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Learn Your Faith: The Season of Advent

The word “advent” provides us with much material for reflection on the meaning of the season of the liturgical year we call “Advent”. The Latin word advenire means “to come to”, “to reach”, or “to arrive at”. Meditating on the Joyful Mysteries of the Rosary, we may ponder the fact that the Lord Jesus Christ…
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Music for the Last Sunday after Pentecost, 25 November 2018

Music for the Twenty-Seventh & Last Sunday after Pentecost
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Prelude: Suite pour orgue: Prélude (Op. 5) (Maurice Duruflé, 1902-1986)
Hymn at the Procession: God of All Power, and Truth, and Grace (Breslau)
Missa Cuidez vous que Dieu (Pierre de Manchicourt, c.1510-1564)
Gregorian Mass of the Last Sundays after Pentecost: Dicit Dominus: Ego cogito
Motet at the Offertory: De profundis (prima pars) (Ludwig Senfl, 1486-1543)
Motet at the Communion: A custodia matutina (De profundis, secunda pars) (Senfl)
Postlude: Prélude et fugue sur le nom d'Alain (Op. 7) (Duruflé)

Music for the Feast of Christ the King
(Missale Romanum of 2002, 11:30 a.m.)
Hymn at the Procession: To Jesus Christ, Our Sovereign King (Ich glaub an Gott)
Introit: Dignus est Agnus (plainsong, mode iii)
Missa Dominator Deus (Vatican Gradual, Mass XV)
Gradual: Dominabitur (plainsong, mode v)
Alleluia: Potestas ejus (plainsong, mode i)
Offertory: Postula a me (plainsong, mode iv)
Acclamation at the Offertory: Christus vincit (Ambrosian plainsong)
Communion: Sedebit Dominus Rex (plainsong, mode vi)
Hymn at the Communion: The Beatitudes (Arvo Pärt, b.1935)
Marian antiphon: Salve Regina (plainsong, mode v)
Organ music as above

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Music for St. Cecilia’s Day, 22 November 2018

Thursday, 22 November 2018, 9:00 a.m.
Music for the Feast of St. Cecilia
(Missale Romanum of 1962)
Prelude: Improvisation
Missa de Angelis (Vatican Gradual, Mass VIII)
Gregorian Mass of St. Cecilia: Loquebar
Hymn at the Offertory: Jesu corona Virginum (plainsong, mode viii)
Hymn at the Communion: Anima Christi (plainsong, mode i)
Hymn at the Retiring Procession: How Shall I Sing That Majesty (Coe fen)
Postlude: Improvisation

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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

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