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Tuesday, 25 March 2014, 6:00 p.m.
Church of the Holy Innocents, New York
Music for the Feast of Annunciation
(Missale Romanum of 1962)
Prelude: Improvisation
Missa de Beata Virgine à 4 (Cristóbal de Morales, c.1500-1553)
Gregorian Mass of the Annunciation: Vultum tuum
Hymn at the Offertory: Ave maris stella (plainsong, mode i)
Motet at the Communion: Stella splendens (Llibre Vermell de Montserrat, XIV C.)
Marian antiphon: Ave Regina caelorum (plainsong, mode vi)
Postlude: Improvisation

The St. Mary’s Student Schola

Music for the Third Sunday of Lent
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Missa Mi-Mi (Johannes Ockeghem, c.1410-1497)
Gregorian Mass of the Third Sunday of Lent: Oculi mei
Motet at the Offertory: Infelix ego (prima pars) William Byrd, 1540-1623)
Motet at the Communion: Quid igitur faciam / Ad te igitur (Infelix ego, secunda & tertia pares) (Byrd)
Marian antiphon: Ave Regina caelorum (plainsong, mode vi)

Music for the Third Sunday of Lent
(Missale Romanum of 2002, 11:30 a.m.)
Hymn at the Procession: Lord, Who Throughout These Forty Days (St. Flavian)
Introit: Oculi mei (plainsong, mode vii)
Missa pro Dominicis Adventus & Quadragesimae (Vatican Gradual, Mass XVII)
Offertory: Justitiae Domini (plainsong, mode iv)
Motet at the Offertory: Lord, For Thy Tender Mercy’s Sake (John Hilton the Elder, 1565-c.1609)
Communion: Qui biberit aquam (plainsong, mode vii)
Hymn at the Communion: The mystery of the Divine Humiliation (Cross of Jesus) (from The Crucifixion) (John Stainer, 1840-1901)
Marian antiphon: Ave Regina caelorum (plainsong, mode vi)

Wednesday, 19 March 2014, 7:00 p.m.
Music for the Feast of St. Joseph
(Missale Romanum of 1962)
Prelude: Meine Seele erhebt den Herren (BWV 648) (Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685-1750)
Missa Sancta et immaculata virginitas (Francisco Guerrero, 1528-1599)
Gregorian Mass of St. Joseph: Justus ut palma
Hymn at the Offertory: Te Joseph celebrent (plainsong, mode i)
Motet at the Communion: Cum esset desponsata (Heinrich Isaac, c.1450-1517)
Postlude: Prelude & Fugue in E-flat Major (‘St. Anne’) (BWV 552) (Bach)

The St. Mary’s Schola Cantorum

Wednesday, 19 March 2014, 2:30 p.m.
Music for None of St. Joseph’s Day
Hymn: Rerum, Deux, tenax vigor (plainsong, mode viii)
Antiphon: Descendit Jesus cum eis, with Psalm 118 (plainsong, mode viii)
Marian antiphon: Ave Regina caelorum (plainsong, mode vi)

The St. Mary’s Student Schola:
Scholæ Ss. Benedicti & Scholasticæ

Tuesday, 18 March 2014, 8:15 p.m.
Requiem Mass for Mario Palmaro
on the ninth day after his death
(Missale Romanum of 1962)
Missa pro defunctis (plainsong)
Motet at the Communion: Sicut cervus (Johannes Ockeghem, 1410-1497)
At the absolution: Libera me, Domine (plainsong, mode i)

Mondy, 17 March 2014, 5:30 p.m.
Music for the Feast of St. Patrick
(Missale Romanum of 1962)
Hymn at the Procession: I Bind Unto Myself Today (St. Patrick’s Breastplate)
Missa de Angelis (Vatican Gradual, Mass VIII)
Gregorian Mass of a Confessor Bishop: Statuit ei
Hymn at the Offertory: Iste confessor (plainsong, mode viii)
Hymn at Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament: O salutaris hostia (Werner)

The St. Mary’s Choir

Mass, which will be said in St. Patrick’s Chapel,
will be followed by Benediction of the Most Blessed Sacrament.

Music for the Second Sunday of Lent
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Mass for Five Voices (William Byrd, 1540-1623)
Gregorian Mass of the Second Sunday of Lent: Reminiscere
Motet at the Offertory: Tribulationes civitatum (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, c.1525-1594)
Motet at the Communion: Emendemus in melius (Byrd)
Marian antiphon: Ave Regina caelorum (plainsong, mode vi)

Music for the Second Sunday of Lent
(Missale Romanum of 2002, 11:30 a.m.)
Hymn at the Procession: The Glory of These Forty Days (Erhalt uns Herr)
Introit: Reminiscere (plainsong, mode iv)
Missa pro Dominicis Adventus & Quadragesimae (Vatican Gradual, Mass XVII)
Offertory: Meditabor (plainsong, mode ii)
Hymn at the Offertory: God of Mercy and Compassion (Au sang qu'un Dieu) (after Pergolesi)
Communion: Visionem (plainsong, mode i)
Hymn at the Communion: Attende Domine (plainsong, mode i)
Marian antiphon: Ave Regina caelorum (plainsong, mode vi)

Lenten Vespers
Thursday, 13 March 2014
6:00 P.M.

The Blackstone Valley Catholic Youth Choir
Hopkinton, Massachusetts
Michael Olbash, director

The St. Mary’s Student Schola
Norwalk, Connecticut
David J. Hughes, director
Charles A. Weaver, assistant director

These two Catholic children’s choirs will combine to chant ferial Vespers in the traditional Roman Rite, with full ceremonial.

Vespers will be preceded by a short choral prelude by the Blackstone Valley Catholic Youth Choir.

Please join us! A PDF flier is available here; click here for a printer-friendly version.

CHANT CLASS FOR STUDENTS!
on five Wednesdays in Lent:
March 12, 19, 26, April 2, 9
5:30 to 6:30 p.m.

David Hughes, instructor

Come learn the basics of singing Gregorian chant!
"He who sings well prays twice."

Participants will join the Student Schola for the 9:30 Solemn Latin Mass on Palm Sunday, April 13th.
Students must attend all five sessions to sing at the Palm Sunday Mass.

Grades 2 to 9

Free!

To register for the class,
simply e-mail music@stmarynorwalk.net
or call 203-866-5546 x115.

Sunday, 9 March 2014, 11:30 a.m.
Sacred Heart University, Fairfield
The First Sunday of Lent
Convivio Mass
His Excellency Frank J. Caggiano, celebrant
(Missale Romanum of 2002)
Hymn at the Procession: Forty Days and Forty Nights (Heinlein)
Introit: Invocabit me (plainsong, mode viii)
Kyrie Orbis factor (Vatican Gradual, Mass XI)
Offertory: Scapulis suis (plainsong, mode viii)
Hymn at the Offertory: Attende Domine (plainsong)
Sanctus & Agnus Dei: Mass XVIII
Memorial Acclamation: Mortem tuam
Communion: Scapulis suis (plainsong, mode iii)
Motet at the Communion: Hide Not Thou Thy Face From Us (Richard Farrant, c.1530-1580)
Hymn at the Communion: Audi benigne Conditor (Guillaume Dufay, c.1400-1474)
Recessional Hymn: The Glory of These Forty Days (Erhalt uns Herr)

The St. Mary’s Student Schola