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Music for the Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary, 7 October 2018

Music for the Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Prelude: Improvisation
Hymn at the Procession: Immaculate Mary (Lourdes hymn)
Missa de Beata Maria (David J. Hughes, b.1980)
Gregorian Mass of Our Lady of the Rosary: Gaudeamus
Motet at the Offertory: Salve Regina (Christopher Tye, c.1505-1572)
Motet at the Communion: Ave Maria (Jean L'Heritier, 1480-1551)
Postlude: Prelude, Fugue, & Chorale on Ave maris stella (Flor Peeters, 1903-1986)

Music for the Twenty-Seventh Sunday of the Year
(Missale Romanum of 2002, 11:30 a.m.)
Hymn at the Procession: O God of Loveliness (Schönster Herr Jesu)
Introit: In voluntate tua (plainsong, mode iv)
Missa cum jubilio (Vatican Gradual, Mass IX)
Gradual: Domine, refugium factus es (plainsong, mode ii)
Alleluia: In exitu Israel (plainsong, mode ii)
Offertory: Vir erat in terra (plainsong, mode ii)
Motet at the Offertory: Beati omnes (prima pars) (Cipriano de Rore, c.1515-1565)
Communion: In salutari tuo (plainsong, mode i)
Motet at the Communion: Ave verum corpus (William Byrd, 1540-1623)
Marian antiphon: Salve Regina (plainsong, mode v)
Organ music as above

Requiem Mass for Gertrude Catherine Schmitt, 4 October 2018

Thursday, 4 October 2018, 10:30 a.m.
Requiem Masss for Gertrude Catherine Schmitt
(Missale Romanum of 2002)

Missa pro defunctis à 4 (Cristóbal de Morales, c.1500-1553)
Introit: Requiem æternam (Morales)
Kyrie: Missa pro defunctis (Morales)
Gradual: Requiem æternam (Morales)
Offertory: Domine Jesu Christe (Morales)
Sanctus: Missa brevis (Gertrude Schmitt, 1932-2018)
Agnus Dei: Missa brevis (Schmitt)
Communion: Lux æterna (plainsong, mode viii)
Motet at the Communion: Ave verum corpus (William Byrd, 1540-1623)
At the absolution: Subvenite (plainsong, mode iv)
At the procession to the cemetery: In paradisum (plainsong, mode vii)
At the procession to the cemetery: Credo quod Redemptor (plainsong, mode viii)
At the cemetery: Ego sum resurrectio, with the Benedictus

Requiescat in pace.

Learn Your Faith: The Rosary

The month of October calls our attention to the Blessed Mother of our Lord, and to the Rosary, as we celebrate the Feast of the Most Holy Rosary on October 7th. The 17th century saint Louis de Montfort reasoned that because God has chosen to come into the world through the Virgin Mary, the world…
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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.