| 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
