Category Archives: Music

Music for Ash Wednesday (Missale Romanum of 1970, 12:10 p.m.)
Missa pro Feriis Adventus & Quadragesimae (Vatican Gradual, Mass XVIII)
Processional Hymn: Forty Days and Forty Nights (Heinlein)
At the imposition of ashes: Parce Domine (plainsong, mode i)
Hymn at the Offertory: Again We Keep This Solemn Fast (Erhalt uns Herr)
Communion: Qui meditabitur (plainsong, mode iii)
Hymn at the Communion: O Sun of Justice (Jesu Dulcis Memoria)
Hymn at the Retiring Procession: Have Mercy, Lord, on Us (Southwell)

Music for Ash Wednesday (Missale Romanum of 1962, 5:30 p.m.)
Antiphon at the blessing of ashes: Exaudi nos, Domine (plainsong, mode vii)
Antiphons at the imposition of ashes: Immutemur (plainsong, mode i), etc.
Gregorian Mass of Ash Wednesday: Misereris omnium
Kyrie: Vatican Gradual, Kyrie II "ad libitum" (plainsong, mode i)
Sanctus: Vatican Gradual, Sanctus II "ad libitum" (plainsong, mode iv)
Agnus Dei: Vatican Gradual, Agnus Dei I "ad libitum" (plainsong, mode viii)
Hymn at the Communion: Jesu, quadragenariae (plainsong, mode iv)

Music for Quinquagesima Sunday (Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Prelude: Canzonetta in D Minor (BuxWV 168) (Dietrich Buxtehude, c.1637-1707)
Missa D'ung aultre amer (Josquin des Prez, c.1450-1521)
Gregorian Mass of Quinquagesima: Esto mihi
Motet at the Offertory: In illo tempore: assumpsit Jesus (Cristóbal de Morales, c.1500-1553)
Motet at the Communion: Tu solus qui facis mirabilia (Josquin)
Postlude: O Lamm Gottes unschuldig (BWV 656) (Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685-1750)

Music for the Sixth Sunday of the Year (Missale Romanum of 1970, 11:30 a.m.)
Processional Hymn: O God, Our Help In Ages Past (St. Anne)
Missa de Angelis (Vatican Gradual, Mass VIII)
Alleluia: Cantate Domino (plainsong, mode i)
Motet at the Offertory: Laudate Dominum (Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni, 1657-1743)
Communion: Manducaverunt (plainsong, mode i)
Marian antiphon: Ave Regina caelorum (plainsong, mode vi)

Music for Sexagesima Sunday (Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Prelude: Was mein Gott will, das g’scheh allzeit (Max Reger, 1873-1916)
Missa sine nomine (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, c.1525-1594)
Gregorian Mass of Sexagesima: Exsurge
Motet at the Offertory: Perfice gressus meos (Palestrina)
Motet at the Communion: In illo tempore, cum turba plurima (Cristóbal de Morales, c.1500-1553)
Postlude: Praeludium in G minor (BuxWV 163) (Dietrich Buxtehude, c.1637-1707)

Music for the Fifth Sunday of the Year (Missale Romanum of 1970, 11:30 a.m.)
Processional Hymn: Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God Almighty (Nicaea)
Missa de Angelis (Vatican Gradual, Mass VIII)
Alleluia: Laudate Dominum (plainsong, mode ii)
Offertory: Perfice gressus meos (Franz Xaver Witt, 1834-1888)
Communion: Introibo (plainsong, mode viii)
Marian antiphon: Ave Regina caelorum (plainsong, mode vi)

Music for the Feast of the Purification of the BVM (Candlemas)
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 7:00 p.m.)
Prelude: Toccata avanti la Messa della Madonna (Girolamo Frescobaldi, 1583-1643)
At the blessing of candles: Lumen ad revelationem gentium (plainsong, mode viii)
At the procession: Adorna thalamum (plainsong, mode vi), etc.
Missa cum jubilo (Vatican Gradual, Mass IX)
Gregorian Mass of Candlemas: Suscepimus, Deus
Motet at the Offertory: Salve Mater (plainsong, mode v)
Hymn at the Communion: Ave Maris Stella (plainsong, mode i)
Postlude: Ricercare dopo il Credo (per la Messa “In Festis Beatae Mariae Virginis”) (Frescobaldi)

