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Wednesday, 13 March 2019, 6:00 p.m.
Music for the Ember Wednesday of Lent
(Missale Romanum of 1962)
Missa pro Feriis Adventus & Quadragesimae (Vatican Gradual, Mass XVIII)
Gregorian Mass of the Ember Wednesday of Lent: Reminiscere

Music for the First Sunday of Lent
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Hymn at the Procession: God of Mercy and Compassion (Au sang qu’un Dieu)
Missa pro Dominicis Adventus & Quadragesimae (Vatican Gradual, Mass XVII)
Gregorian Mass of the First Sunday of Lent: Invocabit me
Motet at the Offertory: Emendemus in melius (William Byrd, 1540-1623)
Hymn at the Communion: Media vita (Jacobus de Kerle, c.1531-1591)

Music for the First Sunday of Lent
(Missale Romanum of 2002, 11:30 a.m.)
Hymn at the Procession: Forty Days and Forty Nights (Heinlein)
Introit: Invocabit me (plainsong, mode viii)
Missa pro Dominicis Adventus & Quadragesimae (Vatican Gradual, Mass XVII)
Gradual: Angelis suis (plainsong, mode ii)
Tract: Qui habitat (plainsong, mode ii)
Offertory: Scapulis suis (plainsong, mode viii)
Motet at the Offertory: Turn Thy Face From My Sins (Arthur Sullivan, 1842-1900)
Communion: Scapulis suis (plainsong, mode iii)
Motet at the Communion: Call to Remembrance, O Lord (Richard Farrant, c.1530-1580)
Marian antiphon: Ave Regina caelorum (plainsong, mode vi)

Saturday, 9 March 2019, 9:00 a.m.
Music for the Saturday after Ash Wednesday
(Missale Romanum of 1962)
Missa pro Feriis Adventus & Quadragesimae (Vatican Gradual, Mass XVIII)
Gregorian Mass of the Saturday after Ash Wednesday: Audivit Dominus

Mass is preceded by the First Grade of the Catechumenate,
for those to be baptized at the Easter Vigil.

The second Saturday of every month is a Missa cantata celebrated
for the intentions of the Gospel of Life Society at St. Mary’s.

Music for Ash Wednesday
(Missale Romanum of 2002, 12:10 p.m.)
Hymn at the Procession: Forty Days and Forty Nights (Heinlein)
Introit: Misereris omnium (plainsong, mode i)
Gradual: Miserere mei (plainsong, mode i)
Tract: Domine, non secundum (plainsong, mode ii)
Missa pro Feriis Adventus & Quadragesimae (Vatican Gradual, Mass XVIII)
Antiphons at the imposition of ashes: Immutemur, Justxa vestibulum, Emendemus
Offertory: Exaltabo te Domine (plainsong, mode ii)
Communion: Qui meditabitur (plainsong, mode iii)
Hymn at the Retiring Procession: Have Mercy, Lord, on Us (Southwell)

Music for Ash Wednesday
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 7:00 p.m.)
Missa ferialis (anonymous, XVIII C., Granada)
Antiphon at the blessing of ashes: Exaudi nos, Domine (plainsong, mode vii)
Antiphon at the imposition of ashes: Immutemur (plainsong, mode i)
Motet at the imposition of ashes: Inter vestibulum (Diego de las Muelas, 1698-1743)
Antiphon at the imposition of ashes: Emendemus in melius (plainsong, mode ii)
Gregorian Mass of Ash Wednesday: Misereris omnium
Motet at the Offertory: Exaltabo te Domine (Orlande de Lassus, c.1532-1594)
Motet at the Communion: Miserere mei Domine (Lassus)