Category Archives: Music

Sunday, April 2, 2023: Palm Sunday

8:00 a.m.  Mass in English with cantor
10:00 a.m.  Solemn Mass with St. Mary's Youth Schola and 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 I & II (Jacob Regnart)
Pueri hebraeorum vestimenta (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina)
Pueri hebraeorum portantes (Victoria)
Ingrediente Domino (George Malcolm)
Chant Mass XVII
Passio secundum Mathaeum (Victoria)
Improperium (Palestrina)
Vexilla regis more hispano (Victoria)
Stabat Mater (Zoltán Kodály)
12:00 p.m.  Mass in Spanish (offered downstairs in the lower chapel)

Wednesday, April 5, 2023: Spy Wednesday

Daily Masses at 8:00 a.m. and 12:10 p.m.; Adoration 1–4 p.m.
7:00 p.m.  Tenebrae of Maundy Thursday with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Responsoria (Michael Haydn)
Benedictus Dominus Deus (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina)
Miserere in D minor (Antonio Lotti)

Thursday, April 6, 2023: Maundy Thursday

7:00 p.m.  Solemn Mass in Cena Domini with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Messa breve a quattro voci (Giovanni Rovetta)
Dextera Domini (Orlande de Lassus)
In me transierunt (Orlande de Lassus)
O bone Jesu (Loyset Compère)
Ubi caritas (Maurice Duruflé)
Pange lingua (Tomás Luís de Victoria)
9:00 PM: Vespers and Stripping of the Altars.
9:30 PM–12:00 AM: Vigil before the Blessed Sacrament (at the Altar of Repose in the lower chapel).

Friday, April 7, 2023: Good Friday

Stations of the Cross (Latin, English, and Spanish) at 11:00 AM
3:00 p.m.  The Mass of the Presanctified with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Passio secundum Ioannem (William Byrd)
Improperia (Ludwig Senfl)
Vere languores (Juan Francés de Iribarren)
Crux fidelis (King John of Portugal)
Vexilla regis (Michael Praetorius)
Adoramus te, Christe (Antonio Lotti)
Miserere (Johannes Martini)
7:00 p.m.  Procession of the Cristo Muerto and Burial of the Body of Christ with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Miserere in G minor (Antonio Lotti)

Saturday, April 8, 2023: Holy Saturday

7:00 p.m.  The Great Vigil of Easter with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Sicut cervus (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina)
Missa Congratulamini mihi (Francisco Guerrero)
Regina coeli (Orlande de Lassus)
Dum transisset Sabbatum (Thomas Tallis)
Magnificat octavi toni (Tomás Luís de Victoria)
Followed by a festive reception in the gym at 11:30 p.m.

Sunday, April 9, 2023: Easter

8:00 a.m.  Mass in English with cantor
10:00 a.m.  Solemn Mass with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Missa Congratulamini mihi (Francisco Guerrero)
Congratulamini mihi (Adrian Willaert)
Regina coeli (Henricus Isaac)
12:00 p.m.  Mass in Spanish with cantor

Sunday, March 5, 2023: Second Sunday of Lent

8:00 a.m.  Mass in English with cantor
10:00 a.m.  Solemn Mass with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Missa Meditabor in mandatis tuis (Terrence B. Fay)
Derelinquat impius (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina)
O nata lux (Thomas Tallis)
12:00 p.m.  Mass in Spanish with cantor

Sunday, March 12, 2023: Third Sunday of Lent

8:00 a.m.  Mass in English with cantor
10:00 a.m.  Solemn Mass with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Missa de feria (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina)
Justitiae Domini (Alessandro Scarlatti)
Passer invenit (Matthieu le Maistre)
12:00 p.m.  Mass in Spanish with cantor

Sunday, March 19, 2023: Fourth Sunday of Lent

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 Im Maien (Jacob Handl)
Laudate Dominum (Kaspar Ett)
Accepit Jesus panes (Francisco Guerrero)
Ave regina caelorum (Georges Guiraud)
12:00 p.m.  Mass in Spanish with cantor

Monday, March 20, 2023: Feast of St. Joseph

Daily Masses at 8:00 a.m. and 12:10 p.m.
9:15 a.m.  Solemn Mass with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Mass for Four Voices (William Byrd)
Quem terra, pontus, aethera (Byrd)
Ave verum corpus (Byrd)
Sponsored by the St. Hugh of Cluny Society for the Regina Pacis Academy community (all are welcome)

