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Music for the Feast of St. Mary, Mother of God (Missale Romanum of 1970, 12:10 p.m.)
Prelude: Dans une douce joie (from Neuf Pièces) (Jean Langlais, 1907-1991)
Missa de Angelis (Vatican Gradual, Mass VIII)
Processional Hymn: Sing of Mary, Pure and Lowly (Pleading Saviour)
Alleluia: Post partum (plainsong, mode iv)
Hymn at the Offertory: The God Whom Earth and Sea and Sky (Eisenach)
Communion: Exsulta filia Sion (plainsong, mode iv)
Hymn at the Communion: Virgin-born, We Bow Before You (Mon Dieu prête-moi l'oreille)
Marian antiphon: Alma Redemptoris Mater (plainsong, mode v)
Postlude: In dulci jubilo (BWV 609) (Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685-1750)

Music for the Feast of the Circumcision & Octave Day of Christmas (Missale Romanum of 1962, 5:30 p.m.)
Prelude: Prélude pour la Circoncision (Charles Tournemire, 1870-1939)
Missa Puer qui natus est nobis (Fransisco Guerrero, 1528-1599)
Gregorian Mass of the Octave Day of Christmas: Puer natus est
Motet at the Offertory: Ante luciferum (Jacob Handl, 1550-1591)
Motet at the Communion: Puer natus est (Cristóbal de Morales, c.1500-1553)
Postlude: Fantaisie et Choral pour la Circoncision (Tournemire)

Music for the Sunday within the Octave of Christmas (Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Prelude: Vom Himmel hoch da komm ich her (Johann Pachelbel, 1653-1706)
Missa O Magnum Mysterium (Tomás Luis de Victoria, 1548-1611)
Gregorian Mass of the Sunday within the Octave of Christmas: Dum medium silentium
Motet at the Offertory: O Magnum Mysterium (Victoria)
Hymn at the Communion: Jesu Redemptor omnium (plainsong, mode i)
Postlude: Postlude-Choral pour le Dimanche dans l'Octave de Noël (from L'Orgue Mystique) (Charles Tournemire, 1870-1939)

Music for the Feast of the Holy Family (Missale Romanum of 1970, 11:30 a.m.)
Missa de Angelis (Vatican Gradual, Mass VIII)
Processional Hymn: Once in Royal David's City (Irby)
Alleluia: Gaudete justi (plainsong, mode iv)
Hymn at the Offertory: O Little Town of Bethlehem (St. Louis)
Communion: Fili, quid fecisti (plainsong, mode i)
Hymn at the Communion: In the Bleak Midwinter (Cranham; Gustav Holst, 1874-1934)
Marian antiphon: Alma Redemptoris Mater (plainsong, mode v)
Organ music as above

Music for the Mass of Christmas Day (Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Prelude: In dulci jubilo (BuxWV 197) (Dietrich Buxtehude, c.1637-1707)
Mass for Three Voices (William Byrd, 1540-1623)
Gregorian Mass of Christmas Day: Puer natus est
Hymn at the Offertory: Laetabundus (plainsong, mode vi)
Motet at the Communion: Beata progenies (Lionel Power, d.1445)
Motet at the Communion: Hodie apparuit (Orlando di Lasso, c.1532-1594)
Postlude: Final from Symphonie Gothique (Puer natus est) (Op. 70) (Charles-Marie Widor, 1844-1937)

Music for the Mass of Christmas Day (Missale Romanum of 1970, 11:30 a.m.)
Missa de Angelis (Vatican Gradual, Mass VIII)
Carol: Adeste Fideles (arr. David Willcocks, b.1919)
Introit: Puer natus est (plainsong, mode vii)
Alleluia: Dies sanctificatus (plainsong, mode ii)
Carol at the Offertory: Hark! The Herald Angels Sing (Mendelssohn)
Communion: Viderunt omnes (plainsong, mode i)
Carol at the Communion: Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming (Es is ein' Ros' entsprungen)
Carol at the Retiring Procession: Hark! The Herald Angels Sing (Mendelssohn)
Organ music as above

