Palm Sunday 2026
  • trentonjconn
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    St. Aelred Catholic Church
    Madison, Georgia
    The Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter

    Principle Mass, 11am
    Ordinary: Englished Mass XVII
    Blessing of Palms and Procession:
    -Hosanna Filio David (GR)
    -Pueri Hebraeorum (Palmer and Burgess)
    -All Glory Laud and Honor
    -Ingrediente (Palmer and Burgess)
    Introit: Palmer and Burgess Plainchant Gradual
    Gradual: St. Peter Gradual
    Tract: St. Peter Gradual
    Sung Passion (chant, no polyphonic turba)
    Credo: Credo I a la Hymnal 1940
    Offertory: Palmer and Burgess Plainchant Gradual
    Offertory Hymn: At the Cross Her Station Keeping
    Communion: Palmer and Burgess Plainchant Gradual
    Communion Other: Vexilla Regis (chant), Psalm 22 during ablutions
    Recessional: O Sacred Head

    No solo organ.

    As we sang O Sacred Head, I softened registration with each verse until I dropped out entirely and the choir sang a capella SATB. It worked rather nicely, lovely start to Holy Week.
    Thanked by 3CHGiffen Andrew_Malton davido
  • Charles_Weaver
    Posts: 197
    St. Mary's Norwalk, CT

    Asperges me (Tomás Luís de Victoria)
    Pueri hebraeorum portantes (Johannes de Fossa)
    Pueri hebraeorum vestimenta (Victoria)
    Domini est terra (Jheronimus Vinders)

    (This is one of the psalms that is included in the 1962 books to go with Pueri for the distribution of palms. We sang it as a "motet" after the two polyphony Pueri settings, just as one might sing motets at the offertory or communion in addition to the prescribed chants.)

    Missa Nisi Dominus (Ludwig Senfl)
    St. Matthew Passion (Victoria)
    Improperium (Orlande de Lassus)
    Vigilate et orate (Cristóbal de Morales)
    O Domine Jesu Christe (Francisco Guerrero)
    Vere languores nostros (Victoria)

    I find it interesting that some of the hardest Mass chants of the year are to be sung while processing outside!
    Thanked by 2trentonjconn CHGiffen
  • MatthewRoth
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    I have good taste. We are doing the Morales on Thursday! I would like to do the Lassus in a future year but “politically” replacing the proper with it would cause me a bit of a grief. (We did not do a motet as we would have caused them to wait too much). But we have been on a Franco-Flemish kick. In fact today was the first real (and not 1840s) Palestrina since January or earlier and Victoria since February.

    Anyway:

    Asperges mode IV
    Hosanna Filio David, chant
    Pueri hebraeorum portantes (Palestrina)
    Pueri hebraeorum vestimenta (Victoria)
    Cum Angelis (we could not do a full procession) & Gloria, Laus et honor
    Mass XVII, Kyrie in mode I
    Credo IV
    Pater (Isaac; since February we do chant, a psalm verse, the Isaac, another verse, the chant, and then repeat until the ablutions, although sometimes we do a verse with another polyphonic piece if the Isaac is too much).

    For the palms: we started with chant & the psalms as the rest of the schola got palms (we are at the altar so that helped this year). I went to get my palm. The Catholi choir members went. We switched to Palestrina at the end of the psalm, then we sang the Victoria. In between verses we did the chant and returned to the Victoria right as the ministers got back to the altar.
  • Charles_Weaver
    Posts: 197
    I would like to do the Lassus in a future year but “politically” replacing the proper with it would cause me a bit of a grief. (We did not do a motet as we would have caused them to wait too much).


    Funny enough, the chant proper plus the Lassus offertory is almost always the perfect length of time for the tempo our Solemn Mass seems to run at.
  • MatthewRoth
    Posts: 3,463
    Hmm well that’s good to know. They were at the imposition of incense so we had time I suppose. But we did make them wait a bit at communion, so I have to be picky.
  • Chant_Supremacist
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    All Glory Laud and Honour
    Hosanna Filio David
    Pueri Hebraeorum
    Occurunt Turbae
    Christus Vincit
    Gloria, Laus et Honor

    GR propers
    Mass XVIII
    Credo II
    Offertory motet: Posuerunt - Ceballos
    Communion motet: Popule Meus - Victoria (the TLM choir does not have the opportunity to sing on Good Friday)
    O Sacred Head Surrounded
  • contemporaryworship92
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    Opening for Solemn Entrance: Hosanna to the Son of David (ICEL chant)
    Processional Hymn: All Glory Laud and Honor
    Offertory Hymn: At the Name of Jesus (ILP setting by Cowan)
    Communion: Adoramus Te, Christe (Dubois)
    Communion: What Wondrous Love is This
    Song of Praise: Lead Me to the Cross (Hillsong)
    Closing Hymn: Lift High the Cross
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