Music for 2008

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Aug 31 st 2008 SUN 22nd Sun in Ord. time (A) Yr of Matthew; CANTOR

 

Jer 20.7-9, Rom 12.1-2, Mt 16.21-27
  • People's Mass setting: WYD 2008 (Palmer)
  • Psalm: Gelineau
  • Gospel Acclamation: sung
  • Hymns: TIS Take up your cross 583 (tune: O Jesu Christ, Meins lebens licht), TIS 315 Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord
  • Postlude:
Aug 25 th 2008 SUN 21 st Sun in Ord. time (A) Year of Matthew; CHOIR

 

Is 22.19-23, Rom 11.33-36, Mt 16.13-20
  • Mass setting : Missa Tu es Petrus (Palaestrina)
  • People's Mass setting: WYD 2008 (Palmer)
  • Psalm: fauxbordons
  • Gospel Acclamation: fauxbordons
  • Motet: Tu es Petrus (Maurice Duruflé) NEW REPERTOIRE
  • Hymns: CWB 819 The Church's one Foundation (tune: Aurelia) CWB 795 How Rich are the depths of God (Willcock)
  • Postlude:
Aug 17th 2008 SUN 20 th Sun in Ord. time (A) Year of Matthew; CHOIR

 

Is 56.1,6-7, Rom 11.13-15, 29-32, Mt 15.21-28
  • Mass setting :Ave Regina Coelorum (Palaestrina)
  • People's Mass setting :Mass Shalom (C.D.Smith)
  • Psalm: fauxbordons
  • Gospel Acclamation: Gelineau
  • Motet: O Bone Pastor (O Good Shepherd: Thomas Tallis) NEW REPERTOIRE
  • Hymns: TIS 804 Shepherd of Souls, TIS 802 Sing a new Song (tune: Venantius)
  • Postlude: Grand Choer - Theodore Dubois
Aug 15th 2008 Fri The Assumption of the
Blessed Virgin Mary

 

Apoc 11.19, 12.1-6,10, 1 Cor 15.20-26, Lk 1.39-56

  • Mass setting :Ave Regina Coelorum (Palaestrina)
  • People's Mass setting :Mass Shalom (C.D.Smith)
  • Psalm: fauxbordons
  • Gospel Acclamation: fauxbordons
  • Motet: Tota Pulchra es Maria (Bruckner) NEW REPERTOIRE
  • Hymns: CWB 702 Hail Queen of Heaven, CWB 754 Now Sing my soul (tuine: Jerusalem); CWB 801 Salve Regina (melody: Gregorian)
Aug 10 2008 SUN 19 th Sun in Ord. time (A) Year of Matthew; Cantor

 

1 Kings 19.9,11-13, Rom 9.1-5, Mt 14.22-23
  • Mass setting : Mass Shalom
  • Hymns : TIS 437 Blessed Jesus at your word, TIS 572 (ii) Just as I am, withour one plea
  • Postlude:
Aug 3rd 2008 SUN 18th Sun in Ord. time (A) Year of Matthew; CHOIR

 

1 Is 55.1-3, Rom 8.35, 37-39, Mt 14.13-21
  • Mass setting : Missa Papae Marcelli (Palaestrina)
  • Hymns :
  • Postlude:
Jul 27th 2008 SUN 18th Sun in Ord. time (A) Year of Matthew; CHOIR

 

WORLD YOUTH DAY MASS WITH THE HOLY FATHER BENEDICT XVI at RANDWICK
  • No mass celebrated at 10 am in the parish
July 18th 2008 Fri WYD 2008, Mass for the Evanglisation of the peoples

 

1 Cor 9.16-19, Mat 28.19-20
Celebrant: Bishop O'Brien (Canada)

  • People's Mass setting :Bendictus Qui Venit (Palmer; cantor Blanche Lacoste)
  • Psalm: Gelineau (cantor Blanche Lacoste)
  • Gospel Acclamation: CWB 545
  • Motet: Panis Angelicus (Franck)
  • Hymns: TIS 474 Gather us in, I am the bread of life, GA 404 Christ be our light
July 17th 2008 Thurs WYD 2008 Mass for the Universal Church

 

1 Cor 12.4-13, Mat 16. 13-19
Celebrant: Bishop Bianchini (Geraldton)

  • People's Mass setting :Bendictus Qui Venit (Palmer; cantor Blanche Lacoste)
  • Psalm: Gelineau (cantor Blanche Lacoste)
  • Gospel Acclamation: Celtic Alleluia
  • Hymns: TIS 441 Filled with the Spirit, CWB 710 Holy God We praise thy name, Taize "Veni Sancte Spiritus"
July 16 th 2008 Wed WYD 2008 Votive Mass of our Lady of the Cenacle

