Advent 2023 (Look Ahead)
Hi Friends—
In the interest of accomplishing more at rehearsal tomorrow, (and to look ahead towards Advent,) I’d like to make a few resources available to you before we meet.
(Save this link so you can revisit this list later on.)
THIS COMING SUNDAY, we will sing Bach’s setting of Wake, Awake! for Night is Flying. Odds are, you’ve heard this before and didn’t even know it. Here are two versions to get this simple unison melody into your ear:
Organ Only:
German Sung Version:
The glory of this piece is that it matches our communion hymn. The plan is to learn this simple melody in unison, and sing it with organ as demoed the videos linked above. We will sing the text that matches the first verse of the communion hymn, and then invite the congregation to sing the remaining two verses as the communion hymn proper.
(Some of you may know this hymn to traditionally be associated with Advent; since we are so close to Advent, and because this text perfectly references this Sunday’s Gospel reading, it is appropriate for this week.)
And quickly before we get to Advent, here’s this week’s psalm as well. NB: the version we will sing this week has a different Verser 4, but everything else is the same.
We also find ourselves on the cusp of Advent, so it is time we begin looking at Advent motets as well. The schedule will be largely familiar to most of you. We also cannot forget Christ the King, which rounds out this Church year.
Christ the King
Choral Fanfare for Christ the King (Smith) LINK
(We will repeat this immediately before “Midnight Mass”)
Advent I
Immaculate Conception of the BVM
Magnificat in C (Dyson) LINK
Advent II
Vox Clamanti (de las Muelas) LINK
Advent III
Advent IV
Corpus Christi
Ordo for the Feast of Corpus Christi (2021) • St. John the Evangelist Goshen
Greetings all,
We have an exciting roundup for the Feast of Corpus Christi!
First, our Mass music:
Entrance Hymn: In Thy True Presence Here (eucharistic text with the hymn tune linked below)
Entrance Antiphon: Fr. Weber 1749 (immediately after the entrance hymn / during incense)
Psalm: 116 • “I will take the cup of salvation and call on the name of the Lord.”
Sequence!!
(Weirdly, this was the best version I could find. I’ll make a different one for next year.)
Alleluia:
Offertory Antiphon: Simple English Propers (printout)
Communion Antiphon: Simple English Propers (worship aid)
Communion Motet “Hymn”: Anima Christi by Marco Frisina. The melody of the refrain is printed in the worship aid for people to sing along.
At the end of Mass we have a special procedure: Father will first purify the sacred vessels whilst we sing the Frisina, and then he will place the pyx into the mostrance on the altar. He will then return to the presider’s chair where he will say the closing prayer. At that time he will proceed to vest in a cope (cape) and humeral veil (special shoulder shroud that he uses to pick up the monstrance) whilst we sing the familiar hymn O Salutaris Hostia. (We will sing this version which is slightly different than you are used to.) The procession will then begin and we will follow him out of the church.
Procession
We will alternate with the Hispanic choirs singing between stops of the procession. We will sing the following works during the procession:
Adoro Te Devote plainchant (you can sing this in your sleep!)
Cor Jesu Sacratissimum — make sure you prepare if you weren’t at rehearsal Wednesday, since we will sing it a cappella. I will start it by intoning the melody of the refrain, which we will then repeat à la psalm and then proceed to alternate with the chanted verses. Remind me to give you notes about lifts in the verses Sunday morning.
Upon returning into the church, Father will lead us in chanting the Tantum Ergo. Then we’ll be done! Please leave your folders in the cabinet if you can, and return any copies of Fr. Weber that you have. I need to take inventory to see which books are missing. We will reconvene for an informal choir Sunday later in June, but we’ll enjoy a couple of weeks off until then.
If anyone would like to cantor, let me know!