Music for December 2025

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.
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
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)
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)
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

12:00 p.m.  Mass in Spanish with cantor

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