Carols & organ music begin at 11:30 p.m.
Carol: Lo, How a Rose E’er Blooming (Es is ein’ Ros’ entsprungen)
Carol: O Little Town of Bethlehem (St. Louis)
Prelude: Les Anges (from La Nativité du Seigneur) (Olivier Messiaen, 1908-1992)
Carol: O Holy Night (Cantique de Noël)
Prelude: Desseins éternels (from La Nativité du Seigneur) (Messiaen)
Carol: Silent Night (Stille Nacht)
Carol: Adeste Fideles (arr. David Willcocks, b.1919)

Music for the Midnight Mass of Christmas (Missale Romanum of 1962, 12:00 Midnight)
Missa Quaeramus cum pastoribus (Cristóbal de Morales, c.1500-1553)
Gregorian Mass of Christmas Midnight: Dominus dixit
Motet at the Offertory: Puer natus in Bethlehem (Praetorious) [St. Mary’s Choir] Motet at the Communion: Quaeramus cum pastoribus (Jean Mouton, c.1459-1522)
Postlude: Final from Symphonie Gothique (Puer natus est) (Op. 70) (Charles-Marie Widor, 1844-1937)

The Schola Cantorum is joined this evening by the St. Mary’s Choir.

Music for the Fourth Sunday of Advent
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Mass for Four Voices (Thomas Tallis, c.1505-1585)
Gregorian Mass of the Fourth Sunday of Advent: Rorate caeli
Hymn at the procession: Veni, Veni Emmanuel
Kyrie: Missa pro Dominicis Adventus & Quadragesimae (Vatican Gradual, Mass XVII)
Motet at the Offertory: Canite tuba (Fransisco Guerrero, 1528-1599)
Motet at the Communion: Rorate caeli (Canite tuba, secunda pars) (Guerrero)

Music for the Fourth Sunday of Advent
(Missale Romanum of 1970, 11:30 a.m.)
Processional Hymn: O Come, O Come, Emmanuel (Veni, Veni Emmanuel)
Kyrie: Missa pro Dominicis Adventus & Quadragesimae (Vatican Gradual, Mass XVII)
Alleluia: Veni, Domine (plainsong, mode iii)
Antiphon at the Offertory: Ave Maria (plainsong, mode i)
Hymn at the Offertory: Saviour of the Nations, Come (Nun komm der Heiden Heiland)
Sanctus & Agnus Dei: Missa pro Feriis Adventus & Quadragesimae (Vatican Gradual, Mass XVIII)
Communion: Ecce Virgo concipiet (plainsong, mode i)
Verses at the Communion: Magnificat (plainsong, mode ii)
Marian antiphon: Alma Redemptoris Mater (plainsong, mode v)

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)
Messe de Tournai (anonymous, XIV C.)
Gregorian Mass of the Third Sunday of Advent: Gaudete in Domino
Hymn at the Offertory: Vox clara ecce intonat (plainsong, mode vii)
Hymn at the Communion: Rorate caeli (plainsong, mode i)
Postlude: Improvisation on the propers of the day

Music for the Third Sunday of Advent
(Missale Romanum of 1970, 11:30 a.m.)
Prelude: Kommst du nun, Jesu, vom Himmel herunter (BWV 650) (Bach)
Processional Hymn: O Come, Divine Messiah (Venez, Divin Messie)
Kyrie: Missa pro Dominicis Adventus & Quadragesimae (Vatican Gradual, Mass XVII)
Alleluia: Excita, Domine (plainsong, mode iv)
Hymn at the Offertory: Lo, He Comes With Clouds Descending (Helmsley)
Sanctus & Agnus Dei: Missa pro Feriis Adventus & Quadragesimae (Vatican Gradual, Mass XVIII)
Communion: Dicite: Pusillanimes (plainsong, mode vii)
Motet at the Communion: Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring (Bach)
Marian antiphon: Alma Redemptoris Mater (plainsong, mode v)
Postlude: Nun komm der Heiden Heiland (BWV 659) (Bach)

