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Music for the Fourth Sunday after Easter (Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Prelude: Christ lag in Todesbanden (Johann Pachelbel, 1653-1706)
Mass for Four Voices (1650) (Claudio Monteverdi, 1567-1643)
Gregorian Mass of the Fourth Sunday after Easter: Cantate Domino
Motet at the Offertory: Christus resurgens (Jean Richafort, c.1480-c.1547)
Hymn at the Communion: Salve festa dies (plainsong, mode iv)
Postlude: Præludium in E Major (BuxWV 141) (Dietrich Buxtehude, c.1637-1707)

Music for the Fifth Sunday of Easter (Missale Romanum of 1970, 11:30 a.m.)
Missa de Angelis (Vatican Gradual, Mass VIII)
Alleluia: Christus resurgens (plainsong, mode i)
Motet at the Offertory: Jubilate Deo (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1756-1791)
Communion: Ego sum vitis vera (plainsong, mode viii)
Marian Antiphon: Regina cæli (plainsong, mode vi)
Organ music as above

Music for the Third Sunday after Easter (Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Prelude: Prière avant la communion (from Livre du Saint Sacrement) (Olivier Messiaen, 1908-1992)
Mass of Tournai (anonymous, XIV C.), with Kyrie Orbis factor [Children’s Scholas] Gregorian Mass of the Third Sunday after Easter: Jubilate Deo
Hymn at the imposition of scapulars: O Sanctissima [Children’s Scholas] Hymn at the Offertory: Ad regias Agni dapes (plainsong, mode viii)
Motet at the Communion: O Sacrum Convivium (William Byrd, c.1543-1623)
Marian antiphon: Regina cæli [Children’s Scholas] Postlude: Versets on Verbum supernum: en taille à 4, Fugue, Récit en dialogue, Récit de Basse de Trompette (Nicolas de Grigny, 1672-1703)

Music for the Fourth Sunday of Easter (Missale Romanum of 1970, 11:30 a.m.)
Prelude: Sheep May Safely Graze (from Cantata No. 208) (Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685-1750)
Missa de Angelis (Vatican Gradual, Mass VIII)
Alleluia: Ego sum pastor bonus (plainsong, mode i)
Motet at the Offertory: Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring, BWV 147 (Bach)
Communion: Ego sum pastor bonus (plainsong, mode ii)
Motet at the Communion: O Sacred Feast (Healey Willan, 1880-1968)
Marian Antiphon: Regina cæli (plainsong, mode vi)
Postlude as above

Music for the Second Sunday after Easter (Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Prelude: Jesus Christus, unser Heiland (BuxWV 198) (Dietrich Buxtehude, c.1637-1707)
Missa Lux et origo (Vatican Gradual, Mass I), with Kyrie Te Christe Rex supplices
Gregorian Mass of the Second Sunday after Easter: Misericordia Domini
Motet at the Offertory: Deus, Deus meus (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, c.1525-1594)
Motet at the Communion: Regina caeli (Estêvão de Brito, 1570-1641)
Postlude: Toccata from Symphony No. 5 (Charles-Marie Widor, 1844-1937)

Music for the Third Sunday of Easter (Missale Romanum of 1970, 11:30 a.m.)
Missa de Angelis (Vatican Gradual, Mass VIII)
Alleluia: Oportebat pati Christum (plainsong, mode iv)
Hymn at the Offertory: Now the Green Blade Riseth (Noel Nouvelet)
Communion: Cantate Domino (plainsong, mode ii)
Motet at the Communion: Cantate Domino (Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni, 1657-1743)
Marian Antiphon: Regina caeli (plainsong, mode vi)
Organ music as above

Music for the Octave Day of Easter (Low Sunday) (Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Prelude: Christ ist erstanden, BWV 627 (J.S. Bach, 1685-1750)
Missa Regina cæli (Jacobus de Kerle, c.1532-1591)
Gregorian Mass for the Octave Day of Easter: Quasi modo
Motet at the Offertory: Post dies octo (William Byrd, c.1543-1623)
Motet at the Communion: Christus resurgens ex mortuis (Orlando di Lasso, c.1532-1594)
Postlude: Choral-Improvisation sur le Victimae Paschali (Charles Tournemire, 1870-1939)

Music for the Second Sunday of Easter (Missale Romanum of 1970, 11:30 a.m.)
Missa Lux et origo (Vatican Gradual, Mass I)
Alleluia: Post dies octo (plainsong, mode vii)
Hymn at the Offertory: Ye Sons and Daughters (O filii et filiae, plainsong, mode ii)
Communion: Mitte manum tuam (plainsong, mode vi)
Hymn at the Communion: Christ the Lord Is Ris’n Today (Surgit in haec dies)
Marian antiphon: Regina cæli (plainsong, mode vi)
Organ music as above

Music for Easter Sunday (Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Prelude: Christ lag in Todesbanden (BWV 625) (Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685-1750)
Missa Regina cæli (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, c.1525-1594)
Gregorian Mass of Easter Sunday: Resurrexi
Motet at the Offertory: Terra tremuit (William Byrd, c.1543-1623)
Motet at the Communion: Haec dies (Byrd)
Postlude: Fugue on Hallelujah! Gott zu loben (Op. 52, No. 3) (Max Reger, 1873-1916)

~ The St. Mary’s Schola Cantorum ~

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Music for Easter Sunday (Missale Romanum of 1970, 11:30 a.m.)
Missa Lux et origo (Vatican Gradual, Mass I)
Introit: Resurrexi (plainsong, mode iv)
Sequence: Victimae Paschali Laudes (plainchant, mode i)
Alleluia: Pascha nostrum (mode vii)
Motet at the Offertory: Regina caeli (Gregor Aichinger, c.1565-1628)
Communion: Pascha nostrum (mode vi)
Motet at the Communion: This Joyful Eastertide (arr. Charles Wood, 1866-1926)
Organ music as above

