| 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, December 3, 2023: First Sunday of Advent
8:00 a.m. Mass in English with cantor
10:00 a.m. Solemn Mass with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Conditor alme siderum (Guillaume Dufay)
Missa Conditor (Giovanni Animuccia)
Veni Domine et noli tardare (Francisco Guerrero)
Dominus dabit benignitatem (Ludovico Balbi)
Alma redemptoris mater (Jean L'Heritier)
12:00 p.m. Mass in Spanish with cantor
Friday, December 8, 2023: Feast of the Immaculate Conception
Daily Masses at 8:00 a.m. and 12:10 p.m.
7:00 p.m. Solemn Mass with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum and St. Mary's Youth Schola
Kyrie IX "Cum jubilo"
Missa Ave maris stella (excerpts) (Tomás Luis de Victoria)
Sanctus (Matthew Walter)
Stella splendens in monte (Llibre Vermell de Montserrat)
Tota pulchra es (Dom Joseph Pothier)
Saturday, December 9, 2023
6:00 a.m. Rorate Mass with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Mass for Three Voices (William Byrd)
Salve mater misericordiae (Dom Joseph Pothier)
Followed by coffee in the gym
Sunday Vigil Masses at 4:00 p.m. (English) and 7:00 p.m. (Spanish)
Sunday, December 10, 2023: Second Sunday of Advent
8:00 a.m. Mass in English with cantor
10:00 a.m. Solemn Mass with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Missa brevis, op. 83 (Josef Rheinberger)
Deus tu convertens (Johann Joseph Fux)
Jerusalem surge (Giovanni Battista Martini)
Alma Redemptoris Mater (Gregor Aichinger)
12:00 p.m. Mass in Spanish with cantor
Tuesday, December 12, 2023: Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe
Daily Masses at 8:00 a.m. and 12:10 p.m.
Concerts of Advent & Christmas Music with the Magdalen College Polyphony Choir
2:00-2:30 p.m. First performance
6:30-7:00 p.m. Second performance (prelude to the Mass)
7:00 p.m. Mass in Spanish with the Magdalen College Polyphony Choir
Followed by a festive reception in the gym
Sunday, December 17, 2023: Third Sunday of Advent (Gaudete Sunday)
8:00 a.m. Mass in English with cantor
10:00 a.m. Solemn Mass with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Missa Hic est praecursor (Duarte Lobo)
Ecce Dominus veniet (Michael Praetorius)
Canite tuba (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina)
12:00 p.m. Mass in Spanish with cantor
Sunday, December 24, 2023: Christmas Eve
8:00 a.m. Mass in English with cantor
10:00 a.m. Solemn Mass with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Regnantem sempiterna (12th c. Aquitainian plainchant)
Missa Veni Domine (Filipe de Magalhães)
Tollite portas (William Byrd)
Alma Redemptoris Mater (Guillaume Dufay)
12:00 p.m. Mass in Spanish with cantor
4:00 p.m. Mass in English with cantor
11:30 p.m. Choral Prelude to Midnight Mass with Christmas Carols
It came upon the midnight clear (Carol) • Verbum caro factum est (Cancionero de Upsala) • In the bleak midwinter (Gustav Holst) • Ther is no rose of swych vertu (15th c. English) * O little town of Bethlehem (St. Louis) • The Sussex Carol (arr. Ralph Vaughan Williams) * Silent Night (Stille Nacht)
Monday, December 25, 2023: Christmas Day
12:00 a.m. Midnight Mass with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Missa O magnum mysterium (Tomás Luís de Victoria)
O regem caeli (Victoria)
O magnum mysterium (Victoria)
8:00 a.m. Mass in English with cantor
10:00 a.m. Solemn Mass with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Missa O magnum mysterium (Tomás Luís de Victoria)
O regem caeli (Victoria)
Christe redemptor omnium (Victoria)
Hodie Christus natus est (Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck)
12:00 p.m. Mass in Spanish with cantor
Sunday, December 31, 2023: Sunday in the Octave of Christmas
8:00 a.m. Mass in English with cantor
10:00 a.m. Solemn Mass with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Missa super Ich stund an einem Morgen (Jacob Handl)
Quem vidistis, pastores (Orlande de Lassus)
Resonet in laudibus (Lassus)
12:00 p.m. Mass in Spanish with cantor
