Blog

Music for the Third Sunday of Advent
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Prelude: Nun komm der Heiden Heiland (BWV 659) (Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685-1750)
Hymn at the Procession: Savior of the Nations, Come (Nun komm der Heiden Heiland)
Missa Amar donna (Orlande de Lassus, c.1532-1594)
Gregorian Mass of the Third Sunday of Advent: Gaudete
Motet at the Offertory: Benedixisti (Lassus)
Motet at the Communion: Ecce Dominus veniet (Michael Praetorius, 1571-1621)
Postlude: Partita "Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland" (Op. 8, No. 1) (Hugo Distler, 1908-1942)

Music for the Third Sunday of Advent
(Missale Romanum of 2002, 11:30 a.m.)
Hymn at the Procession: Savior of the Nations, Come (Nun komm der Heiden Heiland)
Introit: Gaudete (plainsong, mode i)
Missa pro Dominicis Adventus & Quadragesimae (Vatican Gradual, Mass XVII)
Gradual: Fuit homo (plainsong, mode v)
Alleluia: Excita, Domine (plainsong, mode iv)
Offertory: Benedixisti (plainsong, mode iv)
Hymn at the Offertory: Comfort, Comfort, Ye My People (Geneva)
Communion: Dicite: Pusillanimes (plainsong, mode vii)
Hymn at the Communion: Hark, A Herald Voice Is Sounding (Merton)
Marian antiphon: Alma Redemptoris Mater (plainsong, mode v)
Organ music as above

Wednesday, 13 December 2017, 6:00 p.m.
Music for the Feast of St. Lucy
(Missale Romanum of 1962)
Messe basse (Gabriel Fauré, 1845-1924)
Gloria: Missa Pater cuncta (Mass XII)
Gregorian Mass of St. Lucy: Dilexisti justitiam
Hymn at the Offertory: Jesu corona Virginum (plainsong, mode viii)
Motet at the Communion: In tua patientia (Luca Marenzio, 1554-1599)

St. Cecilia Student Schola

Monday, 11 December 2017, 6:30 p.m.
Music for the Feast of St. Damasus I
(Missale Romanum of 1962)
Missa Pater cuncta (Vatican Gradual, Mass XII)
Gregorian Mass of a Sovereign Pontiff: Si diligis me