St. Aelred, Bishop GA (Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter)

Last Mass for Advent IV is at 11:00am

Christmas:

Mass in the Night, 9:00pm
Prelude of carols begins at 8:30pm

Ordinaries: Englished Mass IX (Communion Service Four)
Prelude: Le Crèche, Guilmant
Blessing of creche, sung Christmas proclamation
Procession: O Come, All Ye Faithful (trumpet plays descant on v. 3)
Introit: Palmer and Burgess Plainchant Gradual
Gradual: St. Peter Gradual
Alleluia: St. Peter Gradual
Verset on "Ein Kind Geboren zu Bethlehem" during gospel procession, Purcell fanfare as altar party returns to the chancel
Credo: recto tono, accompanied
Offertory: Palmer and Burgess Plainchant Gradual
Offertory Motet: Ave Maria, Arcadelt
Communion: Palmer and Burgess Plainchant Gradual
Communion Other:
- Silent Night during ablutions
Recessional: Hark, the Herald Angels Sing (trumpet on descant and Willcocks organ reharm v. 3)
Postlude: BWV 729 "In Dulci Jubilo"

Christmas Day, 10:00am

Ordinaries: Englished Mass IX (Communion Service Four)
Prelude: Offertoire sur "Les Anges Dans Nos Campagnes", Montber
Procession: Angels We Have Heard on High
Introit: Palmer and Burgess Plainchant Gradual
Gradual: St. Peter Gradual
Alleluia: St. Peter Gradual
Credo: recto tono, accompanied
Offertory: Palmer and Burgess Plainchant Gradual
Offertory Hymn: Good Christian Men, Rejoice
Communion: Palmer and Burgess Plainchant Gradual
Communion Other:
- improv
Recessional: Joy to the World
Postlude: final movement of Noël X, Daquin

St. Mary, Akron OH
Vigil of Christmas 1PM (no Advent IV in TLM)
Processional: On Jordan's bank
Mass XVII. Credo III
Full Gregorian Proper
At Offertory: Beata Progenies (Leonel Power)
At Communion: Veni Emmanuel 2pt organal version
Recessional: Silent night recessional

Christmas Day: no Mass (Parish TLM, the Grinch stole it)

I'm personally helping out at the Latin OF Midnight Mass at St. Paul's Akron

Prelude:
Psallite (Praetorius/Robinson)
Un flambeau, Jeannette, Isabelle (arr. Walters)
Gaudete (arr. Batastini)
Puer natus in Bethlehem
Ave Maria ("Arcadelt")

Processional: Adeste Fideles
Gregorian propers (Psalm-toned verse for Gradual)
Mass VIII, Credo III
At Offertory: Quem pastores (Praetorius), Corde nattes ex parentis
At Communion: Jesu Redemptor omnium
Alma redemptoris mater
Recessional: Joy to the world.

St. Bernard Parish (soon to be cathedral!) Madison, WI

Christmas-Mass during the Night

St. Bernard Choir, Chamber Orchestra

Prelude:

Pifa (from Messiah)-Handel
In Dulci Jubilo-Buxtehude
God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen-arr. Willcocks
In Dulci Jubilo-Dupre (organ)
Alma Redemptoris Mater-Palestrina
Mary's Magnificat-Carter
There Were Shepherds, And Lo, And Suddenly, Glory to God (from Messiah)-Handel
In the Bleak Midwinter-Darke

Christmas Proclamation

Procession to Creche: Silent Night

Processional: O Come All Ye Faithful-Willcocks
Introit: Source and Summit

Kyrie: Mass VIII

Gloria: Missa in C -Buhler (a very charming little Gloria!)

Psalm: Today Is Born Our Savior-Brubaker

Gospel Acc.: Vulpius Alleluia, verse: adapted from Mozart Messe K220 Gloria-JES

Prep. of Gifts: Tollite Hostias-Saint Saens
Carol: Joy to the World (arr. Rutter)

Community Mass-Proulx

Agnus Dei: Mass VIII

Communion Antiphon (text from Graduale simplex used at all Masses): All the Ends of the Earth-Sittard
Procession: O Little Town of Bethlehem-(St. Louis, Willcocks)
Motet: O Magnum Mysterium-Victoria

Recessional: Hark! The Herald Angels Sing-Willcocks

Postlude: Carillon de Westminster-Vierne

Last Mass of Advent was at 10am:
Processional - Veni Veni Emmanual chant
Full Propers for Vigil of the Nativity
Mass XVII, Credo I, standard mode seven Asperges Me
Offertory - Victoria's Ave Maria (they always do this on the fourth Sunday of advent, I don't know if the choir director realized the Offertory antiphon wasn't going to be Ave Maria this year)
Communion - Van Nuffel's Pater Noster, Kevin Allen's Ave Sacer, Victoria's Jesu Dulcis, O Sanctissima (Traditional Sicilian Melody)
Simple Alma
Recessional - O come Divine Messiah

