Category Archives: Music

A gradual return to the public celebration of Mass in the Diocese of Bridgeport will begin on May 21, 2020.

Sunday, May 3, 2020

Sung Masses (livestream only)
8:00 a.m.  Mass in English with cantor
9:30 a.m.  Missa cantata with members of St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Missa di Guami (arr. Terrence B. Fay, after Gioseffo Giuseppe Guami, 1542–1611)
12:30 p.m.  Mass in Spanish with cantor

Sunday, May 10, 2020

Sung Masses (livestream only)
8:00 a.m.  Mass in English with cantor
9:30 a.m.  Missa cantata with members of St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
12:30 p.m.  Mass in Spanish with cantor

Sunday, May 17, 2020

Sung Masses (livestream only)
8:00 a.m.  Mass in English with cantor
9:30 a.m.  Missa cantata with members of St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Benedicite gentes (contrafactum, Josquin des Prez)
12:30 p.m.  Mass in Spanish with cantor

Sunday, May 24, 2020

Sung Masses (livestreamed from the church with distribution of Communion to follow outside—reservations required)
8:00 a.m.  Mass in English with cantor
9:30 a.m.  Missa cantata with members of St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Missa Regina caeli (Richard Dobbins)
Serve bone et fidelis (Orlande de Lassus)
Sicut rosa (Lassus)
12:30 p.m.  Mass in Spanish with cantor

Pentecost Sunday, May 31, 2020

Sung Masses (livestreamed from the church with distribution of Communion to follow outside—reservations required)
8:00 a.m.  Mass in English with cantor
9:30 a.m.  Missa cantata with members of St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Sancti mei (Orlande de Lassus)
Tres sunt qui testimonium dant in coelo (Richard Dering)
Qui vult venire post me (Lassus)
12:30 p.m.  Mass in Spanish with cantor

Cantate hymnum ad Virginem contra plagam!Stella caeli—A prayer to the Virgin in the time of contagion

As of Monday, March 16, 2020, the public celebration of all weekday and Sunday Masses in the Diocese of Bridgeport is suspended. The suspension has been extended until May 20.

While we pray for an end to the Coronavirus outbreak, St. Mary's will be streaming Masses online.

Palm Sunday: April 5, 2020

9:30 a.m. Mass (livestream only—view recording)
with cantors from the St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
This is our first sung Mass since the public celebration of Mass was suspended.
Gregorian Mass of the Palms: Hosanna Filio David
Sanctus (Chant Mass XVIII)
Gregorian Mass of the Passion: Domine, ne longe facias
Chant Mass XVII
Exaudi Domine vocem meam (Josquin des Prez)

Maundy Thursday: April 9, 2020

7:00 p.m. Mass of the Lord's Supper (livestream only—view recording)
with cantors from the St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Gregorian Mass of Holy Thursday: Nos autem gloriari oportet
Kyrie Cunctipotens genitor (Ad organum faciendi, ca. 12th c.)
Gloria (Chant Mass IV)
Sanctus (Anonymous, 14th c.)
Agnus Dei (Anonymous, 14th c.)

Good Friday: April 10, 2020

3:00 p.m. Mass of the Presanctified (livestream only—view recording)
with cantors from the St. Mary's Schola Cantorum

Holy Saturday: April 11, 2020

7:00 p.m. Great Vigil of Easter (livestream only—view recording)
with cantors from the St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Mass in A (Samuel Webbe)
Sicut cervus (Johannes Ockeghem)
Sitivit anima mea (Ockeghem)

Easter Sunday: April 12, 2020

9:30 a.m. Mass (livestream only—view recording)
with cantors from the St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Mass in A (Samuel Webbe)
Haec dies (Léonin)
Maria stabat ad monumentum (Giovanni Battista Riccio)

Sunday, April 19, 2020

9:30 a.m. Mass (livestream only)
with cantors from the St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Chant Mass I
Currebant duo simul (Giovanni Battista Riccio)

Sunday, April 26, 2020

Sung Masses (livestream only)
8:00 a.m.  Mass in English with cantor
9:30 a.m.  Missa cantata with members of St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Messa facilissima a due voci pari (Guglielmo Mattioli)
12:30 p.m.  Mass in Spanish with cantor

Cantate hymnum ad Virginem contra plagam!Stella caeli—A prayer to the Virgin in the time of contagion

Sunday, March 1, 2020

FIRST SUNDAY OF LENT

9:30 a.m. Solemn Mass (St. Mary's Schola Cantorum)
Missa St. Crucis (Joseph Rheinberger)
Scapulis suis (Giovanni Battista Casali)
Media vita (Henry Du Mont)

11:30 a.m. Sung Mass (St. Mary's Choir)
Hide not thou thy face (Richard Farrant)
Behold the Lamb of God (Paul Bouman)

Sunday, March 8, 2020

SECOND SUNDAY OF LENT

9:30 a.m. Solemn Mass (St. Mary's Schola Cantorum)
Missa Iste sanctus (Francisco Guerrero)
Meditabor in mandatis tuis (Orlande de Lassus)
Quicumque Christum quaeritis (Tomás Luis de Victoria)