~ The St. Mary’s Choir ~

Music for the Great Paschal Vigil and First Mass of Easter
(Missale Romanum of 1970, 8:00 p.m.)
Missa Lux et origo (Vatican Gradual, Mass I)
The Exsultet (plainsong)
Canticle after the Seventh Reading: Sicut cervus (plainsong, mode viii)
Alleluia: Confitemini Domino (plainsong, mode viii)
At the procession to the Baptismal Font: Litany of the Saints (plainsong)
Hymn at the Baptisms: Veni Creator Spiritus (plainsong, mode vii)
At the procession after the Baptisms: Laudate Dominum (plainsong, mode viii)
Antiphon at the Confirmations: Confirma hoc Deus (plainsong, mode viii)
At the Aspersion: Vidi aquam (plainsong, mode viii)
Offertory: Dextera Domini (plainsong, mode ii)
Hymn at the Offertory: ¡Dios reina!
Communion: Pascha nostrum (plainsong, mode vi)
Motet at the Communion: Regina caeli (Gregor Aichinger, c.1565-1628)
Hymn at the Communion: This Joyful Eastertide (arr. Charles Wood, 1866-1926)
Postlude: Fugue on Hallelujah! Gott zu loben (Op. 52, No. 3) (Max Reger, 1873-1916)

~ The St. Mary’s Choir ~
~ Coro Hispano de Santa Maria ~

Music for Good Friday (Missale Romanum of 1970, 3:00 p.m.)
Tract: Domine, exaudi orationem meam (plainsong, mode ii)
Gradual: Christus factus est (plainsong, mode v)
The Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ According to St. John (plainsong; turba settings by Fr. Samuel Weber, OSB)
Antiphon: Crucem tuam (plainsong, mode iv)
The Reproaches (plainsong)
Hymn at the Adoration of the Cross: Crux fidelis (plainsong, mode i)
Hymn at the Translation of the Sacrament: Vexilla Regis (plainsong, mode i)
Motet at the Communion: Tenebrae factae sunt (Tomás Luis de Victoria, 1548-1611)
Motet at the Communion: O Bone Jesu (Marc’Antonio Ingegneri, c.1547-1592; often attrib. Palestrina)
Hymn at the Communion: O Sacred Head Surrounded (Passion Chorale)

~ The St. Mary’s Schola Cantorum ~
~ The St. Mary’s Choir ~

Music for the Solemn Evening Mass of the Lord’s Supper (Missale Romanum of 1970, 7:00 p.m.)
Missa de Angelis (Vatican Gradual, Mass VIII)
Introit: Nos autem gloriari (plainsong, mode iv)
Gradual: Oculi omnium (plainsong, mode vii)
Tract: Ab ortu solis (plainsong, mode viii)
Antiphons at the Mandatum: Mandatum; Postquam surrexit Dominus; Domine, tu mihi lavas pedes?
Offertory: Ubi caritas (plainsong, mode vi)
Communion: Hoc corpus (plainsong, mode viii)
Hymn at the Communion: Unidos por el amor de Cristo
Hymn at the Communion: En el pan y en el caliz (José Soler)
Motet at the Communion: Ave Verum Corpus (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1756-1791)
Hymn at the Procession: Pange lingua gloriosi (plainsong, mode iii)

~ The St. Mary’s Choir ~
~ Coro Hispano de Santa Maria ~

Music for Palm Sunday (Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Antiphons Hosanna filio David, Pueri Hebraeorum, etc. [Children’s Scholas] Missa pro Dominicis Adventus & Quadragesimae (Vatican Gradual, Mass XVII) [Children’s Scholas] Gregorian Mass of Palm Sunday: Domine, ne longe facias
Passio Domini Nostri Jesu Christi secundum Matthaeum (plainsong; polyphonic turba settings by Victoria)
Motet at the Offertory: Vigilate et orate (Cristóbal de Morales, c.1500-1553)
Motet at the Communion: Vexilla Regis (plainsong, mode vi)

~ The St. Mary’s Schola Cantorum ~
~ The St. Mary’s Children’s Schola ~
~ The Anchor Academy Schola Cantorum ~

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Music for Palm Sunday (Missale Romanum of 1970, 11:30 a.m.)
Antiphon: Hosanna filio David (plainsong, mode vii)
Missa pro Dominicis Adventus & Quadragesimae (Vatican Gradual, Mass XVII)
Motet at the Offertory: Vexilla Regis (Anton Bruckner, 1824-1896)
Communion: Pater, si non potest (plainsong, mode viii)
Motet at the Communion: In Monte Oliveti (Bruckner)

~ The St. Mary’s Choir ~
~ Isabelle Demers, guest organist ~

Music for Passion Sunday (Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Missa Tertii Toni (Costanzo Porta, 1529-1601)
Gregorian Mass of Passion Sunday: Judica me Deus
Motet at the Offertory: Vexilla Regis (Tomás Luis de Victoria, 1548-1611)
Hymn at the Communion: Jesu, quadragenariae (plainsong, mode iv)

Music for the Fifth Sunday of Lent (Missale Romanum of 1970, 11:30 a.m.)
Missa pro Dominicis Adventus & Quadragesimae (Vatican Gradual, Mass XVII)
Motet at the Offertory: O Jesu Christe (Jacquet van Berchem, c.1505-c.1580)
Communion: Videns Dominus (plainsong, mode i)
Motet at the Communion: God So Loved the World (John Stainer, 1840-1901)