Immaculate Conception • 2022

Greetings all,
Thanks for such a wonderful performance at Lessons & Carols on Monday. You truly sang wonderfully, and made me very proud. I received multiple complements on how well you sounded (particularly the Ecce Virgo Concipiet, which seemed to be a crowd pleaser!). I am truly honored and humbled to be your director, and I really do love you all. We are “small but mighty!!” Gold stars, all around.

As for Thursday, here is a brief overview of our ordo, with a few practice tracks so you can do a little prep-work in advance of Mass, since we will barely have time to even warmup! After Mass, we will transition down to the church basement for a rehearsal for Advent III, with a little time spent on some special things for Midnight Mass as well. It’s that time of year where we just have to plow ahead and make the best of it.

1. Entrance Antiphon Hymn (sung to the tune of Joyful, Joyful We Adore Thee)

2. Introit; IF sung, I will take care of it since we will have limited warmup time.

3. OLBASH ORDINARY since there is a Gloria, and this solemnity technically isn’t an ‘Advent’ Mass. The ordinary will be printed in the worship aids (and you all know it by now anyway).

4. Psalm 98 • Sing to the Lord a new song
   This is based on the traditional plainchant Ave Maria, and we have sung it in the past. If you can muster parts on the verses, great, if we feel iffy during warmups, we’ll just scrap parts all together. Melody-only video linked below.

5. (Normal Advent Alleluia that is in your Advent booklet.)

6. Offertory: I Will Magnify by Corfe

7. Communion Antiphon: Fr. weber #2167 (option ii)
   audio player embedded below the psalm video

8. Communion Hymn / Motet: My Soul Doth Magnify (Prætorius)
   We sang this on Monday at L&C.

9. Recessional Hymn: Immaculate Mary

Looking ahead, during rehearsal I’d like to refresh ourselves on the Dalitz Missa Tribus Vocibus (this will be new to a few of you; just do the best you can), as well as a few other Christmas Eve goodies from previous cycles that will hopefully return quickly. We will work on the Christmas things first, and then peek at the rest for Sunday. Don’t forget that almost all of these videos have timestamps which allow you to skip ahead to hear your voice part being soloed out.

Here are a few things to help you prep for rehearsal after Mass:

A blast from the past! (We’ll try and it see if it comes back or not.)