This year has been the first year his feast has fallen on a Sunday. We have yet to find what rank of feast he would have for the E.F. in England, but we commemorated him at our Sunday Mass (The first collect was for St. John Henry Newman). Other places in England had an external solemnity.
Music. Asp.: mode VII INT.: Da pacem (Graduale Romanum 1924) KYR.: Missa Iste confessor (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina) GLO.: Missa Iste confessor (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina) GRAD.: Laetatus sum (Graduale Romanum 1924) ALL.: Timebunt gentes (Graduale Romanum 1924) CRD.: Missa Iste confessor (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina) OFF.:Sanctificavit Moyses (Graduale Romanum 1924) OFF. motet: Laudate Dominum, from the Vespers setting (Vesperae solennes de confessore) by Mozart. SAN.: Missa Iste confessor (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina) BEN.: Missa Iste confessor (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina) AGN.: Missa Iste confessor (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina) COM. motet: Ave Verum, setting by Josquin des Prez COM. motet: Iste Confessor, hymn for confessors, we sang this to the melody Palestrina used in the Missa Iste Confessor. COM.: Tolite hostias (Graduale Romanum 1924) Domine salvum fac: 4 voice Faux-bourdon from the use of the Church of Paris 1739 (Thanks Henri!) Marian Anthem: Salve Regina, Solemn tone
I'm at a Newman Center, so he is kind of important for us. We didn't do an extra celebration like for a titular saint, but I did use Praise to the Holiest in the Height for the offertory hymn.
I, too, am at a Newman Center. We did the lovely "Complete Thy Work, O Lord" by Calvert Shenk (Canticanova) and the fabulous pairing of "Lead, Kindly Light" with LUX IN TENEBRIS (melody by A. Gregory Murray).
Is “Lead, kindly light” the hymn with the greatest number of tunes associated with it? I have sung it to Alberta, Lux benigna, and Sandon, and know of (but have never heard used) the Murray Lux in tenebris.
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