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 4CHGiffen Andrew_Malton davido Chant_Supremacist
  • Charles_Weaver
    Posts: 201
    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 5trentonjconn CHGiffen Chant_Supremacist rich_enough Richard Mix
  • 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.
    Thanked by 4tomjaw Chant_Supremacist rich_enough CHGiffen
  • Charles_Weaver
    Posts: 201
    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: 3,470
    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
    Posts: 285
    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
    Thanked by 1CHGiffen
  • contemporaryworship92
    Posts: 319
    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
    Thanked by 3Chant_Supremacist Charles CHGiffen
  • Jeffrey Quick
    Posts: 2,245
    Our first out-of-the-church procession. Cues were a little funky. Priest had toyed with doing the pre-55, but we decided to work into it.
    Psalm-tone Gradual and Tract, otherwise Gregorian
    Mass 17, Credo 1
    O vos omnes (Casciolini)
    Miserere Mei (Allegri, 1770... we had a girl who wanted to try out her high C, but rehearsals for the quartet didn't work out.)
    O sacred head surrounded.

    Organ for the motets (because we are small and lame) and final hymn only. We've usually used it for Gloria laus for the Babylonian splendor of it, but that didn't happen (part of the cue issue).
    Thanked by 2Chant_Supremacist CHGiffen
  • probe
    Posts: 122
    Our 10am Mass
    No opening procession.
    Entrance*: Holy God, we praise thy Name
    Passion reading with priest, narrator, other-voices, crowd for congregation.
    Offertory:* Love is his Word
    Mass 18 (no Kyrie) Sanctus, Agnus Dei
    Communion: O Filii et Filiae
    Exit*: Faith of our Fathers

    *=with organ
  • trentonjconn
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    Communion: O Filii et Filiae


    ...without alleluias, one would at least hope...what was the rationale for selecting this hymn?
    Thanked by 1probe
  • probe
    Posts: 122
    Sorry @trentonjconn, I was mentally anticipating Easter Sunday! I've edited it to correct it.
  • rich_enough
    Posts: 1,089
    Sts. Cyril and Methodius Church, Bridgeport, Connecticut (ICKSP)
    Victoria - Hosanna Filio David
    Palestrina – Pueri hebraeorum portantes (SSAT)
    Victoria – Pueri hebraeorum vestimenta
    Mass XVII; Credo I
    offertory: Morago – Christus factus est
    communion 1: Victoria – Eram quasi agnus
    communion 2: Palestrina - O crux ave
    hymn: O Sacred Head Surrounded (like trentonjconn I gradually softened the organ until we sang the last verse a capella)

    (We sang all the procession chants except the first, Cum audisset populus - it's challenging to sing this one and walk at the same time!)
    Thanked by 5trentonjconn Chant_Supremacist CHGiffen Charles_Weaver tomjaw
  • Marc Cerisier
    Posts: 601
    Sacred Heart, Houston

    (Spanish Mass)

    Introit: Hosanna filio David
    Sprinkling of Palms: Pueri hebraeorum
    Procession: Honor, Loor y Gloria
    Psalm: Psalm 21(22) - Me from the Co-Cathedral Psalter
    Gospel Acclamation: Misa de la Inmaculada Concepción - Me (GIA)
    Offertory: Miserere Mei (vv. 18–22) - Manuel de Sumaya
    Mass Ordinary: Missa XVII (incl. Memorial Acclamation and Amen adapted for the Mass by Crista Miller)
    Communio: Pater, si non potest (Graduale)
    Communion Motet: Te Adoramos, Oh Cristo - Richard Proulx (new translation by Me, available from Paraclete Press in the near future)
    Communion Hymn: Himno Pascual
    Recessional Hymn: ¡Piedad, oh Santo Dios, Piedad! (Rockingham)
    Thanked by 2CHGiffen Chant_Supremacist
  • Richard MixRichard Mix
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    St David of Wales, Richmond Calif.

    Hosanna to the the Son of David (mode vii)
    All Glory, Lawd and Honor
    Ps. 22 (Parish Book of Psalms)
    Grad. Christ for our sake (American Gradual)
    Matthew Passion (Victoria)
    O Sacred Head
    Sanctus/Agnus xi
    Pater si non potest (Am. Gr.)
    Thanked by 2CHGiffen Chant_Supremacist
  • m_r_taylor
    Posts: 370
    Hosanna to the Son of David
    All Glory, Laud, and Honour
    Psalm 22 - MRT chant
    Gospel Accl - MRT chant
    Offertory chant: Weber
    Offertory motet: Victoria - Vere languores
    Sanctus XVII
    Agnus Dei XVII
    Communion chant: Graduale
    Communion motet: Victoria - O vos omnes II
    Communion: Vexilla Regis
    Exposition: O Salutaris Hostia
    Thanked by 2CHGiffen Chant_Supremacist
  • SponsaChristi
    Posts: 704
    Our first out-of-the-church procession.

