Music for Lent-5-C (Mar 25)

Prelude:           -none-during-Lent--SILENCE--
Processional Hymn: 353: What Wondrous Love Is This
Kyrie:             Missa XI (orbis factor): chant
Gloria:            -none-
Readings:          516 (Gospel 514)
Intercessions:     138: Lord hear our prayer
Offertory:         28: Be Merciful O Lord
                   (11) Super flumina: Lassus
Acclamations:      (5) 185: Missa XVIII (simplex): chant
                   Missa XI (orbis factor): chant
Agnus Dei:         (5) 187: Missa XVIII (simplex): chant
                   Missa XI (orbis factor): chant
Communion Hymn:    449: I Am The Bread Of Life
Final Hymn:        465: Forgive Our Sins
Postlude:          -none-during-Lent--SILENCE--

Music Notes:


Orlando di Lassus (c1532-1594) was a Franco-Flemish composer of late Renaissance music. Along with Palestrina he is today considered to be the chief representative of the mature polyphonic style of the Franco-Flemish School, and he was the most famous and influential musician in Europe by the end of his life.


His setting of Psalm 136/137:1 "Super flumina Babylonis, illic sedimus et flevimus, dum recordaremur tui, Sion" (By the waters of Babylon, we sat down and wept, when we remembered you, O Sion) captures well the mood (the musings of a people in exile) and character of the text (movement of the flowing water, sitting down, weeping).

Music for Lent-4-C (Mar 18) Laetare

Prelude:           -none-during-Lent--SILENCE--
Processional Hymn: 297: I Want To Walk As A Child Of The Light
Kyrie:             Missa XI (orbis factor): chant
Gloria:            -none-during-Lent-
Readings:          513 (Gospel 511)
Intercessions:     138: Lord hear our prayer
Offertory:         240: Hosea
                   (11) King of glory, king of peace: Herbert/Bach
Acclamations:      (5) 185: Missa XVIII (simplex): chant
                   Missa XI (orbis factor) Sanctus: chant
Agnus Dei:         (5) 187: Missa XVIII (simplex): chant
                   Missa XI (orbis factor): chant
Communion Hymn:    27: The Cry Of The Poor
Postcommunion:     404: Christ Be Beside Me
Final Hymn:        342: Amazing Grace
Postlude:          -none-during-Lent--SILENCE--

Music Notes:


This weekend at the 5 pm Vigil Mass, the Music is led
by the School Choir (directed by Rebecca Monson).


We have reached the mid-point of our Season of Lent, having
completed three weeks, with three weeks remaining. The Lenten
rubrics indicate that the organ remain silent except on Laetare
Sunday and Solemnities and Festive days and at any time to accompany
singing. Today is "Laetare Sunday", so named from the opening word
of the Introit (Isaiah 66:10-11 and Psalm 121:1): "Laetare Jerusalem
(Rejoice Jerusalem)". The special signs of joy (flowers, rose vestments,
greater use of instruments) permitted this day encourage us in our
course through this season of penance.


"King of Glory, King of Peace" combines an English poem by
George Herbert (1593-1632) with music by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750).

Music for Lent-3-C (Mar 11)

Prelude:           -none-during-Lent--SILENCE--
Processional Hymn: 239: The Glory Of These Forty Days
Kyrie:             Missa XI (orbis factor): chant
Gloria:            -none-during-Lent-
Readings:          510 (Gospel 508)
Intercessions:     138: Lord hear our prayer
Offertory:         (11) Salvator mundi: Palestrina
Acclamations:      (5) 185: Missa XVIII (simplex): chant
                   Missa XI (orbis factor): chant
Agnus Dei:         (5) 187: Missa XVIII (simplex): chant
                   Missa XI (orbis factor): chant
Communion Hymn:    356: I Heard The Voice Of Jesus Say
Final Hymn:        348: There's A Wideness In God's Mercy
Postlude:          -none-during-Lent--SILENCE--

Music Notes:


The Lenten rubrics indicate that the organ remain
silent except on Laetare Sunday and Solemnities and Festive days
and at any time to accompany singing, hence there are no preludes
or interludes or postludes. The purpose of the silent time before
and after Mass remains the same: it is meant to be used to prepare
for the Sacred Mysteries, and to give proper thanks afterward.
Please help others to pray during Lent!


Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525-1594) took his last name
from his native town near Rome. He was a choirboy at St Mary Major
in Rome (by 1537); organist at the cathedral in Palestrina (1544);
then held a succession of choirmaster positions: St Peters (1551),
St John Lateran (1555), St Mary Major (1560), privately for
Cdl Ippolito d’Este (1567), St Peters (1571-1594). After his wife
died (1580), he thought about becoming a priest, but instead married
a rich widow (1581) and ran her fur business while continuing his
career as the leading composer of Catholic church music for
unaccompanied choir (~100 Masses, ~375 motets, psalms, etc).

Apostolic Fathers

http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/audiences/2007/documents/hf_ben-xvi_aud_20070307_en.html

Let us now devote our attention to the Apostolic Fathers, that is, to the first and second generations in the Church subsequent to the Apostles. And thus, we can see where the Church's journey begins in history.

Christian Classics Ethereal Library
http://www.ccel.org/

http://www.NewAdvent.org

Music for Lent-2-C (Mar 4)

Prelude:           -none-during-Lent--SILENCE--
Processional Hymn: 413: Tis Good Lord To Be Here
Kyrie:             Missa XI (Orbis factor) Kyrie: chant
Gloria:            -none-during-Lent-
Readings:          507
Intercessions:     138: Lord hear our prayer
Offertory:         (5) 232: Somebody's Knocking
                   (11) Nolo mortem peccatoris: Morley
Acclamations:      (5) 185: Missa XVIII Sanctus: chant
                   (5) 104-105: Mass of Creation: Haugen
                   Missa XI (Orbis factor) Sanctus: chant
Agnus Dei:         (5) 187: Missa XVIII Agnus Dei: chant
                   Missa XI (orbis factor) Agnus Dei: chant
Communion Hymn:    (5) Firmly I Believe And Truly
                   329: Beautiful Savior
Final Hymn:        423: Lift High The Cross
Postlude:          -none-during-Lent--SILENCE--

Music Notes:


The Lenten rubrics indicate that the organ is to remain silent except on Laetare Sunday and Solemnities and Festive days and at any time to accompany singing, hence there are no preludes or interludes or postludes. The purpose of the silent time before and after Mass remains the same: it is meant to be used to prepare for the Sacred Mysteries, and to give proper thanks afterward. Please help others to pray during Lent!


This weekend at the 5 pm Vigil Mass, Lectors are from Grades K and 4 and the Music is led by the School Choir (directed by Rebecca Monson).


Thomas Morley (1577/8-1602) was born in Norwich East Anglia England, the son of a brewer. In his boyhood he was probably a singer in Norwich Cathedral. In the 1570s he studied with William Byrd, the great Elizabethan composer of sacred music. In 1583 he became the Norwich Cathedral master of the choristers. In 1588 he received his bachelor's degree from Oxford, and shortly thereafter was employed as organist at St Paul's in London. He lived for a time in the same parish as Shakespeare, and a connection between the two has long been speculated, though never proven (he did compose a setting of "It was a lover and his lass" from "As You Like It"). His principal contribution to music history is eleven collections of madrigals; he also published instrumental consort music, and keyboard pieces.

Concert "___"

First Friday Concert
Mar 2, 2007
11:15 am

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