Music for April 2023
| All sung Masses at St. Mary's include the full Gregorian chant Propers, as well as the Ordinary of the Mass sung in Latin to plainchant or polyphony. |
Sunday, April 2–Sunday, April 9, 2023: Holy Week
See all music for HOLY WEEK 2023
Sunday, April 16, 2023
8:00 a.m. Mass in English with cantor
10:00 a.m. Solemn Mass with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Missa Regina caeli (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina)
Quia vidisti me Thoma (Orlande de Lassus)
Regina caeli (Lassus)
12:00 p.m. Mass in Spanish with cantor
Sunday, April 23, 2023
8:00 a.m. Mass in English with cantor
10:00 a.m. Solemn Mass with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Missa Surrexit pastor bonus (Orlande de Lassus)
Surrexit pastor bonus (Lassus)
Regina caeli (Vicente Lusitano)
12:00 p.m. Mass in Spanish with cantor
Sunday, April 30, 2023
8:00 a.m. Mass in English with cantor
10:00 a.m. Solemn Mass with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Missa Frère Thibault (Orlande de Lassus)
Lauda anima mea (Lassus)
In illo tempore...Modicum (Cristóbal de Morales)
12:00 p.m. Mass in Spanish with cantor
THE DIARY OF AN INNER-CITY PRIEST #45 – EL DIARIO DE UN SACERDOTE URBANO #45
THE DIARY OF AN INNER-CITY PRIEST Diary Entry #45: Singing at Mass In 1991 author and Catholic Church musician Thomas Day published a book entitled Why Catholics Can’t Sing. In it he proposed many explanations for why Catholics can’t, don’t, or won’t sing at Mass. It was a book very popular among Catholic musicians at…
Read more
THE DIARY OF AN INNER-CITY PRIEST #44 – EL DIARIO DE UN SACERDOTE URBANO #44
THE DIARY OF AN INNER-CITY PRIEST Diary Entry #44: “You saved my daughter’s life.” I was invited to a neighboring parish one evening for a round of the game “Stump the Priest”. Typically, this “game” involves a panel of two or three priests and a crowd of interested Catholics who gather for dinner. During the course…
Read more
THE DIARY OF AN INNER-CITY PRIEST #43 – EL DIARIO DE UN SACERDOTE URBANO #43
THE DIARY OF AN INNER-CITY PRIEST Diary Entry: #43 “We Hate Latin!” “We hate Latin!” I will never forget these words hurled at me one Monday morning by an old Polish couple who had come to the rectory office to complain, just after I had assumed the role of pastor at an inner-city parish. Prompting complaints…
Read more
THE DIARY OF AN INNER-CITY PRIEST #42 – EL DIARIO DE UN SACERDOTE URBANO #42
Diary Entry #42: The Guy Who Stole My Newspaper I had been the new pastor of an inner-city parish for a few months. I enjoyed the fact that the previous pastor had taken a subscription to the local newspaper. While a newspaper subscription costs relatively little, it does cost something. I had never taken one…
Read more
THE DIARY OF AN INNER-CITY PRIEST #41 – EL DIARIO DE UN SACERDOTE URBANO #41
Diary Entry #41: The Priest’s Nun’s Tale I have written before about a young lady, a former student, who wrote to me several years ago to inform me that she had entered a cloistered Carmelite convent. She explained that in part, her decision to become a cloistered nun was influenced by my preaching, teaching, and…
Read more