 

Acts 1.6.14, Luke 24.44-49
Celebrant: His excellency Archbishop Balvo, Nuncio to New Zealand and Oceania

  • People's Mass setting :Bendictus Qui Venit (Palmer) - Asperges replaces Kyrie (cantor Blanche Lacoste)
  • Psalm: Gelineau (cantor Blanche Lacoste)
  • Gospel Acclamation: fauxbordons
  • Hymns: CWB 723 Immaculate Mary, we praise God in you, CWB 702 Hail Queen of Heaven, Taize : "Eat this Bread"
  • Communion Motet: Ave Maria (Schubert)
Jul 13 2008 SUN 15th Sun in Ord. time (A) Year of Matthew; CANTOR

 

Isaiah 55.10-11, Rom 8.18-23, Mat 13.1-23
  • Mass setting : Missa Bendictus Qui Venit (Palmer - Mass for World Youth Day 2008)
  • Hymns : TIS 447 Lord your almighty word, TIS 102 Praise to the living God, TIS 485 My God, accept my heart this day
  • Postlude: "Little" fugue in g minor - JS Bach - BWV 578
Jul 6 2008 SUN 14th Sun in Ord. time (A) Year of Matthew; CHOIR

 

Zech 9.9-19, Rom 8.9,11-12, Mat 11.25-30
  • Mass setting : Missa Bendictus Qui Venit (Palmer- Mass for World Youth Day 2008)
  • Motet: Jesu dulcis memoria (Vittoria)
  • Hymns : TIS 626 Lord of Creation, TIS 571 Forth in your name
  • Postlude:
Jun 29 2008 SUN

Feast of St Peter and St Paul
(A) Year of Matthew; CANTOR

 

Zeph 2.3,3.12-13, 1 Cor 1.26-31, Mt 5. 1-12
  • Mass setting : Missa Bendictus Qui Venit (Palmer - Mass for World Youth Day 2008)
  • Hymns : TIS 456 Your hand O God has guided, TIS Amazing Grace
  • Postlude: 4th Movement "Un Poco Allegro" from Sonata IV - JS Bach BWV 528
Jun 22 2008 SUN 12th Sun in Ord. time (A) Year of Matthew; CHOIR

 

Jer 20.10-13 , Rom 5.12-15, Mt 10.26-33
  • Mass setting : Missa Aeterni Christi Munera (Palaestrina)
  • Motet: Cantique de Jean Racine (Fauré)
  • Hymns: TIS 425 Praise to the holiest in the height, TIS 512 Bread of the World in mercy broken
  • Postlude: Prelude in c minor (Opus 27) Mendelssohn
Jun 15 2008 SUN 11 th Sun in Ord. time (A) Year of Matthew; CHOIR

 

Ex 19.2-6 , 1 Rom 5.6-11, Mt 9.36-10.8
  • Mass setting : MIssa Brevis in F (Gabrieli)
  • Motet: Beati Quorum Vir (Stanford) NEW REPERTOIRE
  • Hymns:TIS 192 The Christ is the world's redeemer, TIS 584 (ii) Just as I am, without one plea
  • Postlude: Fugue on a Trumpet Fanfare (WE.T.Best)
Jun 8 2008 SUN 10th Sun in Ord. time (A) Year of Matthew; CANTOR

 

Hosea 6.3-63, 1 Rom 4.18-25, Mt 9.9-13
  • Mass setting : Mass Shalom (C.D.Smith)
  • Hymns: TIS 693 Come as your are, TIS 607 Make me a channel of your peace, TIS 526 Lord Jesus Christ
  • Postlude:
Jun 1 2008 SUN 9th Sun in Ord. time (A) Year of Matthew; CHOIR

 

Zeph 2.3,3.12-13, 1 Cor 1.26-31, Mt 5. 1-12
  • Mass setting : Mass in F (Harold Darke)
  • Motet: Greater Love hath no man than this (Ireland)
  • Hymns:TIS 457 The Churches One Foundation, TIS 213 (ii) Father, whose everlasting love
  • Postlude:
May 25th 2008 SUN Corpus Christi (First Communion Day)

 

Deut 8.2-3, 14-16, 1 Cor 10.16-17, John 6.51-58

  • Mass setting :Aeterna Christi Munera (Palaestrina)
  • People's Mass setting: Gloria, Sanctus (C.D.Smith; Mass Shalom)
  • Psalm: Plainsong
  • Gospel Acclamation: fauxbordons
  • Motets: Motet: Alleluia! Cognoverunt discipuli in fractio panis ( Alleluia! They recognised him in the breaking of bread) William Byrd; Panis Angelicus (Bread of the Angels)
  • Hymns: TIS 529 By your priestly power, Soul of my saviour
May 18th 2008 SUN Trinity Sunday

