This is ours. First time Candlemas has fallen on a Sunday since I’ve been here. It was decided not to print a 1-off worship aid for the high Mass this week, but to wedge everything on the front of the bulletin next to the masthead, where stuff would have to be anyway for the other 3 Masses.
This usually works fine when it’s the Nth Sunday OT and nothing really special going on. This week it was tight and the secretary did battle royal with Publisher, and it worked, albeit not with the usual parallel Latin/English we usually can do for chant/polyphony.
Organ: several early English Flute voluntaries Choir: "In His temple now behold Him" JM Haydn "King of Glory" to Gwalchalmai Hymns: "Love divine" Hyfrydol "How lovely is Thy-dwelling place" McBain "Let all mortal flesh". Picardy "Savior, again, to Thy dear Name" Ellers Anglican Chant: Nunc Dimittis - John Blow Gloria and Sanctus: Sewanee Service - Malcolm Archer
I've not yet been permitted to prepare service folders for the people...
Here's what we did:
St. Mary, Help of Christians Sleepy Eye, Minnesota 9:45 Ordinary Form Principal Mass St. Mary's Caecilian Choir & Elementary Choristers St. Mary's Parish Brass Choir
Prelude: Andante Religioso for Horn & Organ, B. Müller op. 74 Procession: "A light of revelation," ICEL Chant Introit: chanted in English, SMC setting Hymn: "In His Temple Now Behold Him" ST. THOMAS (brass & timpani) Ordinary: Mass of Wisdom, Janco (with brass parts by A. Hirsch) Psalm / G.A.: Alstott (with flute) Offertory: "Beautiful Savior" ST. ELIZABETH, arr. for brass & choir SMC Communion: Proper Chant, then "Sing of Mary" PLEADING SAVIOR Recessional: "Joy to the World" (scheduled but axed in favor of St. Blaise Blessings) During Blessing of Throats: Hornpipe, G.F. Händel (not that one) horn & organ Trio Sonata III in d-moll, BWV 527, 3. Vivace
Ss. Peter and Paul Catholic Church Mankato, Minnesota 4.15 p.m. EF Sung Mass without Blessing / Procession of Candles Ss. Peter and Paul Latin Mass Choir and Friends
Prelude: Aria, "Ich habe genug," from BWV 82, J.S. Bach (organ & baritone) Entrance Procession: Organ Improvisation Asperges: Asperges Me Propers: Full, men's schola Ordinary: Missa "O Magnum Mysterium," Rev. T.L. de Victoria (K,G,S,B), Mass IX (A) -- Credo I Offertory Motet: Ave Maris Stella Rev. C. Rossini Communion Motet: O Magnum Mysterium, Rev. T.L. de Victoria Recessional: "Beautiful Savior," arr. SMC Chorale Prelude & Postlude: "Es ist das Heil uns kommen her," BWV 638 (softly during the Last Gospel, leading into the hymn, and then with full registration as a tag to the hymn)
St. Luke Palm Springs,FL OF mostly in Latin Ecce advenit before greeting Lumen ad Revelationem with Nunc Dimittis verses Introit:Suscepimus Domine Mass VIII Gloria Credo III Off: Diffusa est Gratia Nunc Dimittis G. Burgon (with Trumpet) Sanctus/Benedictus: Messe Basse Faure (Girls choir) Agnus: Messe Basse faure (Girls choir) Comm::Viderunt Oculi Mei (Weber) Communion for Tournemire l'Orgue Mystique. Office 11 Rec: In His temple (St. Thomas)
Glad I'm not the only one without a pdf: our aid is a wooden hymn board and hangs next to the sanctuary by a nail. After a little discussion with our pastor, it turned out the assistant priest would preside at the choir Mass, so we went back to the 3 hymn sandwich instead of the open-face plan, the candle blessing (GIA's "A light of revelation to the nations", mode viii) happening at the altar instead of the entrance. Offertory was Gibbons' Nunc from the Short Service.
Only addition is the Sortie which was the Prelude and Fuge in F Major of Buxtehude. Loriane Llorca, Saint Louis Cathedral Basilica Young Artist-in-Residence, was the organist.
TLM Community, Diocese of Raleigh First Sunday Mass: Missa Cantata Missa De Angelis, Credo III, Gregorian propers with the exception of Chants Abreges for the Gradual and Alleluia
Processional: O Sion, open wide thy gates (Bedford) Vesting music after Asperges: Lumen ad revelationem gentium Offertory: Ave Maria, virgo serena (chant) after the Offertorium O salutaris (after Second Elevation) Communion: Alma redemptoris mater (Garau) Verbum supernum/O salutaris (sung alternatim with Abbe Duguet's chorale) Recessional: Alleluia, sing to Jesus Thanksgiving after Mass: Anima Christi
This Mass is offered on the first Sunday of the month only, and is often Low Mass; this was the first Missa Cantata since May 2019 for various reasons, mainly having to do with priest availability. My schola was formed in 2008 to provide the chant for this Mass and has since branched out to assisting with some Sundays and holy days at one or the other of two parishes in the diocese with Sunday EF Masses. They also assist when I teach chant workshops. We are all volunteers.
The Mass is sandwiched into the cathedral's regular schedule at 4:30 pm, between a Spanish-language NO and the campus ministry NO, so we were unable to have either blessings and procession beforehand or candle and throat blessings afterwards, and we used the slightly-time-saving Chants Abreges in the middle. But we still ended up singing nine verses of the Communio after the two other Communion pieces!
This particular Missa Cantata was the first one that our schola sang alone (not with the small parish schola at my home parish) for four of our members, a mom and her two teenage sons plus one other teen. There were a couple of glitches but I was very happy with it overall and the congregation was very appreciative.
I have attached the bulletin that I prepared for the Mass.
20.2.2 Candlemas Missa Cantata First Sunday bulletin.pdf
Introit/Lighting of Candles: Behold... (RM chant) Procession: A light of revelation... (RM chant) Gloria: Mass of Redemption (Janco) Psalm 24: (Proulx/Gelineau) Alleluia: Mass of Redemption Offertory: Of the Father's Love Begotten (Isele) Sanctus/Mysterium/Amen/Agnus: Mass of Redemption Communion: My eyes... (Weber) + Psalm 98: All the Ends of the Earth (Haas/Haugen - Confiteor Deo omnipotenti...) Recessional: Sing of Mary, Pure and Lowly (PLEADING SAVIOR)
We just do a seasonal worship aid which contains the ordinaries for the liturgical season and a section in the back with the printed introit hymn and words for the offertory and communion chants for each Sunday. Here's what we did last Sunday:
Our Lady of Fatima, Seattle, WA Introit: C. Tietze's Hymn Introit Kyrie: ICEL Other ordinaries: Norah Duncan's Mass of the Holy Name of Jesus Psalm: Gelineau Offertory: Adam Bartlett's Simple English Proper, The Presentation by Rachel Aarons (St. James Music Press), In His Temple Now Behold Him (ST THOMAS) Communion: Andrew Motyka's Laudate Communion Antiphon, Te Deum by Marty Haugen Closing: Crown Him With Many Crowns
This is a pretty representative mix of what we're doing around here these days. And in case this looks appealing and you'd like to live in a place that just set a record for rainfall in January, we're also looking for an organist!
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