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Music for the Feast of St. Lucy, 13 December 2014

Music for the Feast of St. Lucy
Saturday, 13 December 2014, 9:00 a.m.
Missale Romanum of 1962
Missa Cunctipotens Genitor Deus (Vatican Gradual, Mass IV)
Gregorian Mass of St. Lucy: Dilexisti
Hymn at the Communion: Jesu corona Virginum (plainsong, mode viii)

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

Advent Lessons & Carols, 12 December 2014, 7:00 p.m.

St. Mary's warmly invites you & your family
to its annual service of
Advent Lessons & Carols
Friday, 12 December 2014, 7:00 p.m.

The St. Mary's Choir
El Coro Hispano de Santa María
The St. Mary's Student Schola
The Regina Pacis Academy Schola

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David J. Hughes, Organist & Choirmaster
Welder Gomez, Spanish Choir Director
William V. Riccio, Jr., Assistant Organist
Robert Rudesill, Assistant Organist
Charles A. Weaver, Student Schola Assistant Director
Samuel A. Schmitt, Student Schola Assistant Director

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Venite adoremus!

Bring your family & friends to prepare in your hearts a home
for Our Lord this Christmas! This simple & beautiful service,
in which readings from sacred scripture alternate with sung meditations,
illuminates a season of  joyful expectation.
Chants of Advent, choral motets, & congregational hymns
will culminate in Adoration & Benediction of Our Lord
in the Most Blessed Sacrament. A festive reception will follow.

For further information:
203-866-5546 x115
music@stmarynorwalk.net

Music for the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, 8 December 2014

Music for the Feast of the Immaculate Conception
(Missale Romanum of 2002, 12:10 p.m.)
Prelude: Ave Maria, Ave Maris Stella (Jean Langlais, 1907-1991)
Hymn at the Procession: Immaculate Mary (Lourdes Hymn)
Missa de Angelis (Vatican Gradual, Mass VIII)
Alleluia: Tota pulchra es (plainsong, mode i)
Hymn at the Offertory: Sing of Mary, Pure and Lowly (Pleading Saviour)
Communion: Gloriosa (plainsong, mode viii)
Marian antiphon: Alma Redemptoris Mater (plainsong, mode v)
Postlude: Improvisation

Music for the Feast of the Immaculate Conception
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 5:30 p.m.)
Prelude: Ave Maria, Ave Maris Stella (Langlais)
Missa Sicut lilium inter spinas (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, c.1525-1594)
Gregorian Mass of the Immaculate Conception: Gaudens gaudebo
Motet at the Offertory: Ave cujus conceptio (Nicholas Ludford, 1485-1557)
Motet at the Communion: Ave vera virginitas (Ave cujus conceptio, secund pars) (Ludford)
Postlude: Fantasie-Improvisation sur l’Ave maris stella (Tournemire)

Music for the Second Sunday of Advent, 7 December 2014

Music for the Second Sunday of Advent
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Hymn at the Procession: Veni, veni, Emmanuel (plainsong, mode i)
Missa Gaude Barbara (Cristóbal de Morales, c.1500-1553)
Gregorian Mass of the Second Sunday of Advent: Populus Sion
Alleluia: Laetatus sum (Heinrich Isaac, c.1450-1517)
Motet at the Offertory: Conditor alme siderum (Orlando di Lasso, c.1532-1594)
Motet at the Communion: Ecce Dominus veniet (Tomás Luis de Victoria, 1548-1611)
Marian antiphon: Alma Redemptoris Mater (plainsong, mode v)

Music for the Second Sunday of Advent
(Missale Romanum of 2002, 11:30 a.m.)
Hymn at the Procession: On Jordan’s Bank (Winchester New)
Introit: Populus Sion (plainsong, mode vii)
Missa pro Dominicis Adventus & Quadragesimae (Vatican Gradual, Mass XVII)
Alleluia: Laetatus sum (plainsong, mode i)
Offertory: Deus tu convertens (plainsong, mode iii)
Hymn at the Offertory: Lo! He Comes With Clouds Descending (Helmsley)
Communion: Jerusalem surge (plainsong, mode ii)
Hymn at the Communion: Come, Thou Long Expected Jesus (Stuttgart)
Marian antiphon: Alma Redemptoris Mater (plainsong, mode v)

Music for the Second Sunday of Advent and Festival of Our Lady of Guadalupe
(Missale Romanum of 2002, 1:15 p.m.)
Hymn at the Procession: Desde el cielo (Las Apariciones Guadalupana)
Missa de Angelis (Vatican Gradual, Mass VIII)
Alleluia: Laetatus sum (plainsong, mode i)
Hymns at the Offertory: Oh María, Madre Mía; Immaculate Mary (Lourdes hymn)
Communion: Jerusalem surge (plainsong, mode ii)
Motet at the Communion: Ave Maria (attrib. Victoria)
Hymn at the Communion: O Sanctissima
Hymn at the Retiring Procession: Mañanitas a la Virgen de Guadalupe
Procession through Norwalk to follow Mass

Requiem Mass for Rose Jeffery, 3 December 2014

Requiem Mass for Rose Jeffery
Wednesday, 3 December 2014, 10:00 a.m.
(Missale Romanum of 2002)
Missa pro defunctis (plainsong)
Introit: Requiem aeternam (plainsong, mode vi)
Alleluia: Requiem aeternam (plainsong, mode viii)
Motet at the Offertory: Ave Maria (Franz Schubert, 1797-1828)
Communion: Lux aeterna (plainsong, mode viii)
Motet at the Communion: Panis angelicus (César Franck, 1822-1890)
Hymn at the Absolution: I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say (Kingsfold)
At the procession to the cemetery: In paradisum (plainsong, mode vii)
At the procession to the cemetery: Credo quod Redemptor (plainsong, mode viii)