Music for Septuagesima Sunday (Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Prelude: Suite in F Major (Georg Böhm, 1661-1773)
Mass for Four Voices (William Byrd, 1540-1623)
Gregorian Mass of Septuagesima: Circumdederunt me
Motet at the Offertory: Simile est regnum caelorum (Fransisco Guerrero, 1528-1599)
Motet at the Communion: Circumdederunt me (Byrd)
Postlude: Toccata in D Minor (Johann Jakob Froberger, 1616-1667)

Music for the Fourth Sunday of the Year (Missale Romanum of 1970, 11:30 a.m.)
Processional Hymn: Love Divine, All Loves Excelling (Hyfrydol)
Missa de Angelis (Vatican Gradual, Mass VIII)
Alleluia: Adorabo ad templum (plainsong, mode vii)
Motet at the Offertory: Ave Maria (often attrib. Victoria)
Communion: Illumina faciem tuam (plainsong, mode i)
Hymn at the Communion: Ave Verum Corpus (plainsong, mode vi)
Marian antiphon: Alma Redemptoris Mater (plainsong, mode v)
Organ music as above

Music for the Third Sunday after the Epiphany (Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Prelude: Improvisation on a theme by Josquin
Missa Hercules Dux Ferrariae (Josquin des Prez, c.1450-1521)
Gregorian Mass of the Third Sunday after the Epiphany: Adorate Deum
Motet at the Offertory: Domine, non sum dignus (Tomás Luis de Victoria, 1548-1611)
Motet at the Communion: O Sacrum Convivium (Victoria)
Postlude: Canzonetta in G Major (BuxWV 171) (Dietrich Buxtehude, c.1637-1707)

Music for the Third Sunday of the Year (Missale Romanum of 1970, 11:30 a.m.)
Prelude: Liebster Jesu, wir sind hier (BWV 731) (J.S. Bach, 1685-1750)
Processional Hymn: Word of God, Come Down on Earth (Liebster Jesu, wir sind hier)
Missa de Angelis (Vatican Gradual, Mass VIII)
Alleluia: Dominus regnavit (plainsong, mode viii)
Motet at the Offertory: If Ye Love Me (Thomas Tallis, c.1505-1585)
Communion: Comedite pinguia (plainsong, mode viii)
Hymn at the Communion: Litany to the Holy Spirit (Peter Hurford, b.1930)
Marian antiphon: Alma Redemptoris Mater (plainsong, mode v)
Postlude: Canzonetta in G Major (BuxWV 171) (Buxtehude)

Music for the Second Sunday after the Epiphany (Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Prelude: Duo & Trio (from Suite de Premier Ton) (Louis-Nicolas Clérambault, 1676-1749)
Plainsong Mass for a Mean (John Sheppard, c.1515-1558)
Gregorian Mass of the Second Sunday after the Epiphany: Omnis terra
Motet at the Offertory: Laudate nomen ejus (secunda pars of Jubilate Deo) (Josquin des Prez, c.1450-1521)
Motet at the Communion: Tribus miraculis (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, c.1525-1594)
Postlude: Grand plain jeu & Fugue (from Suite de Premier Ton) (Clérambault)

Music for the Second Sunday of the Year (Missale Romanum of 1970, 11:30 a.m.)
Processional Hymn: From All That Dwell Below the Skies (Duke Street)
Missa de Angelis (Vatican Gradual, Mass VIII)
Alleluia: Laudate Deum (plainsong, mode iv)
Hymn at the Offertory: All My Hope On God Is Founded (Michael) (Herbert Howells, 1892-1983)
Communion: Dicit Andreas (plainsong, mode viii)
Marian antiphon: Alma Redemptoris Mater (plainsong, mode v)
Organ music as above

