Category Archives: Music

Music for the Fourth Sunday of Lent, 31 March 2019

Music for the Fourth Sunday of Lent
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Prelude: Herzliebster Jesu (Op. 122, No. 2) (Johannes Brahms, 1833-1897)
Hymn at the Procession: My Song Is Love Unknown (Love Unknown)
Missa Fa mi sol re la (Terrence B. Fay, b.1977)
Gregorian Mass of the Fourth Sunday of Lent: Laetare
Motet at the Offertory: Laudate Dominum (Francesco Bianciardi, c.1571-1607)
Motet at the Communion: Media vita (Henri Du Mont, 1610-1684)
Postlude: O Gott, du frommer Gott (Op. 122, No. 7) (Brahms)

Music for the Fourth Sunday of Lent
(Missale Romanum of 2002, 11:30 a.m.)
Hymn at the Procession: My Song Is Love Unknown (Love Unknown)
Introit: Laetare (plainsong, mode v)
Missa pro Dominicis Adventus & Quadragesimae (Vatican Gradual, Mass XVII)
Gradual: Laetatus sum (plainsong, mode vii)
Tract: Qui confidunt (plainsong, mode viii)
Offertory: Illumina oculos meos (plainsong, mode iv)
Motet at the Offertory: God So Loved the World (John Stainer, 1840-1901)
Communion: Oportet te (plainsong, mode viii)
Motet at the Communion: O, pray for the peace of Jerusalem (Herbert Howells, 1892-1983)
Marian antiphon: Ave Regina caelorum (plainsong, mode vi)
Organ music as above

Music for the Feast of the Annunciation, 25 March 2019

Monday, 25 March 2019, 6:00 p.m.
Music for the Feast of the Annunciation
(Missale Romanum of 1962)
Prelude: Improvisation
Missa Benedicta es caelorum Regina (Cristóbal de Morales, c.1500-1553)
Gregorian Mass of the Annunciation: Vultum tuum
Motet at the Offertory: Ave Regina caelorum (Orlande de Lassus, c.1532-1594)
Motet at the Communion: Benedicta est caelorum Regina (Jean Mouton, c.1459-1522)
Postlude: Improvisation

Music for the Third Sunday of Lent, 24 March 2019

Music for the Third Sunday of Lent
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Hymn at the Procession: Dear Lord and Father of Mankind (Repton)
Missa L'homme armé (Francisco Guerrero, 1528-1599)
Gregorian Mass of the Third Sunday of Lent: Oculi mei
Motet at the Offertory: Ave regina caelorum (Gregor Aichinger, 1565-1628)
Motet at the Communion: In illo tempore, erat Dominus Jesus (Guerrero)

Music for the Third Sunday of Lent
(Missale Romanum of 2002, 11:30 a.m.)
Hymn at the Procession: Lord, Who Throughout These Forty Days (St. Flavian)
Introit: Oculi mei (plainsong, mode vii)
Missa pro Dominicis Adventus & Quadragesimae (Vatican Gradual, Mass XVII)
Gradual: Exsurge Domine (plainsong, mode iii)
Tract: Ad te levavi oculos meos (plainsong, mode viii)
Offertory: Justitiae Domini (plainsong, mode iv)
Hymn at the Offertory: God of Mercy and Compassion (Au sang qu’un Dieu)
(after Pergolesi)
Communion: Passer invenit (plainsong, mode i)
Motet at the Communion: Psalm 23 (from Requiem) (Herbert Howells, 1892-1983)
Marian antiphon: Ave Regina caelorum (plainsong, mode vi)

Music for the Second Sunday of Lent, 17 March 2019

Music for the Second Sunday of Lent
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Hymn at the Procession: O Wondrous Type, O Vision Fair (Agincourt)
Missa Quo puerum ediderat (Guillaume Dufay, 1397-1474)
Gregorian Mass of the Second Sunday of Lent: Reminiscere
Motet at the Offertory: O nata lux (Thomas Tallis, c.1505-1585)
Motet at the Communion: Hic est filius (Diego de las Muelas, 1698-1743)