 

Ex 34.4-6, 8-9, 2 Cor 13.11-13, Jn 3.16-18

  • Mass setting :Mass for Three voices ( William Byrd )
  • People's Mass setting: Sanctus (Palmer)
  • Psalm: Plainsong
  • Gospel Acclamation: fauxbordons
  • Motet: O thou the central orb of righteous love (Charles Wood)
  • Hymns: TIS 100 All Creatures of our God and King, TIS 140 Firmly I believe and truly
May 11 th 2008 SUN Pentecost (Cantored Mass)

 

Acts 2.1-11; 1 Cor 12.3-7; 12-13 ; Jn 20.19-23

  • People's Mass setting : Mass Shalom , (C.D. Smith)
  • Psalm: of the day
  • Sequence: Holy Spirit, God of Light
  • Hymns: TIS 398 Come Down, O Love Divine, TIS 405 O Spirit of the Living God, TIS 572 O thou who camest from above (Hereford)
  • Postlude:
May 4th 2008 SUN Ascension Day

 

Acts 1.1-11; Eph 1.17-23; Lk 24.46-53

  • Mass setting :Missa Ascendo ad Patrem (Palaestrina) Kyrie and Agnus
  • People's Mass setting: Sanctus (Palmer)
  • Psalm: Connolly; psalmist Emma Johnston
  • Gospel Acclamation: fauxbordons
  • Motet: Caelos ascendit hodie- Today Jesus Christ the king of glory ascends into the heavens (Charles Villiers Stanford ) NEW REPERTOIRE
  • Hymns: TIS 369 Hail the day that sees him rise, TIS 520 Lord enthroned in Heavenly Splendour
April 27th 2008 SUN Sixth Sunday of Easter

 

Acts 8.5-8; 1 Pet 3.15-18; Jn 14.15-21

  • Mass setting : Ave Regina Caelorum (Palaestrina) ) Kyrie and Agnus
  • People's Mass setting: Gloria and Sanctus (Palmer)
  • Psalm:This is the day (Willcock)- psalmist Jane Rawlings
  • Gospel Acclamation: fauxbordons
  • Motet: If Ye love me (Tallis)
  • Hymns: Receive the power (WYD 2008 Entrance hymn by Guy Sebastian); Alleluia Sing to Jesus (Hyfrodol)
  • Postlude:
April 20th 2008 SUN Fifth Sunday of Easter

 

Acts 6.1-7; 1 Pet 2.4-9; Jn 14.1-12

  • Mass setting : Missa Brevis (Mathias) Kyrie, Gloria and Agnus
  • People's Mass setting: Sanctus (Palmer)
  • Psalm:This is the day (Willcock)- psalmist Murray-Luke Peard
  • Gospel Acclamation: fauxbordons
  • Motet: I am the Resurrection and the life ( Gibbons)
  • Hymns: CWB 804 Shepherd of Souls; CWB 619 Alleluia Sing to Jesus
  • Postlude:
April 13 2008 SUN Fourth Sunday of Easter CANTOR

 

Acts 2.14, 36-41, 1 Pet 1.20-25, Jn 10.1-10

  • People's Mass setting: C.D.Smith Mass Shalom
  • Psalm: This is the day (Willcock)- cantor Nicole Smeulders
  • Gospel: Fauxbordons
  • Hymns: TIS 386 By your kingly power; TIS 464 Seek, O seek the Lord; TIS 539 You satisfy the hungry heart
  • Postlude:
Apr 6 2008 SUN Third Sunday of Easter

 

Acts 2.14, 22-23, 1 Pet 1.17-21, Lk 24.13-35

  • Mass setting : Kyrie/Agnus from the Missa O Quam Gloriosum (Palaestrina)
  • People's Mass setting: Gloria, Sanctus (Richard Proulx)
  • Psalm: This is the day (Willcock) - psalmist Rodney Smith
  • Gospel Acclamation: fauxbordons
  • Motet: Alleluia! Cognoverunt discipuli in fractio panis (Alleluia! They recognised him in the breaking of bread) William Byrd NEW REPERTOIRE
  • Hymns: TIS 384 Through the Red Sea brought at last (tune Straf' mich nicht), TIS 382 Now the Green blade riseth (tune: Noël Nouvelet)
  • Postlude: Christ lag in Todesbanden (Christ lay in death's dark bonds) J.S.Bach from Cantata BWV 4
Mar 30 2008 SUN Second Sunday of Easter CANTOR

