Monthly Archives: November 2018

Congratulations Nicholas Ward!

We congratulate Nicholas Ward, recipient of this year’s St. Augustine Medal of Service Award. Each year every parish in the diocese is invited to recognize one layperson who has distinguished himself or herself by selfless and generous service to the parish. Since I arrived here on July 1st Nicholas has served daily Mass for me…
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Music for the Twenty-Sixth Sunday after Pentecost, 18 November 2018

Music for the Twenty-Sixth after Pentecost
(Lections of the Sixth Resumed Sunday after Epiphany)
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Prelude: Psalm-Prelude Set 2, No. 1 (Out of the deep) (Herbert Howells, 1892-1983)
Hymn at the Procession: O Thou Who Camest from Above (Hereford)
Mass in the Dorian Mode (Howells)
Gregorian Mass of the Last Sundays after Pentecost: Dicit Dominus: Ego cogito
Motet at the Offertory: Salve Regina (Francis Poulenc, 1899-1963)
Motet at the Communion: Panis angelicus (Gaspar van Weerbecke, c.1445-1516)
Postlude: Rhapsody in E-flat (Op. 17, No. 2) (Howells)

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 Dominator Deus (Vatican Gradual, Mass XV)
Gradual: Liberasti nos (plainsong, mode vii)
Alleluia: De profundis (plainsong, mode vii)
Offertory: De profundis (plainsong, mode ii, with verses)
Communion: Amen dico vobis: quidquid (plainsong, mode i)
Motet at the Communion: Fear Not, O Land (Edward Elgar, 1857-1934)
Marian antiphon: Salve Regina (plainsong, mode v)
Organ music as above

Know Your Faith

Death/La Muerte: At the end of the liturgical year the Church traditionally reflects on the “last things”, i.e. death, judgment, heaven, and hell. Tradicionalmente, al terminar el Año Litúrgico, la Iglesia medita sobre Los Novísimos: Muerte, Juicio Final, Cielo e Infierno.
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Mass Confusion: My Space

One Saturday afternoon I went to the church well before I was to hear Confessions. With the exception of Our Lord and me, our rather large church was completely empty. Sitting in the silence in a pew near the confessional I heard the door open and footsteps approach me from behind. It sounded like more than…
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Music for the Twenty-Fifth Sunday after Pentecost, 11 November 2018

Music for the Twenty-Fifth Sunday after Pentecost
(Lections of the Fifth Resumed Sunday after Epiphany)
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Prelude: Aus tiefer Not (BWV 687) (Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685-1750)
Hymn at the Procession: Happy Are They (Binchester)
Missa De profundis (Vincenzo Ruffo, c.1508-1587)
Gregorian Mass of the Last Sundays after Pentecost: Dicit Dominus: Ego cogito
Motet at the Offertory: De profundis (Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, 1562-1621)
Motet at the Communion: O sacrum convivium (Orazio Vecchi, 1550-1605)
Postlude: Ciacona in C minor (Dietrich Buxtehude, c.1637-1707)

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 Dominator Deus (Vatican Gradual, Mass XV)
Gradual: Dirigatur oratio mea (plainsong, mode vii)
Alleluia: Qui posuit fines (plainsong, mode iv)
Offertory: Gressus meos (plainsong, mode viii)
Motet at the Offertory: Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord (Charles Villiers Stanford, 1852-1924)
Communion: Dominus regit me (plainsong, mode v)
Motet at the Communion: The King of Love My Shepherd Is(Edward Bairstow, 1874-1946)
Marian antiphon: Salve Regina (plainsong, mode v)
Organ music as above