St. Bedes, Clapham Park, London,

All Propers as in the G.R. 1924
Ordinary, Mass II
Credo I
Offertory hymn, Optatus votis omnium
Communion Hymn, Aeterna Rex Altissime
Regina Caeli Solemn tone

Sang various hymns and Mass parts as required by the church employing me; but was permitted also to sing an Ascension hymn by the famous Kathleen Pluth, "He who walked upon the waters"; it happens to be published in the current WLP "Seasonal Missalette".

Sacred Heart
Camp Washington, Cincinnati, OH

EF Missa Cantata

Prelude (following Rosary): Sub Tuum Praesidium, Lambilotte
Processional: Cantate Domino, Pitoni
Propers: GR (full)
Ordinary: Missa Secunda, Hassler
Credo IV
Offertory Motet: Ascendens Christus, Gallus
Communion of the Choir: Vesper Voluntary VI, Elgar (organ)
Communion Motet: Sicut Cervus (w/ Sitivit), Palestrina
Ite II Solemnior
Recessional: Regina Caeli, Fr. I. Wilkens, OFM
Postlude: Fughetta in C Major, Sir John Stainer

The Processional, Introit, and Kyrie were sung without a break from the same pitch.

Holy Ghost Church
Knoxville, TN

My music for Thursday was Byzantine chant. LOL. Although several of us in the choir are recovering from the latest respiratory illness, here is what we hope to do on Sunday when I celebrate Ascension again with the Latins.

Entrance: Hail the Day That Sees Him Rise (Llanfair)
Psalm: God Mounts His Throne...Psalm 47:6 by Michel Guimont
Anthem: Come Praise the Lord, a piece that may or may not have been written by Bach
Communion Chant: Richard Rice
Communion Hymn: A Hymn of Glory Let Us Sing (Lasst Uns Erfreuen)
Recessional: Go to the World (Sine Nomine)
Postlude: Grand Jeu by Marchand

Mass Ordinary is ICEL Roman Missal Chants

On the other hand, I’ll take that over “On this day, O Beautiful Mother.”

For “Immaculate Mary,” do you mean the longer version also sung in England? The American version is vastly inferior...

Sunday here also.
Gregorian/LCM Propers
Missa Pilons Pilons L'Orge, Lassus
All People Clap Your Hands, Weelkes
Rejoice in the Lord, Weelkes
Hail the Day that Sees him Rise, LLANFAIR (at some Masses)
A Hymn of Glory Let Us Sing, LASST UNS ERFEUEN
Organ music by Krieger

A funny about Ascension...I received yesterday a tweet from the Archbishop of Atlanta wishing everyone a happy Ascension day. The trouble is that it is celebrated on Sunday in Atlanta. The right hand not knoweth what the left hand does.

Diocese transfers to Sunday. We will be singing:

Entrance: Antiphon from Hymn Tune Introits (OLD 100TH)
Psalm: Lumen Christi
Offertory: Hail The Day That Sees Him Rise (LLANFAIR)
Communion: Lumen Christi
Hymn: Jesus, My Lord... (SWEET SACRAMENT)
Recessional: A Hymn of Glory, Let Us Sing (LAAST UNS ERFREUEN)
+ Chanted ordinary from RM3

I'm very glad to see my work in use. Thank you, Chonak and Ryan.

I would have loved to have heard Jackson's Agincourt! Amazing tune.

For Thursday's TLM Missa Cantata on Thursday, music by the men's schola: Propers, Mass I, Credo I, Regina caeli, with organ interludes and postlude.

Here in the Arlington Va. diocese, the following oddly worded notice was in Thursday's edition of the diocesan paper:

The feast of the Ascension falls on the 40th day after Easter, always a Thursday. The bishops of our province have granted permission for the celebration to be transferred to the Seventh Sunday of Easter, this year May 8.

Now my recollection is not only that permission was given to transfer to Sunday, but celebration on Thursday was forbidden for the Vatican II Mass. Thursday morning Mass in the same parish was Thursday of sixth week of Easter. TLM can celebrate on Thursday. My hope here is that the powers that be are re-considering their decision to transfer. Or is this more a case of:

The right hand not knoweth what the left hand does.

Sorry - I got corrected automatically (forever a nuisance if you are not trying to say the same thing everybody always says) - the Obrecht mass is ' Je ne seray plus vert vestus.' The attribution was tentative but I think the latest scholarly word is that it is indeed by him - not that it makes a bit of difference to me - good music is good music.

Fred

Transferred to Sunday here, and the choir had the day off, so:

Prelude: "Ave Maria" (Gerald Near)
Entrance: "A Hymn of Glory Let Us Sing"
Sprinkling: "I Saw Water" (Nestor)
Psalm 47
Alleluia "O filii et filiae"
Offertory: "Hail the Day that Sees Him Rise"
Communion: "Alleluia, Sing to Jesus"
Recessional/Marian Antiphon: "Regina caeli"

Just returned from solemn vespers for 'Ascension' at Annunciation here in Houston, for which I sang the lesson. These vespers are sung every month or solemnity or so, featuring a professional choir, Sola Stella (for the 'Lone Star' state, for those who don't know). The choirmaster is our member Felipe Gaspar, who was Walsingham's choirmaster for several years several years ago. The pastor is Fr Paul Felix.

The music for tonight's Ascension vespers was -

Organ voluntary - on Lucis creator optime - Gerald Near
Introit - 'God is gone up' - Gerald Finzi

Office Hymn - Jesu, nostra redemptio (English) - Mode IV
Psalm CX - Dixit Dominus - Tone I
Psalm XLVII - Omnes gentes, plaudite (English) - Meinrad tone; faburdens: de Zachariis
Psalm XI - Gratias agimus tibi - Anonymous Anglican chant

Magnificat - alternatim, faburdens: Duarte Lobo; repeat of antiphon: Estevao de Brito

Votive Antiphon - Regina caeli

Hymn - 'Hail thee, festival day!' - Salve festa dies
Organ voluntary - Fugue no. 2 on B-A-C-H, in B-flat - Robert Schumann

(Psalm CX was sung antiphonally between left and right sides of the nave.
Psalm XLVII was sung with alternatim polyphony - choir vs people
Psalm XI was sung in directum in Anglican chant by the choir.
Magnificat was sung with alternatim polyphony - choir vs people.)

(The organ is a 1920-ish Pilcher in process of restoration.)

Now my recollection is not only that permission was given to transfer to Sunday, but celebration on Thursday was forbidden for the Vatican II Mass. Thursday morning Mass in the same parish was Thursday of sixth week of Easter. TLM can celebrate on Thursday. My hope here is that the powers that be are re-considering their decision to transfer. Or is this more a case of:

@David Sullivan

My understanding was that for the N.O. the Ordinary could move the Feast (Obligation and celebration) to the Sunday. This would imply that Thursday would then have just the FERIAL Mass.
Your notice suggests that in the N.O. you could celebrate the Feast on its Proper day and on the Sunday have the option of celebrating it as an External Solemnity.

In England and Wales the Bishops got permission to move the Feasts to a Sunday for the EF, but we pointed out that if All Saints falls on a Monday, it cannot be celebrated as an External Solemnity on the previous Sunday as in the N.O. because the Last Sunday of October is the Feast of Christ the King.
We also asked what we should do on the Feast, and Rome helpfully replied that in the E.F. we celebrate the Feast on its Proper day, but can also have an External Solemnity of the Feast on the transferred day used by the N.O (as long as the rubrics allow).

Our E.F. parish does not follow the request of the Bishops and has none of their 'optional' External Solemnities, but other E.F. parishes do follow the request.