Music for the Second Sunday of Lent
(Missale Romanum of 2002, 11:30 a.m.)
Hymn at the Procession: The Glory of These Forty Days (Erhalt uns Herr)
Introit: Reminiscere (plainsong, mode iv)
Missa pro Dominicis Adventus & Quadragesimae (Vatican Gradual, Mass XVII)
Gradual: Sciant gentes (plainsong, mode i)
Tract: Commovisti (plainsong, mode viii)
Offertory: Meditabor (plainsong, mode ii)
Motet at the Offertory: O Saviour of the World (John Goss, 1800-1880)
Communion: Visionem (plainsong, mode i)
Motet at the Communion: O nata lux (Tallis)
Marian antiphon: Ave Regina caelorum (plainsong, mode vi)

Music for the First Sunday of Lent, 10 March 2019

Music for the First Sunday of Lent
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Hymn at the Procession: God of Mercy and Compassion (Au sang qu’un Dieu)
Missa pro Dominicis Adventus & Quadragesimae (Vatican Gradual, Mass XVII)
Gregorian Mass of the First Sunday of Lent: Invocabit me
Motet at the Offertory: Emendemus in melius (William Byrd, 1540-1623)
Hymn at the Communion: Media vita (Jacobus de Kerle, c.1531-1591)

Music for the First Sunday of Lent
(Missale Romanum of 2002, 11:30 a.m.)
Hymn at the Procession: Forty Days and Forty Nights (Heinlein)
Introit: Invocabit me (plainsong, mode viii)
Missa pro Dominicis Adventus & Quadragesimae (Vatican Gradual, Mass XVII)
Gradual: Angelis suis (plainsong, mode ii)
Tract: Qui habitat (plainsong, mode ii)
Offertory: Scapulis suis (plainsong, mode viii)
Motet at the Offertory: Turn Thy Face From My Sins (Arthur Sullivan, 1842-1900)
Communion: Scapulis suis (plainsong, mode iii)
Motet at the Communion: Call to Remembrance, O Lord (Richard Farrant, c.1530-1580)
Marian antiphon: Ave Regina caelorum (plainsong, mode vi)

Music for the Saturday after Ash Wednesday, 9 March 2019

Saturday, 9 March 2019, 9:00 a.m.
Music for the Saturday after Ash Wednesday
(Missale Romanum of 1962)
Missa pro Feriis Adventus & Quadragesimae (Vatican Gradual, Mass XVIII)
Gregorian Mass of the Saturday after Ash Wednesday: Audivit Dominus

Mass is preceded by the First Grade of the Catechumenate,
for those to be baptized at the Easter Vigil.

The second Saturday of every month is a Missa cantata celebrated
for the intentions of the Gospel of Life Society at St. Mary’s.

Music for Ash Wednesday, 6 March 2019

Music for Ash Wednesday
(Missale Romanum of 2002, 12:10 p.m.)
Hymn at the Procession: Forty Days and Forty Nights (Heinlein)
Introit: Misereris omnium (plainsong, mode i)
Gradual: Miserere mei (plainsong, mode i)
Tract: Domine, non secundum (plainsong, mode ii)
Missa pro Feriis Adventus & Quadragesimae (Vatican Gradual, Mass XVIII)
Antiphons at the imposition of ashes: Immutemur, Justxa vestibulum, Emendemus
Offertory: Exaltabo te Domine (plainsong, mode ii)
Communion: Qui meditabitur (plainsong, mode iii)
Hymn at the Retiring Procession: Have Mercy, Lord, on Us (Southwell)

Music for Ash Wednesday
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 7:00 p.m.)
Missa ferialis (anonymous, XVIII C., Granada)
Antiphon at the blessing of ashes: Exaudi nos, Domine (plainsong, mode vii)
Antiphon at the imposition of ashes: Immutemur (plainsong, mode i)
Motet at the imposition of ashes: Inter vestibulum (Diego de las Muelas, 1698-1743)
Antiphon at the imposition of ashes: Emendemus in melius (plainsong, mode ii)
Gregorian Mass of Ash Wednesday: Misereris omnium
Motet at the Offertory: Exaltabo te Domine (Orlande de Lassus, c.1532-1594)
Motet at the Communion: Miserere mei Domine (Lassus)