Solemn High Mass for the Fourth Sunday of Advent

Music:

• Mass Setting:  Missa Advenio ~ Plainsong, 10th c.
• Voluntary:  Meine Seele erhebt den Herrn ~ Johann Sebastian Bach (d. 1750)
• Introit (choir) ~ Rorate caeli ~ Mode I
• The Gradual:  Psalm 80 ~ Qui regis Israel ~ Tone IV.4
• Alleluia ~ Veni Domine ~ Tone VI; v. harm. Healey Willan (d. 1968)
• The Nicene Creed from Missa de Angelis
• Offertory (choir) ~ Ave, Maria ~ Mode VIII
• Carol (choir) ~ Hail! Blessed Virgin Mary! ~ arr. Charles Wood (d. 1926)
• Communion (choir) ~ Ecce virgo concipiet ~ Mode I
• An Advent Prose (choir) ~ Mode I; arr. J. H. Arnold, 1933
• Alma Redemptóris Mater (choir) ~ Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (d. 1594)
• Hymn 56 ~ “O come, O come, Emmanuel” ~ Veni, veni, Emmanuel
• Voluntary:  Fugue on Magnificat ~ J. S. Bach

Preacher: Mr. Aldon Hynes

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.