Monthly Archives: March 2018

Fourth Sunday of Lent

Laetare Sunday every year marks what the French call “mi-carême”, mid-Lent. It gets its name from the first words of the Introit of the Day: “Laetare, Jerusalem”: Rejoice, O Jerusalem: and come together all you who love her; rejoice with joy, you who have been in sorrow.” So on this Sunday in Lent we set…
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Music for the Fourth Sunday of Lent, 11 March 2018

Music for the Fourth Sunday of Lent
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Prelude: Clarifica me Pater (Thomas Tallis, c.1505-1585)
Hymn at the Procession: Praise to the Holiest in the Height (Newman)
Missa Fa mi sol re la (Terrence B. Fay, b.1977)
Gregorian Mass of the Fourth Sunday of Lent: Laetare
Motet at the Offertory: Laudate Dominum (Francesco Bianciardi, c.1571-1607)
Motet at the Communion: Ave Regina caelorum (Jacob Regnart, c.1540-1599)
Postlude: Preludes and Fugues (Op. 95b) (Aulis Sallinen, b.1935)

Music for the Fourth Sunday of Lent
(Missale Romanum of 2002, 11:30 a.m.)
Hymn at the Procession: Lord, Who Throughout These Forty Days (St. Flavian)
Introit: Laetare (plainsong, mode v)
Missa pro Dominicis Adventus & Quadragesimae (Vatican Gradual, Mass XVII)
Gradual: Laetatus sum (plainsong, mode vii)
Tract: Qui confidunt (plainsong, mode viii)
Offertory: Laudate Dominum (plainsong, mode ii)
Motet at the Offertory: God So Loved the World (John Stainer, 1840-1901)
Communion: Jerusalem, quae aedificatur (plainsong, mode iv)
Motet at the Communion: O, pray for the peace of Jerusalem (Herbert Howells, 1892-1983)
Marian antiphon: Ave Regina caelorum (plainsong, mode vi)
Organ music as above

Music for the Saturday of the Third Week of Lent, 10 March 2018

Saturday, 10 March 2018, 9:00 a.m.
Music for the Saturday of the Third Week of Lent
(Missale Romanum of 1962)
Missa pro Feriis Adventus & Quadragesimae (Vatican Gradual, Mass XVIII)
Gregorian Mass of the Saturday after the Third Sunday of Lent: Verba mea

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

Lenten Mission March 4-6

Sunday, Monday, Tuesday March 4, 5, 6 at 7:30 p.m. Lenten Missioner: Father Michael Novajosky. Benediction will be included each evening and opportunity for Confession. Please join us! I am very happy to let you know that this year our Lenten Missioner will be Father Michael Novajosky, the chaplain of St. Joseph’s High School in…
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Rosary Concerts at St. Mary’s

The Sorrowful Mysteries Sunday, March 18, 2018 at 3:00 p.m. Elizabeth and Charles Weaver (soprano and lute) will present a concert-meditation of 16th- and 17th-century arias and cantatas on the subject of the Passion. FREE ADMISSION Followed by a brief reception Donations will be gratefully accepted, with proceeds benefiting the sacred music program, particularly future concerts.…
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Third Sunday of Lent

One of the best ways to keep a holy and profitable Lent is to come to the parish Lenten Mission. The Mission will begin on Sunday 4 March at 7:30 p.m. and will continue on the following Monday and Tuesday. We are blessed to have Father Michael Novajosky as the preacher of the Mission. The…
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