Music for April 2024
| All sung Masses at St. Mary's include the full Gregorian chant Propers, as well as the Ordinary of the Mass sung in Latin to plainchant or polyphony. |
Sunday, April 7, 2024
8:00 a.m. Mass in English with cantor
10:00 a.m. Solemn Mass with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Missa Fa re ut fa sol la (Cristóbal de Morales)
Quia vidisti me, Thoma (Claudio Monteverdi)
Surgens Jesu (Monteverdi)
12:00 p.m. Mass in Spanish with cantor
Monday, April 8, 2024: Feast of the Annunciation (transferred)
Daily Masses at 8:00 a.m. and 12:10 p.m.
7:00 p.m. Missa Cantata with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Missa Benedicta es caelorum regina (Cristóbal de Morales)
Ave Maria (Jerónimo de Aliseda)
Ecce virgo concipiet (Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck)
Sunday, April 14, 2024
8:00 a.m. Mass in English with cantor
10:00 a.m. Solemn Mass with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Missa Octavi toni (Antonio Lotti)
Regina coeli (Giuseppe Antonio Bernabei)
Surrexit pastor bonus (Jacob Regnart)
12:00 p.m. Mass in Spanish with cantor
Sunday, April 21, 2024
8:00 a.m. Mass in English with cantor
10:00 a.m. Solemn Mass with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Missa Surrexit pastor bonus (Orlande de Lassus)
Agnus Dei (Thomas Morley)
Surrexit pastor bonus (Lassus)
Regina coeli (Vicente Lusitano)
12:00 p.m. Mass in Spanish with cantor
Sunday, April 28, 2024
8:00 a.m. Mass in English with cantor
10:00 a.m. Solemn Mass with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Missa Ut re mi fa sol la (Cristóbal de Morales)
Jubilate Deo (Giovanni Lucario)
Ad coenam agni providi (Tomás Luís de Victoria)
12:00 p.m. Mass in Spanish with cantor
Feast of the Annunciation (transferred): Mon. Apr. 8
8:00am Low Mass; 12:10pm Mass in English; 7:00pm Sung Mass with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum (Music of Morales, Mouton, Sweelinck, and Aliseda). The Solemnity of the Annunciation is normally celebrated on March 25, nine months before the Nativity of the Lord, a feast which came about earlier historically. The Annunciation recalls the day when the Archangel Gabriel appeared to Mary and revealed God’s will that she become the Mother of the Son of God, and she accepted. At that moment, the “Word became Flesh and dwelt among us” (John 1:14).
In 2024, because it would otherwise fall during Holy Week, the Annunciation will be observed on Monday, April 8.
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Music for Holy Week 2024
Sunday, March 24, 2024: Palm Sunday
8:00 a.m. Mass in English with cantor
10:00 a.m. Solemn Mass with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum and St. Mary's Youth Schola
Asperges me (Cristóbal de Morales)
Pueri hebraeorum I (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina)
Pueri hebraeorum II (Tomás Luís de Victoria)
Occurrunt turbae (Giuseppe Antonio Bernabei)
St. Matthew Passion (Victoria)
Improperium (Palestrina)
Vexilla regis – Passio (Pierre de La Rue)
Sancte Deus (Thomas Tallis)
12:00 p.m. Mass in Spanish with cantor
WEDNESDAY, March 27, 2024: SPY WEDNESDAY
Daily Masses at 8:00 a.m. and 12:10 p.m.; Adoration 1–4 p.m.
7:00 p.m. Tenebrae of Maundy Thursday with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Responsoria: First Nocturn (Anonymous, 16th c.)
Responsoria: Second and Third Nocturn (Orlande de Lassus)
Benedictus es, Domine (Tomás Luís de Victoria)
Miserere (Josquin des Prez)
THURSDAY, March 28, 2024: MAUNDY THURSDAY
7:00 p.m. Solemn Mass in Cena Domini with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Messa breve a quattro voci (Giovanni Rovetta)
Dextera Domini (Orlande de Lassus)
Coenantibus illis (Juan de Lienas)
Vigilate et orate (Cristóbal de Morales)
O bone Jesu (Loyset Compère)
Ave verum corpus (William Byrd)
Pange lingua (Ludwig Senfl)
9:00 PM: Vespers and Stripping of the Altars.
9:30 PM–12:00 AM: Vigil before the Blessed Sacrament (at the Altar of Repose in the lower chapel).
FRIDAY, March 29, 2024: GOOD FRIDAY
Stations of the Cross (Latin, English, and Spanish) at 11:00 AM
3:00 p.m. The Mass of the Presanctified with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
St. John Passion (William Byrd)
Improperia (Tomás Luís de Victoria)
Crux fidelis (att. John IV of Portugal)
Vere languores nostros (Victoria)
Vexilla regis (Victoria)
Miserere (Victoria)
7:00 p.m. Procession of the Cristo Muerto and Burial of the Body of Christ with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Responsoria (Michael Haydn)
Miserere (Antonio Lotti)
SATURDAY, March 30, 2024: HOLY SATURDAY
7:00 p.m. The Great Vigil of Easter with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Sicut cervus (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina)
Missa de la Batalla escoutez (Francisco Guerrero)
Regina caeli (Orlande de Lassus)
Dum transisset Sabbatum (John Taverner)
Magnificat (Cristóbal de Morales)
Followed by a festive reception in the gym at 11:30 p.m.
SUNDAY, March 31, 2024: EASTER
8:00 a.m. Mass in English with cantor
10:00 a.m. Solemn Mass with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Missa de la Batalla escoutez (Francisco Guerrero)
Terra tremuit (William Byrd)
Christus resurgens (Orlande de Lassus)
Pascha nostrum (William Byrd)
In resurrectione tua (Byrd)
12:00 p.m. Mass in Spanish with cantor