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Music for April 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, April 6, 2025

8:00 a.m.  Mass in English with cantor
10:00 a.m.  Solemn Mass with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Asperges me (Cristóbal de Morales)
Missa Non è lasso martire (Leonhard Lechner)
Confitebor tibi Domine (Orlande de Lassus)
Derelinquat impius (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina)
Ave regina caelorum (Johannes Le Febure)
12:00 p.m.  Mass in Spanish with cantor

HOLY WEEK

Sunday, April 13, 2025: Palm Sunday

8:00 a.m.  Mass in English with cantor
10:00 a.m.  Palm Sunday Liturgy with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum and St. Mary's Youth Schola
"Dry Mass" of the Palms * Outdoor Procession * Mass of the Passion
Asperges me (Cristóbal de Morales)
Pueri hebraeorum (Jacob Regnart)
Pueri hebraeorum (Tomás Luís de Victoria)
Occurrunt turbae (Giuseppe Bernabei)
Missa Dominica Palmarum (Michael Haydn)
St. Matthew Passion (Victoria)
Improperium (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina)
O Domine Jesu Christe (Francisco Guerrero)
Vexilla Regis prodeunt (Victoria)
12:00 p.m.  Sung Mass in Spanish (held in the gymnasium in the school building)

Wednesday, April 16, 2025: Spy Wednesday

Daily Mass at 12:10 p.m.
7:00 p.m.  Tenebrae of Maundy Thursday with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
In monte Oliveti (Giovanni Battista Martini)
Responsoria (Michael Haydn)
Benedictus Dominus Deus (Johannes Martini)
Miserere (Charles Gounod)

Thursday, April 17, 2025: Maundy Thursday

7:00 p.m.  Solemn Mass in Cena Domini with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Messa breve (Giovanni Rovetta)
Christus factus est (att. Felice Anerio)
Dextera Domini (Giovanni Battista Martini)
Coenantibus illis (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina)
Tristis est anima mea (Orlande de Lassus)
Pange lingua (Tomás Luís de Victoria)
9:0o p.m.  Vespers and Stripping of the Altars
9:30 p.m.  Vigil begins before the Blessed Sacrament (at the Altar of Repose in the lower church chapel)

Friday, April 18, 2025: Good Friday

11:00 a.m.  Stations of the Cross (Latin, English, and Spanish)
3:00 p.m.  The Mass of the Presanctified with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
St. John Passion (Tomás Luís de Victoria)
Reproaches (Victoria)
Crux fidelis (att. John IV of Portugal)
Vexilla Regis prodeunt (Anton Bruckner)
Vere languores (Victoria)
Miserere (Victoria)
7:00 p.m.  Procession of the Cristo Muerto and Burial of the Body of Christ with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Responsoria (Michael Haydn)
Miserere in d minor (Antonio Lotti)

Saturday, April 19, 2025: Holy Saturday

12:30 p.m.  Blessing of Easter Food (gym)
7:00 p.m.  The Great Vigil of Easter with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Sicut cervus (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina)
Missa Gaudeamus omnes (François Cosset)
Regina caeli (Orlande de Lassus)
Dum transisset Sabbatum (John Taverner)
Magnificat (Cristóbal de Morales)
11:30 p.m.  Festive Easter Reception (in the gymnasium of the school building)

Sunday, April 20, 2025: Easter Sunday

8:00 a.m.  Mass in English with cantor
10:00 a.m.  Solemn Mass with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Missa Gaudeamus omnes (François Cosset)
Terra tremuit (William Byrd)
Christus resurgens (Orlande de Lassus)
Pascha nostrum (Byrd)
In resurrectione tua (Byrd)
12:00 p.m.  Mass in Spanish with cantor

Sunday, April 27, 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

Music for March 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, March 2, 2025

8:00 a.m.  Mass in English with cantor
10:00 a.m.  Solemn Mass with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Missa Ave regina caelorum (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina)
Media vita (Henry Du Mont)
Ecce ascendimus Hierosolimam (Francisco Guerrero)
Ave regina caelorum (Orlande de Lassus)
12:00 p.m.  Mass in Spanish with cantor

