Solemn High Mass for The Feast of Candlemas ~ The Presentation of Our Lord Jesus Christ in the Temple and The Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Music:

• Mass Setting:  Grace Mass ~ Edward Ivor Wagner, 1987
• Voluntary:  Cantilena, from Sonata No. 11, Op. 148 ~ J. Rheinberger
• Nunc Dimittis (choir) ~ Tone II.1
• Hymn 259 in Procession ~ “Hail to the Lord Who Comes” ~ Old 120^th
• Introit (choir) ~ Suscepimus ~ Tone VII
• The Gradual:  Psalm 84 ~ Quam delicta! ~ Tone III.2
• Alleluia ~ Senex puerum ~ Tone VI
• The Nicene Creed from Missa de Angelis
• Offertory (choir) ~ Diffusa est gratias ~ Tone II
• Motet (choir) ~ When to the temple Mary went ~ Johann Eccard (ca.1590)
• Communion (choir) ~ Responsum accepit Simeon ~ Tone I
• Motet (choir) ~ Senex puerum portabat ~ Tomás Luis de Victoria (d. 1611)
• Alma Redemptóris Mater (choir) ~ Mode V
• Hymn 258 ~ “Virgin-born, we bow before thee” ~ Psalm 86
• Voluntary:  Mit Fried’ und Freud’ ich fahr’ dahin (Nunc dimittis) ~ Johann Sebastian Bach (d. 1750)

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

This 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. 

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This service will be livestreamed on our YouTube channel.