I had the joy of playing and singing for a Solemn High Mass for the Vigil of Pentecost at the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist in Paterson, NJ today for newly-ordained Fr. John Killackey, FSSP, as part of his "First Mass Tour." Now I'm ready to dive into Pentecost proper tomorrow morning!
MATER DEI, HARRISBURG, PA - EF
PROCESSION: Come Holy Ghost (Lambillotte) Full Gregorian Propers KYRIALE: II (fons bonitatis) CREDO: I OFFERTORY: Organ Improv on Veni Sancte Spiritus COMMUNION MOTET: Veni Creator Spiritus (Couturier alternatim chant/SATB) RECESSIONAL: Come Down, O Love Divine POSTLUDE: Organ Improv on Veni Creator Spiritus
I've decided a big prepared improv on the Veni Creator is an annual tradition for me now. Here's this year's:
Opening- Come Holy Ghost Mass- Heritage Offertory- Veni Creator Communion- All the Earth (with verses I wrote to match the antiphon) Closing- Improv on Spirit Divine Attend Our Prayer
9am Pentecost Vigil EF All prophecies sung to the Prophecy tone Prophecy I & II TRACT, Cantemus (Chant) Prophecy III TRACT, Attende (Chant) Prophecy IV TRACT, Vinea (Chant) Prophecy V & VI
Blessing of the Font TRACT, Sicut Cervus / Sitivit anima mea (Palestrina setting)
Litany of the Saints (doubled) 2 Vested Cantor / Choir
Mass (All Propers sung in full from Graduale Romanum) KYRIE I ad lib GLORIA Mass I ALL. Confitemini TRACT. Laudate OFF. Emitte OFF Motet, Jam Christus astra, (Matins Hymn) SANCTUS Mass I AGNUS Mass I COMM. Ultimo COM. Motet. O Salutaris Hostia, (Pierre de la Rue setting) Marian Anthem, Regina Caeli solemn tone
Processional: Come, Holy Ghost Gloria: Mass of Creation Psalm: Send Forth Your Spirit (Warner) Sequence: (Glover) — mixed with Celtic Alleluia Prep: Send out Your Spirit (Schoenbachler) Holy: Creation Mystery of Faith: Creation Great Amen: Creation Lamb of God: Agnus Dei chant Communion: One Bread, One Body Recessional: The Spirit Sends Us Forth
11am Pentecost Sunday Mass EF , all Propers sung in full from the Graduale 1924. VIDI AQUAM, chant INT. Spiritus Domini. KY. Mass II GL. Mass II ALL. Emitte ALL. Veni,... SEQ. Veni,... CREDO. VI OFF. Confirma hoc, Off motet. Qui procedis, (Former sequence) SAN. Mass II AGN. Mass II COM. Factus est repente COM motet. Beata nobis Gaudia (Laudes Hymn, Roman / Sarum melody) Domine Saltum fac. Marian Anthem. Regina Caeli (solemn tone) RES. Veni Creator Spiritus (Vesper Hymn pre-Urban VII words)
Vespers & Benediction will be at 4.30pm all sung according Antiphonale Romanum 1949.
Good post CB, here's ours. Just hired an Alto section leader who is also an EXCELLENT Viola da Gamba player. This will be her first Sunday with us and she did VERY well at Wednesdays rehearsal.
St Mary's Cathedral, Aberdeen, Scotland (Rather straightforward and unadventurous, nearly all our university students have gone home ) Entrance: Come down, O Love Divine Introit: recto tono Kyrie: Glendalough Mass (SAMen, composer Fr Liam Lawton) Gloria: Glendalough Psalm: Dom A G Murray Sequence: Holy Spirit, Lord of Light (Samuel Webbe) Alleluia: chant During Confirmation, 33 candidates; Spirit of the Living God Come Holy Ghost, Creator, Come Veni, Sancte Spiritus (Walker) Offertory: Here I am, Lord Holy Holy: Glendalough Mem. Acc. III: chant Amen: composed by our organist, SATB and descant very grand Our Father: Mozarabic chant Lamb: Glendalough Communion antiphon: recto tono Communion: organ music plus hymn, Lord Jesus Christ, you have come to us Ite, missa est and double alleluia: chant Regina caeli: chant, simple tone Recessional: God's Spirit is in my heart
Entrance: Come, Holy Ghost (Lambillotte) Gloria and Ordinary: ICEL Chant Mass Psalm: Lord, Send Out Your Spirit, A. della Picca Sequence: Traditional English Text, Plainsong, Mode I Gospel Acclamation: Chant Mode VI Offertory: With a Voice of Singing, Martin Shaw Communion Proper: Richard Rice Organ while choir received communion: Veni Creator Spiritus, R. Schulz-Widmar Communion Hymn: Come Down, O Love Divine (Down Ampney) Organ during second offering: Come, Oh, Come Thou Quickening Spirit, Guenter Raphael Recessional: Fire of God, Undying Flame (Nun Komm Der Heiden Heiland) Postlude: Magnificat du 1er Ton, Michel Corrette
Prelude: Komm Heiliger Geist- Bach Hymn: Come, Holy Ghost - LAMBILLOTTE Gloria in Honor of St. Hugo of Cluny- Sittard Psalm: Proulx/Gelineau Sequence: Plainchant (English) Alleluia Mode VI Anthem: Confirma Hoc Deus- Rheinberger Hymn: O Breathe on Me, O Breath of God - ST COLUMBA Mass for the City-Proulx / Isele Lamb of God Communion Antiphon-Kelly Anthem: Come Down, O Love Divine - Harris Hymn: O Spirit All-Embracing - THAXTED Postlude: Fugue in E-Flat (St. Anne) - Bach
Introit: Spiritus Domini Hymn: Come down, O Love Divine Psalm: Angelo della Picca Sequence: Veni sancte Spiritus Alleluia: cribbed from O filii Offertory: Confirma hoc, Deus Anthem: Draw us in the Spirit’s tether (Friedell) Communion: Factus est repente + Psalm 68 Anthem: Listen, sweet Dove (Ives) Hymn: Come, Holy Ghost (Lambilotte) Organ: Duruflé, Chorale varié sur Veni Creator, alternating with sung verses by the Schola; Bach, Komm, Gott Schöpfer, heiliger Geist (BWV 667)
Processional: Come, Holy Ghost, Creator Blest Vidi Aquam Full Gregorian propers, incl Sequence, excepting Offertory Kyriale: Missa O Quam Gloriosum, de Victoria Credo: Credo III Offertory Hymn: Veni Creator Spiritus (Couturier) 1 Communion: Veni Sancte Spiritus (Charpentier?) 2 Communion: Beata Nobis Gaudia 3 Communion: Antiphon and Gloria Patri Recessional: Veni Creator Spiritus - de Grigny
I guess you've answered my question, but I'll ask it anyway: doesn't it strike you as gilding the lilly to include both Come Holy GhostandVeni Creator Spiritus?
