Assumption 2026
  • MatthewRoth
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    I Vespers, Church of the Assumption (in the chapel), Nashville TN

    Sung by the men’s schola and the Cantores Sanctae Mariae Magdalenae

    • Ancient office of I Vespers in chant,
    • Ave Maris Stella, Victoria (alternatim, with the Roman tone)
    • Magnificat I Toni, Lassus
    • Salve Regina, simple tone
    • Who is she ascends so high (ASSUMPTION)

    High Mass of the feast graciously hosted by Saint Martha’s, Ashland City TN

    Sung by the men’s schola and the Cantores Sanctae Mariae Magdalenae of the Church of the Assumption

    • Propers of the Mass (Signum Magnum)
    • Missa Ave Maris Stella, Victoria
    • Credo III with Et Incarnatus est, F. López Capillas
    • Ave Maria, Parsons
    • Ave Maria…Virgo Serena, Josquin
    • Salve Regina, simple tone
    • Hail, Holy Queen Enthroned Above (SALVE REGINA CAELITUM)



  • GerardH
    Posts: 698
    Vigil Mass of the Assumption

    • Introit: Vultum tuum
    • Ordinary: Mass IX (cum jubilo)
    • Offertory motet: Tota pulchra es (Bruckner)
    • Communio: Beata viscera
    • Hail, holy Queen, enthroned above (SALVE REGINA CAELITUM)
    • Communion motet: Alma Redemptoris Mater (Palestrina)
    • Hail, Queen of heaven (STELLA)
  • St. Mary's - Vacaville, CA (also our patronal feast)

    We were supposed to have our monthly Young Adult Mass (Latin NO) this evening but got cancelled due to pastor's schedule conflict. Here was our planned music for the Vigil Mass:
    - Propers from the Graduale Romanum (Vultum tuum), including the Gradual (Benedicta et venerabilis) and Alleluia (Felix es)
    - Ordinary: Mass X (Alme Pater), Credo III
    - Salve Regina

    Mass during the day (8:00 AM)
    - Propers from Fr. Weber
    - Ordinary: Mass of St. Philip Neri, Jernberg (or Mass X)
    - Entrance Hymn: Immaculate Mary
    - Responsorial Psalm: Alstott
    - Alleluia: Assumpta est (Graduale Romanum)
    - Credo III (English, arr by J. Richardson)
    - Offertory motet: Ave Maria - Arcadelt
    - Communion motet: Sicut lilium inter spinas (composed by our DoM)
    - Closing: Hail, holy Queen, enthroned above
  • Offertory motet: Ave Maria - Arcadelt

    I miss singing this so much. I wish my Diocese had a choir, not necessarily for liturgical purposes, but simply for Catholics of sufficient musical competence to learn and perform sacred music that for the most part wouldn’t be heard. We have so much great music that doesn’t get heard unless a secular choir performs it, and there’s always something lacking, or someone using it as an opportunity to bash the Catholic Church.
    Thanked by 2novusgordo CHGiffen
  • novusgordo
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    Quoth @SponsaChristi:
    I miss singing this so much. I wish my Diocese had a choir, not necessarily for liturgical purposes, but simply for Catholics of sufficient musical competence to learn and perform sacred music that for the most part wouldn’t be heard. We have so much great music that doesn’t get heard unless a secular choir performs it, and there’s always something lacking, or someone using it as an opportunity to bash the Catholic Church.
    So, so much this. Not to mention that we are supposed to be singing this stuff in the liturgy, and such a choir can serve as an incubator for new singers.

    Anyway, I'm blessed to be able to sing three Masses for this great feast! Gaudeamus omnes in Domino!
    (all of these are in the Archdiocese of Vancouver)

    Vigil Mass (Our Lady of the Assumption, Port Coquitlam)
    Entrance: Vultum tuum (Palmer & Burgess)
    Kyrie and Gloria: from Missa "Gaudeamus" (Victoria)
    Responsorial psalm: St. Meinrad tone, mode IV
    Alleluia: a translation of the proper Felix es sacra, but using the chant Assumpta est
    Profession of Faith: Credo I
    Offertory: Beata es virgo (Palmer & Burgess)
    Sanctus and Agnus Dei: from Missa "Gaudeamus" (Victoria)
    Communion: Beata viscera (Palmer & Burgess)
    Communion motet: O sacrum convivium (Victoria)
    Marian antiphon: Salve Regina (Victoria 8vv.)