Sunday, March 26, 2023: Passion Sunday

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 Salve Crux (Tiburtio Massaino)
Miserere mei Deus (Hieronymus Praetorius)
Ave regina caelorum (Alonso Lobo)
12:00 p.m.  Mass in Spanish with cantor

Thursday, February 2, 2023: Candlemas

1:00 p.m.  Solemn Mass with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
With the Blessing of Candles and Procession
Sponsored by the Society of St. Hugh of Cluny for Regina Pacis Academy
Missa Hercules dux Ferrariae (Josquin des Prez)
Alma Redemptoris Mater (Aires Fernandes)
Ave Maria...virgo serena (Josquin)

Sunday, February 5, 2023

8:00 a.m.  Mass in English with cantor
10:00 a.m.  Solemn Mass with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Missa Simile est regnum caelorum (Rodrigo de Ceballos)
Ave regina caelorum (Orlande de Lassus)
Simile est regnum caelorum (Francisco Guerrero)
12:00 p.m.  Mass in Spanish with cantor

Sunday, February 12, 2023

8:00 a.m.  Mass in English with cantor
10:00 a.m.  Solemn Mass with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Missa Mi mi (Johannes Ockeghem)
Perfice gressus meos (Orlande de Lassus)
Introibo ad altare Dei (Heinrich Isaac)
In illo tempore...cum turba plurima (Francisco Guerrero)
12:00 p.m.  Mass in Spanish with cantor

Sunday, February 19, 2023

8:00 a.m.  Mass in English with cantor
10:00 a.m.  Solemn Mass with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Missa sexti toni (Costanzo Porta)
Ave regina caelorum (Porta)
Ecce ascendimus Hierosolimam (Francisco Guerrero)
Benedictus es Domine (Orlande de Lassus)
12:00 p.m.  Mass in Spanish with cantor

Wednesday, February 22, 2023: Ash Wednesday

Daily Masses at 8:00 a.m. and 12:10 p.m.; Service with Imposition of Ashes at 6:00 p.m.
7:00 p.m. Solemn Mass with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Immutemur habitu (Cristóbal de Morales)
Inter vestibulum (Morales)
Missa Inter vestibulum (Francisco Guerrero)
Exaltabo te (Orlande de Lassus)
Emendemus in melius (Lassus)

Sunday, February 26, 2023: First Sunday of Lent

8:00 a.m.  Mass in English with cantor
10:00 a.m.  Solemn Mass with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Missa Adesto dolori meo (Jacob Handl)
Tribulationes civitatem (William Byrd)
12:00 p.m.  Mass in Spanish with cantor

Sunday, January 1, 2023

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)
Mirabile mysterium (Handl)
In nomine Jesu (Handl)
In illo tempore (Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck)
12:00 p.m.  Mass in Spanish with cantor

Friday, January 6, 2023: Feast of the Epiphany

Daily Masses at 8:00 a.m. and 12:10 p.m.
7:00 p.m.  Solemn Mass with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Mass for Three Voices (William Byrd)
Quem terra, pontus, aethera (Byrd)

Sunday, January 8, 2023

8:00 a.m.  Mass in English with cantor
10:00 a.m.  Solemn Mass with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Missa Sancta et immaculata (Francisco Guerrero)
Unam petii a Domino (William Byrd)
Fili, quid fecisti nobis (Orlande de Lassus)
Alma Redemptoris Mater (Lassus)
12:00 p.m.  Mass in Spanish with cantor

Sunday, January 15, 2023

8:00 a.m.  Mass in English with cantor
10:00 a.m.  Solemn Mass with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Missa Jubilate Deo (Girolamo Lambardi)
Tribus miraculis (Rinaldo Del Mel)
Alma Redemptoris Mater (Giuseppe Antonio Bernabei)
12:00 p.m.  Mass in Spanish with cantor

Sunday, January 22, 2023

8:00 a.m.  Mass in English with cantor
10:00 a.m.  Solemn Mass with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Mass for Five Voices (William Byrd)
Dextera Domini (Orlande de Lassus)
Alma Redemptoris Mater (Peter Philips)
12:00 p.m.  Mass in Spanish with cantor

Sunday, January 29, 2023

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)
Dextera Domini (Orlande de Lassus)
Alma Redemptoris Mater (Aires Fernandes)
12:00 p.m.  Mass in Spanish with cantor

