PRE
Litany BVM #2
Hail Queen of Heaven the Ocean Star

Full tone chants (2nd and 3rd responsories for the procession) for the ceremony of blessing, distribution and procession with candles.

MASS
Full propers - ladies only
Mass IX - Ad Lib Gloria 1
Credo VII

Offertory motet - Dixit Maria (Hassler)
Communion motet - Ave Virgo (Guerrero)

POST
Sing of Mary

(We had also planned O Sanctissima (Allen), Tota Pulchra (Ancient), Ave Maris (Victoria) and the Alma Redemptoris (Solemn Tone), but didn't have time at Communion with fewer than hoped for attending.)

St. Mary, Auburn, NY
7:45 am Mass (OF)

All Chant sung in full from the Gregorian Missal, with congregation also singing from same on items with an asterisk.

Blessing of Candles
Ant. Ecce Dominus Noster

Abbreviated Procession (due to cold)
*Ant. Lumen ad revelationem

Mass
INT. Suscepimus
*K. Mass IX
*G. Mass IX
Grad. Suscepimus
*All. Senex puerum
Off. Diffusa est
*Pref. Sung in English
*San. Mass IX
*MemAcc: Mortem tuam
*Lord’s Prayer sung in English
*Agnus. Mass IX
Com. Responsum + Nunc + Psalm
*Marian Anthem. Alma simple tone

Organ: Guilmant fugue on Lumen ad revelationem gentium, discovered after someone pointed it out on this forum.

I know this is specifically for Candlemas, but I'll go ahead and include our patronal feast which fell a few days before:

Feast of Saint John Bosco, Patron Saint of Una Voce Lafayette
January 31, 7 PM
St. Charles Borromeo, Peru

PROCESSIONAL: Wyeth, Da Mihi Animas (original composition for our group - the composer sang with us this evening)
PROPERS: Full Gregorian
ORDINARY: Haydn, Missa Brevis #7 - Sancti Joannes de Deo
OFFERTORY MOTET: Mary Queen of Scots, O Domine Deus
COMMUNION MOTETS:
Palestrina, Adoramus Te
Remondi, O Sacrum Convivium
RECESSIONAL: Gounod, Marche Pontificale (with trumpet)

A decent turn-out, considering the cold. Our celebrating priest skipped the Kyrie and the Gloria - something he has done for the past three masses we've sung with him. (And this is one of the more liturgically astute priests in our diocese. Go figure.) The sextet singing on the Haydn really stepped up to the plate, which almost didn't happen since so many had to drop out due to the weather (it took three hours to get home for what is regularly a one hour drive.) The fact that we were able to get through the Benedictus without a hitch, and the organist unable to play it until that very evening, was nothing short of a miracle. A terrifying miracle, but nonetheless. Our organist was originally going to conclude with some more pieces from Haydn's Water Clock compositions, but then he backed out at the last minute - said he "didn't have the music" (even though the book was right in front of him and me). I'm beginning to wonder if there are such things as 'normal' organists . . .

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Feast of the Purification
February 2, 7 PM
Holy Family, Gas City

PROCESSIONAL CHANTS: Gregorian
PROPERS: Full Gregorian
ORDINARY: Mass IX
CREDO: III
COMMUNION MOTET: Haec Accipiet (chant with psalm 23)
RECESSIONAL: Chant, Alma Redemptoris Mater (simple) & Ave Maria



Simple and to the point, so no worries. Choir learned its music and followed the procession quite nicely. The Director of Worship for our diocese was in attendance with her family, which was nice. Procession happened around the inside of the church, since the sidewalk was damp and Father "didn't want any lawsuits on his hands". Only troublesome thing during the night was dealing with altar servers. Nothing inspires confidence like asking the MC right before the beginning of Mass which altar server would light the candles for the congregation at the Gospel and the Canon, and getting the reply: "We're going to figure that out eventually." (I ended up just walking up to the altar candles, lighting my own, and bringing it back down to the congregation, because they totally spaced on that. Not liturgically refined - but it's our first time.)

reviving this 2019 thread to ask,
does anyone have a link to an mp3 of the Antiphon Responsum accepit Simeon a Spiritu Sancto, sung during Candlemas procession?
Not on ccwatershed, unfortunately. And although I have found the Lumen, Adorna, and Obtulerunt, am not finding this one. Many thanks!

@mmeladirectress Just a rehearsal recording. Still three weeks to go - be kind! ;)

Here you go! (No final repeat.)