Solemn High Mass for The First Sunday of Advent ~ Year A

Music:

• Mass Setting:  Communion Service in D major ~ Leo Sowerby (d. 1968)
• Voluntary: “Wachet auf!” ruft uns die Stimme ~ Johann Sebastian Bach (d. 1750)
• Great Litany in Procession ~ Hymnal S 67
• The Gradual: Psalm 122 ~ Laetatus sum ~ Tone 1.2
• Alleluia ~ Ostende ~ Tone VI
• The Nicene Creed from Missa de Angelis 
• Offertory (choir) ~ Ad te levavi ~ Mode II
• Hymn 61 ~ “Sleepers, wake! A voice astounds us” ~ Wachet auf
• Communion (choir) ~ Dominus dabit ~ Mode I
• Motet (choir) ~ Lo, in the time appointed ~ Healey Willan, 1929
• Alma Redemptóris Mater (choir) ~ Mode V
• Hymn 57 ~ “Lo! he comes, with clouds descending” ~ Helmsley
• Voluntary: Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland ~ J. S. Bach

Preacher: Sr. Gregory Simmons, Haven Religious

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 YouTube channel.