Line-Up for 20 MAY: PENTECOST (plus the new Memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of the Church)

Sunday 20 May (music sheet order)

• Vidi Aquam
• MASS PROPERS: PENTECOST SUNDAY [LINK] NOTE: THIS IS REVISED FROM WHAT I INITIALLY HANDED OUT
• Spiritus Domini [Mass Propers]
• Kyrie I Lux et Origo
• Gloria I Lux et Origo
• First Alleluia: Emitte Spiritum [Mass Propers]
• Second Alleluia: Veni Sancte Spiritus [Mass Propers]
• Sequence: Veni Sancte Spiritus [Mass Propers]
• Credo III 
• Offertorio: Confirma Hoc Deus [Mass Propers]
• HYMN: Veni Creator Spiritus [LINK]
• Sanctus I Lux et Origo
• Agnus Dei I Lux et Origo
• Communio: Factus Est [Propers]
• Antiphona ad S. Michaelem Archangelem

Monday 21 May -- 06:30 Mass

• Memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of the Church [LINK]
• This is a brand-new feast, just established in February for the Monday after Pentecost. Even though we normally do not commemorate memorials with chanted propers at Daily Mass, we will this one because we are a "Marian" Basilica, just as we do, e.g., Our Lady of Sorrows and Our Lady of the Rosary.

PREVIEW: Next Week, 20 May

• Trinity Sunday [LINK] -- NOTE: THIS IS REVISED FROM WHAT I HANDED OUT AT PRACTICE
• Hymn: O Lux Beata Trinitas [LINK] 
• Return to Mass VIII: De Angelis [LINK]
• As you may remember, my initial plan was to split the time between Easter and Advent evenly with Mass I until midsummer and then going back to Mass VIII. Nevertheless, a couple of congregants expressed a preference for Mass VIII that I found to be wider than expected when I started asking around. The attraction is based mainly on the latter's "singability," i.e., its familiarity. So, although we had gotten a bit bored with it, we've had almost six months away from it and I've decided we can handle going back to it for the next six months. 

THANK YOU

... to those who showed up last Wednesday evening to celebrate Vespers for the Vigil of the Ascension in the Extraordinary Form. This is something I hope to become a regular occurrence especially to commemorate those centrally important feasts that the modern calendar lamentably moves from their historical dates to the nearest Sunday in another sad concession to the modern world. Since it is unlikely, for the foreseeable future at least, that we will get Mass itself in the Extraordinary Form on those traditional feast days, Vespers in the Extraordinary Form is the next best thing, whether on the feast itself or on its vigil.