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 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, to which God, of course, was witness.

    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 3tomjaw CHGiffen Richard Mix
  • 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/organ 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 3Chant_Supremacist CHGiffen Abbysmum
  • emac3183
    Posts: 88
    Holy Family Catholic Church (St. Louis Park, MN)

    9pm Mass during the Night

    Prelude:
    Lo, How a Rose E’er Blooming
    In the Bleak Midwinter (Darke)
    Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence - Bairstow
    Good Christian Men, Rejoice
    Lullay, My Liking (Holst)
    It Came Upon a Midnight Clear
    O Holy Night (Adolph/Le Bas)

    PROCESSIONAL: O Come All Ye Faithful (Arr. Willcocks)
    INTROIT: gregorian
    MASS ORDINARY: Missa de Angelis
    RESPONSORIAL PSALM: Rice/Schmitt
    ALLELUIA: Easter Alleluia
    OFFERTORIUM: gregorian
    OFFERTORY: Verbum Caro Factum Est (Hassler)
    Communion chant: gregorian
    COMMUNION:O Magnum Mysterium (Victoria)
    COMMUNION: Of the Father’s Love Begotten (Wohlgemuth)
    POST COMMUNION HYMN: Silent Night SMH #747
    RECESSIONAL: Hark the Herald Angels Sing (arr. Willcocks)
    POSTLUDE: BWV729

    The day Masses are very similar, swapping out the gregorian propers, Pueri Concinite (Herbeck), O Little One Sweet (Bach) and See, Amid the Winter's Snow for a few selections.

    The 4pm Mass Christmas Eve Mass with Children's Choir is featuring Saint-Saens' Tollite Hostias, Yon's Gesu Bambino, Marier's A Boy is Born in Bethlehem, and Ravanello's Jesu Redemptor Omnium.

    Also playing In Quiet Joy by Dupre and a few other quiet organ preludes.
    Thanked by 3Chant_Supremacist CHGiffen rich_enough
  • Charles_Weaver
    Posts: 160
    St. Mary's (Norwalk, Connecticut)

    Choir with Baroque String Orchestra

    Prelude at 11:30:
    1. Handel, Pifa from Messiah
    2. O little town of Bethlehem (St. Louis)
    3. What child is this? (Greensleeves)
    4. Praetorius, In dulci jubilo à 2 & à 4
    5. Holst, In the bleak midwinter
    6. Guerrero, Niño Dios
    7. Silent Night

    Mass at Midnight (Extraordinary Form)
    Adeste Fideles (Willcocks but in Latin)
    Gregorian propers
    Charpentier, Messe de minuit
    Victoria, O Regem caeli
    Victoria, Christe redemptor
    Victoria, O magnum mysterium
    Postlude BWV 729

    Christmas Day
    Gregorian propers
    Victoria, Missa O magnum
    Lassus, Resonet
    Sweelinck, Hodie
    Thanked by 1Chant_Supremacist
  • Diapason84
    Posts: 148
    I won't doxx myself except to say that I will be at a NO Mass with Darke's "In the bleak midwinter" accompanied by me on a late Romantic American organ. That instrument is a Godsend!
  • 32ContraBombarde32ContraBombarde
    Posts: 148
    St. John Paul II Scioto Catholic Parish, Portsmouth, OH
    St. Mary of the Annunciation

    Prelude: Of the Father’s Love Begotten (Wohlgemuth)
    Nativity Proclamation
    Procession: Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
    Introit: Gregorian
    Ordinary: De Angelis
    Psalm/Alleluia: Bartlett/S&S
    Offertory Proper: Gregorian
    Offertory Hymn: Silent Night
    Communion Proper: Bartlett/S&S (English)
    Communion Motet: O Magnum Mysterium (Victoria)
    Recessional: O Come, All Ye Faithful (Willcocks)
    Postlude: Adeste Fideles (Dethier)
  • Marc Cerisier
    Posts: 596
    Co-Cathedral, Houston

    Midnight Mass

    Prelude
    Carol - O Little Town of Bethlehem (arr. Aaron David Miller)
    Carols and Lullabies: Christmas in the Southwest - Conrad Susa
    Carol - It Came Upon the Midnight Clear
    Carol - Go Tell it on the Mountain
    Magnificat - J. S. Bach
    Carol - Angels We Have Heard on High
    Carol - Joy to the World (arr. ADM)

    Proclamation of the Birth of Christ

    Introit - Graduale Romanum

    Entrance - O Come, All Ye Faithful

    Kyrie & Gloria - Mass of St. Gregory the Great - Luke Mayernik

    Psalm 96 - Michael Emmerich
    Alleluia - Mass of St. Gregory the Great - Luke Mayernik

    Preparation - Echo Jubilate - Samuel Scheidt

    Mass Ordinary - Mass of St. Gregory the Great - Luke Mayernik

    Communion
    Carol - Silent Night
    Carol - Away in a Manger
    Communio - Graduale Romanum
    Away in a Manger - arr. Peter Latona
    There is no Rose - Jessica Nelson
    Carol - Of the Father's Love Begotten
    Carol - Christ Was Born on Christmas Day

    Recessional - Hark the Herald Angels Sing

    Postlude - Organ Flourish on Joy to the World - Michael Dell


    Not the question at hand, but if anyone is interested this is the lineup for the Mass in Spanish that precedes this:

    Prelude
    Organ - Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland, BWV 659 - J. S. Bach
    Carol - Como Estrella en Claro Cielo - arr. Richard Proulx
    Organ - Divinum Mysterium - Craig Phillips
    Carol - Vamos, Pastores, Vamos
    Organ - Lullaby - Bill Ives
    Carol - Divino Mesías, Venid - arr. Yves Castagnet

    Introit - Graduale Romanum
    Processional - Venid, Fieles Todos - arr. Willcocks

    Kyrie & Gloria - Misa de la Inmaculada Concepción - Cerisier (GIA)

    Psalm 88(89) - Cerisier (available on CRCCM Repertoire site)
    Alleluia - Mode 6 (with Meinrad tone for verse)

    Preparation - Ha Nacido el Niño Dios - arr. Yves Castagnet

    Mass Ordinary - Misa Melódica

    Communion
    Communio - Graduale Romanum
    Pastores - Carlos Cordero
    Carol - Noche de Pas, Noche de Amor - arr. Cerisier (available on CRCCM Repertoire site)

    Recessional - Dichosa Tierra, Proclamad

    Postlude - Bring a Torch - Keith Chapman
    Thanked by 1Roborgelmeister
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