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Music for Christmas Eve, 24 December 2015

Thursday, 24 December 2015, 4:00 p.m.
Music for the Vigil Mass of Christmas
(Missale Romanum of 2002)
Prelude: Improvisation
Hymn at the Procession: O Come, All Ye Faithful (Adeste Fideles, arr. David Willcocks)
Introit: Hodie scietis (plainsong, mode vi)
Mass of the Sacred Heart (Richard Rice, b.1962)
Offertory: Tollite portas (plainsong, mode ii)
Hymn at the Offertory: Joy to the World (Antioch)
Communion: Revelabitur (plainsong, mode i)
Carol at the Communion: Chanticleer’s Carol (Vernon Hoyle, b.1948)
Carol at the Communion: Adam lay ybounden (Boris Ord, 1897-1961)
Hymn at the Retiring Procession: Hark! The Herald Angels Sing (Mendelssohn, arr. Willcocks)
Postlude: In dulci jubilo (BWV 729) Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685-1750)

Music for the Fourth Sunday of Advent, 20 December 2015

Music for the Fourth Sunday of Advent
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Hymn at the procession: Veni, veni, Emmanuel (plainsong, mode i)
Missa Inviolata (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, c.1525-1594)
Gregorian Mass of the Fourth Sunday of Advent: Rorate caeli
Motet at the Offertory: Alma Redemptoris Mater (Peter Philips, c.1560-1628)
Motet at the Communion: Veni Domine et noli tardare (Francisco Guerrero, 1528-1599)
Marian antiphon: Alma Redemptoris Mater (plainsong, mode v)

Music for the Fourth Sunday of Advent
(Missale Romanum of 2002, 11:30 a.m.)
Hymn at the Procession: O Come, O Come, Emmanuel (Veni, veni, Emmanuel)
Missa pro Dominicis Adventus & Quadragesimae (Vatican Gradual, Mass XVII)
Alleluia: Veni Domine (plainsong, mode iii)
Offertory: Ave Maria (plainsong, mode viii)
Motet at the Offertory: Ave Maria (Louis Vierne, 1870-1937)
Hymn at the Offertory: Creator of the Stars of Night (Conditor alme siderum)
Communion: Ecce virgo concipiet (plainsong, mode i)
Hymn at the Communion: Rorate caeli (plainsong, mode i)
Marian antiphon: Alma Redemptoris Mater (plainsong, mode v)

Music for the Third Sunday of Advent, 13 December 2015

Music for the Third Sunday of Advent
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Prelude: Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme (BWV 645) (Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685-1750)
Motet at the Procession: O Thou, the Central Orb (Charles Wood, 1866-1926)
Introit: Gaudete (plainsong, mode i) [Student Schola] Missa pro Dominicis Adventus & Quadragesimae (Vatican Gradual, Mass XVII)
Gradual: Qui sedes, Domine (plainsong, mode vii) [Student Schola] Alleluia: Excita, Domine (plainsong, mode iv) [Student Schola] Offertory: Benedixisti (plainsong, mode iv) [Student Schola] Motet at the Offertory: Gaudete omnes (Hieronymus Praetorius, 1560-1629)
Communion: Dicite: Pusillanimes (plainsong, mode vii) [Student Schola] Motet at the Communion: Conditor alme siderum (Guillaume Dufay, c.1397-1474)
Postlude: Nun komm der Heiden Heiland (BWV 660) (Bach)

The St. Mary’s Schola Cantorum
The St. Cecilia Student Schola

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Music for the Third Sunday of Advent
(Missale Romanum of 2002, 11:30 a.m.)
Hymn at the Procession: O Come, Divine Messiah (Venez, Divin Messie)
Introit: Gaudete (plainsong, mode i)
Missa pro Dominicis Adventus & Quadragesimae (Vatican Gradual, Mass XVII)
Alleluia: Excita, Domine (plainsong, mode iv)
Offertory: Benedixisti (plainsong, mode iv)
Hymn at the Offertory: Wake, Awake, For Night Is Flying (Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme)
Communion: Dicite: Pusillanimes (plainsong, mode vii)
Motet at the Communion: Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring (Bach)
Marian antiphon: Alma Redemptoris Mater (plainsong, mode v)
Organ music as above

Music for the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, 12 December 2015

Saturday, 12 December 2015, 9:00 a.m.
Music for the Feast of Our Lady of Gaudalupe
(Missale Romanum of 1962)
Missa cum jubilo (Vatican Gradual, Mass IX)
Gregorian Mass of Our Lady of Gaudalupe: Salve sancta Parens
Hymn at the Offertory: Ave maris stella (plainsong, mode i)
Marian antiphon: Alma Redemptoris Mater (plainsong, mode v)

The second Saturday of every month is a Missa cantata celebrated

for the intentions of the Gospel of Life Society at St. Mary’s.

