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  • The Cathedral of Our Lady of Walsingham
    Houston

    11.15am -
    Solemn High Mass - Procession to the Outdoor Shrine - Benediction

    (All three readings sung.)

    Organ Voluntary - Fantasia on the Agincourt Hymn - - - Improvisation

    At the Procession - Hymn: 'To Jesus Christ, Our Sov'reign King' - - - Christus Rex
    The Introit - Dignus est Agnus - - - Mode III (Palmer-Burgess)

    Kyrie - Missa Sancta Maria Magdalena - - - Healey Willan
    Gloria - Missa Sancta Maria Magdalena - - - Healey Willan

    The Psalm - XXIII: Dominus regit me - - - Chant, Gerald Hocken Knight
    Alleluya and Verse - Potestas eius - - - Mode VI, with polyphonic verse: M.J. Osborn

    The Nicene Creed - - - Recto tono, with Organ embellishments

    The Prayers of the Faithful - - - Byzantine Chant

    At the Offertory -
    The Antiphon - Postula a me - - - Mode IV (P-B)
    Anthem - Te Deum - - - John Ireland

    Sanctus - Missa Sancta Maria Magdalena - - - Healey Willan

    The Our Father - - - Mode VII
    Agnus Dei - Missa Sancta Maria Magdalena - - - Healey Willan

    At the Communion -
    The Antiphon - Amen dico vobis, quod uni - - - Mode III, Improvised Chant (MJO)
    Anthem - 'O God My King' - - - John Amner
    Hymn - 'The King of Love My Shepherd Is' - - - St. Columba

    At Benediciton -
    Hymn - 'O Saving Victim, Op'ning wide' - - - Plainsong, Mode VI
    At the Procession to the Shrine - The Carolingian Acclamations -
    Hymn - 'Therefore We, Before Him Bending' - - - Spanish Plainsong, Mode V

    Hymn - 'Holy God, We Praise Thy Name' - - - Te Deum





  • KyleM18
    Posts: 150
    Our Lady of the Sacred Heart
    5:00 PM Vigil Mass - Cantor and Piano
    (Mostly because the sound system is down and its an electronic organ.)

    Entrance Antiphon/Hymn - This is the Feast of Victory (Richard Hillert)

    Kyrie eleison - A Community Mass (Richard Proulx)
    Gloria in excelsis Deo - Heritage Mass (Owen Alstott)

    Responsorial Psalm - The Lord is my shepherd (Richard Rice)
    Gospel Acclamation - Based on the Te Deum (Theodore Marier, arr. Myers)
    Credo - Said.
    Prayers of the Faithful - Said.

    Offertory Hymn - Let all mortal flesh keep silence (Picardy)
    Eucharistic Acclamations - Heritage Mass (Owen Alstott)
    Our Father - Chant, arr. Snow.

    Communion Antiphon - The Lord sits as King forever (Chanted)
    Communion Hymn - Lord, enthroned in heavenly splendor (Bryn Califera)
    Hymn of Thanksgiving - Holy God, we praise thy name (Grosser Gott)

    Recessional Hymn - Hail, redeemer, King divine (King Divine)



    St. Pius X Catholic Church
    5:00 PM Sunday Mass - "Youth Ensemble"


    Entrance Antiphon - How worthy is the Lamb (Chanted)
    Entrance Hymn - Worthy is the Lamb (OCP) (ugh...)

    Kyrie eleison - A Community Mass (Richard Proulx)
    Gloria in excelsis Deo - Mass of Renewal (Curtis Stephan) (ugh...)

    Responsorial Psalm - The Lord is my shepherd (Owen Alstott)
    Gospel Acclamation - Respond and Acclaim (Owen Alstott)
    Credo - Said.
    Prayers of the Faithful - Said

    Offertory Hymn - Let all mortal flesh keep silence (Picardy)
    Eucharistic Acclamations - Mass of Renewal (Curtis Stephan) (ugh...)
    Our Father - Chant, arr. Snow.

    Communion Antiphon - The Lord sits as King forever (Chanted)
    Communion Hymn - Shepherd me, O God (Haugen) (why...)
    Hymn of Thanksgiving - Holy God, we praise thy name (Grosser Gott)

    Recessional Hymn - Alleluia, sing to Jesus (Hyfrydol)

    [EDIT] I added a postlude of a improvisation on the Worchester Antiphonale's Christus Vincit. Well recieved.
  • St. Michael's Cathedral Basilica
    St. Michael's Choir School
    Senior Choir
    5:00 PM Saturday and 12:00 Noon Masses
    Teri Dunn, Conductor at 5 PM
    Peter Mahon, Conductor at 12 Noon
    William O'Meara, Cathedral Organist