Midnight Mass:
Carols with the choir for an hour starting at 11
Adeste Fideles during procession to Manger and then to Altar
Full Propers
Victoria's O Magnum Mysterium Mass (including Credo)
Offertory - Victoria's O Magnum Mysterium motet
Communion - Sicut Cervus, Franck's Panis Angelicus, Handl's O Salutaris, Lawrence's O Sacrum Convivium
Palestrina's Alma Redemptoris Mater
Joy to the world

Mass at Dawn:
Full Propers
Pre Introit - Puer Natus in Bethlehem
Mass IX, Credo I
Offertory antiphon and then Verse 1 (no incense at this Mass)
Communion antiphon with verses while everyone receives, and then Laetabundus during ablutions
Simple Alma
Recessional - Corde Natus ex Parentis

Between Masses me and one of the other guys chanted Resonet in Laudibus and Personent Hodie for good measure

Day Mass:
Full Propers
Pre Introit - Ecce Nomen Domini Emmanual
Mass II, Credo I
Offertory antiphon and then Verse 1 (if we had gone a bit brisker we would have had time for Verse 2 also)
Communion antiphon with verses while everyone receives, and then Puer Natus in Bethlehem during ablutions
Solemn Alma
Recessional - Laetabundus

Also some mediocre organ playing of various Christmas chants, especially Hodie Christus Natus Est. I faked it the best I could.

The Cathedral of Our Lady of Walsingham
Midnight Mass

A Prelude of Carols -

'Once in Royal David's City' - Irby, Descant, Willcocks
Hodie, Christus Natus Est - L-N Clerambault
'While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks by Night' - Winchester Old
'Sussex Carol' - arr., David Willcocks
'O Little Town of Bethlehem' - Forest Green, Descant, Willcocks


Midnight Mass

Proclamation of the Nativity of Our Lord Jesus Christ (Sung)

At the Procession - 'O Come, All Ye Faithful' - Adeste Fideles, arr., David Willcocks
Introit - Dominus Dixit - Mode II (Palmer-Burgess)

Kyrie - Mass of the Quiet Hour - George Oldroyd
Gloria - Mass of St Mary Magdalena - Healey Willan

Psalm XCVI - Cantate Domino - Chant, Henry George Ley
Alleluia and Verse - Dominus dixit ad me - Mode VIII (P-B)

Nicene Creed - Recto tono

Offertory Antiphon - Laetentur caeli - Mode IV (P-B)
Anthem - 'A Child is Born in Bethlehem' - Leo Nestor

Sanctus - Mass IX, Cum Jubilo - Mode V (Latin)
Agnus Dei - Mass IX, Cum Jubilo - Mode V (Latin)

Communion Antiphon - In splendoribus - Mode VI (P-B)
Anthem - O Magnum Mysterium - T L da Victoria
Hymn - 'What Child is This?' - Greensleeves
Hymn - 'Silent Night, Holy Night' - Stille Nacht (Sung by candle light)

Recessional Hymn - 'Joy to the World' - Antioch - Descant, Anonymous
Organ Voluntary - In dulci jubilo (BWV 729) - J S Bach

St David of Wales, Richmond Calif.
Dec. 25 11:00 Choral Mass (Missa Salve; American Gradual)
Angels we have heard
Off. Tavener: Today the Virgin Comes to the Cave (2/3's our usual number)
Viderunt omnes fines / O little town of Bethlehem
Joy to the world

We were pleased, the church was full for the Midnight Mass.

Christmas Day Mass
INT. Puer Natus, Isaac setting
KYR. Missa super Dixit Maria, Hassler
GLO. Missa super Dixit Maria, Hassler
GRD. Viderunt omnes, Graduale Romanum 1924
ALL. Dies sanctificatus, Graduale Romanum 1924
CRD. Missa super Dixit Maria, Hassler
OFF. Tui sunt, Graduale Romanum 1924
Off Motet. Laetabundus (former sequence)
SAN. Missa super Dixit Maria, Hassler
BEN. Missa super Dixit Maria, Hassler
AGN. Missa super Dixit Maria, Hassler
COM. Viderunt omnes, Graduale Romanum 1924
COM motet. Christe Redemptor omnium (Dominican hymn)
COM motet. O Magnum mysterium, Tomás Luis de Victoria
Alma Redemptoris Mater, Francisco Guerrero

At Midnight Mass we had the Proclamation chanted. Followed by the chanted Entrance Antiphon. The Offetory was chanted. The Communion Antiphon was chanted. Joy to the World was the recessional. The priest chanted almost the entire Mass.

