Assumption of the Blessèd Virgin Mary

Greetings choir! It’s so exciting that we are finally able to start singing again! I am so grateful to all of you who returned this week. Here is our ordo:

• Entrance Antiphon Hymn: “Glorious Things of Thee are Spoken” (sung to PLEADING SAVIOUR a.k.a. “Sing of Mary, Pure and Lowly”)

• Ordinary: Mass in Honor of Our Lady, Star of the Sea, by Michæl Olbash

• Psalm 45 “The Queen stands at Your right hand, arrayed in gold.”

  • NB: I slightly tweaked the rhythm of the refrain on the advice of another composer. I have also made a new version of the score that has each column with the notes fully fleshed out so it is easier to follow. The practice track below has the full complement of SATB solos to help you hear your parts.

• Alleluia Sancte Jacobe (the track below is an S(A/T)B recording and I sing the verse for the solemnity to help you hear it.

• Offertory Chant: “Mary has been taken up into heaven” (a.k.a. Assumpta est Maria)

• Communion Chant: “All generations shall call me blessèd” (a.k.a. Beatam me dicent)

• Communion Motet: “O Maria Virgo Pia” (NB: the practice track is from two years ago; it is organ only but it does have each part dubbed out if you need it.)

• Communion Hymn: “I Hunger and I Thirst” (tune: Mosely, alt.)

  • In this practice video I sing each part in succession on the syllable “la”.

• And lastly, Immaculate Mary (from the hymnal).

See you Sunday morning at 10:20!

Corpus Christi

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.

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Procession

We will alternate with the Hispanic choirs singing between stops of the procession. We will sing the following works during the procession:

1. Adoro Te Devote plainchant (you can sing this in your sleep!)

2. 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!