11:30 a.m. Sung Mass (St. Mary's Choir)
We saw his glory (Erhard Mauersberger)
Dear Lord and Father of mankind (C. H. H. Parry)

Sunday, March 15, 2020

THIRD SUNDAY OF LENT

9:30 a.m. Solemn Mass (St. Mary's Schola Cantorum)
Missa a 5 (Agostino Agazzari)
Stella caeli (Walter Lambe)

11:30 a.m. Sung Mass (St. Mary's Choir)
I heard the voice of Jesus say (Thomas Tallis)
Attende, Domine (chant responsory)

As of Monday, March 16, 2020, the public celebration of all weekday and Sunday Masses in the Diocese of Bridgeport is suspended.

Cantate hymnum ad Virginem contra plagam!Stella caeli: A prayer to the Virgin in the time of contagion

Sunday, February 2, 2020

9:30 a.m. Solemn Mass (St. Mary's Schola Cantorum)
The Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Candlemas)
Lumen gentium/Nunc dimittis (Marco da Gagliano)
Adorna thalamum (Orlande de Lassus)
Missa quarti toni (Tomás Luís de Victoria)
Hæc Deum cæli (Jacob Obrecht)
Senex puerum portabat (Victoria)

11:30 a.m. Sung Mass (St. Mary's Choir)
The Presentation of the Lord
Chant Mass IX, Cum jubilo
Virgin-born, we bow before thee (Claude Goudimel)
Polorum Regina (Llibre Vermell de Montserrat)

Sunday, February 9, 2020

9:30 a.m. Solemn Mass (St. Mary's Schola Cantorum)
Septuagesima Sunday
Missa Simile est regnum caelorum (Alonso Lobo)
Simile est regnum caelorum (Francisco Guerrero)

11:30 a.m. Sung Mass (St. Mary's Choir)
5th Sunday in Ordinary Time
Chant Mass XI, Orbis factor

Sunday, February 16, 2020

9:30 a.m. Solemn Mass (St. Mary's Schola Cantorum)
Sexagesima Sunday
Missa Saeculorum amen (Francisco Guerrero)
Circumdederunt me (Cristóbal de Morales)
Introibo ad altare Dei (Henricus Isaac)
Ave Regina caelorum (Alonso Lobo)

11:30 a.m. Sung Mass (St. Mary's Choir)
6th Sunday in Ordinary Time
Chant Mass XI, Orbis factor
Thee will I love, my God and King (Armstrong Gibbs)
Richard de Castre's Prayer to Jesus (R. R. Terry)

Friday, February 21, 2020

7:00 p.m. Special Concert Event:
17th-century Italian Passion Oratorio performed by the Academy of Sacred Drama

Sunday, February 23, 2020

9:30 a.m. Solemn Mass (St. Mary's Schola Cantorum)
Quinquagesima Sunday
Mass in G (Giuseppe Antonio Bernabei)
Ave Regina caelorum (Orlande de Lassus)
Manducaverunt (Ludovico Balbi)

11:30 a.m. Sung Mass (St. Mary's Choir)
7th Sunday in Ordinary Time
Chant Mass XI, Orbis factor
Jesu, the very thought of thee (S. S. Wesley)
Ave Regina caelorum (Georges Guiraud)

Wednesday, February 26, 2020

7:00 p.m. Solemn Mass (St. Mary's Schola Cantorum)
Ash Wednesday
Missa Ferialis (Anonymous, 18th-c. Granada)
Immutemur (José Maurício Nunes García)
Inter vestibulum (Diego de las Muelas)
Exaltabo (Giovanni Croce)
Miserere mei (William Byrd)

Wednesday, January 1, 2020

9:30 a.m. Solemn Mass (St. Mary's Schola Cantorum)
The Octave Day of Christmas
Chant Mass II, Kyrie fons bonitatis (Graduale Romanum)
Mirabile mysterium (Jacobus Handl)
O admirabile commercium (Johannes Regis)

Sunday, January 5, 2020

9:30 a.m. Solemn Mass (St. Mary's Schola Cantorum)
The Holy Name of Jesus
Mass for Three Voices (William Byrd)
O Jesu mi dulcissime (Felice Anerio)
O bone Jesu (Claudio Monteverdi)

Monday, January 6, 2020

6:00 p.m. Solemn Mass (St. Mary's Schola Cantorum)
Feast of the Epiphany
Mass for Five Voices (William Byrd)
Reges Tharsis (William Byrd)
Vidimus stellam (William Byrd)

Sunday, January 12, 2020

9:30 a.m. Solemn Mass (St. Mary's Schola Cantorum)
Feast of the Holy Family
Missa Sancta et immaculata (Francisco Guerrero)
Unam petii (William Byrd)
Alma Redemptoris Mater (Tomás Luís de Victoria)

