Ascension Thursday is a Holy Day of Obligation. Masses will be offered on Thursday, May 26 at: 8:00 AM (Low Mass in Latin) 12:10 PM (English), and 7:00 PM (Solemn Mass in Latin with music provided by the Schola Cantorum). The Lord ascended into Heaven under His own power as God 40 days after His Resurrection,…
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A Note from Fr. Ringley—Una nota del p. Ringley
Happy Easter to all! I am very grateful to everyone who helped to make the Triduum reverent and beautiful. While many people, too numerous to name, worked behind the scenes at everything from cleaning, arranging the flowers, carrying things around, veiling the statues, and a multitude of other tasks, we are especially fortunate to have…
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Music for May 2022
| 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, May 1, 2022
8:00 a.m. Mass in English with cantor
10:00 a.m. Solemn Mass with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Missa Surrexit pastor bonus (Orlande de Lassus)
Agnus Dei (Thomas Morley)
Surrexit pastor bonus (Lassus)
Ego sum panis vivus (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina)
12:00 p.m. Mass in Spanish with cantor
Sunday, May 8, 2022
8:00 a.m. Mass in English with cantor
10:00 a.m. Solemn Mass with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Missa L'homme armé (Francisco Guerrero)
Regina caeli (Philippe Basiron)
In illo tempore...modicum (Cristóbal de Morales)
12:00 p.m. Mass in Spanish with cantor
Sunday, May 15, 2022
8:00 a.m. Mass in English with cantor
10:00 a.m. Solemn Mass with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Missa Alleluya (Jean Mouton)
Ego sum panis vivus (Tomás Luís de Victoria)
Regina caeli (Diego Ortiz)
12:00 p.m. Mass in Spanish with cantor
Sunday, May 22, 2022
8:00 a.m. Mass in English with cantor
10:00 a.m. Solemn Mass with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Missa Regina caeli (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina)
Benedicite gentes (Orlande de Lassus)
Cantate Domino (Orazio Vecchi)
Regina caeli (Francisco Guerrero)
12:00 p.m. Mass in Spanish with cantor
Thursday, May 26, 2022: Feast of the Ascension
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 a 3 (Alonso Alba)
Adoro te Domine (Francisco de Peñalosa)
Omnes gentes (André Campra)
Sunday, May 29, 2022
8:00 a.m. Mass in English with cantor
10:00 a.m. Solemn Mass with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Missa O rex gloriae (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina)
O rex gloriae (Palestrina)
Jesu nostra redemptio (Tomás Luís de Victoria)
12:00 p.m. Mass in Spanish with cantor
Schedule for Holy Week 2022
Full schedule of Masses, confessions, and other devotions for Holy Week 2022.
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Music for April 2022
| 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 3: Passion Sunday (Fifth Sunday of Lent)
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 arpeggione (Terrence B. Fay)
O crux, ave (Giaches de Wert)
O bone Jesu, duo in me cognosco (Ludwig Senfl)
Miserere mei, Deus (Hieronymus Praetorius)
12:00 p.m. Mass in Spanish with cantor
Sunday, April 10: Palm Sunday
8:00 a.m. Mass in English with cantor
10:00 a.m. Solemn Mass with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
"Dry Mass" of the Palms; Procession of the Palms; Mass of the Passion
Asperges me (Tomás Luís de Victoria)
Pueri hebraeorum vestimenta (Jacob Regnart)
Pueri hebraeorum portantes (Regnart)
Missa Adesto dolori meo (Jacobus Handl)
Passio secundum Mathaeum (Victoria)
Improperium (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina)
Officium de cruce (Loyset Compère)
O Domine Jesu Christe (Francisco Guerrero)
12:00 p.m. Mass in Spanish (offered downstairs in the lower chapel)
~ View full schedule for Holy Week, including confessions and other devotions ~
Wednesday, April 13: Spy Wednesday
Daily Masses at 8:00 a.m. and 12:10 p.m.