    Organ Voluntary: Toccata and Fugue in F Major BWV 540
    Entrance Hymn: Come, let us join our cheerful songs NATIVITY
    Gregorian Introit Dignus est Agnus
    Kyrie: Spoken
    Gloria: Communion Service in E (Darke) (Yes, we sang it with Darke's text and it did cause some uproar)
    Psalm: New Cathedral Gradual WAA 788
    Offertory: Faire is the Heaven (Harris)
    Sanctus, Mem. Acc.: Stephen Sommerville Dominion Mass
    Amen: Sommerville Good Shepherd Mass
    Agnus Dei: Communion Service in E (Darke) (See note about Gloria)
    Communion:
    Gregorian Antiphon Amen dico vobis, quod uni...
    Adoro Te Devote
    Let All Mortal Flesh (Bairstow)
    Concluding Hymn: Crown Him with Many Crowns DIADEMATA

  • Kyle -
    I'm curious about your use of 'The Lord Sits' (Sedebit) for the communion antiphon. In both the GR and Divine Worship:The Missal there is an alternate, Amen, dico vobis: quod uni, 'Amen, I say to you, inasmuch as ye have done it', given for XP ye King, year A. Were you aware of this, or did you have some reason for not using it?

    One will notice up above that I improvised chant for the year A antiphon. I did this because I didn't have it in an English version and didn't have time to transcribe it myself.
    It is likely somewhere in Palmer-Burgess but, having little time, I didn't find it by paging through this wonderful-but-indexless source.
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    Casavant -
    About your use of the Darke -
    BRAVO!

    Whilst one must admit that the use of 'Old Church English' within a Roman ritual is (unfortunately) illicit, it pales, I should think, in comparison to quite an endless litany of gratuitously tacky and brazenly illicit things that are done at, in, and to Roman rituals.

    BRAVO and Three Cheers!
    Thanked by 1melofluent
  • Richard MixRichard Mix
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    I sang the American Gradual Amen...quod uni (omitting "it") but you might not have found it anyway in "this wonderful-but-indexless source" which doesn't seem to have weekdays in Lent. I encourage anyone with a little spare time to contribute to the partial index here though.
    Thanked by 1M. Jackson Osborn
  • PaxTecum
    Posts: 314
    While I think the Darke texts are nice; just because “in comparison to quite an endless litany of gratuitously tacky and brazenly illcit things that are done...” does not make it right.

    Two wrongs don’t make a right. We aren’t helping the situation by doing exactly what “they” do. We have rubrics and should follow them. Maybe one day they will change
    Thanked by 1Casavant Organist
  • Settefrati -
    You are, of course, quite right.
    Still, there is some tincture of sweetness in Casavant's 'brazen' illicitry in the cause of beauty.

    There is something intrinsically sick in a culture that has naught but contempt for what is intriniscally beautiful.
    Thanked by 1PaxTecum
  • KyleM18
    Posts: 150
    MJO - It's actually not in the collection that I was using! I was using the Peter R. Johnson Antiphons, mostly because I can have the choir sing them without complaining about chant notation. I'd rather use the St. Meinrad, but those are "too long" to some of the parishoners (the pastor and other priests love chant, though, so we are doing at least one Mass in advent full chant). It was my mistake, but I'll have a better collection for next year.
  • PaxTecum
    Posts: 314
    Kyle - i've come to enjoy Simple English Propers; Richard Rice's offertories (his introits and communios are nice but are from the missal not the gradual); and the Lumen Christi Missal. We are using a mix of these regularly.
  • MarkS
    Posts: 282
    While it's certainly not Our Lady of Walsingham, I'll put this against what is going on at our local Catholic parish across the town green any day. And my Episcopalians really sing, and love to be led (and inspired!) by the organ, with the Rector leading the way with his lovely baritone.

    Christ Episcopal Church
    10 AM

    Prelude: In Heaven above, at God's high throne … F. Peeters
    Processional hymn: All hail the power of Jesus' name CORONATION
    Kyrie: Missa Sancta Maria Magdelena … H. Willan
    Gloria: Missa Sancta Maria Magdelena … H. Willan
    Psalm 100: Anglican chant … Woodward
    Sequence hymn: Crown him with many crowns DIADEMATA
    At the Offertory: Lift up your heads, O ye gates … W. Mathias
    Sanctus: Missa Sancta Maria Magdelena … H. Willan
    Agnus Dei: Missa Sancta Maria Magdelena … H. Willan
    At Communion: King of Glory, King of Peace GENERAL SEMINARY
    Recessional hymn: Alleluia! sing to Jesus HYFRYDOL
    Postlude: Prelude on Hyfrydol (from 'Three Preludes on Welsh hymn tunes') … R. V. Williams
  • CharlesW
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    Holy Ghost Catholic Church, Knoxville, TN

    Yesterday being my 70th birthday, a very sweet 5-year-old boy and his younger sister gave me a balloon and a hand-drawn birthday card. Those going out could see the balloon bobbing near the choir loft door, but I thought it was a nice gesture.

