Midnight Mass 2025
  • Richard MixRichard Mix
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    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 5Chant_Supremacist CHGiffen tomjaw Liam LauraKaz
  • 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 2tomjaw CHGiffen
  • 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 3Chant_Supremacist CHGiffen rich_enough
  • trentonjconn
    Posts: 778
    St. Aelred, Madison GA (Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter)

    Mass in the Night, 10:00pm
    Prelude of carols begins at 9:30pm

    Ordinaries: Englished Mass IX (Communion Service Four)
    Prelude: Chorale Prelude on Puer Nobis Nascitur, Willan
    Blessing of creche, sung Christmas proclamation
    Procession: O Come, All Ye Faithful
    Introit: Graduale Romanum w/ Viadana fauxbourdon Gloria Patri
    Gradual: Graduale Romanum
    Alleluia: Graduale Romanum
    Credo: Credo I, Englished (#720 Hymnal 1940)
    Offertory: Graduale Romanum
    Offertory hymn: Angels We Have Heard on High
    Communion: Graduale Romanum
    Communion Other:
    - Quempas as a choral motet, arranged by our very own NihilNominis
    - Silent Night during ablutions
    Recessional: Hark, the Herald Angels Sing (Willcocks organ reharm v. 3)
    Postlude: BWV 729 "In Dulci Jubilo"

    We also have sung Masses w/ cantor only at 7pm and 9am.
    Thanked by 2Chant_Supremacist CHGiffen
  • Noctcaelador
    Posts: 22
    No Christmas at all for me on account of ditching the parish life for academia...

    But here's the hymn sing my wife and I did a couple nights ago, plus the readings for Catholic Lessons and Carols, while the cat made a nuisance of herself:

    Compline
    Es ist ein Ros' entsprungen, Op. 122 no. 8 - Johannes Brahms
    Once in Royal David's City - descant by Sir David Willcocks
    Lo, How A Rose - first verse by Jan Sandström
    O Come All Ye Faithful - descant by Sir David Willcocks
    Conditor Alme Siderum - Guillaume Dufay
    O Magnum Mysterium - Tomás Luis de Victoria
    Ave Maria - my setting based on Kapsperger
    Silent Night - descant by me
    Reges de Saba - Sethus Calvisius
    Verbum caro - Sethus Calvisius
    Viderunt Omnes - Léonin
    Hark! The herald-angels sing - descant by Sir David Willcocks

    On the plus side, not a single person complained about "too loud" or "too much Latin," but attendance was rather sparse.
    Thanked by 2Chant_Supremacist CHGiffen
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