Music for the Third Sunday after Pentecost, 21 June 2009

Music for the Feast of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus [external solemnity] (Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Prelude: Alléluias sereins d’une âme qui désire le ciel [Serene alleluias from a soul longing for heaven] (from L’Ascension) (Olivier Messiaen, 1908-1992)
Missa Æterna Christi munera (G.P. da Palestrina, c.1525-1594)
Gregorian Mass of the Sacred Heart: Cogitationes
Motet at the Offertory: Improperium (Palestrina)
Motet at the Communion: Ave Verum Corpus (William Byrd, c.1543-1623)
Postlude: Transports de joie d’une âme devant la gloire du Christ qui est la sienne [Outbursts of joy from a soul before the Glory of Christ which is its own glory] (from L’Ascension) (Messiaen)

Music for the Twelfth Sunday of the Year
(Missale Romanum of 1970, 11:30 a.m.)

Missa de Angelis
Alleluia: In te Domine speravi (plainsong, mode iii)
Hymn at the Offertory: O God, Our Help in Ages Past (St. Anne)
Communion: Circuibo (plainsong, mode vi)
Hymn at the Communion: Dear Lord and Father of Mankind (Repton)
Organ music as above

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