Midnight Mass 2025
  • Richard MixRichard Mix
    Posts: 2,919
    St David's Parish became part of a 'cluster' last year, but we hadn't felt the bite until last week when we learned there will be no Midnight Mass. Here's what we rehearsed, and will, after singing as planned at my wife's church's early Service, perhaps repeat at a favorite Chinese restaurant instead:

    This day Christ was born Byrd
    Hodie Christus natus est Palestrina
    Ave Maria Bruckner
    Bogorodiste devo Rachmaninoff
    Today the Virgin Tavener
    O magnum mysterium Ann Callaway
    Verbum caro factus est Callaway
    There were shepherds…Glory to God Handel
    Thanked by 4Chant_Supremacist CHGiffen tomjaw Liam
  • Chant_Supremacist
    Posts: 255
    I'm sorry to hear that. By nature I'm pretty goal-oriented, but this is a situation where you have to try and take satisfaction in the process and effort, which God, of course, witnessed.

    At St. Ann's, Hamilton.

    Carols: Silent Night, What Child is This, Gaudete, Good Christian Men Rejoice, Angels We Have Heard on High, Lo How a Rose, Once in Royal David's City, Of the Father's Love Begotten.

    Missa O Magnum Mysterium (Victoria)
    Introit, Gradual, Alleluia, Offertory, and Communion (with verses) from the GR
    Credo IV (couldn't manage the polyphony)
    Tollite Hostias (Saint-Saens) after the Offertory proper
    O Magnum Mysterium (Victoria) after Communion
    The First Noel for recession
    Thanked by 1tomjaw
  • Jeffrey Quick
    Posts: 2,200
    No Christmas Mass at all at my gig (thank you Pope Francis). So "Christmas" for us is Sunday Within the Octave. But I'm guesting, and here's what we're singing.

    St. Paul Akron OH: Midnight Mass (Missal of Paul VI)

    Choral prelude:
    Psallite (Praetorius/Robinson)
    Jesu Redemptor Omnium (Monk of Strasbourg/N. Montani)
    Gaudete (arr. RJ Batastini)
    Ave Maria (solo) (Lorenc)
    In natali Domini (anon Specialnik Codex)
    Puer natus in Bethlehem (arr. CCRS)
    Ave Maria ("Arcadelt")
    Plus instrumental bits TBA

    Nativity proclamation
    Processional: Adeste fideles
    Dominus dixit ad me (chant)
    Mass VIII
    Tecum principum (chant)
    Alleluia Dominus dixit (chant)
    Credo III
    Tollite Hostias (Saint Saens/Montani)
    Silent night
    In splendoribus (chant)
    Ave verum Corpus (chant, arr. Heath Morber)
    Alma Redemptoris mater (simple tone)
    Recessional: Joy to the world

    SAB sextet (including the DM Heidi Guttermuth when she's not at the organ) and a violin. Decent people, clean product.
    Thanked by 1Chant_Supremacist
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