Category Archives: Music

Music for Trinity Sunday (Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Prelude: Prelude in E-flat Major (‘St. Anne’) (BWV 552) (Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685-1750)
Messa a tre voce (Antonio Lotti, 1667-1740)
Gregorian Mass of Trinity Sunday: Benedicta sit Sancta Trinitas
Motet at the Offertory: Honor, virtus, et potestas (Thomas Tallis, c.1505-1585)
Motet at the Communion: Duo seraphim clamabant (Tomás Luis de Victoria, 1548-1611)
Postlude: Fugue in E-flat Major (‘St. Anne’) (BWV 552) (Bach)

Music for Trinity Sunday (Missale Romanum of 1970, 11:30 a.m.)
Missa de Angelis (Vatican Gradual, Mass VIII)
Alleluia: Benedictus es (plainsong, mode viii)
Hymn at the Offertory: I Bind Unto Myself Today (St. Patrick’s Breastplate)
Communion: Data est mihi (plainsong, mode i)
Hymn at the Communion: Father of Heaven, Whose Love Profound (Orlando Gibbons, 1583-1625)
Organ music as above

Music for Pentecost (Whitsunday) (Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Prelude: Komm, heiliger Geist, Herre Gott (BuxWV 199) (Dietrich Buxtehude, c.1637-1707)
Mass for Four Voices (William Byrd, c.1543-1623)
Gregorian Mass of Pentecost: Spiritus Domini
Motet at the Offertory: Veni Creator Spiritus (Juan Garci­a de Salazar, 1639-1710)
Motet at the Communion: Factus est repente (Byrd)
Postlude: Passacaglia in C Minor (BWV 582) (Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685-1750)

Music for Pentecost (Whitsunday) (Missale Romanum of 1970, 11:30 a.m.)
Missa de Angelis (Vatican Gradual, Mass VIII)
Sequence: Veni Sancte Spiritus (plainsong, mode i)
Alleluia: Veni Sancte Spiritus (plainsong, mode ii)
Hymn at the Offertory: Veni Creator Spiritus (plainsong, mode viii)
Communion: Factus est repente (plainsong, mode vii)
Hymn at the Communion: Holy Spirit, Ever Dwelling (Herbert Howells, 1892-1983)
Organ music as above

Music for the Sunday within the Octave of the Ascension
and Tenth Anniversary of Ordination to the Priesthood of Fr. Greg J. Markey
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Prelude: Adoramus Te Christe (Theodore Dubois, 1837-1924)
Prelude: Sheep May Safely Graze (from Cantata No. 208) (Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685-1750)
Missa Ascendens Christus (Tomás Luis de Victoria, 1548-1611)
Gregorian Mass of the Sunday in Ascensiontide: Exaudi Domine...alleluia
Motet at the Offertory: O bone Jesu (Marc’Antonio Ingegneri, c.1547-1592; often attrib. Palestrina)
Motet at the Offertory: O bone et dulcis Domine Jesu (Josquin des Prez, c.1450-1521)
Motet at the Communion: Ave Maria (Franz Biebl, 1906-2001)
Postlude: Toccata from Symphony No. 5 (Charles-Marie Widor, 1844-1937)

Music for the Seventh Sunday of Easter (Missale Romanum of 1970, 11:30 a.m.)
Prelude: Improvisation on the Introit Exaudi Domine...alleluia
Missa de Angelis (Vatican Gradual, Mass VIII)
Alleluia: Non vos relinquam (plainsong, mode i)
Motet at the Offertory: Regina caeli (Gregor Aichinger, 1564-1628)
Communion: Pater, cum essem (plainsong, mode iv)
Motet at the Communion: A New Commandment (Thomas Tallis, c.1505-1585)
Marian Antiphon: Regina caeli (plainsong, mode vi)
Postlude: Præludium in F Major (BWV 556) (Bach)

Music for Ascension Thursday (Missale Romanum of 1970, 8:00 a.m. & 12:10 p.m.)
Prelude: Prière du Christ montant vers son Père [Prayer of Christ ascending to His Father] (from L’Ascension) (Olivier Messiaen, 1908-1992)
Alleluia: Dominus in Sina (plainsong, mode viii)
Communion: Signa eos (plainsong, mode vii)
Postlude: Fantasia in G Major (BWV 572) (Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685-1750)

Music for Ascension Thursday (Missale Romanum of 1962, 5:30 p.m.)
Missa ‘Alleluia’ (Jean Mouton, c.1459-1522)
Gregorian Mass of Ascension Day: Viri Galilaei
Motet at the Offertory: Ascendens Christus in altum (G.P. da Palestrina, c.1525-1594)
Motet at the Communion: Non vos relinquam orphanos (William Byrd, c.1543-1623)
Organ music as above

Music for the First Mass of Fr. Sean Kulacz
Mass of the Sixth Sunday of Easter (Missale Romanum of 1970, 3:00 p.m.)
Prelude: Kommst du nun, Jesu, vom Himmel herunter (BWV 650) (Bach)
Alleluia: Ego vos elegi (plainsong, mode i)
Hymn at the Offertory: Father, We Thank Thee Who Hast Planted (Rendez à Dieu)
Motet at the Offertory: Regina cæli (Gregor Aichinger, c.1565-1628 )
Communion: Ego vos elegi (plainsong, mode i)
Motet at the Communion: At That First Eucharist (Unde et memores)
Motet at the Communion: Panis angelicus (César Franck, 1822-1890)
Motet at the Communion: O Sacred Feast (Healey Willan, 1880-1968)
Postlude: Fugue in D Major (BWV 532) (Bach)

Music for the Fifth Sunday after Easter (Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30 a.m.)
Prelude: Erstanden ist der heilge Christ (BWV 628) (Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685-1750)
Missa Orbis Factor (Paul M. Weber, b. 1977)
Gregorian Mass of the Fifth Sunday after Easter: Vocem jucunditatis
Motet at the Offertory: Jubilate Deo (prima pars) (attrib. Josquin; anon. German, XVI C.?)
Motet at the Communion: Laudate nomen ejus (Jubilate Deo, secunda pars) (attribu. Josquin)
Postlude: Fugue in D Major (BWV 532) (Bach)

Music for the Sixth Sunday of Easter (Missale Romanum of 1970, 11:30 a.m.)
Missa de Angelis (Vatican Gradual, Mass VIII)
Alleluia: Ego vos elegi (plainsong, mode i)
Hymn at the Offertory: Hail Thee, Festival Day (Salve festa dies) (Ralph Vaughan Williams, 1872-1958)
Communion: Ego vos elegi (plainsong, mode i)
Marian Antiphon: Regina cæli (plainsong, mode vi)
Organ music as above

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