Category Archives: Music

Sunday, March 29, 2026: Palm Sunday

8:00 a.m. Sung Mass in English
10:00 a.m. Palm Sunday Liturgy with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum and St. Mary's Youth Schola
"Dry Mass" of the Palms * Outdoor Procession * Mass of the Passion
Asperges me (Tomás Luís de Victoria)
Pueri hebraeorum portantes (Johannes de Fossa)
Pueri hebraeorum vestimenta (Victoria)
Domini est terra (Jheronimus Vinders)
Missa Nisi Dominus (Ludwig Senfl)
St. Matthew Passion (Victoria)
Improperium (Orlande de Lassus)
Vigilate et orate (Cristóbal de Morales)
O Domine Jesu Christe (Francisco Guerrero)
1:30 p.m. Sung Mass in Spanish

Wednesday, April 1, 2026: Spy Wednesday

12:10 p.m.  Missa cantata with the Regina Pacis Academy Schola
Chant Mass XVIII
Parce Domine (chant)
Hymn: O sacred Head, sore wounded (Passion Chorale)
7:00 p.m. Tenebrae of Maundy Thursday with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
In monte Oliveti (Giovanni Battista Martini)
Responsoria (Michael Haydn)
Benedictus Dominus Deus (Ludovico Viadana)
Miserere no. 2 in g minor (Antonio Lotti)

Thursday, April 2, 2026: Maundy Thursday

7:00 p.m. Solemn Mass in Cena Domini with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Messa breve (Giovanni Rovetta)
Christus factus est (att. Felice Anerio)
Dextera Domini (Anton Bruckner)
Coenantibus (Juan de Lienas)
O bone Jesu (Loyset Compère)
Ave verum corpus (William Byrd)
Pange lingua (Anton Bruckner)
9:0o p.m. Vespers and Stripping of the Altars
9:30 p.m. Vigil begins before the Blessed Sacrament (at the Altar of Repose in the lower church chapel)

Friday, April 3, 2026: Good Friday

11:00 a.m. Stations of the Cross (Latin, English, and Spanish)
3:00 p.m. The Mass of the Presanctified with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
St. John Passion (Tomás Luís de Victoria)
Reproaches (Victoria)
Crux fidelis (att. John IV of Portugal)
Vexilla Regis prodeunt (Anton Bruckner)
7:00 p.m. Procession of the Cristo Muerto and Burial of the Body of Christ with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Adoramus te, Christe (Théodore Dubois)
Responsoria (Michael Haydn)
Miserere in d minor (Antonio Lotti)

Saturday, April 4, 2026: Holy Saturday

12:30 p.m. Blessing of Easter Food (gym)
7:00 p.m. The Great Vigil of Easter with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Sicut cervus (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina)
Messa a cappella a cinque voci (Giovanni Rovetta)
Regina coeli (Orlande de Lassus)
Dum transisset Sabbatum (John Taverner)
11:30 p.m. Festive Easter Reception (in the gymnasium of the school building)

Sunday, April 20, 2026: Easter Sunday

8:00 a.m.  Mass in English with cantor
10:00 a.m.  Solemn Mass with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Messa a cappella a cinque voci (Giovanni Rovetta)
Christus resurgens (Orlande de Lassus)
Regina caeli (Heinrich Isaac)
Toccata from Symphony no. 5 (Charles-Marie Widor)
12:00 p.m.  Mass in Spanish with cantor

Sunday, March 1, 2026: Second Sunday of Lent

8:00 a.m.  Mass in English with cantor
10:00 a.m.  Solemn Mass with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Missa Inter vestibulum (Francisco Guerrero)
Meditabor in mandatis tuis (Orlande de Lassus)
Derelinquat impius (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina)
Ave regina caelorum (Alonso Lobo)
12:00 p.m.  Mass in Spanish with cantor

Sunday, March 8, 2026: Third Sunday of Lent

8:00 a.m.  Mass in English with cantor
10:00 a.m.  Solemn Mass with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Kronstorfer Messe (Anton Bruckner)
Audi benigne Conditor (Johann Stadlmayr)
Ave regina caelorum (Antonio Lotti)
12:00 p.m.  Mass in Spanish with cantor

