Monthly Archives: November 2017

Music for the Last Sunday after Pentecost, 26 November 2017

Music for the Last Sunday after Pentecost
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Prelude: Adagio I (Leoš Janáček, 1854-1928)
Hymn at the Procession: If There Be That Skills To Reckon (Lewes)
Missa Sicut cervus (Mark Donnelly, b.1960)
Gregorian Mass of the Last Sundays after Pentecost: Dicit Dominus: Ego cogito
Motet at the Offertory: Sicut cervus (prima pars) (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, c.1525-1594)
Motet at the Communion: Sitivit anima mea (Sicut cervus, secunda pars) (Palestrina)
Postlude: Præludium in G minor (BuxWV 149) (Dietrich Buxtehude, c.1637-1707)

Music for the Feast of Christ the King
(Missale Romanum of 2002, 11:30 a.m.)
Hymn at the Procession: To Jesus Christ, Our Sovereign King (Ich glaub an Gott)
Introit: Dignus est Agnus (plainsong, mode iii)
Missa de Angelis (Vatican Gradual, Mass VIII)
Gradual: Dominabitur (plainsong, mode v)
Alleluia: Potestas ejus (plainsong, mode i)
Offertory: Postula a me (plainsong, mode iv)
Acclamation at the Offertory: Christus vincit (Ambrosian plainsong)
Communion: Amen dico vobis: quod uni (plainsong, mode iv)
Hymn at the Communion: Let All the World (from Five Mystical Songs) (Ralph Vaughan Williams, 1872-1958)
Marian antiphon: Salve Regina (plainsong, mode v)
Organ music as above

Music for the Feast of St. Clement I, 23 November 2017

Thursday, 23 November 2017, 9:00 a.m.
Music for the Feast of St. Clement I
and Thanksgiving Day

(Missale Romanum of 1962)
Prelude: Improvisation
Hymn at the Procession: We Gather Together (Kremser)
Missa de Angelis 
(Vatican Gradual, Mass VIII)
Gregorian Mass of St. Clement: Dicit Dominus: Sermones mei
Motet at the Offertory: Salve Regina (Franz Schubert, 1797-1828)
Motet at the Communion: Ave verum corpus (Gabriel Fauré, 1845-1924)
Hymn of Thanksgiving: Te Deum (plainsong, mode iv)
Postlude: Improvisation

Music for St. Cecilia’s Day, 22 November 2017

Wednesday, 22 November 2017, 6:00 p.m.
Music for the Feast of St. Cecilia
(Missale Romanum of 1962)
Prelude: Improvisation
Missa Stelliferi Conditor orbis 
(Vatican Gradual, Mass XIII)
Gregorian Mass of St. Cecilia: Loquebar
Hymn at the Retiring Procession: How Shall I Sing That Majesty (Coe fen)
Postlude: Fantasia in G Major (BWV 572) (Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685-1750)

Music for the Sixth Resumed Sunday after the Epiphany, 19 November 2017

Music for the Sixth Resumed Sunday after the Epiphany
The Twenty-Fourth Sunday after Pentecost

(Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Prelude: Introduction et Variations (JA 69) (Jehan Alain, 1911-1940)
Hymn at the Procession: Happy Are They (Binchester)
Missa Caça (Cristóbal de Morales, c.1500-1553)
Gregorian Mass of the Last Sundays after Pentecost: Dicit Dominus: Ego cogito
Motet at the Offertory: De profundis (Nicolas Champion, c.1475-1533)
Motet at the Communion: Ego sum panis vivus (Tomás Luis de Victoria, 1548-1611)
Postlude: Choral (JA 82) (Alain)

Music for the Thirty-Third Sunday of the Year
(Missale Romanum of 2002, 11:30 a.m.)
Hymn at the Procession: Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence (Picardy)
Introit: Dicit Dominus: Ego cogito (plainsong, mode vi)
Missa cum jubilo (Vatican Gradual, Mass IX)
Gradual: Liberasti nos (plainsong, mode vii)
Alleluia: De profundis (plainsong, mode vii)
Offertory: De profundis (plainsong, mode ii)
Motet at the Offertory: Out from the deep (Thomas Tallis, c.1505-1585)
Communion: Domine, quinque talenta (plainsong, mode vii)
Motet at the Communion: Serve bone et fidelis (Orlande de Lassus, c.1532-1594)
Marian antiphon: Salve Regina (plainsong, mode v)
Organ music as above

Month of All Souls

The month of November has traditionally been the month of All Souls, the month in which we focus on prayer for the dead. Most parishes celebrate the Mass on All Souls Day itself and then forget about the dead until next year. This is understandable in a Catholic world in which the color white is…
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Homilía: El Domingo 5 de Noviembre 2017

El último miércoles celebramos la maravillosa fiesta de Todos los Santos. Este es el día en que agradecemos a Dios por las oraciones de los santos en el cielo por nosotros. Estos son los hombres y mujeres que se transformaron en esta vida por la gracia de Dios para llegar a ser santos. Nos dan…
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Music for the Twenty-Third Sunday after Pentecost, 12 November 2017

Music for the Twenty-Third Sunday after Pentecost
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Prelude: O Gott, du frommer Gott (Op. 122, No. 7) (Johannes Brahms, 1833-1897)
Hymn at the Procession: O God, Thou Faithful God (O Gott, du frommer Gott)
Missa Pater cuncta (Vatican Gradual, Mass XII)
Gregorian Mass of the Last Sundays after Pentecost: Dicit Dominus: Ego cogito
Motet at the Offertory: De profundis (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, c.1525-1594)
Hymn at the Communion: Placare Christe servulis (plainsong, mode viii)
Postlude: Prelude & Fugue in A minor (Brahms)

St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
St. Cecilia Student Schola
St. Gregory Student Schola
St. John the Baptist Choristers

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Music for the Thirty-Second Sunday of the Year
(Missale Romanum of 2002, 11:30 a.m.)
Hymn at the Procession: Ye Watchers and Ye Holy Ones (Lasst uns erfreuen)
Introit: Intret oratio mea (plainsong, mode iii)
Missa cum jubilo (Vatican Gradual, Mass IX)
Gradual: Dirigatur oratio mea (plainsong, mode vii)
Alleluia: Quinque prudentes virgines (plainsong, mode vii)
Offertory: Gressus meos (plainsong, mode viii)
Motet at the Offertory: Geistliches Lied (Brahms)
Communion: Quinque prudentes virgines (plainsong, mode v)
Motet at the Communion: Audivi vocem de caelo (Thomas Tallis, c.1505-1585)
Marian antiphon: Salve Regina (plainsong, mode v)
Organ music as above