Immaculate Conception (B • 2023)
Just in case you’d like to do a little extra preparation for tomorrow:
Advent I (B • 2023)
Hi Friends—
So the show officially begins! I want to thank you again for an excellent rehearsal on Wednesday—we managed to work our way through a lot of music. Be prepared to have more rehearsals like it, because we haven’t even started the «Christmas» music yet!
At any rate, here are the practice tracks for this coming weekend. I’m really looking forward to this seasonal change. It is good for us.
Entrance Antiphon Hymn to the tune of PUER NOBIS.
Entrance Antiphon: Fr. Weber #2
Missa XVII
Psalm 80: Lord, make us turn to You; let us see Your face and we shall be saved.
Alleluia ‘Regem Venturum’
Offertory Antiphon (vernacular chant)
Communion Antiphon: Fr. Weber # 17
Communion Motet: Ad Te Levavi by Witt.
Communion Hymn: Saviour of the Nations, Come to the tune of NUN KOMM DER HEIDAN HEILAND
Marian Antiphon: Alma Redemptoris Mater
*NB: we will not hold the lengthened notes (groupings of three with the bars over the top) as long as these recordings.
Lastly, don’t forget about the Advent Lookahead list, if you want to continue working on some of the motets we will be singing in the next few weeks.
See you Sunday morning!
Solemnity of Jesus Christ, King of the Universe (A • 2023)
Hi Friends—
We have an exciting lineup for this coming weekend. Obviously, in the absence of rehearsal this evening, a little bit of extra prep. work will be required on your end. I hope you have a great time with your families, but let’s remember WHO we are thanking, and come prepared on Sunday!
Immediately Preceding Mass: Choral Fanfare for Christ the King
Entrance Hymn: Crown Him with Many Crowns (v.4 is the Entrance Antiphon trope)
[I will cover the Entrance Antiphon if it is even needed]
Psalm 23: The Lord is My Shepherd — new version! (Playlist)
Alleluia for the Feast of Christ the King (with special choral coda)
Credo III
Offertory Hymn: When Morning Gilds the Skies
Communion Antiphon: I will sing the original from the Gregorian Missal.
Communion Hymn: Laudate Dominum (this is the special hymn I wrote that uses the same music as the alleluia; it’s been a while since we’ve sung it, but you’ll recognize it immediately)
**LAUDES REGIÆ (“Christus Vincit”)** Fr. Royce and I will take turns chanting the invocations, and you will lead the congregation’s responses. (No Salve Regina)
Recessional Hymn: At the Name of Jesus, Every Knee Shall Bow
33rd in OT (A • 2023)
Hi Friends—
Here’s our ordo for this weekend.
Entrance Antiphon Hymn to “Joyful, Joyful We Adore Thee”
Fr. Weber 1682
Psalm 128
Alleluia VI (final week of this Alleluia)
Offertory Antiphon Hymn (De Profundis trope) to the “Third Mode Melody”
Fr. Weber 1697
[No special motet since the Communion hymn is so long]
Communion Hymn: Oh That I Had a Thousand Voices! to a chantified version of “Neumark”.
Salve Regina
Recessional Hymn: Holy Michæl Great Archangel to the tune “Lauda Anima”
As a quick look ahead for the Feast of Christ the King next weekend:
I am going to finalize things on Monday, but I believe we will also do “Crown Him with Many Crowns” and “Praise to the Lord, the Almighty”.
32nd in OT (A • 2023)
Hi Friends—
Here’s our lineup for this weekend:
Entrance Antiphon Hymn to the tune of HYFRYDOL (“Alleluia, Sing to Jesus”)
Fr. Weber 1658
Psalm 63 (don’t forget, verse 4 is different from the demo track)
‘Alleluia VI’
Offertory Antiphon Hymn to the tune of DETROIT
Fr. Weber 1674
Communion Anthem: Wachet Auf (v. 1 of the communion hymn)
Communion Hymn: Wake, Awake For Night is Flying (Wachet Auf) v.2 & 3
Salve Regina
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