Wednesday, March 5, 2025

8:00 a.m.  Low Mass with imposition of ashes
12:10 p.m.  Sung Mass in English with imposition of ashes
6:00 p.m.  Liturgia de la Palabra en Español con la imposición de cenizas
7:00 p.m.  Solemn Mass with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Inter vestibulum (Cristóbal de Morales)
Missa Inter vestibulum (Francisco Guerrero)
Exaltabo te (Orlande de Lassus)
Ecce nunc tempus (Guerrero)

Sunday, March 9, 2025: Lent I

8:00 a.m.  Mass in English with cantor
10:00 a.m.  Solemn Mass with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Missa Emendemus in melius (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina)
Scapulis suis (Orlande de Lassus)
Derelinquat impius (Palestrina)
Emendemus in melius (William Byrd)
12:00 p.m.  Mass in Spanish with cantor

3:00 p.m. Special Concert: Violinist Hana Mundiya in Recital

Sunday, March 16, 2025: Lent II

8:00 a.m.  Mass in English with cantor
10:00 a.m.  Solemn Mass with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Missa Meditabor (Terrence B. Fay)
Meditabor in mandatis tuis (Orlande de Lassus)
Tribulationes civitatum (William Byrd)
O nata lux (Thomas Tallis)
12:00 p.m.  Mass in Spanish with cantor

Wednesday, March 19, 2025: St. Joseph's Day

9:15 a.m.  Solemn Mass with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Missa L’hora passa (Ludovico da Viadana)
Beatus vir (Tomás Luis de Victoria)
Joseph fili David (Francesco Feroci)
Sponsored by the Society of St. Hugh of Cluny for the Regina Pacis Academy community (all are welcome)

Daily Mass as usual at 12:10 p.m.

Sunday, March 23, 2025: Lent III

8:00 a.m.  Mass in English with cantor
10:00 a.m.  Solemn Mass with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Missa tertii toni (Giovanni Matteo Asola)
In illo tempore, erat Dominus Jesus (Guerrero)
Ave vera caro Christi (Anonymous, 1502)
12:00 p.m.  Mass in Spanish with cantor

Sunday, March 30, 2025: Lent IV (Laetare)

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
Missa Caça (Cristóbal de Morales)
Laudate Dominum (Kaspar Ett)
Accepit ergo Jesus panes (Manuel Cardoso)
Ave regina caelorum (Francisco Guerrero)
12:00 p.m.  Mass in Spanish with cantor

 

Harp and Violin Concert: Sun. Feb. 23 at 3PM

"Across Waters": Italian music in the British Isles. Featuring Lydia Becker, baroque violin; Amanda Beranek, triple harp; and Nathan Francisco, baroque cello. The violin emerged as a virtuosic instrument in 17th century Italy, but its popularity quickly spread throughout Europe thanks to itinerant musicians. As the instrument found its way to the British Isles, an…
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Music for January 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.
Wednesday, January 1, 2025

10:00 a.m.  Solemn Mass with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Missa Dies sanctificatus (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina)
In illo tempore (Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck)
Mirabile mysterium (Jacob Handl)

Sunday, January 5, 2025

8:00 a.m.  Mass in English with cantor
10:00 a.m.  Solemn Mass with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Missa brevis (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina)
In nomine Jesu (Jacob Handl)
Alma redemptoris mater (Giuseppe Antonio Bernabei)
12:00 p.m.  Mass in Spanish with cantor

Monday, January 6, 2025

9:15 a.m.  Solemn Mass with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Missa sexti toni (Costanzo Porta)
Ab oriente (Jacob Handl)
Tribus miraculis (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina)
Sponsored by the Society of St. Hugh of Cluny for the Regina Pacis Academy community (all are welcome)
7:00 p.m.  Solemn Mass with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Missa Quem dicunt homines (Cristóbal de Morales)
Videntes stellam (Orlande de Lassus)
Tribus miraculis (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina)

Sunday, January 12, 2025

8:00 a.m.  Mass in English with cantor
10:00 a.m.  Solemn Mass with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Missa Qual è il più grande Amor (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina)
Unam petii a Domino (William Byrd)
Fili, quid fecisti nobis (Orlande de Lassus)
12:00 p.m.  Mass in Spanish with cantor

Sunday, January 19, 2025

8:00 a.m.  Mass in English with cantor
10:00 a.m.  Solemn Mass with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Missa Salvum me fac (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina)
Deficiente vino (Anonymous, 16th c.)
Alma Redemptoris Mater (Guillaume Dufay)
12:00 p.m.  Mass in Spanish with cantor

Friday, January 24, 2025

9:15 a.m.  Solemn Mass (Novus Ordo) with Bishop Caggiano for the Regina Pacis Academy community, sung by the Regina Pacis Academy Schola
Chant Mass IX Cum jubilo
Dies est laetitiae (Piae Cantiones)
Polorum regina (Llibre Vermell de Montserrat)
Daily Mass at 12:10 p.m.

