Solemn High Mass for the Holy Innocents

Music:

• Mass Setting:  Missa de Sancta Maria Magdalena ~ Healey Willan (d. 1968)
• Voluntary:  Away in a manger (Cradle Song) ~ William J. Kirkpatrick (d. 1921), arr. Keith Chapman (d. 1989)
• Introit (choir) ~ Ex ore infantium ~ Tone VII
• The Gradual:  Psalm 124 ~ Nisi quia Dominus ~ Tone VII.3
• Alleluia ~ Laudate pueri Dominum ~ Tone VI
• The Nicene Creed from Missa de Angelis
• Offertory (choir) ~ Anima nostra ~ Tone II
• Carol (choir) ~ Coventry Carol ~ English traditional, arr. M. Shaw
• Communion (choir) ~ Vox in Rama ~ Tone I
• Hymn 246 ~ “In Bethlehem a newborn boy” ~ In Bethlehem
• Alma Redemptóris Mater (choir) ~ Mode V
• Hymn ~ “Why, impious Herod, shouldst thou fear” ~ St. Venantius
• Voluntary:  Pastorale on a Christmas plainsong ~ Virgil Thompson (d. 1989)
  

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.