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Music for December 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.
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

Music for November 2022

All sung Masses at St. Mary's include the Gregorian chant Propers, as well as the Ordinary of the Mass sung in Latin to plainchant or polyphony.
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

Music for October 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, 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

Music for September 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, 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

Music for August 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, August 7, 2022

8:00 a.m.  Mass in English with cantor
10:00 a.m.  Solemn Mass with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Messa da cappella (Giovanni Rovetta)
Benedicite omnia opera Domini (prima pars) (Orlande de Lassus)
Amen amen dico vobis (Jean Guyot)
12:00 p.m.  Mass in Spanish with cantor

Sunday, August 14, 2022

8:00 a.m.  Mass in English with cantor
10:00 a.m.  Solemn Mass with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Missa Dixit Maria (Hans Leo Hassler)
Quae est ista (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina)
Mariam matrem virginem (Llibre Vermell de Montserrat)
12:00 p.m.  Mass in Spanish with cantor

Sunday, August 21, 2022

8:00 a.m.  Mass in English with cantor
10:00 a.m.  Solemn Mass with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Missa V (Johann Stadlmayr)
Exaltabo te (Orlande de Lassus)
Ave verum corpus a 5 (Josquin des Prez)
12:00 p.m.  Mass in Spanish with cantor

Sunday, August 28, 2022

8:00 a.m.  Mass in English with cantor
10:00 a.m.  Solemn Mass with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Missa a cinque (Agostino Agazzari)
Augustine pater optime (Jean Maillard)
Magne pater Augustine (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina)
O doctor optime (Tomás Luís de Victoria)
12:00 p.m.  Mass in Spanish with cantor

Music for July 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, July 3, 2022

8:00 a.m.  Mass in English with cantor
10:00 a.m.  Solemn Mass with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Missa Ob ich schon und elend bin (Jacobus Handl)
Salve Regina (Philippe Basiron)
O bone Jesu (Loyset Compère)
12:00 p.m.  Mass in Spanish with cantor

Sunday, July 10, 2022

8:00 a.m.  Mass in English with cantor
10:00 a.m.  Solemn Mass with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Missa Dittes maistresse (Orlande de Lassus)
Benedicam Dominum (Lassus)
Unam petii (William Byrd)
Salve Regina (Orlande de Lassus)
12:00 p.m.  Mass in Spanish with cantor

Sunday, July 17, 2022

8:00 a.m.  Mass in English with cantor
10:00 a.m.  Solemn Mass with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Missa L'hora passa (Ludovico da Viadana)
Cantate Domino (Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni)
O sacrum convivium (Tomás Luís de Victoria)
Ecce quam bonum (William Byrd)
12:00 p.m.  Mass in Spanish with cantor

Sunday, July 24, 2022

8:00 a.m.  Mass in English with cantor
10:00 a.m.  Solemn Mass with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Missa Amar donna (Orlande de Lassus)
Cantate Domino (Lassus)
O bone Jesu (Lassus)
12:00 p.m.  Mass in Spanish with cantor

Sunday, July 31, 2022

8:00 a.m.  Mass in English with cantor
10:00 a.m.  Solemn Mass with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Missa Comme la tourtourelle (Giorgio Flori)
Populum humilem (Orlande de Lassus)
Gustate et videte (Ludwig Senfl)
Venite filii (Lassus)
12:00 p.m.  Mass in Spanish with cantor

Music for June 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, June 5: Pentecost

8:00 a.m.  Mass in English with cantor
10:00 a.m.  Solemn Mass with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Missa Jam Christus astra ascenderat (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina)
Hodie completi sunt dies Pentecostes (Andrea Gabrieli)
Jam Christus astra ascenderat (Cristóbal de Morales)
Veni Creator Spiritus (Tomás Luís de Victoria)
12:00 p.m.  Mass in Spanish with cantor

Sunday, June 12: Trinity Sunday

8:00 a.m.  Mass in English with cantor
10:00 a.m.  Solemn Mass with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Missa brevis (Giovanni Gabrieli)
Duo seraphim (Tiburtio Massaino)
O altitudo (Dominique Phinot)
O lux beata Trinitas (Tomás Luís de Victoria)
12:00 p.m.  Mass in Spanish with cantor

Sunday, June 19: Corpus Christi Sunday

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 Schola Juventutum
Missa Mon coeur se recommande à vous (Johannes Eccard)
Sacerdotes Domini (William Byrd)
Quotiescunque manducabitis (Byrd)
Panis angelicus (César Franck)
12:00 p.m.  Mass in Spanish with cantor

Sunday, June 27

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 bone Jesu (Claudio Monteverdi)
Gustate et videte (Giammateo Asola)
O Jesu mi dulcissime (Felice Anerio)
12:00 p.m.  Mass in Spanish with cantor