Saturday, January 18, 2020

10:15 a.m. (after 9:00 a.m. Mass)
Piano recital by Heitor Caballero (with talk on retirement planning) - Parish Center

Sunday, January 19, 2020

9:30 a.m. Solemn Mass (St. Mary's Schola Cantorum)
2nd Sunday after Epiphany
Missa quarti toni (Tomás Luís de Victoria)
Dicit Dominus (Heinrich Isaac)
Alma Redemptoris Mater (Francisco Guerrero)

11:30 a.m. Sung Mass (St. Mary's Choir)
2nd Sunday in Ordinary Time
Chant Mass VIII: Missa de Angelis
The Call (Ralph Vaughan Williams)

Sunday, January 26, 2020

9:30 a.m. Solemn Mass (St. Mary's Schola Cantorum)
3rd Sunday after Epiphany
Missa Il me suffit (Orlande de Lassus)
Dextera Domini (Lassus)
Alma Redemptoris Mater (Ercole Bernabei)

11:30 a.m. Sung Mass (St. Mary's Choir)
3rd Sunday in Ordinary Time
Chant Mass VIII: Missa de Angelis
What God ordains is always good (Johann Pachelbel)

Sunday, December 1, 2019
Advent I
9:30 a.m. Solemn Mass
Missa Conditor (Giovanni Animuccia)
Ad te levavi (Alessandro Scarlatti)
Dominus dabit (Ludovico Balbi)
Alma Redemptoris Mater (Jean L'Heritier)

Sunday, December 8, 2019
Feast of the Immaculate Conception
9:30 a.m. Solemn Mass
Messe de Sainte Hildegarde
Stella splendens in monte (Llibre Vermell de Montserrat)
Mariam matrem virginem (Llibre Vermell de Montserrat)

Sunday, December 15, 2019
Advent III
9:30 a.m. Solemn Mass
Mass for Four Voices (William Byrd)
Gaudete (Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck)
Ne irascaris Domine (William Byrd)

4:00 p.m. Advent Lessons and Carols
St. Mary's Festival Choir; Children's Carol Choir; Coro Hispano de Santa María; St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Music from England, Spain, France, Germany, and Colombia
Hymns and Gregorian chants of Advent
Followed by Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament

Sunday, December 22, 2019
Advent IV
9:30 a.m. Solemn Mass
Missa Mi-mi (Johannes Ockeghem)
Ave Maria (Robert Parsons)
Alma Redemptoris Mater (Johannes Ockeghem)

Tuesday, December 24, 2019
11:30 p.m. Choral Prelude with Christmas Carols
Wednesday, December 25, 2019
12:00 a.m. Midnight Mass of Christmas
Mass in G major, K. 140 "Pastoral" (W. A. Mozart)
O magnum mysterium (Tomás Luis de Victoria)
Alma Redemptoris Mater (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina)
St. Mary's Schola Cantorum; St. Mary's Festival Choir

9:30 a.m. Mass of Christmas Day
Missa O magnum mysterium (Tomás Luis de Victoria)
O magnum mysterium (Tomás Luis de Victoria)
Alma Redemptoris Mater (Palestrina)

Sunday, December 29, 2019
Sunday in the Octave of Christmas
9:30 a.m. Solemn Mass
Missa Ich stund an einem Morgen (Jacob Handl)
Resonet in laudibus (Lassus)
Christmas Caroling to follow at the Coffee Hour

Friday, November 1, 2019
All Saints
6:00 p.m. Solemn Mass
Messa breve (Giovanni Rovetta)
Justorum animae (William Byrd)
O quam gloriosum (Tomás Luís de Victoria)
Beati quorum via (Charles Villiers Stanford)

Saturday, November 2, 2019
All Souls
9:00 a.m. Solemn Mass
Missa pro defunctis (Lodovico Viadana)
Manus tuae (Cristóbal de Morales)

Sunday, November 3, 2019
21st Sunday after Pentecost
9:30 a.m. Solemn Mass
Missa Quem dicunt homines (Cristóbal de Morales)
Vir erat in terra Hus (Terrence B. Fay)
Portio mea Domine (Robert White)

Sunday, November 10, 2019
22nd Sunday after Pentecost
9:30 a.m. Solemn Mass
Missa Fa re ut fa sol la (Cristóbal de Morales)
Ecce quam bonum (William Byrd)
O sacrum convivium (Tomás Luís de Victoria)

Sunday, November 17, 2019
23rd after Pentecost
9:30 a.m. Solemn Mass
Missa De profundis (Vincenzo Ruffo)
De profundis (Ludwig Senfl)

Saturday, November 23
Rehearsals begin for Advent Lessons & Carols

Sunday, November 24, 2019
Last Sunday after Pentecost
9:30 a.m. Solemn Mass
Missa La sol fa re mi (Josquin des Prez)
Salve Regina (Philippe Basiron)
De profundis (Josquin des Prez)

3:00 p.m. Recital by Elizabeth and Charles Weaver, soprano and lute
Benefit concert for the St. Cecilia Society (free admission; donations gratefully accepted)