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Saturday, 12 December 2015, 4:00 p.m.
Music for the Feast of Our Lady of Gaudalupe
(Missale Romanum of 2002)
Hymn at the Procession: Desde el cielo (Las Apariciones Guadalupana)
Missa de Angelis (Vatican Gradual, Mass VIII)
Alleluia: Flores apparuerunt (plainsong, mode viii)
Offertory: Elegi et sanctificavi (plainsong, mode v)
Hymns at the Offertory: Oh María, Madre Mía; Immaculate Mary (Lourdes hymn)
Communion: Non fecit taliter (plainsong, mode viii)
Motet at the Communion: Ave Maria (attrib. Victoria)
Hymn at the Communion: O Sanctissima
Hymn at the Retiring Procession: Mañanitas a la Virgen de Guadalupe
Procession through Norwalk to follow Mass

The St. Mary’s Choir
Coro Hispano de Santa María

Advent Lessons & Carols, 11 December 2015, 7:00 p.m.

St. Mary's warmly invites you & your family
to its annual service of
Advent Lessons & Carols
Friday, 11 December 2015, 7:00 p.m.

The St. Mary's Choir
El Coro Hispano de Santa María
The St. Mary's Student Schola

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David J. Hughes, Organist & Choirmaster
Charles A. Weaver, Associate Director
Welder Gomez, Spanish Choir Director
William V. Riccio, Jr., Assistant Organist
Robert Rudesill, Assistant Organist
Samuel A. Schmitt, Student Schola Assistant Director

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Venite adoremus!

Bring your family & friends to prepare in your hearts a home
for Our Lord this Christmas! This simple & beautiful service,
in which readings from sacred scripture alternate with sung meditations,
illuminates a season of  joyful expectation.
Chants of Advent, choral motets, & congregational hymns
will culminate in Adoration & Benediction of Our Lord
in the Most Blessed Sacrament. A festive reception will follow.

For further information:
203-866-5546 x115
music@stmarynorwalk.net

Music for the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, 8 December 2015

Music for the Feast of the Immaculate Conception
(Missale Romanum of 2002, 12:10 p.m.)
Prelude: Saluto Angelico (from Vitraux Polychromes d’Anciennes Cathédrales) (Sigfrid Karg-Elert, 1877-1933)
Hymn at the Procession: Immaculate Mary (Lourdes Hymn)
Missa de Angelis (Vatican Gradual, Mass VIII)
Alleluia: Tota pulchra es (plainsong, mode i)
Hymn at the Offertory: Sing of Mary, Pure and Lowly (Pleading Saviour)
Communion: Gloriosa (plainsong, mode viii)
Marian antiphon: Alma Redemptoris Mater (plainsong, mode v)
Postlude: Improvisation

Music for the Feast of the Immaculate Conception
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 5:30 p.m.)
Prelude: Prélude à l’Introït pour l’Immaculée Conception (from L’Orgue Mystique) (Charles Tournemire, 1870-1939)
Missa Sicut lilium inter spinas (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, c.1525-1594)
Gregorian Mass of the Immaculate Conception: Gaudens gaudebo
Motet at the Offertory: Ave cujus conceptio (Nicholas Ludford, 1485-1557)
Motet at the Communion: Ave vera virginitas (Ave cujus conceptio, secund pars) (Ludford)
Postlude: Pièce términal pour l’Immaculée Conception (from L’Orgue Mystique) (Tournemire)

Music for Vespers of the Second Sunday of Advent, 6 December 2015

Sunday, 6 December 2015, 5:00 p.m.
Music for Second Vespers of the Second Sunday of Advent
Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite
Ecce in nubibus & Psalm 109 (mode i)
Urbs fortitudinis & Psalm 110 (mode vii)
Ecce apparebit Dominus & Psalm 111 (mode vii)
Montes et colles & Psalm 112 (mode i)
Ecce Dominus noster & Psalm 113 (mode iii)
Hymn: Creator alme siderum (plainsong, mode iv)
Magnificat antiphon: Tu es qui venturus es (mode viii)
O Salutaris Hostia (Hereford)
Tantum ergo (French melody)
Adoremus in aeternum (plainsong, mode v)

The sermon will be preached by Fr. Brian Gannon.

