The Annual Catholic Appeal has begun for the year 2018. Each year our parish supports this Appeal that itself supports and makes possible many Diocesan programs that are important to the life of the Church. Each parishioner at St. Mary’s has an obligation to support the Diocese as well as our parish, since the head of…
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The Beauty of Thy Peace
One of the recent “movements” is the Slow Food Movement. This began as a protest against “fast food”. This protest is not merely against fast food on culinary grounds but also against the whole notion of eating on the run, eating fast. Slow Food takes food seriously and in a sense religiously, recalling, at least…
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Music for the Third Sunday after Easter, 22 April 2018
Music for the Third Sunday after Easter
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Prelude: Saraband (For the morning of Easter) (Herbert Howells, 1892-1983)
Hymn at the Procession: This Joyful Eastertide (Vruechten)
Missa Surrexit Pastor bonus (Orlande de Lassus, c.1532-1594)
Gregorian Mass of the Third Sunday after Easter: Jubilate Deo
Motet at the Offertory: Surrexit Pastor bonus (Lassus)
Motet at the Communion: Surgens Jesus (Lassus)
Postlude: Rapsodie Sacrée (from L'Orgue mystique) (Op. 56, No. 19) (Charles Tournemire, 1870-1939)
Music for the Fourth Sunday of Easter
(Missale Romanum of 2002, 11:30 a.m.)
Hymn at the Procession: This Joyful Eastertide (Vruechten)
Introit: Misericordia Domini (plainsong, mode iv)
Kyrie, Sanctus, Agnus Dei: Missa Lux et origo (Vatican Gradual, Mass I)
Gloria: Missa de Angelis (Mass VIII)
Alleluia: Redemptionem misit Dominus (plainsong, mode ii)
Alleluia: Ego sum pastor bonus (plainsong, mode i)
Offertory: Deus, Deus meus (plainsong, mode ii)
Hymn at the Offertory: The King of Love My Shepherd Is (Edward Bairstow, 1874-1946)
Communion: Ego sum pastor bonus (Heinrich Isaac, c.1450-1517)
Marian antiphon: Regina caeli (plainsong, mode vi)
Organ music as above
Music for a Feria of Paschaltide, 18 April 2018
Wednesday, 18 April 2018, 6:00 p.m.
Music for a Feria of Paschaltide
(Missale Romanum of 1962)
Prelude: Improvisation
Missa Stelliferi Conditor orbis (Vatican Gradual, Mass XIII)
Gregorian Mass of the Second Sunday after Easter: Misericordia Domini
Postlude: Improvisation
Gospel of Life Society: Sat. April 14
Saturday, April 14, 10:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m. - Alexandra and Paul McLaughlin will present their professional and personal perspectives on fulfilling the inherent beauty of female sexuality through fertility awareness based training. Alexandra McLaughlin is a certified Fertility Care Practitioner based in Norwalk, CT. On site child care will be available. Contact John Juhasz for more details:…
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International Festival: First Meeting/Sesion para Planear
There will be a meeting for the upcoming International Festival on Wednesday, April 18, 2018, at 7:00pm in the gymnasium. We are expecting all of the coordinators of the countries participating this year to be present at this meeting. We are also inviting others who may wish to be the coordinator of a country not…
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St. Leo the Great
I write this on the feast of St. Leo the Great, Pope and Confessor. Only two popes carry the designation “Great”: St. Leo and St. Gregory. They were bishops of Rome during a most trying time in the history of the West, when the Roman Empire was falling apart and the barbarian invasions were beginning…
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Music for the Second Sunday after Easter, 15 April 2018
Music for the Second Sunday after Easter
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Prelude: Schafe können sicher weiden (from BWV 208) (Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685-1750)
Hymn at the Procession: The Strife Is O'er (Victory)
issa Lux et origo (Vatican Gradual, Mass I)
Gregorian Mass of the Second Sunday after Easter: Misericordia Domini
Motet at the Offertory: Regina caeli (prima pars) (William Byrd, 1540-1623)
Motet at the Communion: Regina caeli (secunda pars) (Byrd)
Postlude: Concerto in G Major (BWV 592) (Bach)
Music for the Third Sunday of Easter
(Missale Romanum of 2002, 11:30 a.m.)
Hymn at the Procession: The Strife Is O'er (Victory)
Introit: Jubilate Deo (plainsong, mode viii)
Kyrie, Sanctus, Agnus Dei: Missa Lux et origo (Vatican Gradual, Mass I)
Gloria: Missa de Angelis (Mass VIII)
Alleluia: Cognoverunt discipuli (plainsong, mode iii)
Alleluia: Oportebat pati Christum (plainsong, mode iv)
Offertory: Lauda anima mea (plainsong, mode iv)
Motet at the Offertory: O For a Closer Walk With God (Charles Villiers Stanford, 1852-1924)
Communion: Cantate Domino (plainsong, mode ii)
Motet at the Communion: Most Glorious Lord of Life (William H. Harris, 1883-1973)
Marian antiphon: Regina cæli (plainsong, mode vi)
Organ music as above
Year’s Mind Mass for Msgr. Ignacio Barreiro-Carámbula, 14 April 2018
Saturday, 14 April 2018, 9:00 a.m.
Requiem Masss for Msgr. Ignacio Barreiro-Carámbula
(Missale Romanum of 1962)
Missa pro defunctis (plainsong)
Kyrie: Messe de Tournai (anon., XIV C.)
At the absolution: Libera me, Domine (plainsong, mode i)
Postlude: Oriamendiko Soñuba (Marcha de Oriamendi)
Music for the Feast of St. Leo the Great, 11 April 2018
Wednesday, 11 April 2018, 6:00 p.m.
Music for the Feast of St. Leo I
(Missale Romanum of 1962)
Prelude: Improvisation
Missa Cunctipotens Genitor Deus (Vatican Gradual, Mass IV)
Gregorian Mass of a Sovereign Pontiff: Si diligis me
Postlude: Improvisation