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Music for the Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost, 30 September 2018

Music for the Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Prelude: Prélude (from Messe basse pour tous les temps) (Gaston Litaize, 1909-1991)
Hymn at the Procession: Jesu, the Very Thought of Thee (St. Botolph)
Missa Iste sanctus (Francisco Guerrero, 1528-1599)
Gregorian Mass of the Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost: Salus populi
Motet at the Offertory: Ecce prandium meum (Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, 1562-1621)
Motet at the Communion: Comedite panem meum (Ecce prandium, secund pars) (Sweelinck)
Postlude: Prière d’action de grâces (from Messe basse pour tous les temps) (Litaize)

Music for the Twenty-Sixth Sunday of the Year
(Missale Romanum of 2002, 11:30 a.m.)
Hymn at the Procession: How Good the Name of Jesus Sounds (St. Peter)
Introit: Omnia quae fecisti (plainsong, mode iii)
Missa Pater cuncta (Vatican Gradual, Mass XII)
Gradual: Oculi omnium (plainsong, mode vii)
Alleluia: Paratum cor meum (plainsong, mode iii)
Offertory: Super flumina Babylonis (plainsong, mode i)
Motet at the Offertory: My Eyes for Beauty Pine (Herbert Howells, 1892-1983)
Communion: Memento verbi tui (plainsong, mode iv)
Motet at the Communion: O How Amiable (Ralph Vaughan Williams, 1872-1958)
Marian antiphon: Salve Regina (plainsong, mode v)
Organ music as above

Music for Michaelmas, 29 September 2018

Saturday, 29 September 2018, 9:00 a.m.
Music for the Feast of the Dedication of the Church of St. Michael the Archangel
(Missale Romanum of 1962)
Prelude: Improvisation
Messe de Tournai 
(anon, XIV C.)
Gregorian Mass of Michaelmas: Benedicite Dominum
Offertory: Stetit Angelus (plainsong, mode i, with verses)
Hymn at the Communion: Te splendor et virtus Patris (plainsong, mode ii)
Marian antiphon: Salve Regina (plainsong, mode i)
Postlude: Improvisation

This Mass of St. Michael will be offered as Mass of Reparation.

Learn Your Faith: Liturgical Music

There seems to be no end to the number of complaints pastors receive about liturgical music. As I greeted parishioners after Mass one Sunday a woman stopped to say how much she loves the music in our parish. Two minutes later a man stopped to say how much he dislikes the music in our parish. There…
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