From Charles Weaver's recent guest post on Corpus Christi Watershed:
We find ourselves in a difficult time in which many cannot sing at church or cannot even attend church because of the pandemic. Even when we have choirs, we are often reduced in number, or limited by circumstances to monophony. Let us not be disheartened by this. Without denying the communal and public dimension of Christian worship, we have really only lost, for a time, the horizontal dimension of chant.
| All sung Masses at St. Mary's feature the full Gregorian chant Propers, as well as the Ordinary of the Mass sung in Latin to plainchant or polyphony. |
Sung Masses (livestreamed from the church with distribution of Communion to follow outside—reservations required)
8:00 a.m. Mass in English with cantor
9:30 a.m. Missa cantata with members of St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Kyrie Cunctipotens genitor (Ad organum faciendi, ca. 12th c.)
Sanctus and Agnus Dei (Anonymous, 14th c.)
Laus Trinitatis (St. Hildegard of Bingen)
Duo Seraphim (Alvise Balbi, c.1570–c.1625)
O virgo splendens (Llibre Vermell, 14th c.)
12:30 p.m. Mass in Spanish with cantor
| In accordance with Phase II of our Diocese's restoration of public worship, we will resume celebrating Mass inside the church on Saturday, June 13. Reservations are still required; go here for more information. Masses will also continue to be livestreamed for those at home. |
Sung Masses (*reservations required—livestream also available*)
8:00 a.m. Mass in English with cantor
9:30 a.m. Missa cantata with members of St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Mass in A (Samuel Webbe)
12:30 p.m. Mass in Spanish with cantor
Sung Masses (*reservations required—livestream also available*)
8:00 a.m. Mass in English with cantor
9:30 a.m. Missa cantata with members of St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Chant Mass III
12:30 p.m. Mass in Spanish with cantor
Sung Masses (*reservations required—livestream also available*)
8:00 a.m. Mass in English with cantor
9:30 a.m. Missa cantata with members of St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Chant Mass V
12:30 p.m. Mass in Spanish with cantor
Cantate hymnum ad Virginem contra plagam!
Stella caeli—A prayer to the Virgin in the time of contagion