    Illness decimated us yesterday and we were down to 1 bass, 2 altos, 2 sopranos, and 4 tenors. Strangely, it turned out rather well with so few voices.

    Entrance: "To Jesus Christ, Our Sovereign King"
    Mass Ordinary: ICEL chant
    Psalm: "The Lord Is My Shepherd..." by Angelo della Picca
    Offertory: "With a Voice of Singing," Martin Shaw. (Here is where I thought the lack of voices would do us in, but the small choir did well.)
    Communion Chant: "The Lord Sits as King... R. Rice
    Communion Hymn: "Crown Him with Many Crowns"
    Recessional: "Rejoice, the Lord Is King"
    Postlude: Prelude in F - Georg Muffat
    Thanked by 1JonathanLC
  • PaxTecum
    Posts: 314

    Prelude: Improvisation
    Entrance Antiphon: Simple English Propers
    Hymn at the Procession: All Hail the Power of Jesus' Name
    Kyrie: Missa de Angelis
    Gloria: Heritage Mass (Alstott)
    Resp. Psalm: The Lord is My Shepherd - WLP (with sarum psalm tone)
    Alleluia: Mode VI
    Offertory Hymn: Jesus Shall Reign DUKE STREET
    Offertory Antiphon: Richard Rice
    Sanctus: Heritage Mass (Alstott)
    Memorial Acclamation: ICEL Chant
    Amen: ICEL Chant with choral embellishment (lifted from youtube video from Vatican)
    Agnus Dei: Missa XVII
    Communion Antiphon: Simple English Propers
    Communion Motet: Jesu Rex Admirabilis (G. P. da Palestrina)
    Hymn at the Retiring Procession: To Jesus Christ Our Sovereign King
    Postlude: Postlude in F from Liturgical Organist (C. Rossini)
  • St. Mary, Help of Christians, Sleepy Eye, MN, Nov. 26, 2017, 9:30 a.m.
    St. Mary's School 3rd-6th Grade Choristers (about 30 singers)
    St. Mary's Junior & Senior High School Schola (about 20 singers)
    St. Mary's Caecilian Choir (about 20-25 singers)


    Prelude: Big Organ Improvisation
    Introit: Chanted to a Gregorian psalm-tone by the HS Schola
    Processional Hymn: Crown Him with Many Crowns, DIADEMATA
    Ordinary: Mass of Wisdom, Janco (except chanted Kyrie)
    Responsorial/Alleuia: Alstott settings
    Offertory Anthem: To Christ the King, Sr. M. Raphael (sung by the combined choirs...has been in use by the parish, I think, since 1937)
    Offertory Hymn: Hail, Redeemer, King Divine, ST. GEORGE'S WINDSOR (Elvey #2 for the day)
    Communion Antiphon: Chanted to a Gregorian psalm-tone by the HS Schola
    Communion Motet: Jubilate Deo, W.A. Mozart (JH & HS Schola & Caecilian Choir)
    Communion Hymn: Jesus, My Lord, My God, My All, FEST SOLL MEIN TAUFBUND
    Recessional Hymn: To Jesus Christ, Our Sovereign King, ICH GLAUB AN GOTT
    Postlude: Fantasia in G-Dur, BWV 572 JSB

    St. Mary, Help of Christians, Sleepy Eye, MN, Oct. 29, 2017, 11.30 a.m. EF High Mass
    St. Mary's Latin Mass Choir

    Prelude Hymn: Crown Him with Many Crowns, DIADEMATA
    Propers: partially-simplified Gregorian
    Ordinary: Mass VIII (Credo III)
    Communion Motet: Christus Vincit, hymn-tune version, SATB
    Recessional Hymn: To Jesus Christ Our Sovereign King, ICH GLAUB AN GOTT
    Postlude: Extemporisation

    Ss. Peter and Paul Catholic Church, Mankato, MN, Oct. 29, 2017, 4:15 p.m. EF High Mass
    Ss. Peter and Paul Latin Mass Schola & Friends from the New Ulm Diocese

    Organ Prelude: Extemporisation
    Propers: Full Gregorian (graduale excepto)
    Ordinary: St. Anthony of Padua Mass, Fr. Ignatius Wilkens, OFM (Credo III)
    Offertory Motet: Laudes Regiae, Ambrosian Chant
    Communion Motet: Quis Sicut Te, Kathryn Sullivan
    Recessional Hymn: To Jesus Christ, Our Sovereign King, ICH GLAUB AN GOTT
    Postlude: Fuga in G-moll, BWV 578,, JSB
    Thanked by 1JonathanLC