Solemn High Mass for The Seventh Sunday of Easter ~ The Sunday After Ascension Day

Music:

• Mass Setting:  Mass of St. James ~ Walter MacNutt, 1974
• Voluntary: Prayer of Christ ascending to his Father, from L’Ascension ~ Olivier Messiaen (d. 1992)
• Vidi aquam (choir) ~ Tomás Luis de Victoria (d. 1611)
• Introit (choir) ~ Exaudi, Domine ~ Mode I
• The Gradual:  Psalm 97 ~ Dominus regnavit ~ Tone V.2
• Alleluia ~ Emitte Spiritum tuum ~ Tone VI
• Offertory (choir) ~ Ascendit Deus ~ Mode I
• Motet (choir) ~ O Rex gloriæ ~ Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (d. 1594)
• Communion (choir) ~ Pater, cum essem ~ Mode IV
• Hymn 315 ~ “Thou, who at thy first Eucharist didst pray” ~ Song 1
• Regina cœli (choir) ~ Mode V
• Hymn ~ “Christ Triumphant, Ever Reigning” ~ Guiting Power
• Voluntary:  Fugue in C major, BuxWV 174 (The “Jig” Fugue) ~ Dieterich Buxtehude (d. 1707)

Preacher: The Rev. Marta S. Rivera Monclova, PhD, Curate

Our 10:30 service is a Sung Mass or Solemn High Mass with music: organ, choir, and congregational singing. We use Rite I from the 1979 Book of Common Prayer, with additions from the historical tradition—all of it is outlined in the bulletin.

For more information about Sung Mass, click here: Services

This service will be livestreamed on our Facebook page.