Music for the Second Sunday of Advent, 6 December 2015

Music for the Second Sunday of Advent
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Hymn at the Procession: On Jordan’s Bank (Winchester New)
Kyrie: Missa In te Domine speravi (Giovanni Francesco Anerio, 1567-1630)
Gregorian Mass of the Second Sunday of Advent: Populus Sion
Motet at the Offertory: Cum audisset Joannes (Manuel Cardoso, 1566-1650)
Sanctus & Benedictus: Missa In te Domine speravi (Anerio)
Agnus Dei: Missa In te Domine speravi (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, c.1525-1594)
Motet at the Communion: Alma Redemptoris Mater (Johannes Ockeghem, 1410-1497)
Marian antiphon: Alma Redemptoris Mater (plainsong, mode v)

Music for the Second Sunday of Advent
(Missale Romanum of 2002, 11:30 a.m.)
Hymn at the Procession: On Jordan’s Bank (Winchester New)
Introit: Populus Sion (plainsong, mode vii)
Missa pro Dominicis Adventus & Quadragesimae (Vatican Gradual, Mass XVII)
Alleluia: Laetatus sum (plainsong, mode i)
Offertory: Deus tu convertens (plainsong, mode iii)
Hymn at the Offertory: Hark, A Herald Voice is Sounding (Merton)
Communion: Jerusalem surge (plainsong, mode ii)
Hymn at the Communion: Come, Thou Long Expected Jesus (Stuttgart)
Marian antiphon: Alma Redemptoris Mater (plainsong, mode v)

Music for the First Sunday of Advent, 29 November 2015

Music for the First Sunday of Advent
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Hymn at the Procession: Lo, He Comes With Clouds Descending (Helmsley)
Mass for Five Voices (William Byrd, 1540-1623)
Gregorian Mass of the First Sunday of Advent: Ad te levavi
Motet at the Offertory: Domine præstolamur (prima pars) (Byrd)
Motet at the Communion: Veni Domine et noli tardare (Domine præstolamur, secunda pars) (Byrd)
Marian antiphon: Alma Redemptoris Mater (plainsong, mode v)

Music for the First Sunday of Advent
(Missale Romanum of 2002, 11:30 a.m.)
Hymn at the Procession: O Come, O Come, Emmanuel (Veni, veni Emmanuel)
Introit: Ad te levavi (plainsong, mode viii)
Missa pro Dominicis Adventus & Quadragesimae (Vatican Gradual, Mass XVII)
Alleluia: Ostende nobis Domine (plainsong, mode viii)
Offertory: Ad te Domine levavi (plainsong, mode ii)
Hymn at the Offertory: Lo, He Comes With Clouds Descending (Helmsley)
Communion: Dominus dabit benignitatem (plainsong, mode i)
Hymn at the Communion: Savior of the Nations, Come (Nun komm der Heiden Heiland)
Marian antiphon: Alma Redemptoris Mater (plainsong, mode v)

Music for the Feast of St. Sylvester (Thanksgiving Day), 26 November 2015

Thursday, 26 November 2015, 9:00 a.m.
Music for the Feast of St. Sylvester, Abbot
(Missale Romanum of 1962)
Prelude: Improvisation
Hymn at the Procession: We Gather Together (Kremser)
Missa de Angelis (Vatican Gradual, Mass VIII)
Gregorian Mass of an Abbot: Os justi
Motet at the Offertory: Ave Maria (attrib. Victoria)
Hymn at the Communion: Iste confessor (plainsong, mode viii)
Marian antiphon: Salve Regina (plainsong, mode v)
Postlude: Hymne d’action de grâces “Te Deum” (Jean Langlais, 1907-1991)

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