Music for the Feast of the Holy Family (Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Prelude: Puer natus in Bethlehem (BuxWV 217) (Dietrich Buxtdehude, c.1637-1707)
Kyrie: Missa Orbis factor (plainsong, mode i) [Children's Schola] Gloria, Sanctus, & Agnus Dei: Mass for Four Voices (1641) (Claudio Monteverdi, 1567-1643)
Gregorian Mass of the Holy Family: Exsultet gaudio
Hymn at the Offertory: Resonent in laudibus (plainsong, mode v) [Children's Schola] Motet at the Communion: Pueri concinite (Jacob Handl, 1550-1591)
Hymn at the Communion: Personent hodie (Gustav Holst, 1874-1934) [Children's Schola] Postlude: Fughetta super Vom himmel hoch da komm ich her (J.S. Bach, 1685-1750)

Music for the Feast of the Baptism of the Lord (Missale Romanum of 1970, 11:30 a.m.)
Processional Hymn: Songs of Thankfulness and Praise (Salzburg)
Missa de Angelis (Vatican Gradual, Mass VIII)
Alleluia: Benedictus qui venit (plainsong, mode ii)
Hymn at the Offertory: I Bind Unto Myself Today (St. Patrick's Breastplate)
Communion: Omnes qui in Christo (plainsong, mode ii)
Hymn at the Communion: When John Baptized by Jordan's River (Rendez à Dieu)
Marian antiphon: Alma Redemptoris Mater (plainsong, mode v)
Organ music as above

The St. Mary's Schola Cantorum is joined today by the St. Mary’s Children’s Schola at the 9:30 Extraordinary Form Mass.

During the restoration of the main church, Masses will be held in the lower chapel. Because of space constraints, the 9:30 Mass each Sunday will be a Missa cantata rather than a Missa solemnis. Weekly Solemn Masses will resume when the upper church is reopened in late March.

Music for the Feast of the Epiphany
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 7:00 p.m.)
Prelude: Wie Schön leuchtet der Morgenstern (BuxWV 223) (Dietrich Buxtehude, c.1637-1707)
Missa Fons bonitatis (Vatican Gradual, Mass II)
Gregorian Mass of the Epiphany: Ecce advenit
Hymn at the Offertory: O sola magnarum urbium (plainsong, mode iii)
Hymn at the Communion: Crudelis Herodes (plainsong, mode viii)
Postlude: Wie Schön leuchtet der Morgenstern (BuxWV 223) (Buxtehude)

Music for the Feast of the Most Holy Name of Jesus (Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Prelude: Christum wir sollen loben schon (BWV 611) (Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685-1750)
Missa Laudate Dominum (Orlando di Lasso, c.1532-1594)
Gregorian Mass of the Most Holy Name of Jesus: In nomine Jesu
Motet at the Offertory: Jesu dulcis memoria (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, c.1525-1594)
Motet at the Communion: In nomine Jesu (Jacob Handl, 1550-1591)
Postlude: Variations sur un Noël (Op. 20) (Marcel Dupré, 1886-1971)

Music for the Feast of the Epiphany (Missale Romanum of 1970, 11:30 a.m.)
Prelude: Les Mages (from La Nativité du Seigneur) (Olivier Messiaen, 1908-1992)
Processional Hymn: As With Gladness Men of Old (Dix)
Missa de Angelis (Vatican Gradual, Mass VIII)
Alleluia: Vidimus stellam (plainsong, mode ii)
Hymn at the Offertory: Brightest and Best of the Sons of the Morning (Morning Star; James P. Harding, 1850-1911)
Communion: Vidimus stellam (plainsong, mode iv)
Hymn at the Communion: How Brightly Beams the Morning Star (Wie Schön leuchtet der Morgenstern)
Marian antiphon: Alma Redemptoris Mater (plainsong, mode v)
Postlude: Variations sur un Noël (Op. 20) (Dupré)