Line-up for 08 APRIL: OCTAVE OF EASTER/LOW SUNDAY/DIVINE MERCY SUNDAY -- plus Monday 09 April, the displaced Feast of the Annunciation

Well, last week when I said hang on to the Easter Sunday music because the next Sunday, being the Octave of Easter, would be exactly the same, I was totally wrong. The Propers are totally different. But, having announced last night (when I was still under that misimpression) that we would not have practice this week, I'm not going back on that. We'll be doing psalm-toned Propers, so we ought to be able to handle them on the fly. Therefore:

Sunday 08 April (music sheet order)

• Vidi Aquam
• Mass Propers: LOW SUNDAY [LINK]
• Introitus: Quasi modo [Mass Propers]
• Kyrie I Lux et Origo
• Gloria I Lux et Origo
• Graduale: Alleluia. In Die Resurrectionis [Mass Propers]
• Alleluia: Post dies octo [Mass Propers]
• Credo III 
• Offertorio: Angelus Domini [Mass Propers]
• HYMN: O Filii et Filiae [LINK]: verses 1, 7-12
• Sanctus I Lux et Origo
• Agnus Dei I Lux et Origo
• Communio: Mitte manum tuum [Mass Propers]
• Antiphona ad S. Michaelem Archangelem

Regarding the just-past Easter Triduum -- THANK YOU to all who showed up at the respective practices and services. I think we acquitted ourselves well. Once again, Thank You to Roxanne for supporting us with the organ yesterday at both Vespers and TLM. Thanks especially to those who came to the unofficial, off-the-record (so to speak) Tenebrae service Good Friday evening. I'm going to fight to get Tenebrae made official and on-the record for next year.

Regarding Divine Mercy Sunday -- As you may have seen in the bulletin, there will be devotions at 3pm on next Sunday, the 8th, "to celebrate the Lord's mercy and compassion. Fr. Blake will lead us in the Divine Mercy Devotions. Then there will be veneration and confession. We will end with the Litany of Divine Mercy and a closing prayer." Included in that will, as I understand it, be chanting the Divine Mercy Chaplet to simple tones. Please try to join us. As far as I know, Vespers will proceed as normal at 4:30.

The Feast of the Annunciation -- Finally, because the Feast of the Annunciation, normally on 25 March, fell on Palm Sunday this year, it was displaced outside Holy Week and the Octave of Easter to the subsequent Monday -- 09 April. Here is the sheet for those who would like to come for 06:30 Mass [LINK]; I will, of course, have copies available for anyone who chooses to join us.