Solemn High Mass for the Fourth Sunday in Lent ~ Laetare Sunday and the Visitation by the Rt. Rev. Jeffrey W. Mellow, Bishop Diocesan of Connecticut

Music:

• Mass Setting:  Missa brevis No. 2 in E-flat ~ Robert MacLennan, 1970
• Voluntary:  Sonata in G major for Flute and Basso continuo:  Non tanto adagio ma cantabile ~ Giovanni Platti (d. 1763) ~ Leo Snow, baroque flute 
• Welcome to the Bishop (choir) ~ Walter MacNutt (d. 1996)
• Introit (choir)  Laetare ~ Mode V
• The Gradual:  Psalm 32 ~ Beati quorum ~ Tone VII.3
• Tract (choir) ~ Qui confidunt ~ Tone VIII
• Offertory (choir)  Illumina oculos meos ~ Mode IV
• Anthem (choir) ~ Pray that Jerusalem ~ C. V. Stanford (d. 1924)
• Communion (choir)  Oportet te ~ Mode VIII
• Hymn 313 ~ “Let thy Blood in mercy poured” ~ Jesus, meine Zuversicht
• Ave Regina caelorum (choir) ~ Mode VI
• Hymn 470 ~ “There’s A Wideness in God’s Mercy” ~ Beecher
• Voluntary:  Sonata in G major for Flute and Basso continuo:  Arietta con Variazioni ~ G. Platti ~ Leo Snow, baroque flute

Preacher: The Rt. Rev. Jeffrey Mello, Bishop Diocesan

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.

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