Pentecost (A • 2023)

Hi Friends,
Here’s the plan for this weekend. We are going to be short a few members… so, sing your hearts out, please!

• Entrance Hymn: Come, Holy Ghost to the tune of LAMBILOTTE

• Entrance Antiphon: Dum Sanctificatus (special arrangement, see below)

• Kyrie ‘de Angelis’

• Gloria: Dalitz

• Psalm 104 • “Lord, send out Your Spirit and renew the face of the earth.”

• SEQUENCE: Veni Sancte Spiritus (after Jehan Revert)*

  • I have gone ahead and pre-recorded my part into the organ, so I will be with you to conduct and sing Tenor.

  • A note on how this will go: the organ part will always maintain our triple meter (ie-no “free” improvisations, but rather ones that keep the sense of time and introduce the theme to whatever section follows).

  • It’s going to rip-roar and we will have fun. Just follow my lead.

  • I used a metronome while I was recording to prevent any drifting of tempo; as such, it will be important that you come in right on time as I conduct you. If you don’t, you’ll be late.

• Festal Alleluia

• Offertory Hymn: Veni Creator Spiritus*

  • The Schola (or a Cantor) will sing the first verse and everyone will join in the translation starting on verse 2.

• Sanctus: Proulx’s Community Mass

• [Mysterium Fidei in Latin]

• Agnus Dei: Dalitz

• Communion Antiphon: Factus Est / Suddenly there was heard…* (see the very bottom for a recording)

  • First Time: JJR sings Latin, then you all repeat refrain in English

  • Verse 1: Men

  • Verse 2: Women

  • Verse 3: Women start, Men take over at “when the poor one called out…”

• Communion Hymn: O Holy Spirit, Now Descend on Me to the tune EVENTIDE (a.k.a. Abide with Me )

• [Regina Cæli] (plainchant; this will be our last time until next year!)

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Great to get the first verse in Latin as well as the melody itself. Spine-tinglingly beautiful!

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Looking ahead, you might want to be listening to:

We are singing it a minor third down in the key of F.

Remember: we will sing it slower than this recording.