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Music for the Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Prelude: Von Gott will ich nicht lassen (BuxWV 220) (Dietrich Buxtehude, c.1637-1707)
Hymn at the Procession: Come, Labor On (Ora labora) (T. Tertius Noble, 1867-1953)
Missa Simile est regnum caelorum (Alonso Lobo, 1555-1617)
Gregorian Mass of the Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost: Salus populi
Motet at the Offertory: Simile est regnum caelorum à 4 (Francisco Guerrero, 1528-1599)
Motet at the Communion: Et egressus circa horam tertiam (Simile est, secunda pars) (Guerrero)
Postlude: Praeludium in G Major (Nicolaus Bruhns, 1665-1697)

Music for the Twenty-Sixth Sunday of the Year
(Missale Romanum of 2002, 11:30 a.m.)
His Excellency Frank J. Caggiano, celebrant
Hymn at the Procession: Immortal, Invisible, God Only Wise (St. Denio)
Introit: Omnia quae fecisti (plainsong, mode iii)
Kyrie, Sanctus, Agnus Dei: Missa Orbis factor (Vatican Gradual, Mass XI)
Gloria: Missa de Angelis (Vatican Gradual, Mass VIII)
Alleluia: Paratum cor meum (plainsong, mode iii)
At the Blessing of the Statue of St. Robert Bellarmine: O Doctor... beate Roberte (plainsong, mode ii)
Offertory: Super flumina Babylonis (plainsong, mode i)
Motet at the Offertory: Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring (Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685-1750)
Communion: Memento verbi (plainsong, mode iv)
Motet at the Communion: How Dazzling Fair (Charles Wood, 1866-1926)
Marian antiphon: Salve Regina (plainsong, mode v)
Organ music as above

Monday, 19 September 2016, 10:00 a.m.
Requiem Mass for Patricia Sidas
(Missale Romanum of 1962)
Missa pro defunctis (Francisco Guerrero, 1528-1599)
Introit: Requiem æternam (Guerrero)
Gradual: Requiem æternam (Guerrero)
Tract: Absolve Domine (plainsong, mode viii)
Sequence: Dies iræ (plainsong, mode i)
Offertory: Domine Jesu Christe (Guerrero)
Communion: Lux æterna (Guerrero)
Motet at the Communion: Ave verum corpus (William Byrd, 1540-1623)
At the absolution: Libera me, Domine (plainsong, mode i)
At the procession to the cemetery: In paradisum (plainsong, mode vii)

Music for the Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Prelude: Fantasia [in F] (from the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book) (Peter Philips, c.1560-1628)
Mass for Five Voices (William Byrd, 1540-1623)
Gregorian Mass of the Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost: Da pacem Domine
Motet at the Offertory: Tribue Domine (Byrd)
Motet at the Communion: Te deprecor; Gloria Patri qui creavit (secunda et tertia pares) (Byrd)
Postlude: Organ Sonata in G: Allegro maestoso (Op. 28) (Edward Elgar, 1857-1934)

Music for the Twenty-Sixth Sunday of the Year
(Missale Romanum of 2002)
Hymn at the Procession: Christ Is Made the Sure Foundation (Westminster Abbey)
Introit: Salus populi ego (plainsong, mode iv)
Kyrie, Sanctus, Agnus Dei: Missa Orbis factor (Vatican Gradual, Mass XI)
Gloria: Missa de Angelis (Vatican Gradual, Mass VIII)
Alleluia: Confitemini Domino (plainsong, mode ii)
Offertory: Si ambulavero (plainsong, mode viii)
Motet at the Offertory: O For a Closer Walk With God (Charles Villiers Stanford, 1852-1924)
Communion: Tu mandasti (plainsong, mode v)
Motet at the Communion: Verily, verily, I say unto you (Thomas Tallis, c.1505-1585)
Marian antiphon: Salve Regina (plainsong, mode v)
Organ music as above

Tuesday, 13 September 2016, 4:00 p.m.
Year's Mind Requiem Mass for Francesco Maria Martelli
(Missale Romanum of 1962)
Missa pro defunctis (plainsong)
Motet at the Communion: Sicut cervus (Johannes Ockeghem, 1410-1497)

Music for the Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Prelude: Prélude pour le dix-septième dimanche après la Pentecôte (from L’Orgue mystique) (Charles Tournemire, 1870-1937)
Hymn at the Procession: O God, Beyond All Praising (Thaxted)
Missa Orbis factor (Vatican Gradual, Mass XI)
Gregorian Mass of the Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost: Justus es Domine
Motet at the Offertory: Oravi Dominum Deum meum (Constanzo Porta, c.1529-1601)
Motet at the Communion: Quis numerare queat (prima et secunda pares) (Loyset Compère, c.1445-1518)
Postlude: Choral Alleluiatique No. 2 (pour le dix-septième dimanche après la Pentecôte) (Tournemire)

Music for the Twenty-Fourth Sunday of the Year
(Missale Romanum of 2002, 11:30 a.m.)
Hymn at the Procession: O God, Beyond All Praising (Thaxted)
Introit: Da pacem, Domine (plainsong, mode i)
Kyrie, Sanctus, Agnus Dei: Missa Orbis factor (Vatican Gradual, Mass XI)
Gloria: Missa de Angelis (Vatican Gradual, Mass VIII)
Alleluia: Timebunt gentes (plainsong, mode i)
Offertory: Precatus est Moyses (plainsong, mode viii)
Motet at the Offertory: Jesu, Rex admirabilis (Palestrina)
Communion: Dico vobis: gaudium (plainsong, mode v)
Hymn at the Communion: Our Father, We Have Wandered (Passion Chorale)
Marian antiphon: Salve Regina (plainsong, mode v)