Sunday, March 15, 2026: Fourth Sunday of Lent (Laetare)

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
Missa Caça (Cristóbal de Morales)
Audi benigne Conditor (Jean de Bournonville)
Accepit Jesus panes (Manuel Cardoso)
Ave regina caelorum (Bournonville)
12:00 p.m.  Mass in Spanish with cantor

Thursday, March 19, 2026: St. Joseph

9:15 a.m.  Missa cantata with the Regina Pacis Academy Schola
Chant Mass XII Pater cuncta
Ambrosian Gloria
Beatus vir (falsobordone by Giammateo Asola)
Recessional hymn: Great Saint Joseph, Son of David
Daily Mass at 12:10 p.m.
7:00 p.m.  Solemn Mass with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum

Sunday, March 22, 2026: Passion Sunday

8:00 a.m.  Mass in English with cantor
10:00 a.m.  Solemn Mass with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
12:00 p.m.  Mass in Spanish with cantor

Wednesday, March 25, 2026: Feast of the Annunciation

12:10 p.m.  Sung Mass (English) with the Regina Pacis Academy Schola
Chant Mass IX Cum jubilo
Angelus ad virginem (Anonymous, 13th-century Ireland)
Recessional hymn: The angel Gabriel from heaven came
6:00 p.m.  Low Mass

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Sunday, February 1, 2026

8:00 a.m.  Mass in English with cantor
10:00 a.m.  Solemn Mass with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Missa Simile est regnum caelorum (Tomás Luís de Victoria)
Circumdederunt me (Cristóbal de Morales)
Simile est regnum caelorum (Francisco Guerrero)
12:00 p.m.  Mass in Spanish with cantor

3:00 p.m.  Baroque Chamber Music Concert (free admission)

Monday, February 2, 2026

12:00 p.m.  Solemn Mass with Blessing of Candles and Procession
Sponsored by the Society of St. Hugh of Cluny for the Regina Pacis Academy community
Mass for Four Voices (William Byrd)
Senex puerum portabat (Byrd)
Hodie beata Virgo (Byrd)
7:00 p.m.  Solemn Mass with Blessing of Candles and Procession
with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Lumen ad revelationem gentium (fauxbourdon by Laurent Dandin, fl. 1589)
Adorna thalamum (Orlande de Lassus)
Missa quarti toni (Tomás Luís de Victoria)
Senex puerum portabat (Victoria)

Sunday, February 8, 2026

8:00 a.m.  Mass in English with cantor
10:00 a.m.  Solemn Mass with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Missa Mi mi (Johannes Ockeghem)
Perfice gressus meos (Orlande de Lassus)
Introibo ad altare Dei (Heinrich Isaac)
Cum turba plurima (Francisco Guerrero)
12:00 p.m.  Mass in Spanish with cantor

Sunday, February 15, 2026

8:00 a.m.  Mass in English with cantor
10:00 a.m.  Solemn Mass with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Missa Ave regina caelorum (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina)
Benedictus es Domine (Orlande de Lassus)
Ecce ascendimus Hierosolymam (Francisco Guerrero)
Ave regina caelorum (Costanzo Porta)
12:00 p.m.  Mass in Spanish with cantor

Wednesday, February 18, 2026

8:00 a.m.  Low Mass (Latin)
12:10 p.m.  Mass (English)
6:00 p.m.  Liturgia de la Palabra (Liturgy of the Word in Spanish with Distribution of Ashes)
7:00 p.m.  Solemn Mass with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Inter vestibulum (Diego de las Muelas)
Immutemur habitu (José Maurício Nuñes Garcia)
Missa ferialis (Anonymous)
Exaltabo te (Giovanni Croce)

Sunday, February 22, 2026: First Sunday of Lent

8:00 a.m.  Mass in English with cantor
10:00 a.m.  Solemn Mass with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Missa Emendemus in melius (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina)
Scapulis suis (Orlande de Lassus)
Ductus est Jesus (Francisco Guerrero)
Emendemus in melius (Jean de Richafort)
12:00 p.m.  Mass in Spanish with cantor

