Processional: Crown Him with Many Crowns Kyriale: de Victoria. Misa O Quam Gloriosum Credo III Offertory: de Victoria, Vere Languores harp and organ solos (e.g., Gregorian Panis Angelicus, etc) Recessional: Organ solo, Agincourt Hymn
PROCESSIONAL: Lauda Anima "Praise My Soul the King of Heaven" PROPERS: Full Gregorian ORDINARY: Dumont/Lecomte, Messe dite Royale (Polyphonic version) CREDO: I OFFERTORY MOTET: Chant, Vexilla Regis COMMUNION MOTETS: Remondi, O Sacrum Convivium Palestrina, Jesu Rex Admirabilis
PROCESSIONAL: Diademata "Crown Him With Many Crowns" Ambrosian chant Christus Vincit Grosser Gott "Holy God, We Praise Thy Name" Gott Vater "O God, Almighty Father" Italian Hymn "O God of Loveliness"
BENEDICTION: Webbe Tantum Ergo Simple Salve Regina Chant Oremus Pro Pontifice Laudate Dominum with chant Christus Vincit RECESSIONAL: Ich Glaub An Gott "To Jesus Christ Our Sov'reign King"
I had to cover for the director today, and half the choir was gone. In spite of all that, (and the fact that I bungled the Benediction), the whole mass went quite well. We regained another member to our choir because of it.
St. Mary, Help of Christians, Sleepy Eye, MN (w/ first communions)
Processional: Crown Him with Many Crowns Propers: Full I, O, C, abbrev. G/A Ordinary: Fr. Wilkens, Gloria VIII, Credo III Offertory Motet: Christus Vincit (trad. antiphon w/ Ps. 116) Communion Motet: Ave Verum Corpus, Mozart Recessional: To Jesus Christ, Our Sovereign King
Ss. Peter and Paul, Mankato, MN
Processional: Hail, Redeemer, King Divine Propers: Full Ordinary: Mass in Honor of St John Cantius, Eugeniusz Walkiewicz Offertory Motet: Jesu, Rex Admirabilis, Palestrina Communion Motets: Panis Angelicus, Casciolini Adoremus in Aeternum, G. Allegri Recessional: To Jesus Christ, Our Sovereign King
I was confused by the title of this thread and the comments. Yes, perplexed. Then I realised (finally) that we are talking about the Extraordinary Form of the Roman rite. - - - I'll tell you what we do at Walsingham when this feast appears in the Ordinariate Use of the Roman rite.
Propers, but in addition, we sang the Vespers hymn Te saeculorum Principem, which the choir had not seen before this morning. (Our director is temporarily away).
Entrance, Christus Vincit (melody from Worcester Antiphonal) Asperges (first version) Propers from Graduale Romanum Mass II Credo I Offertory motet, Dominus Regnavit, Joaquin Desprez (1st half) Communion motet, 2nd half of above. Marian Anthem, Solemn tone (Salve Regina)
Pro/Recessional: Crown Him with many crowns Mass I, Credo I, Gregorian Proper, psalm tone verses on Gradual and Alleluia. Offertory: Postula a me (Peter Griesbacher, from Repertorium Chorale) Communion: Chant, then the Griesbacher setting (see above) then O Sacrum Convivium (Remondi)
Processional: Crown Him with Many Crowns Full propers Mass VIII, Credo III Offertory: O Sanctissima SATB Communion: Jesu Rex Admirabilis (Palestrina) Recessional: Christus Vincit, then To Jesus Christ Our Sovereign King Postlude: Improv on Christus Vincit
5:30pm Sung Vespers:
Procession: Grand Chorus in a Gregorian Tone, Alexandre Guilmant Proper antiphons and hymn, all with organ accompaniment Recessional: Finale from 6th Symphony, C.M. Widor
Final Mass on day 3 of our annual (EF) Christus Rex Pilgrimage from St Patrick's Cathedral Ballarat to Sacred Heart Cathedral Bendigo (both in Victoria, Australia.)
Procession of pilgrims into Bendigo Cathedral: Holy God. Introit - Dignus est Agnus (chant). Chant propers throughout. Ordinary: Missa Brevis (Palestrina), except for Credo III.
An anecdote among many. One of our pilgrims advertised the Pilgrimage in the newsletter of her Sydney (Australia) bushwalking club earlier in the year. A recipient of that newsletter saw the ad, decided to come along, and met up fortuitously with this pilgrim on the first night ( about a one in 400 chance ). Anyway, they crossed paths again after the final mass. The new pilgrim was overwhelmed by the whole experience. But her predominant emotion was one of anger. "We've been RIPPED OFF all these years!" she fumed.
For the past three years, we've been playing André Raison's "Offerte du 5me Ton 'Le Vive le Roy des Parisiens'" for the Recessional, right after the traditional Christus vincit (not the gregorian one), as it too long to fit on our ordinary 5'30 offertoire time and too beautiful to be cut. There's an interesting history behind this organ piece, which was written for Louis XIV, 'le Roy des Parisiens'. Since Jesus Christ King of the Kings is (or at least was so recognized) also the King of the majority of the 'parisiens', the piece lives well with the circumstance of a Feast of Christ the King.
In the OF you have Him as your King at the end of time.
Interesting observation re putting it in pre-Advent. Also, it's a better setup to have Him crowned right before All Saints. Of course, the biggest reason for the earlier date is to have it on Reformation Sunday.
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