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March for Life

Only 4 more days to go to Washington D.C. for the March for Life! There are still a few spaces, come with us! Please consider joining us for the March for Life bus trip on Friday, January 19, 2018. We still have a number of available spaces on the bus that we need to fill, so…
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Our New Parochial Vicar

FROM THE PASTOR'S DESK: PALABRAS DE NUESTRO PÁRROCO FR. CIPOLLA: It is with pleasure that I announce to the parish that we will have a new priest by the first week in February. Fr. Donald Kloster will be coming to St. Mary’s as the Curate (Parochial Vicar) of the parish. He will assist in all…
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Music for the Second Sunday after the Epiphany, 14 January 2018

Music for the Second Sunday after the Epiphany
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Prelude: Noël No. IV (Louis Claude Daquin, 1694-1772)
Hymn at the Procession: Songs of Thankfulness and Praise (Salzburg)
Missa Orbis factor (Vatican Gradual, Mass XI)
Gregorian Mass of the Second Sunday after the Epiphany: Omnis terra
Motet at the Offertory: Alma Redemptoris Mater (voci pari) (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, c.1525-1594)
Motet at the Communion: Tribus miraculis (Palestrina)
Postlude: Noël No. VI (Daquin)

Music for the Second Sunday of the Year
(Missale Romanum of 2002, 11:30 a.m.)
Hymn at the Procession: Songs of Thankfulness and Praise (Salzburg)
Introit: Omnis terra (plainsong, mode iv)
Missa Orbis factor (Vatican Gradual, Mass XI)
Gradual: Misit Dominus (plainsong, mode v)
Alleluia: Laudate Deum (plainsong, mode iv)
Offertory: Jubilate Deo (plainsong, mode i)
Hymn at the Offertory: All Glory Be to God on High (Allein Gott in der Höh sei Ehr)
Communion: Dicit Andreas (plainsong, mode viii)
Motet at the Communion:  O be joyful in the Lord (William Boyce, 1711-1779)
Marian antiphon: Alma Redemptoris Mater (plainsong, mode v)
Organ music as above

Music for a Feria after Epiphany, 10 January 2018

Wednesday, 10 January 2018, 6:00 p.m.
Music for a Feria after Epiphany
(Missale Romanum of 1962)
Prelude: Improvisation
Missa Jesu Redemptor 
(Vatican Gradual, Mass XIV)
Gregorian Mass of the Sunday within the Octave of the Epiphany: In excelso throno
Postlude: Improvisation

Traditions of Epiphany

This weekend we celebrate the Feast of the Epiphany. Because we celebrate both the Traditional Mass and the Novus Ordo Mass with their different calendars, we will have a Solemn Mass on Saturday 6 January, the traditional date of the Epiphany, and all Masses on January 7 will be celebrations of this great feast. The…
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