The St. Mary’s Choir

Music for the First Sunday of Advent, 30 November 2014

Music for the First Sunday of Advent
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Hymn at the Procession: Lo, He Comes With Clouds Descending (Helmsley)
Missa Caça (Cristóbal de Morales, c.1500-1553)
Gregorian Mass of the First Sunday of Advent: Ad te levavi
Motet at the Offertory: Veni Domine et noli tardare (Francisco Guerrero, 1528-1599)
Motet at the Communion: Veni Redemptor gentium (Jacob Handl, 1550-1591)
Marian antiphon: Alma Redemptoris Mater (plainsong, mode v)

Music for the First Sunday of Advent
(Missale Romanum of 2002, 11:30 a.m.)
Hymn at the Procession: O Come, O Come, Emmanuel (Veni, veni Emmanuel)
Introit: Ad te levavi (plainsong, mode viii)
Missa pro Dominicis Adventus & Quadragesimae (Vatican Gradual, Mass XVII)
Alleluia: Ostende nobis Domine (plainsong, mode viii)
Offertory: Ad te Domine levavi (plainsong, mode ii)
Hymn at the Offertory: O Come, O Come, Emmanuel (Veni, veni Emmanuel)
Communion: Dominus dabit benignitatem (plainsong, mode i)
Hymn at the Communion: Savior of the Nations, Come (Nun komm der Heiden Heiland)
Marian antiphon: Alma Redemptoris Mater (plainsong, mode v)

Music for a Votive Mass of the Most Holy Trinity (Thanksgiving Day), 27 November 2014

Thursday, 27 November 2014, 9:00 a.m.
Music for a Votive Mass of the Most Holy Trinity
(Missale Romanum of 1962)
Prelude: Improvisation
Missa de Angelis (Vatican Gradual, Mass VIII)
Gregorian Mass of the Most Holy Trinity: Benedicta sit
Motet at the Offertory: Duo seraphim clamabant (Tomás Luis de Victoria, 1548-1611)
Motet at the Communion: Tres sunt (Duo seraphim, secunda pars) (Victoria)
Marian antiphon: Salve Regina (plainsong, mode v)
Postlude: Te Deum (Pierre Attaignant, c.1494-1552)

Music for the Last Sunday after Pentecost, 23 November 2014

Music for the Last Sunday after Pentecost
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Prelude: Improvisation
Missa La sol fa re mi (Josquin des Prez, c.1450-1521)
Gregorian Mass of the Last Sundays after Pentecost: Dicit Dominus: Ego cogito
Motet at the Offertory: De profundis [Ps. 130, prima pars] (Orlando di Lasso, c.1532-1594)
Motet at the Communion: A custodia matutina [Ps. 130, secunda pars] (Lasso)
Postlude: Apparition de l’Eglise éternelle (Olivier Messiaen, 1908-1992)

Music for the Feast of Our Lord Jesus Christ the King
(Missale Romanum of 2002, 11:30 a.m.)
Prelude: Improvisation
Hymn at the Procession: Crown Him with Many Crowns (Diademata)
Introit: Dignus est Agnus (plainsong, mode iii)
Missa de Angelis (Vatican Gradual, Mass VIII)
Alleluia: Potestas ejus (plainsong, mode i)
Offertory: Postula a me (plainsong, mode iv)
Acclamation at the Offertory: Christus vincit (plainsong, with organum)
Communion: Sedebit Dominus Rex (plainsong, mode vi)
Hymn at the Communion: The Royal Banners Forward Go (Agincourt Hymn)
Marian antiphon: Salve Regina (plainsong, mode v)
Postlude: Litanies (Jehan Alain, 1911-1940)

Music for the Feast of Christ the King, The Cathedral Parish (St. Patrick’s), Bridgeport, 22 November 2014

Saturday, 22 November 2014, 4:00 p.m.
The Cathedral Parish, St. Patrick’s, Bridgeport
Music for the Feast of Our Lord Jesus Christ the King
(Missale Romanum of 2002)
Prelude: Præludium in F-sharp minor (BuxWV 146) (Dietrich Buxtehude, c.1637-1707)
Introit: Dignus est Agnus (plainsong, mode iii)
Kyrie Pater cuncta (Mass XII)
Gradual: Dominabitur (plainsong, mode v)
Alleluia: Potestas ejus (plainsong, mode i)
Offertory: Postula a me (plainsong, mode iv)
Hymn at the Offertory: Christus vincit (plainsong, with organum)
Sanctus & Benedictus: Mass for Four Voices (Thomas Tallis, c.1505-1585)
Agnus Dei: Mass for Four Voices (Tallis)
Communion: Sedebit Dominus Rex (plainsong, mode vi)
Postlude: Acclamations Carolingiennes [Christus vincit] (from Suite médiévale) (Jean Langlais, 1907-1991)

The St. Cecilia Student Schola

Music for the Feast of St. Cecilia, 22 November 2014

Saturday, 22 November 2014, 9:00 a.m.
Music for the Feast of St. Cecilia
(Missale Romanum of 1962)
Prelude: Improvisation
Missa de Angelis (Vatican Gradual, Mass VIII)
Gregorian Mass of St. Cecilia: Loquebar
Improvisation at the Offertory
Improvisation at the Communion
Postlude: Improvisation