7:00 p.m. Tenebrae of Maundy Thursday
Responsoria (Orlande de Lassus)
Benedictus Dominus Deus (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina)
Miserere mei (Tomás Luís de Victoria)
Thursday, April 14: Maundy Thursday
7:00 p.m. Solemn Mass in Cena Domini
Missa Si bona suscepimus (Cristóbal de Morales)
Dextera Domini (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina)
O bone Jesu (Loyset Compère)
Ecce quam bonum (Jacobus Clemens non Papa)
Ave verum corpus (William Byrd)
Pange lingua (Tomás Luís de Victoria)
Tantum ergo (Charles Gounod)
followed by Vespers and Stripping of the Altars
and the Vigil at the Altar of Repose (downstairs chapel)
Friday, April 15: Good Friday
3:00 p.m. The Mass of the Presanctified
Passio secundum Joannem (Tomás Luís de Victoria)
Improperia (Ludwig Senfl)
Vexilla Regis (Guillaume Dufay)
Crux fidelis (att. King John IV of Portugal)
Vere languores (Victoria)
Miserere mei, Deus (Fabrizio Dentice)
7:00 p.m. Procession of the Cristo muerto; Burial of the Body of Christ
Responsoria (Ludovico da Viadana)
Miserere mei, Deus (Antonio Lotti)
Saturday, April 16: Holy Saturday
7:00 p.m. The Great Vigil of Easter
Sicut cervus (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina)
Missa In illo tempore (Claudio Monteverdi)
Regina coeli (Orlande de Lassus)
Dum transisset Sabbatum (John Taverner)
Fanfare (Jacques-Nicolas Lemmens)
11:30 p.m. Festive Reception
Sunday, April 17: Easter
8:00 a.m. Mass in English with cantor
10:00 a.m. Solemn Mass with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Missa Caça (Cristóbal de Morales)
Christus resurgens (William Byrd)
Pascha nostrum (Heinrich Isaac)
Regina Cæli (Morales)
Fanfare (Jacques-Nicolas Lemmens)
12:00 p.m. Mass in Spanish with cantor
Sunday, April 24: Low Sunday
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)
Quia vidisti me, Thoma (Claudio Monteverdi)
Post dies octo (William Byrd)
Regina caeli (Byrd)
12:00 p.m. Mass in Spanish with cantor
Solemn Mass for St. Joseph: Sat. March 19 at 10AM
Saturday, March 19, 2022 St. Joseph's Day 10:00 a.m. Solemn Mass for the Feast of St. Joseph (with the Schola Cantorum) 4:00 p.m. Vigil Mass in English 7:00 p.m. Vigil Mass in Spanish
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Ash Wednesday: Wed. March 2
Wed. 3/2/22 ASH WEDNESDAY 8:00AM Low Mass (Latin) 12:10 Noon Mass (English) 6:00PM Liturgy of the Word (Spanish) with Imposition of Ashes Liturgia de la Palabra/Imposición de Cenizas 7:00PM Solemn Mass (Latin)
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Music for March 2022
| 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, March 2: Ash Wednesday
Daily Masses at 8:00 a.m. and 12:10 p.m.
6:00 p.m. Liturgy of the Word (Spanish) with Imposition of Ashes
7:00 p.m. Solemn Mass with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Missa Inter vestibulum (Francisco Guerrero)
Inter vestibulum et altare (Cristóbal de Morales)
Immutemur habitu (Morales)
Exaltabo te Domine (Orlande de Lassus)
Emendemus in melius (William Byrd)
Media vita (Henry Du Mont)
Sunday, March 6: 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 (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina)
Scapulis suis (Orlande de Lassus)
Derelinquat impius (Palestrina)
Ave regina caelorum (Lassus)
12:00 p.m. Mass in Spanish with cantor
Sunday, March 13: Lent II
8:00 a.m. Mass in English with cantor
10:00 a.m. Solemn Mass with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Messa breve (Maurizio Cazzati)
Meditabor (Orlande de Lassus)
O nata lux (Thomas Tallis)
Tribulationes civitatum (William Byrd)
12:00 p.m. Mass in Spanish with cantor
Saturday, March 19: Feast of St. Joseph
10:00 a.m. Solemn Mass with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Missa in G sol re ut (Francesco Feroci)
Joseph fili David (Feroci)
Te Joseph celebrent (Richard Dobbins)
Sunday Vigil Masses at 4:00 p.m. (English) and 7:00 p.m. (Spanish)
Sunday, March 20: Lent III
8:00 a.m. Mass in English with cantor
10:00 a.m. Solemn Mass with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Missa Hercule dux Ferrariae (Josquin des Prez)
Passer invenit (Mattheus le Maitre)
Audi benigne conditor (Guillaume Dufay)
12:00 p.m. Mass in Spanish with cantor
Sunday, March 27: Lent IV (Laetare Sunday)
8:00 a.m. Mass in English with cantor
10:00 a.m. Solemn Mass with St. Mary's Schola Juventutum (Youth Schola) and Schola Cantorum
Chant Mass XVII
Laudate Dominum (Caspar Ett)
Accepit Jesus panes (Francisco Guerrero)
Ave regina caelorum (Georges Guiraud)
12:00 p.m. Mass in Spanish with cantor
Lent and Almsgiving—Cuaresma y la Limosna
As early as the third century, St. Irenaeus discussed Lenten preparation for Easter, talking about what the “forefathers” in faith, meaning the apostles, did to prepare for Easter. However, in St. Irenaeus’ day, no Churchwide consensus existed on how long Lent should be. It wasn’t until the Council of Nicaea (325) that “the 40 days…
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