Monthly Archives: May 2019

The Ascension of the Lord/La Ascención del Señor

“He ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of the Father” With these words from the Nicene Creed (A.D. 325) the Church proclaims Her belief that, forty days after His Glorious Resurrection, our Lord ascended into heaven. This event, which we celebrate each year on Ascension Thursday (40 days after Easter Sunday),…
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Music for the Sunday in Ascensiontide, 2 June 2019

Music for the Sunday in Ascensiontide
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Prelude: Prelude in D minor (Op. 105, No. 6) (Charles Villiers Stanford, 1852-1924)
Hymn at the Procession: Look, Ye Saints, the Sight Is Glorious (Bryn Calfaria)
Missa Ascendens Christus (Tomás Luis de Victoria, 1548-1611)
Gregorian Mass of the Sunday in Ascensiontide: Exaudi Domine…alleluia
Motet at the Offertory: Ascendens Christus (Victoria)
Motet at the Communion: Omnes gentes (Christopher Tye, c.1505-1572)
Postlude: Improvisation

Music for the Seventh Sunday of Easter
(Missale Romanum of 2002, 11:30 a.m.)
Prelude: Improvisation
Hymn at the Procession: Hail the Day That Sees Him Rise (Llanfair)
Introit: Exaudi Domine…alleluia (plainsong, mode i)
Missa Lux et origo (Vatican Gradual, Mass I)
Alleluia: Regnavit Dominus (plainsong, mode i)
Alleluia: Exivi a Patre (plainsong, mode vii)
Offertory: Ascendit Deus (plainsong, mode i)
Motet at the Offertory: Alleluia! Sing to Jesus (Hyfrydol)
Communion: Pater, cum essem (plainsong, mode iv)
Marian antiphon: Regina cæli (plainsong, mode vi)
Postlude: Improvisation

Laura Intravia, guest organist

Music for Ascension Thursday, 30 May 2019

Music for Ascension Thursday
(Missale Romanum of 2002, 12:10 p.m.)
Prelude: Improvisation
Introit: Viri Galilaei (plainsong, mode vii)
Missa de Angelis (Vatican Gradual, Mass VIII)
Alleluia: Ascendit Deus (plainsong, mode iv)
Alleluia: Dominus in Sina (plainsong, mode viii)
Hymn at the Offertory: Hail the Day That Sees Him Rise (Llanfair)
Communion: Psallite Domino (plainsong, mode i)
Marian Antiphon: Regina cæli (plainsong, mode vi)
Postlude: Improvisation

Music for Ascension Thursday
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 6:30 p.m.)
Prelude: Majesté du Christ demandant sa gloire à son Père (from L’Ascension) (Olivier Messiaen, 1908-1992)
Hymn at the Procession: Hail the Day That Sees Him Rise (Llanfair)
Missa Fons bonitatis (Mass II)
Gregorian Mass of Ascension Day: Viri Galilaei
Motet at the Offertory: Ascendit Deus (William Byrd, 1540-1623)
Motet at the Offertory: Psallite Domine (Byrd)
Motet at the Communion: O Rex gloriae (Byrd)
Postlude: Transports de joie d’une âme devant la gloire du Christ qui est la sienne (from L’Ascension) (Messiaen)

Music for the Vigil of the Ascension, 29 May 2019

Wednesday, 29 May 2019, 6:00 p.m.
Music for the Vigil of the Ascension
(Missale Romanum of 1962)
Prelude: Improvisation
Kyrie: Mass of Barcelona
Gloria, Sanctus, Agnus Dei: Missa Lux et origo (Vatican Gradual, Mass I)
Gregorian Mass of the Fifth Sunday after Easter: Vocem jucunditatis
Marian antiphon: Regina cæli (plainsong, mode vi)
Postlude: Improvisation

Viri Galilæi

Music for the Fifth Sunday after Easter, 26 May 2019

Music for the Fifth Sunday after Easter
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Prelude: Saraband for the Morning of Easter (Herbert Howells, 1892-1983)
Hymn at the Procession: God of Our Fathers (National Hymn)
Missa Amar donna (Orlande de Lassus, c.1532-1594)
Gregorian Mass of the Fifth Sunday after Easter: Vocem jucunditatis
Motet at the Offertory: Regina caeli (c.1550-1603)
Motet at the Communion: Non turbetur (Giovanni Croce, c.1557-1609)
Postlude: Regina caeli (David Hughes, b. 1980)

Music for the Sixth Sunday of Easter
(Missale Romanum of 2002, 11:30 a.m.)
Hymn at the Procession: Rejoice, Angelic Choirs (Mit Freuden zart)
Introit: Vocem jucunditatis (plainsong, mode iii)
Missa Lux et origo (Vatican Gradual, Mass I)
Alleluia: Surrexit Christus (plainsong, mode i)
Alleluia: Spiritus Sanctus docebit vos (plainsong, mode viii)
Offertory: Benedicite gentes (plainsong, mode ii)
Motet at the Offertory: Rise, Heart, Thy Lord Is Risen (from Five Mystical Songs) (Ralph Vaughan Williams, 1872-1958)
Communion: Spiritus Sanctus docebit vos (plainsong, mode viii)
Motet at the Communion: Let All the World (from Five Mystical Songs) (Vaughan Williams)
Marian antiphon: Regina cæli (plainsong, mode vi)
Organ music as above