***First off, a liturgical question - NLM quotes Durandus as saying that Ascension features a 'procession' of sorts for this mass. Has anyone ever seen anything of this sort where they sing/worship?***

Holy Angels, Sidney OH
Missa Cantata - Ascension Thursday
Fr. Peter Langenkamp, celebrant

PRELUDE: Bach, Fugue in G Minor
PROPERS: Gregorian - Alleluias Simplified from the Liber Brevior
ORDINARY: Casciolini, Mass in A Minor
CREDO: III
OFFERTORY MOTET: Webbe, O Rex Gloriae
COMMUNION MOTET: Chant, Alleluia - Omnes Gentes
RECESSIONAL: Llanfair

So many wonderful things about this mass. I was asked by some seminarian friends from Brute College Seminary to help with music. It's a bit of a distance for my regular choir, so I offered to help teach the choir at the parish how to sing for a Latin Mass. A few of the choir members weren't sure if it were possible to learn the repertoire for a TLM in the amount of time we had - the equivalent of 2 1/2 rehearsals. Well, let me tell you - and it is a credit to the choir of this parish and the seminarians (one playing organ, another helping me cantor) - it was magnificent. The music sounded great, and the chanting was ethereal. (We had some of your alumni singing with us, Incardination!) Father was hoping for a decent turn-out: they had roughly 200 congregants, the most I've ever seen for an Ascension Thursday mass anywhere.

And here's the icing on the cake - Fr. Langenkamp invited the young discerning men of his parish to come to a pre-mass dinner with the seminarians, followed by brief instruction in the Old Rite before serving as torch bearers that evening. (This is why there are 63 seminarians in Cincinnati right here. Promoting vocations is at the forefront.)

I feel like I can say this because I'm not part of their diocese, just a fella who happened to be passing through - if you get the chance, check out the Cincinnati diocese. There is a lot of wonderful stuff going on there, and a genuine spirit of Catholicism pervades the whole region. I really can't say enough about how wonderful and how holy the whole experience was. God is great!

Jackson,

Help me, please. I need a better way to understand Messiaen. (I can't play him on my organ, I think, lacking reeds and celestes, but.... I would still like to understand more.

Chris,

A celeste accompaniment is very beautiful with La vie éternelle from the Diptych but that hasn't stopped me from playing it on a Moller Artiste. Also successful are the cello solo from Quartet for the End of Time (originally titled Les eaux de la vie and scored for ondes octet), the choral anthem O sacrum convivium on a single enclosed bourdon, and Apparition de l'église éternelle on anything like a plenum. You can find simple gems at the deep end of the pool too: 1984's Livre du Saint- Sacrament.

A suggestively titled Post_processionem_in_Ascensione_Domini was recently posted to CPDL.

As he said above tomjaw has seen a processional for Ascension, and told us where to find it.

National Shrine, DC

Prelude: Messiaen, L’Ascension, IV. Prière du Christ montant vers son Père
Introit: Viri Galilaei (Latona)
Ordinary: Near Communion Service (Kyrie, Gloria, Agnus)
Psalm: God mounts his throne to shouts of joy (Latona)
Offertory: Victoria Ascendens Christus
Communion: Manchicourt Laudate Dominum/Plaudite ergo
Postlude: Boëllmann, Prière à Notre-Dame

St. Mary, Auburn, NY

7a said mass, organ improvisation and Bach: Heut triumphieret Gottes Sohn

Noon with high school students and schola:
Prelude: Bach, D Major prelude, BWV 532
Entrance: Sing we triumphant hymns of praise
Psalm/Alleluia: Missalette, WLP
Offertory: Fr. Weber’s Englished “Ascendit Deus”
Communion: SEP’s “Signa eos” and the Southern hymn “Come away to the skies, my beloved”, a cap, with descant etc.
Hymn after communion: Hail the day that sees him rise
Post: Willan, Finale Jubilante
Ordinary: ICEL chants.

The high school singers were quite disappointed to not be singing the authentic chants this time, but due to the absence of printed leaflets at this mass (as opposed to regular school masses), and the constant disappointment of Missalette with lectionary antiphons vs. Graduale texts, it was what it was and all was sung in English.

7pm: adult schola, with Gregorian Missals and leaflets given to all.
All Gregorian propers, including both alleluias.
Mass: VIII, Creed III.
Organ: Heut’ Triumphieret and Finale Jubilante.

EF
Mass I, Credo IV, Vidi Aquam, Gregorian propers
Hail the Day that Sees Him Rise
Sicut Cervus - Palestrina
Adoramus Te Christi - Dubois
Bring Flowers of the Rarest

OF
Bartlett ordinary mode VIII, Lumen Christi propers
A Hymn of Glory Let Us Sing
Glorious Things of Thee Are Spoken
Praise My Soul the King of Heaven
O God Beyond All Praising

Holy Ghost Catholic Church Knoxville, TN

Our Ascension was transferred to Sunday, as is the case in our archdiocese and surrounding areas.

Entrance: Hail the Day That Sees Him Rise (LLANFAIR)
Gloria and Mass Ordinary: ICEL Roman Missal Chants
Psalm: God Mounts His Throne... Michel Guimont
Gospel Alleluia: Chant Mode VI
Offertory: Anthem: All Hail the Power...based on CORONATION
Communion Chant: R. Rice
Communion Hymn: A Hymn of Glory Let Us Sing (LASST UNS ERFREUEN)
Incidental organ filler: Organ selections by Dandrieu and Flor Peeters
Recessional: Go to the World (SINE NOMINE)
Postlude: Grand Jeu from Livre d'Orgue de Limoges

EF (Thursday)
· Gregorian ordinary: Mass I, Credo III
· Gregorian proper; two of three Offertoriale verses
· Veni Creator Spiritus (mode VIII) after Communion
· Regina caeli, tonus simplex

OF (transferred to Sunday)
· Prelude: Tollite portas, Martini
· Gregorian Introit Viri Galilaei
· Kyrie: XVI (ninefold)
· Gloria: Mass of the Resurrection, DeBruyn
· Alleluia I & II: Chants abreges
· Gregorian Offertory Ascendit Deus
· Motet at Offertory: Ave gratia plena, Verdonck
· Sanctus: XVIII
· Memorial Acclamation C: ICEL
· Lord's Prayer: Latin
· Agnus Dei: XVIII
· Gregorian Communion Signa eos (with verses)
· Motet at Communion: Veni Creator Spiritus, Asola (alternatim)
· Psalm after Communion: Ps 116, Asola (alternatim)
· Hymn: O Sanctissima