    I think ours was supposed to be our first outside of the church procession as well, but no one said anything about it during the pre-Mass announcements. I saw our MD’s head through the crack in the door hinge go one way towards outside, but everyone else went the opposite direction. I don’t care who’s reading, “presiding”, etc, but it would be helpful to know if after over a decade of having the same route on Palm Sunday, if they decide to change it up.

    I was impressed that they dabbled into actual polyphony for the Kyrie during the Reading of the Passion. They also tried to sing some English polyphonic piece for a recessional again this year, but unfortunately I have no idea what it was. I couldn’t hear anything over the cacophony of people talking and filing out. Our congregation lacks the decorum and self discipline to stay longer than the priest et. al. walking past the. necessary to make something like that work for a recessional.

    I can’t remember the last time the organ sounded so good and in tune and not missing pipes.
  • NihilNominisNihilNominis
    Posts: 1,084
    Old St Mary | The Cincinnati Oratory

    8.45a - Latin with choir

    All glory, laud, and honor
    Proper antiphons & hymn in plainsong
    Ingrediente, Schubert
    Full Proper (except shortened chants between readings)
    Mass XVII
    Credo I
    Lotti, Crucifixus
    Victoria, O vos omnes
    Menegali, Jesu, salvator mundi (men, while ladies received Communion)
    Brumel, Vexilla regis
    O Sacred Head

    11.30am - German with choir

    Lob und Ehre sei dir
    Singt dem König Jubelpsalmen
    Christi Mutter stand mit Schmerzen
    Heilig (GL 737, adapt. Kyriale IX)
    O du Lamm Gottes (GL 202, adapt. Kyriale XVII)
    O Haupt voll Blut und Wunden
    O Traurigkeit, o Herzeleid

    1pm, English with children’s schola

    Solemn Entrance — Hosanna to the Son of David (ICEL)
    O Sacred Head
    Mass XVIII
    Full Communio
    Mozart, Ave verum
    Were you there? (unscheduled spontaneity by my assistant and I while the kids received)
    All glory, laud, and honor (not ideal, but without a procession, returning at the end actually ties it together without feeling jarring)
    Thanked by 2CHGiffen Chant_Supremacist
  • CharlesCharles
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    Basilica of St. Mary of the Angels, Olean, NY

    Omitted singing Hosanna filiio David (pastor's idea, not mine. I was just a sub)
    Entrance Hymn*: All Glory, Laud, and Honor
    Responsorial Psalm/Gospel Acclamation*: Alstott Settings from Breaking Bread
    Offertory Hymn: Sing, My Tongue, The Savior's Glory (Tune: St. Thomas)
    Communion Hymn: Stabat Mater - first English, then Latin
    Recessional Hymn: O Sacred Head, Surrounded

    * = with organ
    Thanked by 2CHGiffen Chant_Supremacist
  • MatthewRoth
    Posts: 3,470
    I remember my one trip to Olean in the summer driving back from Buzzard’s Bay in Massachusetts. I went to an early Mass hoping to avoid music and to go before the earliest Mass at the basilica. I was bamboozled. There was music. Four-hymn sandwich at 7:30.
    Thanked by 2Charles davido
  • CharlesCharles
    Posts: 20
    @MatthewRoth

    I totally get the frustration. The basilica has had probably half-a-dozen pastors in the last two decades. There is not great consistency in liturgical or musical standards.

    I would've liked to avoid the four-hymn sandwich for Palm Sunday, but alas, I was just a substitute because the traditional-leaning organist, who is ALSO the Director of Music resigned a few days ago. Not sure yet if I should try to amend music at the Basilica, contemporary groups are steadily becoming the norm there, unfortunately.
  • SponsaChristi
    Posts: 704
    I was just a substitute because the traditional-leaning organist and Director of Music resigned a few days ago.


    It really says something when both the organist and the director of music quit at the same time right before Holy Week.
  • john m
    Posts: 139
    Organ Prelude: Bach 656 - O Lamm Gottes unschuldig
    Antiphon: Vittoria - Hosanna Filio David

    These make a terrific pair, the final chord of the Bach providing a splendid launchpad into the Vittoria by the choir
  • SMays
    Posts: 12
    Sacred Heart, Savannah, GA - TLM

    Hosanna filio David
    Pueri hebraeorum portantes (chant, then Palestrina)
    Gloria laus in procession
    Ingrediente

    Full propers, Mass XVII, Credo IV
    Popule meus (Victoria)

    O sacred head procession out
    Thanked by 4trentonjconn CHGiffen Chant_Supremacist Charles
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