Monthly Archives: March 2016

Music for Passion Sunday, 13 March 2016

Music for Passion Sunday
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Hymn at the Procession: When I Survey the Wondrous Cross (Rockingham)
Missa Si ambulavero 
(Philippe de Monte, 1521-1603)
Gregorian Mass of Passion Sunday: Judica me Deus
Motet at the Offertory: Miserere mei (William Byrd, 1540-1623)
Motet at the Communion: Vexilla Regis (Francisco Guerrero, 1528-1599)

Music for the Fifth Sunday of Lent
(Missale Romanum of 2002, 11:30 a.m.)
Hymn at the Procession: When I Survey the Wondrous Cross (Rockingham)
Introit: Judica me (plainsong, mode iv)
Missa pro Dominicis Adventus & Quadragesimae (Vatican Gradual, Mass XVII)
Tract: Saepe expugnaverunt me (plainsong, mode viii)
Offertory: Confitebor tibi (plainsong, mode i)
Motet at the Offertory: In the midst of life (Henry Purcell, 1659-1695)
Communion: Nemo te condemnavit (plainsong, mode viii)
Hymn at the Communion: Litany of the Passion (Holy Jesu, By Thy Passion) (from The Crucifixion) (John Stainer, 1840-1901)
Marian antiphon: Ave Regina caelorum (plainsong, mode vi)

Music for the Saturday of the Fourth Week of Lent, 12 March 2016

Saturday, 12 March 2016, 9:00 a.m.
Music for the Saturday of the Fourth Week of Lent
with commemoration of St. Gregory the Great

(Missale Romanum of 1962)
Missa Deus Genitor alme (Vatican Gradual, Mass XVIII)
Gregorian Mass of Saturday of the Fourth Week of Lent: Sitientes
Hymn at the Communion: Anima Christi (plainsong, mode i)

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

Music for Vespers of the Fourth Sunday of Lent, 6 March 2016

Sunday, 6 March 2016, 5:00 p.m.
Music for Second Vespers of the Fourth Sunday of Lent
Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite
Dixit Dominus & Psalm 109 (mode vii)
Magna opera Domini & Psalm 110 (mode iii)
Qui timet Dominum & Psalm 111 (mode iv)
Sit nomen Domini & Psalm 112 (mode vii)
Deus autem noster & Psalm 113 (mode i)
Audi benigne Conditor (plainsong, mode ii)
Magnificat antiphon: Subiit ergo (mode i)
O Salutaris Hostia (Hereford)
Tantum ergo (Werner)
Adoremus in aeternum (plainsong, mode i)
Postlude: O Lamm Gottes, unschuldig (BWV 618) (Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685-1750)

Vespers will be followed by the first evening of St. Mary's Lenten Mission,
preached by Msgr. Thomas Powers, Vicar General of the Diocese of Bridgeport.
The mission continues on Monday and Tuesday, at 7:30 p.m. on both days.

Music for the Fourth Sunday of Lent, 6 March 2016

Music for the Fourth Sunday of Lent
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Prelude: Wir danken dir, Herr Jesu Christ (BWV 623) (Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685-1750)
Hymn at the Procession: The Lord’s My Shepherd (Brother James’s Air)
Missa Tempore Quadragesimae (Johann Michael Haydn, 1731-1806) [Student Schola] Gregorian Mass of the Fourth Sunday of Lent: Laetare
Motet at the Offertory: Nesciens mater (Walter Lambe, b. c.1450)
Motet at the Communion: Ave verum corpus (Josquin des Prez, c.1450-1521) [Student Schola] Postlude: O Lamm Gottes, unschuldig (BWV 618) (Bach)

The St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
The St. Cecilia Student Schola

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Music for the Fourth Sunday of Lent
(Missale Romanum of 2002, 11:30 a.m.)
Hymn at the Procession: Our Father, We Have Wandered (Passion Chorale)
Introit: Laetare (plainsong, mode v)
Missa pro Dominicis Adventus & Quadragesimae (Vatican Gradual, Mass XVII)
Tract: Qui confidunt (plainsong, mode viii)
Offertory: Laudate Dominum (plainsong, mode ii)
Motet at the Offertory: Sicut cervus (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, c.1525-1594)
Communion: Oportet te (plainsong, mode viii)
Motet at the Communion: God So Loved the World (from The Crucifixion) (John Stainer, 1840-1901)
Marian antiphon: Ave Regina caelorum (plainsong, mode vi)