 

Acts 5.12-16; Rev.9-13,17-19; Jn 20.19-31

  • Mass setting : Mass Shalom (CD.Smith)
  • Psalm: This is the day (Willcock)
  • Gospel Acclamation: triple Alleluia (plainsong)
  • Hymns: Alleluia Sing to Jesus (Hyfrydol entrance), This Joyful Eastertide (dedication), Jesus in your heart we find (thanksgiving)
  • Postlude:
Mar 23 2008 SUN Easter Day 10 am

 

Acts 10.34,37-43; Col 3.1-4; Jn 20.1-9

  • Mass setting (with Orchestra) Coronation Mass (Mozart), 
  • Psalm: This is the day (Willcock)
  • Gospel Acclamation: triple plainsong
  • Motet: Sicut Cervus (during the baptismal renewal and lustration) Like the deer that yearns for running streams (Palaestrina)
  • Motet (dedication): Regina Caeli (Jan Dismas Zelenka),
  • Motet (communion): Dum Transisset Sabbatum (John Taverner)
  • Hymns: Light's reddening dawn bedecks the sky (entrance Lasst uns), Alleluia Sing to Jesus (Hyfrydol dedication), Lord enthroned in heavenly Splendour (Bryn Calfaria recessional),
  • Solemn dismissal with double Alleluia
  • Postlude:
Mar 22 2008 SAT
7PM
Solem Easter Vigil

 

The Service of Light, Liturgy of the word, Liturgy of Baptism; liturgy of the Eucharist

The Service of Light

The Liturgy of the Word

  • Readings and Psalms: Gen 1, psalm 103, Ex 14 with ex 15, Isaiah 55 with Is 12
  • Rom 6.3-11 with psalm 117, Mat 28.1-10
  • Gospel Acclamation: triple plainsong

The Liturgy of Baptism

  • Motet: Sicut Cervus (during the lustration) Like the deer that yearns for running streams (Palaestrina)

The Litugy of the Eucharist

  • Motet(dedication) : Cantate Domino (Pitoni)
  • Motet (communion): Dum Transisset Sabbatum (John Taverner)
  • Hymns: Lord enthroned in heavenly Splendour (Bryn Calfaria dedication), (thanksgiving), TIS 386 By your kingly pow'r O risen Lord (communion, tune: Ruggiero)
  • Solemn dismissal with double Alleluia
  • Postlude
Mar 21 2007 FRI Good Friday 3 pm

 

Is 52.13-53.12; Heb 4.14-16,5.7-9; Jn 18.1-19 -19.42

  • Silence during the prostration
  • Psalm: plainsong
  • Gospel Acclamation: plainsong
  • The Passion (sung) : plainsong
  • General intercessions: sung
  • Veneration of the cross: Stabat Mater (Palaestrina) NEW REPERTOIRE ; The Reproaches (Mawby);  The Lamentations (Victoria) (Victoria)
  • Communion Motet: Crucifixus Crucified for us (Lotti),
  • Hymns:: O Sacred Head sore wounded (Passion chorale); TIS 351 Lift High the Cross (communion, tune: Crucifer)
Mar 20 2008

Thurs
7pm

Holy (Maundy) Thursday; Mass of the Last Supper

 

Ex.12.1-8, 11-14; 1Cor.11.23-26; Jn 13.1-15
The Choir of St Francis (directed by Noel Debien)

  • Reception of the holy oils from the Metropolitan Cathedral: Priestly people (Deiss)
  • Mass: Missa Aeterna Christi Munera (Palaestrina) ,
  • Psalm:
  • Gospel Acclamation:
  • Motet (during the mandatum) : Ubi Caritas Where there is Charity and love (Maurice Duruflé) + plainsong + Taize responsory
  • Motet (During the Communion): O Sacrum Convivium (Tallis); Ubi Caritas (Durufle)
  • Hymns: At the Lamb's High feast we sing (entrance, tune: Salzburg). Where there is charity and love (dedication),
  • Procession to the altar of repose: Pange lingua Sing my tongue (plainsing)
  • During the adoration:
Date Mar 18th 2008

TUES 7PM

Tuesday of Holy Week; Tenebrae (the service of shadows) and Reconciliation in the 2nd Rite

 

Music led by t he Ensemble Luceat (directed by Edmond Park)

Mar 16th 2007 Sunday Palm Sunday 10 am

At the blessing of Palms: Mt 21.1-11,
At the mass of the day:
Is 50.4-7, Phil 2.6-11, Mt 26.14-27.66