    Mass of the day (St. Helen's, Burnaby)
    Entrance: Signum magnum (GR1974)
    Kyrie and Gloria: from Mass IX "Cum iubilo"
    Responsorial psalm: St. Meinrad tone, mode VI
    Gospel acclamation: triple Alleluia "Iubilate Deo" (GS1975)
    Profession of Faith: Credo I, adapt. ICEL
    Offertory: Assumpta est Maria (SEP)
    Sanctus and Agnus Dei: from Mass IX "Cum iubilo"
    Communion: Beatam me dicent (GR1974)
    Marian antiphon: Salve Regina (simple tone)

    Mass of the day (MR1962) (Our Lady of the Rosary, Vancouver)
    Entrance: Signum magnum (GR1961)
    Kyrie and Gloria: from Missa "Gaudeamus" (Victoria)
    Gradual: Audi filia (GR1961)
    Alleluia: Assumpta est Maria (GR1961)
    Credo: from Missa "Gaudeamus" (Victoria)
    Offertory: Inimicitias (GR1961)
    Sanctus and Agnus Dei: from Missa "Gaudeamus" (Victoria)
    Communion: Beatam me dicent (GR1961)
    Communion motet: O sacrum convivium (Victoria)
    Marian antiphon: Salve Regina (Victoria 8vv.)
  • AnimaVocis
    Posts: 238
    St. Marys, Help of Christians, Sleepy Eye, MN

    (NO - Cantor and Organ)

    Father Weber Proper Antiphons with Verses from Richard Rice's "Chants for the Modern Roman Missal".
    Pro: Hail, Holy Queen
    ICEL Chant Mass
    Salve Regina (Simple Tone)
    Thanked by 1Chant_Supremacist
  • m_r_taylor
    Posts: 404
    Mass IX
    Weber/Rice/MRT propers

    Processional: O Sanctissima
    Offertory: Salve Regina (Soriano)
    Communion: Of one that is so fair and bright (Taylor)
    Recessional: Simple tone Salve Regina
  • tomjaw
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    A small chapel in German speaking Switzerland, a few yards from the family farm...

    Choir, My wife, my second son and myself.
    Servers, 4 of my younger sons
    Priest, Brother in law (FSSP)

    Propers (Signum Magnum etc.)
    Kyriale Mass IX
    Credo I
    Offertory motet, O quam glorifica luce coruscas
    Communion motets,
    Ave Maris Stella,
    Virgo parens Christi

    Marian Anthem
    Salve Regina Simple tone
  • MatthewRoth
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    I’d like do do the Gaudeamus Mass but given my mixed feelings about today’s liturgy, I can’t do it today.

    I forgot to note that we went with the Healey Willan harmonization for SALVE REGINA CAELITUM, which was nice. Different, but nice.

    I asked the organist, who hasn’t played in months for us (since January!), to do a prelude and postlude if possible.

    So we got the Prelude on “Immaculate Mary” (from Morningstar’s collection of Marian pieces); after Mass, she played Toccata in F major, BuxWV 157, which was fun. But I didn’t catch the modern pieces at communion.
    Thanked by 1tomjaw
  • Andrew_Malton
    Posts: 1,266
    St Mary’s, Linwood, Ontario. (Diocesan.)

    Propers (Signum magnum etc.) for Liber U
    Mass IX
    Credo I (with Et incarnatus by Josquin)
    Offertory motet Tota pulchra es in “Corsican chant”.*
    Recessional: Hail Holy Queen (harm. T. B. Armstrong)

    We had a mixed group of five, SSATB.

    * As transcribed and sung Ensemble Organum. I've no idea how much Corsican it is and how much Pérèsian. We make no attempt to produce their style of singing.
  • rich_enough
    Posts: 1,115
    Sts. Cyril and Methodius Church, Bridgeport, Connecticut (ICKSP)
    Mass
    hymn: Who is She That Ascends So High (ASSUMPTA EST)
    Proper chants of the Feast: Signum magnum
    Palestrina - Missa assumpta est Maria; Credo III
    offertory motet: Palestrina: Surge, propera amica mea
    communion motet: Byrd - Optimama partem (communion verse before 1951)
    Procession
    hymns: Immaculate Mary; Daily, Daily Sing to Mary; O Sanctissima; Hail, Holy Queen
    recessional: Salve regina - chant, simple tone
  • MatthewRoth
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    The oratory, along with a few of the English-style Oratories of St Philip, have really become my models in the last few months and in planning for this year.
  • We had two days of Assumption at St. Mary's Norwalk because we celebrate the external solemnity on Sunday as our titular feast.

    In our principal Mass today, we had:

    Chant propers
    Mass ordinary: Rovetta, Messa a cappella (4 voices)
    Offertory motet: Palestrina, Surge propera (the four-voice one)
    Communion music:
    Anerio, Vidi speciosam
    Monteverdi, Nigra sum
    Monteverdi, Pulchra es
    Dupré, Nigra sum
    Solemn Salve (after Mass)

    We had another forum contributor singing with us as a guest!
  • CatholicZ09
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    I had to hear “Hail Mary: Gentle Woman” during yesterday morning’s AM Mass, but I have to say that even though there might have been a small number of us, the congregational singing felt as if the church was full. The full, conscious, and active participation was on full display. It was nice.
  • MatthewRoth
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    Addendum: I wasn’t responsible for Mass but because of our situation, we have choral Vespers, so office of St Joachim, with the (attributed) Victoria Domine ad adjuvandum (coming full circle: my first choral TLM Vespers back in 2014 featured this, at the Colloquium), Asola Iste confessor, and Lassus’ Magnificat octavi toni, with the simple Salve and Faith of Our Fathers after.
    Thanked by 2tomjaw rich_enough