Music for December 2021

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.
Saturday, December 4, 2021

6:00 a.m.  Rorate Mass with cantors
Sunday Vigil Masses at 4:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m.

Sunday, December 5, 2021: Second Sunday of Advent

8:00 a.m.  Mass in English with cantor
10:00 a.m.  Solemn Mass with the Schola Cantorum and the Schola Juventutum (St. Mary's Youth Schola)
Kyrie (Mass XVII)
Ecce Dominus veniet (Michael Praetorius)
Sanctus and Agnus Dei (Anonymous, 14th c.)
Alma redemptoris mater (Orlande de Lassus)
Hymns: Veni Emmanuel, Verbum supernum prodiens
12:00 p.m.  Mass in Spanish with cantor

Wednesday, December 8: Feast of the Immaculate Conception

Daily Masses at 8:00 a.m. and 12:10 p.m.
7:00 p.m.  Solemn Mass with Women's Schola
Messe de Ste. Hildegarde (Hildegard of Bingen)
Polorum regina (Llibre Vermell de Montserrat)
O virgo splendens (Llibre Vermell de Montserrat)

Sunday, December 12, 2021: Third Sunday of Advent/Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe

8:00 a.m.  Mass in English with cantor
10:00 a.m.  Solemn Mass with the Schola Cantorum
Missa L'Homme armé (Josquin des Prez)
Canite tuba in Sion (Jacob Regnart)
Alma redemptoris mater (Francisco Guerrero)
12:00 p.m.  Mass in Spanish with cantors
Esclarecida madre (Francisco Guerrero)
Cachua Serranita (Codex Trujillo del Peru)

Sunday, December 19, 2021: Fourth Sunday of Advent

8:00 a.m.  Mass in English with cantor
10:00 a.m.  Solemn Mass with the Schola Cantorum
Missa Au travail suis (Johannes Ockeghem)
Ecce virgo concipiet (Cristóbal de Morales)
Alma redemptoris mater (Guillaume Dufay)
12:00 p.m.  Mass in Spanish with cantor

Friday, December 24, 2021: Vigil of Christmas

4:00 p.m.  Mass in English with cantor
7:00 p.m.  Mass in Spanish with cantor
11:30 p.m.  Carol Prelude to Midnight Mass with the Schola Cantorum
O little town of Bethlehem (St. Louis)
The Wexford Carol (traditional, Ireland)
What child is this? (Greensleeves)
Duermete niño lindo (traditional, Mexico)
Away in a manger (Cradle Song)
Cantique de Noël (Adolphe Adam)
Silent Night (Stille Nacht)

Saturday, December 25, 2021: Christmas Day

12:00 a.m. Midnight Mass with the Schola Cantorum
Missa O magnum mysterium (Tomás Luís de Victoria)
O regem caeli (Victoria)
Christe redemptor omnium (Victoria)
O magnum mysterium (Victoria)
8:00 a.m. Mass in English with cantor
10:00 a.m. Solemn Mass with the Schola Cantorum
Missa Dies sanctificatus (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina)
Viderunt omnes (excerpt) (Léonin)
Tui sunt caeli (William Byrd)
Viderunt omnes (Orlande de Lassus)
Hodie Christus natus est (Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck)
1:00 p.m. Mass in Spanish with cantor

Sunday, December 26, 2021: Sunday in the Octave of Christmas

8:00 a.m.  Mass in English with cantor
10:00 a.m.  Solemn Mass with the Schola Cantorum
Missa Ich stund an einem Morgen (Jacobus Handl)
O admirabile commercium (Thomas Stolzer)
Resonet in laudibus (Orlande de Lassus)
12:00 p.m.  Mass in Spanish with cantor

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