Music for the Feast of the Immaculate Conception
(Missale Romanum of 1970, 12:10 p.m.)
Prelude: Prélude à l’Introït pour l’Immaculée Conception (from L’Orgue Mystique) (Charles Tournemire, 1870-1939)
Alleluia: Tota pulchra es (plainsong, mode i)
Hymn at the Offertory: Sing of Mary, Pure and Lowly (Pleading Saviour)
Communion: Gloriosa dicta (plainsong, mode viii)
Marian antiphon: Salve Regina (plainsong, mode v)
Postlude: Offertoire pour l’Immaculée Conception (from L’Orgue Mystique) (Tournemire)

Music for the Feast of the Immaculate Conception
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 5:30 p.m.)
Prelude: Prélude à l’Introït pour l’Immaculée Conception (from L’Orgue Mystique) (Tournemire)
Missa de Beata Maria (Tomás Luis de Victoria, 1548-1611)
Gregorian Mass of the Immaculate Conception: Gaudens gaudebo
Motet at the Offertory: Illibata Dei Virgo nutrix (Josquin des Prez, c.1450-1521)
Motet at the Communion: Ave virginum decus hominum (Illibata..., secunda pars) (Josquin)
Postlude: Postlude (pièce terminale) pour l’Immaculée Conception (from L’Orgue Mystique) (Tournemire)

Music for the Second Sunday of Advent
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Gregorian Mass of the Second Sunday of Advent: Populus Sion
Kyrie: Missa pro Dominicis Adventus & Quadragesimae (Vatican Gradual, Mass XVII) [Children’s Scholas] Hymn at the Communion: Creator alme siderum (plainsong, mode iv) [Children’s Scholas] Sanctus: Missa D’ung aultre amer (Josquin des Prez, c.1450-1521)
Agnus Dei: Missa Cunctipotens Genitor Deus (Vatican Gradual, Mass IV) [Children’s Scholas] Motet at the Communion: Alma Redemptoris Mater (Johannes Ockeghem, c.1410-1497)
Marian Antiphon: Ave Maria (plainsong, mode i)

Music for the Second Sunday of Advent
(Missale Romanum of 1970, 11:30 a.m.)
Processional Hymn: On Jordan’s Bank (Winchester New)
Kyrie: Missa pro Dominicis Adventus & Quadragesimae (Vatican Gradual, Mass XVII)
Alleluia: Laetatus sum (plainsong, mode i)
Hymn at the Offertory: Comfort, Comfort, O My People (Geneva)
Sanctus & Agnus Dei: Missa pro Feriis Adventus & Quadragesimae (Vatican Gradual, Mass XVIII)
Communion: Jerusalem surge (plainsong, mode ii)
Hymn at the Communion: Hark, A Herald Voice is Sounding (Merton)
Marian antiphon: Alma Redemptoris Mater (plainsong, mode v)

The St. Mary’s Children’s Schola and the Anchor Academy Schola Cantorum combine to sing for the 9:30 Extraordinary Form Solemn High Mass this Sunday. The scholas will next sing for Mass on January 10th, the Feast of the Holy Family. For more information about the program of children’s musical formation at St. Mary’s, please contact David Hughes.

Music for the First Sunday of Advent
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Missa Brevis (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, c.1525-1594)
Gregorian Mass of the First Sunday of Advent: Ad te levavi
Motet at the Offertory: Ecce virgo concipiet (Cristóbal de Morales, c.1500-1553)
Hymn at the Communion: Conditor alme siderum (Tomás Luis de Victoria, 1548-1611)

Music for the First Sunday of Advent
(Missale Romanum of 1970, 11:30 a.m.)
Kyrie: Missa pro Dominicis Adventus & Quadragesimae (Vatican Gradual, Mass XVII)
Processional Hymn: O Come, O Come, Emmanuel (Veni, Veni Emmanuel)
Alleluia: Ostende nobis (plainsong, mode viii)
Hymn at the Offertory: Wake, Awake, For Night Is Flying (Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme)
Sanctus & Agnus Dei: Missa pro Feriis Adventus & Quadragesimae (Vatican Gradual, Mass XVIII)
Communion: Dominus dabit benignitatem (plainsong, mode i)
Marian antiphon: Alma Redemptoris Mater (plainsong, mode v)