabor (plainsong, mode ii)
Motet at the Offertory: Thou Knowest, Lord, The Secrets of Our Hearts (Henry Purcell, 1659-1695)
Hymn at the Offertory: God of Mercy and Compassion (Au sang qu’un Dieu) (after Pergolesi)
Communion: Visionem (plainsong, mode i)
Hymn at the Communion: Attende Domine (plainsong, mode i)
Marian antiphon: Ave Regina caelorum (plainsong, mode vi)