Monthly Archives: February 2018

Music for Vespers of the Third Sunday of Lent, 4 March 2018

Sunday, 4 March 2018, 5:00 p.m.
Music for Second Vespers of the Third 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: Extollens quaedam mulier (mode viii)
O Salutaris Hostia (Hereford)
Tantum ergo (Werner)
Adoremus in aeternum (plainsong, mode i)

Music for the Third Sunday of Lent, 4 March 2018

Music for the Third Sunday of Lent
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Hymn at the Procession: Dear Lord and Father of Mankind (Repton)
Missa Come la tourturelle (Giorgio Flori, c.1558-c.1594)
Gregorian Mass of the Third Sunday of Lent: Oculi mei
Motet at the Offertory: At te levavi oculos meos (prima pars) (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, c.1525-1594)
Motet at the Communion: In illo tempore (Estêvão de Brito, 1570-1641)

Music for the Third Sunday of Lent
(Missale Romanum of 2002, 11:30 a.m.)
Hymn at the Procession: Christ Is Made the Sure Foundation (Westminster Abbey)
Introit: Oculi mei (plainsong, mode vii)
Missa pro Dominicis Adventus & Quadragesimae (Vatican Gradual, Mass XVII)
Gradual: Exsurge Domine (plainsong, mode iii)
Tract: Ad te levavi oculos meos (plainsong, mode viii)
Offertory: Justitiae Domini (plainsong, mode iv)
Motet at the Offertory: Have mercy upon me, O God à 3 (Thomas Tomkins, 1572-1656)
Communion: Passer invenit (plainsong, mode i)
Hymn at the Communion: God of Mercy and Compassion (Au sang qu’un Dieu)
(after Pergolesi)
Marian antiphon: Ave Regina caelorum (plainsong, mode vi)

Second Sunday of Lent

The revolution of the earth around the sun is one year. That sentence may seem strange to us, because it uses the word “revolution” in its original sense, dealing with a body circling around a fixed point. The revolution of a triangle about a fixed axis generates what we call a cone. It is a…
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Music for the Second Sunday of Lent, 25 February 2018

Music for the Second Sunday of Lent
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Hymn at the Procession: The Glory of These Forty Days (Agincourt)
Missa Ave Regina caelorum (Guillaume Dufay, 1397-1474)
Gregorian Mass of the Second Sunday of Lent: Reminiscere
Motet at the Offertory: Ave Regina caelorum II (Dufay)
Motet at the Communion: Audi benigne Conditor (Dufay)

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)
Gradual: Sciant gentes (plainsong, mode i)
Tract: Commovisti (plainsong, mode viii)
Offertory: Meditabor (plainsong, mode ii)
Motet at the Offertory: Ave Regina caelorum (Felice Anerio, 1560-1614)
Communion: Visionem (plainsong, mode i)
Motet at the Communion: O Saviour of the World (John Goss, 1800-1880)
Marian antiphon: Ave Regina caelorum (plainsong, mode vi)

Music for the Ember Wednesday of Lent, 21 February 2018

Wednesday, 21 February 2018, 6:00 p.m.
Music for the Ember Wednesday of Lent
(Missale Romanum of 1962)
Missa pro Feriis Adventus & Quadragesimae (Vatican Gradual, Mass XVIII)
Gregorian Mass of the Ember Wednesday of Lent: Reminiscere
Hymn at the Offertory: Attende Domine (plainsong, mode v)

First Sunday of Lent

In a way it is a wonderful thing that Lent is imposed on us by the Church. For, left to ourselves, we would not fast or deepen our prayer life or make doing things for others a priority. We might think about these things, but like so much else in our spiritual lives, we think…
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Music for the First Sunday of Lent, 18 February 2018

Music for the First Sunday of Lent
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Hymn at the Procession: Forty Days and Forty Nights (Heinlein)
Missa pro Dominicis Adventus & Quadragesimae (Vatican Gradual, Mass XVII)
Gregorian Mass of the First Sunday of Lent: Invocabit me
Motet at the Offertory: Emendemus in melius (William Byrd, 1540-1623)
Hymn at the Communion: Attende Domine (plainsong, mode v)
Motet at the Communion: Ductus est Jesus à 5 (Francisco Guerrero, 1528-1599)

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

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Music for the First Sunday of Lent
(Missale Romanum of 2002, 11:30 a.m.)
Hymn at the Procession: Forty Days and Forty Nights (Heinlein)
Introit: Invocabit me (plainsong, mode viii)
Missa pro Dominicis Adventus & Quadragesimae (Vatican Gradual, Mass XVII)
Gradual: Angelis suis (plainsong, mode ii)
Tract: Qui habitat (plainsong, mode ii)
Offertory: Scapulis suis (plainsong, mode viii)
Motet at the Offertory: Call to Remembrance, O Lord (Richard Farrant, c.1530-1580)
Communion: Scapulis suis (plainsong, mode iii)
Motet at the Communion: Thou Knowest, Lord, The Secrets of Our Hearts (Henry Purcell, 1659-1695)
Marian antiphon: Ave Regina caelorum (plainsong, mode vi)

Music for the Saturday after Ash Wednesday, 17 February 2018

Saturday, 17 February 2018, 9:00 a.m.
Music for the Saturday after Ash Wednesday
(Missale Romanum of 1962)
Missa pro Feriis Adventus & Quadragesimae (Vatican Gradual, Mass XVIII)
Gregorian Mass of the Saturday after Ash Wednesday: Audivit Dominus
Hymn at the Offertory: Parce Domine (plainsong, mode i)

Mass will be preceded by the First Grade of the Catechumenate,
for those to be baptized at the Easter Vigil.

Music for Ash Wednesday, 14 February 2018

Music for Ash Wednesday
(Missale Romanum of 2002, 12:10 p.m.)
Hymn at the Procession: Forty Days and Forty Nights (Heinlein)
Missa pro Feriis Adventus & Quadragesimae (Vatican Gradual, Mass XVIII)
Antiphon at the imposition of ashes: Immutemur (plainsong, mode i)
Hymn at the imposition of ashes & Offertory: Attende Domine (plainsong, mode v)
Communion: Qui meditabitur (plainsong, mode iii)
Hymn at the Retiring Procession: Have Mercy, Lord, on Us (Southwell)

Music for Ash Wednesday
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 5:30 p.m.)
Messa à Quattro in Canone (Alessandro Scarlatti, 1660-1725)
Antiphon at the blessing of ashes: Exaudi nos, Domine (plainsong, mode vii)
Antiphon at the imposition of ashes: Immutemur (plainsong, mode i)
Antiphon at the imposition of ashes: Juxta vestibulum (plainsong, mode iv)
Motet at the imposition of ashes: Emendemus in melius (plainsong, mode ii)
Gregorian Mass of Ash Wednesday: Misereris omnium
Motet at the Offertory: Exaltabo te Domine (Scarlatti)
Motet at the Communion: Miserere mei (Scarlatti)