Saturday, 10 September 2016, 12:00 noon
Music for the Mass in Honor of Our Lady of Vailankanni
(Missale Romanum of 2002)
Hymn at the Procession: Aviyilum enrum
Missa Deus Genitor alme (Vatican Gradual, Mass XVIII)
Hymn at the Offertory: Pyaar se laaye
Communion: Beata viscera (plainsong, mode i)
Hymn at the Communion: Pranon se pyaare
Hymn at the Communion: Iyecuve
Hymn at the Procession: Immaculate Mary (Lourdes hymn)

Saturday, 10 September 2016, 9:00 a.m.
Music for the Feast of St. Nicholas of Tolentino
(Missale Romanum of 1962)
Prelude: Improvisation
Missa Dominator Deus (Vatican Gradual, Mass XV)
Gregorian Mass of a Confessor not a Bishop: Justus ut palma
Hymn at the Offertory: Iste confessor (plainsong, mode viii)
Postlude: Improvisation

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

Thursday, 8 September 2016, 9:00 a.m.
Music for the Feast of the Nativity of Our Lady
(Missale Romanum of 2002)
Prelude: O gloriosa virginum (Op. 77, No. 3) (Flor Peeters, 1903-1986)
Hymn at the Procession: Immaculate Mary (Lourdes Hymn)
Kyrie Orbis factor (Vatican Gradual, Mass XI)
Gloria: Missa de Angelis (Vatican Gradual, Mass VIII)
Alleluia: Solemnitas gloriosae (plainsong, mode vii)
Hymn at the Offertory: O Sanctissima
Sanctus & Agnus Dei: Missa Deus Genitor alme (Vatican Gradual, Mass XVIII)
Communion: Beatam me dicent (plainsong, mode vi)
Motet at the Communion: Ave Maria (Franz Schubert, 1797-1828)
Marian antiphon: Salve Regina (plainsong, mode v)
Postlude: Fugue in D Major (BWV 532/2) (Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685-1750)

This Mass marks the traditional opening of the school year
for Regina Pacis Academy.

Music for the Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Prelude: Partitas on O Gott, du frommer Gott (BWV 767) (Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685-1750)
Hymn at the Procession: O God, Our Help in Ages Past (St. Anne)
Missa Si bona suscepimus (Cristóbal de Morales, c.1500-1553)
Gregorian Mass of the Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost: Miserere mihi Domine
Motet at the Offertory: Domine in auxilium (Orlando di Lasso, c.1532-1594)
Motet at the Communion: Si bona suscepimus (Philippe Verdelot, c.1480-c.1532)
Postlude: Partitas on O Gott, du frommer Gott (BWV 767) (Bach)

Music for the Twenty-Third Sunday of the Year
(Missale Romanum of 2002, 11:30 a.m.)
Hymn at the Procession: O God, Our Help in Ages Past (St. Anne)
Introit: Justus es Domine (plainsong, mode i)
Kyrie, Sanctus, Agnus Dei: Missa Orbis factor (Vatican Gradual, Mass XI)
Gloria: Missa de Angelis (Vatican Gradual, Mass VIII)
Alleluia: Domine, exaudi orationem meam (plainsong, mode vii)
Offertory: Oravi Deum meum (plainsong, mode iv)
Hymn at the Offertory: All My Hope On God Is Founded (Michael)
Communion: Vovete et reddite (plainsong, mode ii)
Hymn at the Communion: Take Up Your Cross (O Jesu, mi dulcissime)
Marian antiphon: Salve Regina (plainsong, mode v)
Organ music as above

Music for the Feast of St. Augustine,
patron of the Diocese of Bridgeport
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Prelude: Introduction-Choral (from Suite Gothique) (Léon Boëllmann, 1862-1897)
Hymn at the Procession: This Is The Feast Day of the Lord’s True Witness (Iste confessor)
Missa In illo tempore (Claudio Monteverdi, 1567-1643)
Gregorian Mass of a Doctor: In medio Ecclesiae
Motet at the Offertory: Currite, currite, populi, currite (Monteverdi)
Motet at the Communion: O Doctor optime (Francisco Guerrero, 1528-1599)
Antiphon at the Veneration of St. Augustine’s Relics: O Doctor optime (plainsong, mode ii)
Postlude: Fantasia in G Major (BWV 572) (Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685-1750)

Music for the Twenty-Second Sunday of the Year
(Missale Romanum of 2002, 11:30 a.m.)
Hymn at the Procession: Come, Thou Almighty King (Italian Hymn)
Introit: Miserere mihi Domine (plainsong, mode viii)
Kyrie, Sanctus, Agnus Dei: Missa Orbis factor (Vatican Gradual, Mass XI)
Gloria: Missa de Angelis (Vatican Gradual, Mass VIII)
Alleluia: Cantate Domino (plainsong, mode i)
Offertory: Domine, in auxilium meum (plainsong, mode vi)
Hymn at the Offertory: When I Survey the Wondrous Cross (Rockingham)
Communion: Domine, memorabor (plainsong, mode viii)
Hymn at the Communion: Sweet Sacrament Divine (Divine Mysteries)
Marian antiphon: Salve Regina (plainsong, mode v)
Organ music as above