Saint John the Baptist Catholic Church, Jordan, MN

All Chants from Source and Summit unless noted otherwise, Creed I in English throughout:

4pm Vigil Mass (Children's Schola and huge attendance this year)
Prelude In Dulci Jubilo (Dupre) - organ
Of the Father’s Love Begotten (Held) - organ

Entrance Hymn - Wake, Awake for Night is Flying
Introit Chant: - “Today you will know that the Lord will come”
Gloria - Mass in honor of St. Thomas More
Psalm - Psalm 89 “Forever I will sing…”
Alleluia - Source and Summit
Offertory Chant - “O princes, lift high your gates”
Lift Up Your Heads, You Mighty Gates
Sanctus - Mass in honor of St. Thomas More
Memorial Acclamation - Mass in honor of St. Thomas More
Agnus Dei - Mass in honor of St. Thomas More
Communion Chant - “The glory of the Lord will be revealed”
Of the Father’s Love Begotten
It Came Upon a Midnight Clear
Following Communion - Veni, Veni Emanuel (2 part Setting for Bella Voce)
Hymn - O Come, All Ye Faithful
Postlude BWV 729: In Dulci Jubilo (organ)

10pm Mass During the Night:
Prelude (9:30pm)
Shepherds, Awake! (Davis)
What Child is This?
Dominus Dixit Ad Me (McMahon)
The Snow Lay on the Ground
Lo, How a Rose E’er Blooming (Praetorius)
Hark the Herald Angels Sing
Silent night

10pm Christmas Proclamation

Entrance Hymn - O come, all ye faithful
Introit - Graduale Romanum Chant Dominus Dixit ad me
Gloria - Missa de Angelis
Psalm - SSM Psalm 96 “Today is born our Savior”
Alleluia - Source and Summit
Offertory Chant - “Let the Heavens Rejoice”
Angels We Have Heard on High
Sanctus - Missa de Angelis
Memorial Acclamation - ICEL Mass
Agnus Dei - Missa de Angelis
Communion Chant - “In the Splendor of the Holy Ones"
Of the Father’s Love Begotten
It Came Upon A Midnight Clear
Following Communion - O Magnum Mysterium (Victoria)
Hymn - Joy to the world
Postlude BWV 729: In Dulci Jubilo - organ

9am Day Mass was very similar to the Night Mass, with the Weber Mass in Honor of Saint Thomas More as the Ordinary.

Saint Andrew Catholic Church
Old Town Pasadena, California

Fourth Sunday of Advent Mass Schedule
Saturday 5:00 pm Vigil Mass with cantor and organ
6:30 am Spanish Mass with cantor and organ
8:00 am English Mass with cantor and organ
9:30 am English Mass with the Pueri Cantores San Gabriel Valley and the Pueri Cantores of Saint Andrew Church
11:00 am Spanish Mass with cantor and organ
12:30 pm English Mass with Cappella Musica of Saint Andrew Church
2:00 pm Spanish Mass with cantor and organ
(the usual 5:00 pm Mass with the Schola Cantorum of Saint Andrew Church is cancelled)

Vigil of Christmas
4:00 pm English with the Pueri Cantores San Gabriel Valley and the Pueri Cantores of Saint Andrew Church
6:00 pm English-Latin with the Cappella Musica of Saint Andrew Church and the Saint Andrew Sinfonia
11:15 pm Lessons & Carols with the Cappella Musica of Saint Andrew Church and the Saint Andrew Sinfonia

Christmas Day
12:00 midnight Latin-English-Spanish Midnight Mass with the Cappella Musica of Saint Andrew Church and the Saint Andrew Sinfonia
6:30 am Spanish Mass with cantor and organ
8:00 am English Mass with cantor, trumpet, and organ
9:30 am English Mass with brass quartet (two trumpets, two trombones), cantor, and organ
11:00 am Spanish Mass with brass quartet (two trumpets, two trombones), cantor, and organ
12:30 pm English Mass with Cappella Musica of Saint Andrew Church, brass quartet, and organ
2:00 pm Spanish Mass with brass quartet (two trumpets, two trombones), cantor, and organ

Christmas Vigil Mass, 6:00 pm
Sung Mass
Introit Hodie scietis (Graduale Restitutum)
Hymn O Come, all ye Faithful
Kyrie Mass in G Major, K. 140 (Mozart)
Gloria Mass in G Major, K. 140 (Mozart)
Offertory O magnum mysterium (Morten Lauridsen)
Sanctus Mass in G Major, K. 140 (Mozart)
Agnus Dei Mass in G Major, K. 140 (Mozart)
Communion Anthems
Revelabitur (Communion chant, Graduale Restitutum)
O Holy Night (Adam, arr. SO)
Ave Maria (Bach-Gounod, arr. SO)
Silent Night (arr. SO)
Recessional Joy to the World (arr. SO)

Lessons & Carols, 11:15 pm
Prelude
Concerto Grosso fatto per la notte de Natale (for Christmas night)
Francesco Manfredini (1684–1762)

I John 1:1-4: In principio erat Verbum
Josquin des Prez (1450–1521)
In the beginning was the Word

II Genesis 3:1–15
The fall of man
Carol: Jesus Christ, the Apple Tree (Elizabeth Poston)

III Isaiah 1:11
A shoot shall sprout from the stump of Jesse
Carol: Lo! how a Rose E’er Blooming (arr. Steven Ottományi, with cong.)

