Music for Holy Week 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, April 2, 2023: Palm Sunday
8:00 a.m. Mass in English with cantor
10:00 a.m. Solemn Mass with St. Mary's Youth Schola and St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
"Dry Mass" of the Palms; Procession of the Palms; Mass of the Passion
Asperges me (Tomás Luís de Victoria)
Pueri hebraeorum I & II (Jacob Regnart)
Pueri hebraeorum vestimenta (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina)
Pueri hebraeorum portantes (Victoria)
Ingrediente Domino (George Malcolm)
Chant Mass XVII
Passio secundum Mathaeum (Victoria)
Improperium (Palestrina)
Vexilla regis more hispano (Victoria)
Stabat Mater (Zoltán Kodály)
12:00 p.m. Mass in Spanish (offered downstairs in the lower chapel)
Wednesday, April 5, 2023: 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 (Michael Haydn)
Benedictus Dominus Deus (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina)
Miserere in D minor (Antonio Lotti)
Thursday, April 6, 2023: 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)
In me transierunt (Orlande de Lassus)
O bone Jesu (Loyset Compère)
Ubi caritas (Maurice Duruflé)
Pange lingua (Tomás Luís de Victoria)
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, April 7, 2023: 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
Passio secundum Ioannem (William Byrd)
Improperia (Ludwig Senfl)
Vere languores (Juan Francés de Iribarren)
Crux fidelis (King John of Portugal)
Vexilla regis (Michael Praetorius)
Adoramus te, Christe (Antonio Lotti)
Miserere (Johannes Martini)
7:00 p.m. Procession of the Cristo Muerto and Burial of the Body of Christ with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Miserere in G minor (Antonio Lotti)
Saturday, April 8, 2023: Holy Saturday
7:00 p.m. The Great Vigil of Easter with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Sicut cervus (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina)
Missa Congratulamini mihi (Francisco Guerrero)
Regina coeli (Orlande de Lassus)
Dum transisset Sabbatum (Thomas Tallis)
Magnificat octavi toni (Tomás Luís de Victoria)
Followed by a festive reception in the gym at 11:30 p.m.
Sunday, April 9, 2023: Easter
8:00 a.m. Mass in English with cantor
10:00 a.m. Solemn Mass with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Missa Congratulamini mihi (Francisco Guerrero)
Congratulamini mihi (Adrian Willaert)
Regina coeli (Henricus Isaac)
12:00 p.m. Mass in Spanish with cantor
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