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Thursday, January 1, 2026

Daily Masses at 8:00 a.m. and 12:10 p.m.
7:00 p.m.  Solemn Mass with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Missa Dies sanctificatus (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina)
In illo tempore (Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck)
Mirabile mysterium (Jacob Handl)

Sunday, January 4, 2026

8:00 a.m.  Mass in English with cantor
10:00 a.m.  Solemn Mass with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Missa Ich stund an einem Morgen (Jacob Handl)
In nomine Jesu (Handl)
O quam dulce tuum—Nomen ad hoc sanctum (Daniel Friderici)
12:00 p.m.  Mass in Spanish with cantor

Tuesday, January 6, 2026

10:00 a.m.  Solemn Mass with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Missa sexti toni (Costanzo Porta)
Videntes stellam Magi (Giovanni Paolo Cima)
Hostis Herodes impie (Tomás Luís de Victoria)
Sponsored by the Society of St. Hugh of Cluny for the Regina Pacis Academy community (all are welcome)
Daily Mass at 12:10 p.m.

Sunday, January 11, 2026

8:00 a.m.  Mass in English with cantor
10:00 a.m.  Solemn Mass with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Missa Aeterna Christi munera (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina)
Alma Redemptoris Mater (Palestrina)
O regem caeli (Tomás Luís de Victoria)
12:00 p.m.  Mass in Spanish with cantor

Sunday, January 18, 2026

8:00 a.m.  Mass in English with cantor
10:00 a.m.  Solemn Mass with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
12:00 p.m.  Mass in Spanish with cantor

Wednesday, January 21, 2026

Daily Mass at 12:10 p.m.
2:00 p.m.  Lecture on St. Hildegard by Dr. Charles Weaver (Lower Chapel)

Sunday, January 25, 2026

8:00 a.m.  Mass in English with cantor
10:00 a.m.  Solemn Mass with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
12:00 p.m.  Mass in Spanish with cantor

Thursday, January 29, 2026

St. Mary's Youth Schola resumes for the spring 2026 semester

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Sunday, December 7, 2025: Advent II

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)
Ecce Dominus noster (Gierolamo Lambardi)
Jerusalem surge (Giovanni Battista Martini)
En clara vox redarguit (chant)
Alma Redemptoris Mater (Giuseppe Antonio Bernabei)
12:00 p.m.  Mass in Spanish with cantor

Monday, December 8, 2025: Immaculate Conception

Daily Masses at 8:00 a.m. and 12:10 p.m.
7:00 p.m.  Solemn Mass with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Missa Benedicta es (Cristóbal de Morales)
Benedicta es, caelorum regina (Jean Mouton)
Tota pulchra es (Orlande de Lassus)

Friday, December 12, 2025: Our Lady of Guadalupe

Daily Mass at 12:10 p.m.
1:15 p.m.  Solemn Mass with the Regina Pacis Academy Schola
Chant Mass IX Cum jubilo
Cuncti simus concanentes (Llibre Vermell de Montserrat)
7:00 p.m.  Sung Mass in Spanish
Followed by a festive reception

Saturday, December 13, 2025

6:00 a.m.  Rorate Mass with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Mass for Three Voices (William Byrd)
Quem terra, pontus, aethera (Byrd)
Sunday Vigil Masses at 4:00 p.m. (English) and 7:00 p.m. (Spanish)

Sunday, December 14, 2025: Advent III (Gaudete)

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
Regnantem sempiterna (chant)
Kyrie XVII (chant)
Sanctus and Agnus Dei (Anonymous, 14th c.)
Vox clamantis in deserto (Diego de las Muelas)
Conditor alme siderum (Guillaume Dufay)
12:00 p.m.  Mass in Spanish with cantor

Thursday, December 18, 2025

7:00 p.m.  Southern Connecticut Young Adult Traditional Latin Mass (with chant schola)

Sunday, December 21, 2025: Advent IV

8:00 a.m.  Mass in English with cantor
10:00 a.m.  Solemn Mass with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Veni Emmanuel (chant with discantus)
Missa Conditor (Giovanni Animuccia)
Ecce Dominus veniet (Michael Praetorius)
Ecce virgo concipiet (Heinrich Isaac)
Alma Redemptoris Mater (Johannes Ockeghem)
12:00 p.m.  Mass in Spanish with cantor

