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Music for the Fifth Sunday after Easter
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Hymn at the Procession: I Know That My Redeemer Lives (Duke Street)
Messa à 5 (Giovanni Rovetta, 1596-1668)
Gregorian Mass of the Fifth Sunday after Easter: Vocem jucunditatis
Motet at the Offertory: Benedicite gentes (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, c.1525-1594)
Motet at the Communion: Cantate Domino (Rovetta)

Music for the Sixth Sunday of Easter
(Missale Romanum of 2002, 11:30 a.m.)
Hymn at the Procession: Come Down, O Love Divine (Down Ampney)
Introit: Vocem jucunditatis (plainsong, mode iii)
Kyrie, Sanctus, Agnus Dei: Missa Lux et origo (Vatican Gradual, Mass I)
Gloria: Missa de Angelis (Mass VIII)
Alleluia: Non vos relinquam (plainsong, mode i)
Offertory: Benedicite gentes (plainsong, mode ii)
Hymn at the Offertory: Christ the Lord Is Risen Today (Surgit in haec dies)
Communion: Non vos relinquam (plainsong, mode v)
Hymn at the Communion: This Joyful Eastertide (Charles Wood, 1866-1926)
Marian antiphon: Regina cæli (plainsong, mode vi)

Wednesday, 17 May 2017, 6:00 p.m.
Music for the Feast of St. Paschal Baylon
(Missale Romanum of 1962)
Prelude: Improvisation
Missa Magnae Deus potentiae (Vatican Gradual, Mass V)
Gregorian Mass of a Confessor Not a Bishop: Os justi
Postlude: Improvisation

Music for the Fourth Sunday after Easter
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Prelude: Improvisation
Hymn at the Procession: When In Our Music God Is Glorified (Engelberg)
Missa cum jubilo (Vatican Gradual, Mass IX)
Gregorian Mass of the Fouth Sunday after Easter: Cantate Domino
Motet at the Offertory: Regina caeli (Heinrich Isaac, c.1450-1517)
Motet at the Communion: Resurrexit sicut dixit (Regina caeli, cont'd) (Isaac)
Hymn at the Marian Procession: O Sanctissima
Postlude: Præludium in C Major (BuxWV 137) (Dietrich Buxtehude, c.1637-1707)

Music for the Fifth Sunday of Easter
(Missale Romanum of 2002, 11:30 a.m.)
Hymn at the Procession: Hail Thee, Festival Day! (Salve festa dies)
Introit: Cantate Domino (plainsong, mode vi)
Kyrie, Sanctus, Agnus Dei: Missa Lux et origo (Vatican Gradual, Mass I)
Gloria: Missa de Angelis (Mass VIII)
Alleluia: Christus resurgens (plainsong, mode i)
Offertory: Jubilate Deo (plainsong, mode i)
Motet at the Offertory: Regina caeli (Adrian Willaert, c.1490-1562)
Communion: Tanto tempore (plainsong, mode iv)
Motet at the Communion: Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring (Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685-1750)
Marian antiphon: Regina caeli (plainsong, mode vi)
Organ music as above

Saturday, 13 May 2017, 12:00 noon
Music for the Nuptial Mass of Molly Lloyd & Frank DeVito
(Missale Romanum of 1962)
Prelude: Schmücke dich, o liebe Seele (BWV 654) (Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685-1750)
At the Procession: Crown Imperial March (William Walton, 1902-1983)
Missa Ecce quam bonum (Hans Leo Hassler, 1564-1612)
Gregorian Nuptial Mass: Deus Israel conjungat vos
Motet at the Offertory: Surge propera, amica mea (Orlande de Lassus, c.1532-1594)
Motet at the Communion: Tota pulchra es (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, c.1525-1594)
Marian Offering: Ave maris stella (Claudio Monteverdi, 1567-1643)
Hymn at the Retiring Procession: O God, Beyond All Praising (Thaxted)
Postlude: Fantasia in G Major (BWV 572) (Bach)

Saturday, 13 May 2017, 9:00 a.m.
Music for the Feast of Our Lady of Fatima
(Missale Romanum of 1962)
Prelude: Improvisation
Missa cum jubilo (Vatican Gradual, Mass IX)
Gregorian Mass of the Immaculate Heart of Mary: Adeamus
Hymn at the Offertory: Ave maris stella (plainsong, mode i)
Marian antiphon: Regina caeli (plainsong, mode vi)
Postlude: Improvisation on Ave Maria de Fatima

The second Saturday of every month is a Missa cantata celebrated
for the intentions of the Gospel of Life Society at St. Mary’s.

Wednesday, 10 May 2017, 6:00 p.m.
Music for the Feast of St. Antoninus
(Missale Romanum of 1962)
Prelude: Improvisation
Missa Magnae Deus potentiae (Vatican Gradual, Mass V)
Gregorian Mass of a Confessor Bishop: Statuit ei
Postlude: Improvisation

Sunday, 7 May 2017, 5:00 p.m.
Music for Vespers of the Third Sunday after Easter
Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite
Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia & Psalms 109, 110, 111, 112, & 113 (mode vii)
Hymn: Ad regias Agni dapes (plainsong, mode viii)
Magnificat antiphon: Amen, amen dico vobis: quia plorabitis (plainsong, mode viii)
O Salutaris Hostia (Werner)
Tantum ergo (French melody)
Adoremus in aeternum (plainsong, mode i)
Postlude: Improvisation

The sermon will be preached by Fr. Paul Check.

Music for the Third Sunday after Easter
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Prelude: Jesus Christus, unser Heiland (BWV 626) (Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685-1750)
Hymn at the Procession: At the Lamb's High Feast (Salzburg)
Missa Dittes maistresse (Orlande de Lassus, c.1532-1594)
Gregorian Mass of the Third Sunday after Easter: Jubilate Deo
Motet at the Offertory: In illo tempore: … modicum (prima pars) (Cristóbal de Morales, c.1500-1553)
Motet at the Communion: Dicebant ergo: Quid est hoc quod dixit nobis? (secunda pars) (Morales)
Postlude: Saraband (For the morning of Easter) (Herbert Howells, 1892-1983)

Music for the Fourth Sunday of Easter
and First Holy Communions
(Missale Romanum of 2002, 11:30 a.m.)
Prelude: Improvisation
Hymn at the Procession: The King of Love My Shepherd Is (St. Columba)
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: Ego sum pastor bonus (plainsong, mode i)
Hymn at the imposition of scapulars: O Sanctissima
Offertory: Deus, Deus meus (plainsong, mode ii)
Motet at the Offertory: Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence (Edward Bairstow, 1874-1946)
Communion: Ego sum pastor bonus (plainsong, mode ii)
Motet at the Communion: Panis angelicus (César Franck, 1822-1890)
Motet at the Communion: O Sacred Feast (Healey Willan, 1880-1968)
Marian Antiphon: Regina caeli (plainsong, mode vi)
Postlude: Saraband (For the morning of Easter) (Howells)