Aprender a orar para aprender a amar: con Padre Ignacio Larrañaga. Los talleres tendrán una duración de 15 semanas y se impartirán los miércoles de 6:00PM a 8:00PM en la Escuela de Religión de la Iglesia Santa María.
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Golden Agers Luncheon: Wed. March 20
GOLDEN AGE LUNCHEON CELEBRATION OF SAINT PATRICK’S DAY WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20, 2019 AFTER THE 12:10 MASS RSVP BY MARCH 17 TO ESTHER FLYNN: 203-866-0040
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Music for the First Sunday of Lent, 10 March 2019
Music for the First Sunday of Lent
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Hymn at the Procession: God of Mercy and Compassion (Au sang qu’un Dieu)
Missa pro Dominicis Adventus & Quadragesimae (Vatican Gradual, Mass XVII)
Gregorian Mass of the First Sunday of Lent: Invocabit me
Motet at the Offertory: Emendemus in melius (William Byrd, 1540-1623)
Hymn at the Communion: Media vita (Jacobus de Kerle, c.1531-1591)
Music for the First Sunday of Lent
(Missale Romanum of 2002, 11:30 a.m.)
Hymn at the Procession: Forty Days and Forty Nights (Heinlein)
Introit: Invocabit me (plainsong, mode viii)
Missa pro Dominicis Adventus & Quadragesimae (Vatican Gradual, Mass XVII)
Gradual: Angelis suis (plainsong, mode ii)
Tract: Qui habitat (plainsong, mode ii)
Offertory: Scapulis suis (plainsong, mode viii)
Motet at the Offertory: Turn Thy Face From My Sins (Arthur Sullivan, 1842-1900)
Communion: Scapulis suis (plainsong, mode iii)
Motet at the Communion: Call to Remembrance, O Lord (Richard Farrant, c.1530-1580)
Marian antiphon: Ave Regina caelorum (plainsong, mode vi)
Music for the Saturday after Ash Wednesday, 9 March 2019
Saturday, 9 March 2019, 9:00 a.m.
Music for the Saturday after Ash Wednesday
(Missale Romanum of 1962)
Missa pro Feriis Adventus & Quadragesimae (Vatican Gradual, Mass XVIII)
Gregorian Mass of the Saturday after Ash Wednesday: Audivit Dominus
Mass is preceded by the First Grade of the Catechumenate,
for those to be baptized at the Easter Vigil.
The second Saturday of every month is a Missa cantata celebrated
for the intentions of the Gospel of Life Society at St. Mary’s.
Music for Ash Wednesday, 6 March 2019
Music for Ash Wednesday
(Missale Romanum of 2002, 12:10 p.m.)
Hymn at the Procession: Forty Days and Forty Nights (Heinlein)
Introit: Misereris omnium (plainsong, mode i)
Gradual: Miserere mei (plainsong, mode i)
Tract: Domine, non secundum (plainsong, mode ii)
Missa pro Feriis Adventus & Quadragesimae (Vatican Gradual, Mass XVIII)
Antiphons at the imposition of ashes: Immutemur, Justxa vestibulum, Emendemus
Offertory: Exaltabo te Domine (plainsong, mode ii)
Communion: Qui meditabitur (plainsong, mode iii)
Hymn at the Retiring Procession: Have Mercy, Lord, on Us (Southwell)
Music for Ash Wednesday
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 7:00 p.m.)
Missa ferialis (anonymous, XVIII C., Granada)
Antiphon at the blessing of ashes: Exaudi nos, Domine (plainsong, mode vii)
Antiphon at the imposition of ashes: Immutemur (plainsong, mode i)
Motet at the imposition of ashes: Inter vestibulum (Diego de las Muelas, 1698-1743)
Antiphon at the imposition of ashes: Emendemus in melius (plainsong, mode ii)
Gregorian Mass of Ash Wednesday: Misereris omnium
Motet at the Offertory: Exaltabo te Domine (Orlande de Lassus, c.1532-1594)
Motet at the Communion: Miserere mei Domine (Lassus)
Ash Wednesday/Miércoles de Ceniza: March 6
Masses at 8:00am (EF Low Mass) and 12:10pm (English); 6:00pm Liturgy of the Word (Spanish and Imposition of Ashes); 7:00pm Solemn High Mass (EF)
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Learn Your Faith: Matrimony and Annulment
Pope Benedict XVI, in an address to a group of Italian priests some years ago, encouraged parishes to continue to welcome divorced, civilly remarried Catholics to the celebration of Mass even though those Catholics may not receive Holy Communion. The Pope’s address reminds us of the painful situation which exists for those Catholic parishioners who…
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Aprenda su Fe: Planificación Familiar Natural
Esta semana nuestros estudiantes de RICA y Educación Religiosa están estudiando el Sacramento del Santo Matrimonio. Con esto en mente, ofrecemos una breve reflexión sobre las enseñanzas de la Iglesia acerca de la planificación familiar natural (PFN). Con el acto de la creación del mundo, el Dios Trino, el Padre, el Hijo y el Espíritu…
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Music for Vespers of Quinquagesima Sunday, 3 March 2019
Sunday, 3 March 2019, 5:00 p.m.
Music for Second Vespers of Quinquagesima Sunday
Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite
Dixit Dominus & Psalm 109 (mode vii)
Magna opera Domini & Psalm 110 (mode iii)
Qui timet Dominum & Psalm 111 (mode iv)
Sit nomen Domini & Psalm 112 (mode vii)
Deus autem noster & Psalm 113 (mode i)
Hymn: Lucis Creator (plainsong, mode viii)
Magnificat antiphon: Stans autem Jesus (mode i)
Marian antiphon: Ave Regina caelorum (mode vi)
O Salutaris Hostia (Hereford)
Tantum ergo (Werner)
Adoremus in aeternum (plainsong, mode i)
Postlude: Improvisation
Music for Quinquagesima Sunday, 3 March 2019
Music for Quinquagesima Sunday
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Prelude: Psalm-Prelude Set 2, No. 2 (Ps. 139:11) (Herbert Howells, 1892-1983)
Hymn at the Procession: In Thee, Lord, Have I Put My Trust (In dich hab ich gehoffet, Herr)
Missa Come la tourturelle (Giorgio Flori, c.1558-c.1594)
Gregorian Mass of Quinquagesima: Esto mihi
Motet at the Offertory: Ave Regina caelorum (Alonso Lobo, 1555-1617)
Motet at the Communion: Ecce ascendimus (Francisco Guerrero, 1528-1599)
Postlude: Psalm-Prelude Set 2, No. 3 (Ps. 33:3) (Howells)
Music for the Eighth Sunday of the Year
(Missale Romanum of 2002, 11:30 a.m.)
Hymn at the Procession: Praise to the Lord (Lobe den Herren)
Introit: Factus est Dominus (plainsong, mode i)
Missa Orbis factor (Vatican Gradual, Mass XI)
Gradual: Bonum est confiteri (plainsong, mode v)
Alleluia: Domine Deus meus (plainsong, mode i)
Offertory: Domine convertere (plainsong, mode vi)
Motet at the Offertory: Sicut cervus (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, c.1525-1594)
Communion: Cantabo Domino (plainsong, mode ii)
Motet at the Communion: Jesu, the very thought of Thee (Edward Bairstow, 1874-1946)
Marian antiphon: Ave Regina caelorum (plainsong, mode vi)
Organ music as above