Sunday, January 26, 2025

8:00 a.m.  Mass in English with cantor
10:00 a.m.  Solemn Mass with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Perger Präludium (Anton Bruckner)
Kronstorfer Messe (Bruckner)
Gloria (Chant Mass XI Orbis factor)
Dextera Domini (Bruckner)
Alma Redemptoris Mater (Peter Griesbacher)
12:00 p.m.  Mass in Spanish with cantor

Music for December 2024

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 1, 2024: Advent I

8:00 a.m.  Mass in English with cantor
10:00 a.m.  Solemn Mass with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Conditor alme siderum (Guillaume Dufay)
Missa syllabica (Arvo Pärt)
Veni Domine et noli tardare (Francisco Guerrero)
Dominus dabit benignitatem (Alvise Balbi)
Alma Redemptoris Mater (Jean L'héritier)
12:00 p.m.  Mass in Spanish with cantor

Saturday, December 7, 2024

6:00 a.m.  Rorate Mass with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Chant Mass X ("Alme pater")
Quem terra, pontus (William Byrd)
Sunday Vigil Masses at 4:00 p.m. (English) and 7:00 p.m. (Spanish)

Sunday, December 8, 2024: Advent II

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
Chant Mass IX ("Cum jubilo")
Ave Maria (Jacob Handl)
Alma Redemptoris Mater (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina)
12:00 p.m.  Mass in Spanish with cantor

Monday, December 9, 2024: Feast of the 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 Sancta Maria (Nicolas Gombert)
Rosa delectabilis / Regali ex progenie / Regalis exoritur (Anonymous, 14th-c. English)

Thursday, December 12, 2024: Our Lady of Guadalupe

Daily Masses at 8:00 a.m. and 12:10 p.m.
1:15 p.m.  Solemn Mass with the Regina Pacis Academy Scholas
Chant Mass IX ("Cum jubilo")
Tota pulchra es (Dom Joseph Pothier)
7:00 p.m.  Mass in Spanish with cantor
Followed by a festive reception in the gym

Sunday, December 15, 2024: Advent III

8:00 a.m.  Mass in English with cantor
10:00 a.m.  Solemn Mass with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Missa Hic est praecursor (Duarte Lobo)
Gaudete omnes (Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck)
Ne irascaris Domine (William Byrd)
12:00 p.m.  Mass in Spanish with cantor

Sunday, December 22, 2024: 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)
Missa Myns liefkens bruyn ooghen
(Jheronimus Vinders)
Ecce Dominus veniet (Michael Praetorius)
Alma Redemptoris Mater (Johannes Ockeghem)
12:00 p.m.  Mass in Spanish with cantor

Tuesday, December 24, 2024: Christmas Eve

4:00 p.m.  Mass in English with cantor
11:30 p.m.  Choral Prelude to Midnight Mass with Christmas Carols
Concerto grosso in G minor, Op. 6, no. 8 "fatto per la notte di Natale" (Arcangelo Corelli)
While shepherds watched their flocks by night (Winchester Old)
I know a rose-tree springing (Michael Praetorius)
Serafín que con dulce harmonia (Joan Cererols)
Silent Night (Stille Nacht)

Wednesday, December 25, 2024: Christmas Day

12:00 a.m.  Midnight Mass with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Messe de minuit pour Noël (Marc-Antoine Charpentier)
Quem vidistis pastores (Tomás Luís de Victoria)
O magnum mysterium – Beata virgo (William Byrd)
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)
O magnum mysterium (Victoria)
12:00 p.m.  Mass in Spanish with cantor

Sunday, December 29, 2024

8:00 a.m.  Mass in English with cantor
10:00 a.m.  Solemn Mass with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Missa Ich stund an einem Morgen (Jacob Handl)
Quem vidistis pastores (Orlande de Lassus)
Resonet in laudibus (Lassus)
12:00 p.m.  Mass in Spanish with cantor

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