About: David Hughes

Music for the Second Sunday of Advent (Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:00 a.m.)
Gregorian Mass for Sundays of Advent & Lent (Vatican Gradual, Mass XVII)
Gregorian Mass of the Second Sunday of Advent: Populus Sion
Motet at the Offertory: De caelo veniet (Jacob Handl, 1550-1591)
Motet at the Communion: Ierusalem surge (Giovanni Battista Martini, 1706-1784)

Music for the Second Sunday of Advent and Festival of Our Lady of Guadalupe
(Missale Romanum of 1970, 1:00 p.m.)
Missa de Angelis (Vatican Gradual, Mass VIII)
Hymns at the Offertory: Mañanitas a la Virgen de Guadalupe; Immaculate Mary (Lourdes)
Communion: Ierusalem surge (plainsong, mode ii)
Hymn at the Communion: O Sanctissima

Advent Lessons & Carols
Please join us for a ceremony of Advent Lessons & Carols on Friday, December 14th, at 7:00 p.m. Anthems, chants, and carols of the season will be interspersed with nine readings from Holy Scripture prophesying the birth of Our Lord. Music will be sung by the St. Mary’s Choir (11:00 a.m. Mass) and the Coro Hispano de Santa María (1:00 p.m. Mass), joined by guest organist Isabelle Demers. For further information, please contact the music office: music@stmarynorwalk.net or 203-866-5546 x115.

Available here, courtesy of the Society of St. Hugh of Cluny.

Prelude: Improvisation on the Introit Dignus est agnus

Mass Ordinary: Missa Octavi Toni (Orlando di Lassus, 1530-1594)

Alleluia: Potestas eius (plainsong, mode i)

Acclamation at the Offertory: Christus vincit (Ambrosian chant)

Communion: Sedebit Dominus Rex (plainsong, mode vi)

Motet at the Communion: Jesu, Rex admirabilis (G.P. da Palestrina, c.1525-1594)

Postlude: Hodie mecum eris in Paradiso (from Les sept Parôles du Christ) (Charles Tournemire, 1870-1939)

Prelude: Wir danken dir, Herr Jesu Christ [BuxWV 224] (Dietrich Buxtehude, c.1637-1707)

Mass Ordinary: Missa de Angelis (Vatican Gradual, Mass VIII)

Hymn at the Offertory: Come, Ye Thankful People, Come (St. George's Windsor)

Communion: In the sight of the angels (plainsong, mode viii)

Postlude: Te Deum in A Minor [Op. 59, No. 12] (Max Reger, 1873-1916)

Prelude: Apparition de l’Eglise éternelle (Olivier Messiaen, 1908-1992)

Alleluia: De profundis (plainsong, mode vii)

Hymn at the Offertory: Lord Christ, When First You Came to Earth (Mit Freuden zart)

Communion: Amen dico vobis (plainsong, mode i)

Motet at the Communion: O Bone Jesu (G.P. da Palestrina, c.1525-1594)

Postlude: Praeludium in F# Minor [BuxWV 146] (Dietrich Buxtehude, c.1637-1707)

Prelude: Prélude (from Messe basse pour tous les temps) (Gaston Litaize, 1909-1991)

Alleluia: Qui posuit (plainsong, mode iv)

Hymn at the Offertory: If There Be That Skills to Reckon (Lewes) (arr. Philip A. Prince)

Communion: Dominus regit me (plainsong, mode ii)

Organ meditation at the Communion: Communion (from Messe basse pour tous les temps) (Litaize)

Postlude: Prière d’action de grâces (from Messe basse pour tous les temps) (Litaize)

Prelude: Short Prelude in G Minor [BWV 558] (J.S. Bach, 1685-1750)

Mass Ordinary: Missa de Angelis (Vatican Gradual, Mass VIII)

Alleluia: O quam bonus (plainsong, mode i)

Motet at the Offertory: Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring (Bach)

Communion: Notas mihi fecisti (plainsong, mode vii)

Hymn at the Communion: Ave verum corpus (plainsong, mode vi)

Postlude: Fugue in G Minor [BWV 542] (Bach)

Introit: Requiem aeternam (plainsong, mode vi)

Alleluia: Requiem aeternam (plainsong, mode viii)

Hymn at the Offertory: I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say (Third Mode Melody) (Thomas Tallis)

Communion: Lux aeterna (plainsong, mode viii)

Prelude: Improvisation on the Introit Gaudeamus

Mass Ordinary: Missa de Angelis (Vatican Gradual, Mass VIII)

Hymn at the Offertory: For All the Saints (Sine Nomine)

Communion: Beati mundo corde (plainsong, mode i)

Hymn at the Communion: If There Be That Skills To Reckon (Lewes) (harm. & desc. Philip A. Prince)

Postlude: Toccata (Eugène Gigout)