Saturday, December 3, 2022

6:00 a.m.  Rorate Mass with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Sung Votive Mass of Our Lady in Advent, lit only by candlelight
Beata viscera (Worcester Fragments)
Quam pulchra es (John Dunstaple)
Sunday Vigil Masses at 4:00 p.m. (English) and 7:00 p.m. (Spanish)

Sunday, December 4, 2022: Second Sunday of Advent

8:00 a.m.  Mass in English with cantor
10:00 a.m.  Solemn Mass with St. Mary's Youth Schola and St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Kyrie Firmator sancte
Ecce Dominus veniet (Michael Praetorius)
Sanctus & Agnus Dei (Chant Mass XVII)
Canite tuba (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina)
Alma redemptoris mater (Palestrina)
12:00 p.m.  Mass in Spanish with cantor

Thursday, December 8, 2022: 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
Messe de Ste. Hildegarde (Hildegard of Bingen)
Stella splendens (Llibre Vermell de Montserrat)
Mariam matrem virginem (Llibre Vermell)

Sunday, December 11, 2022: Third Sunday of Advent

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)
Conditor alme siderum (Tomás Luís de Victoria)
Hierusalem plantabis vineam (Agostino Agazzari)
12:00 p.m.  Mass in Spanish with cantor
Followed by Our Lady of Guadalupe Celebration Feast in the gym (Raffle winners to be drawn at 2:00 p.m.)

Monday, December 12, 2022: Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe

Daily Masses at 8:00 a.m. and 12:10 p.m.
Concerts of Advent & Christmas Music with the Magdalen College Polyphony Choir
2:00-2:30 p.m.  First performance
6:30-7:00 p.m.  Second performance (prelude to the Mass)
7:00 p.m.  Mass in Spanish with the Magdalen College Polyphony Choir

Sunday, December 18, 2022: Fourth Sunday of Advent

8:00 a.m.  Mass in English with cantor
10:00 a.m.  Solemn Mass with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Mass (Terrence B. Fay)
Ne irascaris Domine (William Byrd)
12:00 p.m.  Mass in Spanish with cantor
5:00 p.m.  A Festival of Advent Lessons & Carols
Featuring St. Mary's Youth Schola and St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Seven Scripture readings foretelling the coming of Christ • The Great “O” Antiphons • Music from England, France, Spain, Italy, and Germany • Hymns and chants of Advent
Concluding with Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament
Followed by a festive reception in the gym

Saturday, December 24, 2022: Christmas Eve

4:00 p.m.  Mass in English with cantor
7:00 p.m.  Mass in Spanish with cantor
11:30 p.m.  Choral Prelude to Midnight Mass with Christmas Carols
In the bleak midwinter (Harold Darke) • O little town of Bethlehem (Forest Green) • Virgen sancta (Francisco Guerrero) • What child is this (Greensleeves)• Gesù Bambino (Pietro Yon) • Lo, how a Rose (Es ist ein Ros) • Silent Night (arr. Fr. John Ringley) • In dulci jubilo, Op. 28 No. 41 (Marcel Dupré)

Sunday, December 25, 2022: Christmas Day

12:00 a.m.  Midnight Mass with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Missa O magnum mysterium (Tomás Luís de Victoria)
O regem caeli (Victoria)
O magnum mysterium (Victoria)
8:00 a.m.  Mass in English with cantor
10:00 a.m.  Solemn Mass with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Mass for Three Voices (William Byrd)
O regem caeli (Victoria)
12:00 p.m.  Mass in Spanish with cantor

Tuesday, November 1, 2022: All Saints

Daily Masses at 8:00 a.m. and 12:10 p.m.
7:00 p.m.  Solemn Mass with St. Mary's Schola Juventutum (Youth Schola) and St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Kyrie Firmator sancte
Missa O quam gloriosum (excerpts) (Tomás Luís de Victoria)
Sanctus and Benedictus (Matthew Walter)
Justorum animae (William Byrd)
Panis angelicus (César Franck)

Wednesday, November 2, 2022: All Souls

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 defunctorum (Lodovico da Viadana)
Versa est in luctum (Juan Gutiérrez de Padilla)

Sunday, November 6, 2022

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)
Ego sum panis vivus (Paolo Agostini)
Ecce quam bonum (William Byrd)
12:00 p.m.  Mass in Spanish with cantor