  • Introit Hosanna filio David Hosanna to the Son of David (plainsong)
  • Mass setting: Deus Genitor alme (Gregorian mass XVIII)
  • Psalm: plainsong
  • Gospel Acclamation: plainsong
  • The Passion (sung) : plainsong
  • Hymns: All Glory laud and Honour, (entrance), My song is Love unknown (communion; tune: Love unknown)
  • Motets:For the blessing of palms: Pueri Hebraeorum (Palaestrina), for the dedication of gifts: Hosanna to the Son of David (Gibbons)
Date Mar 9th 2008

SUN 10am

Lent 5, Year A (CANTOR Sunday)

Ezekiel 37.12-14, Rom 8.8-11, Jn 11.1-45

  • Mass setting : Community Mass (Proulx)
  • Psalm setting: Connolly
  • Hymns: TIS 637 Lord of the living, in your name assembled (Iste Confessor),TIS 526 Lord Jesus Christ, you have come to us (Living Lord), TIS 535 I am the Bread of Life (Bread of Life)
  • Postlude: Prelude and fugue in e minor by Adoph Friedrich Hesse
Date Mar 2nd 2008

SUN 10am

Lent 4, Year A (LAETARE) (Choir Sunday)

 

1 Sam 16.1,6-7,10-13, Eph 5.8-14, Jn 9.1-14

  • Mass setting : Orbis Factor (Victoria)
  • Motet: Rejoice in the Lord Alway (Henry Purcell)
  • Hymns: TIS 447 Lord your almighty word (Moscow), TIS 145 The king of love my shepherd is (Dominus regit me)
  • Postlude:
Date Feb 24th 2008

SUN 10am

Lent 3, Year A (Choir Sunday)

 

Ex 17.3-7, Rom.1-2,5-8, Jn 4.5-42

  • Lent prose Attende Domine, et miserere Hear us O lord, and have mercy
  • Mass setting : World Youth Day Mass: Missa Benedictus Qui Venit (George Palmer) NEW REPERTOIRE
  • Hymn: TIS 499 Lord Jesus, joy of loving hearts (Hereford)
  • Postlude: Ciacona in f minor by Pachalbel
Date Feb 17th 2008

SUN 10am

Lent 2, Year A (Choir Sunday)

 

Gen 12.1-4, 2Tim 1.8-10, Mt 17.1-9

  • Lent prose Attende Domine, et miserere Hear us O lord, and have mercy
  • Mass setting : Deus Genitor alme (Gregorian mass XVIII)
  • Motet at the dedication of gifts: O nata lux de lumine O Light born of Light,
    Jesus, redeemer of the world,
    (
    Tallis)
  • Hymns: TIS 234 How Good Lord to be here
  • Postlude: Fantasia in c minor, J.S.Bach BWV 562
Date Feb 10th 2008

SUN 10am

Lent 1, Year A (Cantor Sunday)

 

IGen 2.7-9, 3.1-7, Rom.12-19, Mt 4.1.11

  • Mass setting : Mass Shalom ( CD Smith)
  • Hymns: Forty days and forty nights, As pants the hart for cooling streams, May this Lenten Discipline
  • Postlude:
Date Feb 6th 2008

Wed
7 pm

ASH WEDNESDAY (Lent begins)

 

Is 7.10-14, , Rm 1.1-71, Mt 1.18-24

  • Mass setting : Deus Genitor alme (Gregorian mass XVIII)
  • Motet: In ieiunio et fletu (Tallis) Weeping and fasting the priests shall pray NEW REPERTOIRE
  • Entrance Hymn: Lent prose Attende Domine, et miserere Hear us O lord, and have mercy, Communion:Love will be our Lenten Calling (Picardy)
  • Postlude:
Feb 3rd 2007 SUN 4th Sun in Ord. time (A) Year of Matthew; CHOIR

 

Zeph 2.3,3.12-13, 1 Cor 1.26-31, Mt 5. 1-12
  • Mass setting : Aeterni Christi Munera (Palaestrina)
  • Motet: O Sacrum Convivium O Sacred banquet in which Christ is received (by Tallis)
  • Hymns:
  • Postlude:
Jan 6th 2008 SUN

Epiphany (Choir in St Mary's Cathedral)

 

Is 60.1-6, Eph 3.2-3,5-6, Mt 2.1-12

  • Mass setting : O Magnum Mysterium (Palaestrina)
  • Motets: The Three Kings (Cornelius; Dedication of gifts), Communion: Videntes Stellam Magi (Belling)
  • Hymns: The first Nowell, We three Kings
  • Postlude:
 
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