THE DIARY OF AN INNER-CITY PRIEST #69 / EL DIARIO DE UN SACERDOTE URBANO #69
THE DIARY OF AN INNER-CITY PRIEST Diary Entry #69 Jessie Vocations, or callings, to the priesthood, diaconate, and consecrated life are funny things. We believe that they come from God, but exactly how they come is something of a mystery. Nevertheless, there are discernible patterns, and only after a long time of observing…
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Music for October 2023
| 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, October 1, 2023
8:00 a.m. Mass in English with cantor
10:00 a.m. Solemn Mass with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Mass for Four Voices (William Byrd)
Ave maris stella (Tomás Luís de Victoria)
Salve Regina (Byrd)
12:00 p.m. Mass in Spanish with cantor
Sunday, October 8, 2023
8:00 a.m. Mass in English with cantor
10:00 a.m. Solemn Mass with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Missa Sonno scendesti in terra (Narcissus Zängel)
Confitebor tibi Domine (Giovanni Gastoldi)
Ecce prandium meum (Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck)
12:00 p.m. Mass in Spanish with cantor
Tuesday, October 10, 2023
Daily Mass at 8:00 a.m.
12:10 p.m. Votive Mass of the Holy Angels (TLM) with guest choir Harpa Dei
Chant Mass XII (Pater cuncta)
O pastor animarum (St. Hildegard of Bingen)
Tota pulchra es, Maria (Corsican arrangement)
7:00 p.m. Special Concert Event: Harpa Dei
Memories of Paradise: sacred music from Christian traditions across the globe
Sunday, October 15, 2023
8:00 a.m. Mass in English with cantor
10:00 a.m. Solemn Mass with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Chant Mass XI
Ave Maria (Antoine Brumel)
Gustate et videte (Giammatteo Asola)
12:00 p.m. Mass in Spanish with cantor
Saturday, October 21, 2023: St. Mary's 175th Anniversary Celebration
no 7:00 p.m. Vigil Mass
5:30 p.m. Solemn Mass with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Missa I begli occhi (Gregor Aichinger)
Domum tuam Domine (Jacob Handl)
Urbs beata Jerusalem (Tomás Luís de Victoria)
Sunday, October 22, 2023
8:00 a.m. Mass in English with cantor
10:00 a.m. Solemn Mass with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Mass for Five Voices (William Byrd)
Domum tuam Domine (Jacob Handl)
Urbs beata Jerusalem (Tomás Luís de Victoria)
Locus iste (Anton Bruckner)
12:00 p.m. Mass in Spanish with cantor
Sunday, October 29, 2023
8:00 a.m. Mass in English with cantor
10:00 a.m. Solemn Mass with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Messa della Battaglia (Giovanni Francesco Anerio)
Christus vincit (Matthieu Gascongne)
Tu solus qui facit mirabilia (Josquin des Prez)
O bone Jesu (Loyset Compère)
12:00 p.m. Mass in Spanish with cantor
Harpa Dei Choir: Tues. Oct. 10, 2023
The internationally renowned group Harpa Dei, a quartet of siblings whose reverent performances of sacred music from many traditions are beloved on YouTube, will visit St. Mary's on Tuesday, October 10 to provide music for the 12:10 p.m. Mass and for a concert-meditation at 7:00 p.m.
The 12:10 p.m. Mass at St. Mary’s on Tuesday, Oct. 10 will be a Traditional Latin Mass and a Votive Mass of the Holy Angels. Harpa Dei will sing Gregorian chant as well as works of St. Hildegard of Bingen and traditional sacred polyphony.
The same evening at 7:00 p.m., Harpa Dei will present “Memories of Paradise,” an extraordinary concert of sacred music from traditions spanning the globe. Admission is free (donations gratefully accepted).
Special Event: Harpa Dei Choir, Tues. Oct. 10
The internationally renowned group Harpa Dei, a quartet of siblings whose reverent performances of sacred music from many traditions are beloved on YouTube, will visit St. Mary's on Tuesday, October 10 to provide music for the 12:10 p.m. Mass and for a concert-meditation at 7:00 p.m. The 12:10 p.m. Mass at St. Mary’s on Tuesday,…
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THE DIARY OF AN INNER-CITY PRIEST #68 / DIARIO DE UN SACERDOTE URBANO #68
THE DIARY OF AN INNER-CITY PRIEST Diary Entry #68 A Big Chicken The first few years of my life as a priest were at once simple and difficult. They were simple because I was not a pastor, and the Church in the United States was still, to some extent, basking in Her…
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