Wednesday, December 24, 2025: Christmas Eve

4:00 p.m.  Vigil Mass in English with cantor
11:30 p.m.  Choral Prelude to Midnight Mass with Christmas Carols
In dulci jubilo, op. 28 no. 41 (Marcel Dupré)
Pifa from Messiah (George Frideric Handel)
O little town of Bethlehem (St. Louis)
What child is this? (Greensleeves)
In dulci jubilo a 2—a 4 (Michael Praetorius)
In the bleak midwinter (Cranham)
Niño Dios (Francisco Guerrero)
Silent Night (Stille Nacht)

Thursday, December 25, 2025: Christmas Day

12:00 a.m.  Midnight Mass with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Messe de minuit pour Noël (Marc-Antoine Charpentier)
O regem caeli (Tomás Luís de Victoria)
Christe redemptor omnium (Victoria)
O magnum mysterium (Victoria)
In dulci jubilo, BWV 729 (Johann Sebastian Bach)
8:00 a.m.  Mass in English with cantor
10:00 a.m.  Solemn Mass with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Missa O magnum mysterium (Tomás Luís de Victoria)
Hodie Christus natus est (Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck)
Resonet in laudibus (Orlande de Lassus)
In dulci jubilo, BWV 729 (Johann Sebastian Bach)
12:00 p.m.  Mass in Spanish with cantor

Sunday, December 28, 2025

8:00 a.m.  Mass in English with cantor
10:00 a.m.  Solemn Mass with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Missa Il bianco e dolce cigno (Stefano Bernardi)
Salvete flores martyrum (Tomás Luís de Victoria)
Cantabant sancti (Peter Philips)
12:00 p.m.  Mass in Spanish with cantor

Saturday, November 1, 2025: All Saints

9:00 a.m.  Solemn Mass with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Missa O quam gloriosum (Tomás Luís de Victoria)
O quam gloriosum (Victoria)
Angeli, archangeli (Andrea Gabrieli)
Masses at 4:00 p.m. (English) and 7:00 p.m. (Spanish)

Sunday, November 2, 2025

8:00 a.m.  Mass in English with cantor
10:00 a.m.  Solemn Mass with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Missa brevis (Andrea Gabrieli)|
Justorum animae (Orlande de Lassus)
Christe redemptor omnium (Tomás Luís de Victoria)
12:00 p.m.  Mass in Spanish with cantor

Monday, November 3, 2025

7:00 p.m.  Solemn Mass with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum and St. Mary's Youth Schola
Requiem in D minor, Op. 48 (Gabriel Fauré) (excerpts)

Sunday, November 9, 2025: Dedication of the Lateran Basilica

8:00 a.m.  Mass in English with cantor
10:00 a.m.  Solemn Mass with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Missa Saeculorum (Francisco Garro)
Decantabat populus (Jan Tollius)
Domum tuam, Domine (Jacob Handl)
Locus iste (Anton Bruckner)
12:00 p.m.  Mass in Spanish with cantor

Saturday, November 15, 2025

10:00 a.m.  Solemn Requiem Mass with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Missa pro defunctis a 6 (Tomás Luís de Victoria)
Sponsored by the Society of St. Hugh of Cluny for the repose of the soul of Msgr. Ignacio Barreiro (1947–2017)
Sunday Vigil Masses at 4:00 p.m. (English) and 7:00 p.m. (Spanish)

Sunday, November 16, 2025

8:00 a.m.  Mass in English with cantor
10:00 a.m.  Solemn Mass with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Missa Il me suffit (Orlande de Lassus)
Salve Regina (Lassus)
De profundis (Josquin des Prez)
12:00 p.m.  Mass in Spanish with cantor

~ Weaver Duo Recital POSTPONED to the following week, Sun. Nov. 23 ~

Sunday, November 23, 2025

8:00 a.m.  Mass in English with cantor
10:00 a.m.  Solemn Mass with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
12:00 p.m.  Mass in Spanish with cantor

3:00 p.m.  Charles & Elizabeth Weaver in Recital with "De Profundis: The Psalms in Early Devotional Song"
Free Admission

