This is the First Sunday of the month, so we will have an organist. Unfortunately, Tuesday 27 February is also a Pastoral Council Meeting at 6pm, and I'd like to make it (I've missed the last two since they're always on our practice nights and they've hit right before major celebrations). Fortunately, even though this is a very important practice, I think we can get through the vital parts pretty quickly. We need to start promptly at 5:30, though.
Specifically, we will be doing the full Gregorian Propers for both the Introit and the
Communio. Since we've been practicing them for a couple of weeks already, hopefully with Roxanne supporting us on the organ we can polish those off pretty quickly, as difficult as they are. I've carried forward the links for the practice videos, so if you get a chance to go over them a few more times before practice, that would be great.
I think this will be the first time we will have her with us for the
Asperges, as well, but if we don't get to that, I'm not worried too much. As to the Mass Parts, they are the same as the First Sunday in February, so if we don't get to practice them with her, ditto.
Parce Domine will be
a capella; I did give her a modern notation transcription of the St. Michael Prayer, but if we can't practice it with her I'm going to suggest we just do it
a capella as usual as well. Finally, we're going to keep sacred silence during Communion once we have chanted the
Communio as we go downstairs, receive, and/or take our places at front left.
Here's the line-up, in sheet-order:
Sun 25 Feb: 2nd Sunday in Lent
- Asperges Me
- Mass Propers for 3rd Sunday in Lent [LINK]
- Kyrie XI Orbis Factor
- Credo III
- HYMN: Parce Domine
- Sanctus XI Orbis Factor
- Agnus Dei XI Orbis Factor
- Antiphona ad S. Michaelem Archangelem
Practice Videos for Introit and Communio
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In other news, you may remember I've talked about adding a fourth Mass Setting to our repertoire. I've made a decision, and hope to start looking at Mass I
Lux et Origo, intending to debut it at Easter and use it through July. Here is a [
LINK] to the music; if you want to listen to it, you can find videos, audios, etc. on this page [
LINK] (and a lot more besides, for all eighteen of the Gregorian Mass Settings; Roxanne, this includes the organ scores).