IV Zechariah 2:14–16
Sing and rejoice, daughter Zion! The Lord comes to dwell with you.
Anthem: Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring (J. S. Bach)

V Isaiah 7:10–14
The virgin shall conceive and bear a son; his name shall be “Emmanuel”
Carol: O Come, O Come, Emmanuel (with congregation)

VI Micah 5:1–3
But you, Bethlehem-Ephrathah,
from you shall come forth for me one
who is to be ruler in Israel;
He shall be peace.
Carol: O Little Town of Bethlehem;
Tunes: BETHELHEM and ST. LOUIS, arr. S.O., with cong. on last verse

VII Isaiah 9:1, 5–6
The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light.
Carol: Lord Jesus Christ, Thou Prince of Peace
from BWV 143, J. S. Bach (1685–1750)

VIII Malachi 3:1
I am sending my messenger to prepare the way before me;
yes, he is coming! says the Lord of hosts.
Carol: People, Look East (with congregation)

IX Luke 1:26–33, 38
Mary said, “be it done unto me according to your will.”
Anthem: Mary’s Magnificat (Andrew Carter)

X Wisdom 18:14–16
When the night in its swift course was half spent...
Carol: Silent Night (with congregation)

XI John 1:14
And the word became flesh and made his dwelling among us.

Christmas Proclamation

Christmas Midnight Mass
Sung Latin Novus Ordo Mass

Introit Dominus dixit ad me (Graduale Restitutum)
Hymn O Come, all ye Faithful
Kyrie Mass in G Major, K. 140 (Mozart)
Gloria Mass in G Major, K. 140 (Mozart)
Offertory O magnum mysterium (Morten Lauridsen)
Sanctus Mass in G Major, K. 140 (Mozart)
Agnus Dei Mass in G Major, K. 140 (Mozart)
Communion Anthems
In splendoribus sanctorum (Communion chant, Graduale Restitutum)
O Holy Night (Adam, arr. SO)
Ave Maria (Bach-Gounod, arr. SO)
Silent Night (arr. SO)
Recessional Joy to the World (arr. SO)

Mass Ordinaries
All Masses during Advent without choir: Mass XVI/XIII composite (a.k.a. "Jubliate Deo Mass," "Missa simplex"), in Latin

All Masses during Christmastide without choir: Mass VIII Missa de angelis, in Latin
All choral Masses listed here directed by yours truly; 9:30 am, 2:00 pm, and Saturday Vigil Masses cantored and accompanied on organ by yours truly.

Music Department of Saint Andrew Catholic Church
Steven Ottományi, Director of Music and Principal Organist
Mark Husey, Associate Organist
Ricardo Martinez, Principal Cantor and Administrative Assistant
Justin Senneff, First Assistant Organist and Arts Liaison

The Cappella Musica of Saint Andrew Church, singing under the patronage of Saint Andrew the Apostle, ministers at the 12:30 pm Sunday Mass and at various special festal Masses throughout the year. The Cappella Musica serves at the principal choir of Sain Andrew Catholic Church and regularly performs works for choir and orchestra. In 2017, members of the Cappella Musica were selected, under director Steven Ottományi, by the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel Choir to sing onstage with the Sistine Chapel Choir in its first countrywide tour of the United States. In September of 2021, the Cappella Musica was commissioned by the Archdiocese of Los Angeles to present a concert of music from the California Missions with orchestra and lead music at the prayer service for the 250th anniversary of the founding of Mission San Gabriel Arcángel and the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. In the summer of 2023, the Cappella Musica was commissioned to sing a concert of music of the California missions and Renaissance Mexico at the 2023 national convention of the National Association of Pastoral Musicians in Reno, Nevada.

Members of the Cappella Musica hold degrees from Yale Institute of Sacred Music, Claremont Graduate University and the Claremont Colleges, the Juilliard School, Peabody Conservatory, University of Indiana, University of Michigan, Oberlin Conservatory, the University of Southern California, University of California, Los Angeles and the California State University, Fullerton, Los Angeles, Northridge, and San Bernardino campuses.

Members of the Cappella Musica sing with Seraphic Fire, the Los Angeles Master Chorale,
Los Angeles Opera Chorus, The Pacific Chorale, Angelus Chorale, the Verdi Chorus, the Roger Wagner Chorale, and the Long Beach Camerata Singers.