Thursday, November 27, 2025: Thanksgiving Day

9:00 a.m.  Missa cantata with chant schola

Sunday, November 30, 2025: Advent I

8:00 a.m.  Mass in English with cantor
10:00 a.m.  Solemn Mass with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Aspiciens a longe (processional chant)
Missa Veni Domine (Filipe de Magalhães)
Veni Domine (Francisco Guerrero)
Dominus dabit benignitatem (Anonymous)
Alma redemptoris Mater (Jean L'Héritier)
12:00 p.m.  Mass in Spanish with cantor

Sunday, October 5, 2025

8:00 a.m.  Mass in English with cantor
10:00 a.m.  Solemn Mass with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Messa a cappella a quattro voci (Giovanni Rovetta)
Salve Regina (Felice Anerio)
Ave Maria...virgo serena (Josquin des Prez)
12:00 p.m.  Mass in Spanish with cantor

Tuesday, October 7, 2025: Our Lady of the Rosary

10:00 a.m.  Solemn Mass with the Regina Pacis Academy Scholas
Chant Mass IX
Ave maris stella (chant)
Daily Low Mass at 12:10 p.m.

Sunday, October 12, 2025

8:00 a.m.  Mass in English with cantor
10:00 a.m.  Solemn Mass with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Missa quarti toni (Juan Esquivel)
Ave Maria (Ferdinand de Lassus)
Da pacem Domine (Arvo Pärt)
12:00 p.m.  Mass in Spanish with cantor

Sunday, October 19, 2025

8:00 a.m.  Mass in English with cantor
10:00 a.m.  Solemn Mass with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Missa Hercules dux Ferrariae (Josquin des Prez)
Ecce prandium meum (Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck)
Salve Regina (Philippe Basiron)
12:00 p.m.  Mass in Spanish with cantor

Sunday, October 26, 2025

8:00 a.m.  Mass in English with cantor
10:00 a.m.  Solemn Mass with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Laudes regiae: Christus vincit
Chant Mass XI Orbis factor
Qui terrena triumphat (Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni)
O bone Jesu (Claudio Monteverdi)
12:00 p.m.  Mass in Spanish with cantor

Sunday, September 7, 2025

8:00 a.m.  Mass in English with cantor
10:00 a.m.  Solemn Mass with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Missa O passi sparsi (Orlande de Lassus)
In te speravi Domine (Lassus)
Panem de caelo (Heinrich Isaac)
Vide Domine afflictionem (Jean de la Fage)
12:00 p.m.  Mass in Spanish with cantor

Monday, September 8, 2025: Nativity of the Blessed Virgin

9:15 a.m.  Solemn Mass with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Missa Dixit Maria (Hans Leo Hassler)
Ego flos campi (Jacob Handl)
Salve Regina (Giuseppe Antonio Bernabei)
Beata viscera (Pérotin)
Sponsored by the Society of St. Hugh of Cluny for the Regina Pacis Academy community (all are welcome)

Sunday, September 14, 2025

8:00 a.m.  Mass in English with cantor
10:00 a.m.  Solemn Mass with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Vexilla Regis prodeunt (Guillaume Dufay)
Missa D'ung aultre amer (Josquin des Prez)
Crux fidelis (Felice Anerio)
O bone Jesu! Duo in me cognosco (Ludwig Senfl)
12:00 p.m.  Mass in Spanish with cantor

Sunday, September 21, 2025

8:00 a.m.  Mass in English with cantor
10:00 a.m.  Solemn Mass with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Missa La la maistre Pierre (Orlande de Lassus)
Ibant Apostoli gaudentes (Francisco Guerrero)
Exultet coelum laudibus (Tomás Luís de Victoria)
12:00 p.m.  Mass in Spanish with cantor

Sunday, September 28, 2025

8:00 a.m.  Mass in English with cantor
10:00 a.m.  Solemn Mass with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Missa L'homme armé (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina)
Domine in auxilium (Orlande de Lassus)
Salve Regina (Lassus)
Cum vocatus fueris ad nuptias (Cosimo Bottegari)
12:00 p.m.  Mass in Spanish with cantor