Sunday, November 13, 2022

8:00 a.m.  Mass in English with cantor
10:00 a.m.  Solemn Mass with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Missa de De profundis (Vincenzo Ruffo)
De profundis clamavi (Josquin des Prez)
12:00 p.m.  Mass in Spanish with cantor

Sunday, November 20, 2022

8:00 a.m.  Mass in English with cantor
10:00 a.m.  Solemn Mass with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Missa super ut re mi fa sol la (Cristóbal de Morales)
De profundis clamavi (Giulio Belli)
Salve Regina (Nicolas Gombert)
12:00 p.m.  Mass in Spanish with cantor

Sunday, November 27, 2022: First Sunday of Advent

8:00 a.m.  Mass in English with cantor
10:00 a.m.  Solemn Mass with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Missa Conditor (Giovanni Animuccia)
Veni Domine et noli tardare (Francisco Guerrero)
Dominus dabit benignitatem (Ludovico Balbi)
Alma redemptoris mater (Jean L'Heritier)
12:00 p.m.  Mass in Spanish with cantor

Sunday, October 2, 2022

8:00 a.m.  Mass in English with cantor
10:00 a.m.  Solemn Mass with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Missa Ave virgo sanctissima (Juan Esquivel)
Virgo Dei mater pura (Gregor Aichinger)
Ave maris stella (Jacob Regnart)
Ave Maria (Robert Parsons)
12:00 p.m.  Mass in Spanish with cantor

Sunday, October 9, 2022

8:00 a.m.  Mass in English with cantor
10:00 a.m.  Solemn Mass with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Mass for Four Voices (William Byrd)
Ave Maria (Ferdinand de Lassus)
Salve Regina (Byrd)
12:00 p.m.  Mass in Spanish with cantor

Sunday, October 16, 2022

8:00 a.m.  Mass in English with cantor
10:00 a.m.  Solemn Mass with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Missa Tu es vas electionis (Cristóbal de Morales)
Si ambulavero (Adriaen Willaert)
Salve Regina (Morales)
12:00 p.m.  Mass in Spanish with cantor

Sunday, October 23, 2022

8:00 a.m.  Mass in English with cantor
10:00 a.m.  Solemn Mass with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Missa Spem in alium (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina)
Super flumina (Orlande de Lassus)
Ave Maria (Francisco Guerrero)
Ave verum corpus (William Byrd)
12:00 p.m.  Mass in Spanish with cantor

Sunday, October 30, 2022

8:00 a.m.  Mass in English with cantor
10:00 a.m.  Solemn Mass with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Missa Sonno scendesti in terra (Narzisus Zenggl)
Qui terrena triumphat (Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni)
Ave Maria (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina)
12:00 p.m.  Mass in Spanish with cantor

Sunday, September 4, 2022

8:00 a.m.  Mass in English with cantor
10:00 a.m.  Solemn Mass with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Missa Saeculorum (Francisco Garro)
In te speravi, Domine (Orlande de Lassus)
Panem de caelo (Heinrich Isaac)
Beati qui ad coenam nuptiarum (Tiburtio Massaino)
12:00 p.m.  Mass in Spanish with cantor

Thursday, September 8, 2022

Schola Juventutum (Youth Schola program) resumes (click here for more information)

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

11:00 a.m.  Mass (in English) in honor of Our Lady of Good Health (Vailankanni)

Sunday, September 11, 2022

8:00 a.m.  Mass in English with cantor
10:00 a.m.  Solemn Mass with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Missa I begli occhi (Gregor Aichinger)
Immittet angelus (Orlande de Lassus)
Inviolata, integra et casta (Jean Maillard)
Querite primum regnum Dei (Jakob Meiland)
12:00 p.m.  Mass in Spanish with cantor

Sunday, September 18, 2022

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)
Expectans expectavi (Orlande de Lassus)
Ego sum panis vivus (Palestrina)
12:00 p.m.  Mass in Spanish with cantor

Sunday, September 25, 2022

8:00 a.m.  Mass in English with cantor
10:00 a.m.  Solemn Mass with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Missa La sol fa re mi (Josquin des Prez)
Domine in auxilium (Orlande de Lassus)
Ave Maria...virgo serena (Josquin)
12:00 p.m.  Mass in Spanish with cantor