We repeat things too at the EF Mass I attend, sometimes even immediately: e.g., a chant offertory proper followed by a polyphonic setting of the same text. At this parish's offertory there's enough time to do that.
Modern liturgical purists prefer to eliminate "redundancies", I suppose.
7:30 TL/EF: Vidi aquam Ordinary: Mass I, Credo III Proper: Gregorian of the day + one verse from the Offertoriale Seasonal Marian Antiphon: Regina caeli, simple tone Hymn: Veni Creator Spiritus (Gregorian) Recessional: Come, Holy Ghost, 1v.
9:15 NO/OF: Choral Prelude: Primum quaerite (Isaac) Full Gregorian Proper (psalm-toned Alleluia verses) Kyrie XVI (ninefold) Gloria: Mass of the Resurrection (DeBruyn) Motet at Offertory: Ps 117 (mode 8 falsobordone, Asola) Sanctus XVIII, ICEL Memorial Acclamation C, Pater noster, Agnus XVIII Motet at Communion: Veni Creator Spiritus (alternatim, Asola) Recessional: Come, Holy Ghost, 4vv.
Church of All Saints (FSSP), Minneapolis, MN 10:30 am TLM
Processional: Come, Holy Ghost, Creator Blest Vidi Aquam Kyrie: Missa Gabriellis Archangelus (Palestrina) Gloria: Mass XI Credo III Offertory: Veni Creator Spiritushttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wnsa43G42LQ (not our group, but to share which version we sang) Sanctus, Benedictus, and Agnus Dei: Missa Gabriellis Archangelus (Palestrina) Communion: Dum Complerentur (Palestrina) Recessional: Come Down, O Love Divine
Prelude: Veni Creator Spiritus - Callahan Processional: O Holy Spirit Enter In OLD HUNDREDTH HPSC #245 Arbogast Propers Kyrie: Missa VIII Gloria: Missa VIII Psalm 104 - Theodore Marier setting Sequence - Holy Spirit, Come and Shine Marier accompaniment. The congregation joined in the singing of all the even verses. Gospel Acclamation - William Monk Offertory - God We Praise You (Te Deum) NETTLETON Sanctus - Mass for the City Proulx The mystery of Faith - Roman Missal chant Agnus Dei - Missa XVII Communion - Alleluia, Sing to Jesus Post Communion - Mary, Queen of Heaven (chant) Recessional - Come Holy Ghost (sung to WINCHESTER NEW) Postlude - Alle Menschen - Bach
in the hymnals we have, all the people will sing Come Holy Ghost maybe 35% will sing O Breathe on Me, Thou Breath of God and none will sing anything else so dot's wot i picked.
Choir sang the Couturier Veni Creator Spiritus because... ok that's another thread that I always wanted to start. thanks for the reminder :-)
a) Gregorian Chant propers and Ordinaries, with no polyphony ever.
b) Polyphony is allowed at Mass, because the Church gives us the treasury of music, but must never replace Gregorian chant Propers, only supplement them. (So, for example, at the Easter Vigil, no polyphonic settings of Sicut Cervus, Sitivit Anima Mea and Fuerunt mihi may ever be used at the procession to the font, but may be used, sparingly, at that Mass at other times.)
c) Organ must accompany chant; all chant, period.
d) Organ must never accompany chant, as it is a noisy instrument played by self-centered showmen and adds utterly un-necessary frills to the Mass. (Remember, Puritanism is a form of "purism".
e) Polyphony appropriately used, and unobtrusive, supporting organ accompaniment for a small % of chant (e.g., Kyriale alternation)
we had a visitor who was organist at a seminary He played a quiet solo of "O Quam Glorifica" which really brought tears to my eyes. It was just his own composition, based on so many years of hearing it sung beautifully.
St. Sebastian Akron, nothing fancy Hymn: Come down, o love divine Mass I, Credo III Gregorian Proper except for Offertory Confirma hoc Deus (Jef Tinel) Offertory hymn: Veni creator Spiritus Communion motet: Ave verum corpus (Mozart/Montani)
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