The best way to prepare for Christmas!

Sunday, Dec. 3, 12:30 Litany in Procession with High Mass -- Refreshments follow

Litany in Procession followed by High Mass

Credo: Mass for Four Voices by William ByrdMotets:
Canite tuba/“Sound the trumpet in Sion” by Francisco Guerrero Ne timeas Maria by Tomás Luis de Victoria

Jesus Christ, King of the Universe November 26, 2017

Sung Mass and Confirmation

Hymn numbers refer to the green New English  Hymnal.

Entrance Hymn # 385 – Jesu, the very thought of thee  (St. Botolph)  

Introit

[Cantors]     Worthy is the Lamb that was / slain (†) * to receive

                        power, and riches, and / strength, and honour: *

[Full]             to him be glory and dominion for ev//er and ever. 

[Cantors]     Give the King thy judge/ments, O God:  * 

[Full]             and thy righteousness unto // the King’s Son.   

[Cantors]      Glory be to the Father, and / to the Son: * 

[Full]              and to the // Ho-ly Ghost.  

[Cantors]      As it was in the beginning, is now, and / ev-ershall^be: 

[Full]              world without // end, A-men. 

                        Worthy is the Lamb that was / slain (†) to receive power,

                        and riches, and/strength, and honour: to him be glory

                        and dominion for ev//er and ever.

Kyrie                         Merbecke                     

Gloria                       Communion Service in F Major – Harold Darke

THE LITURGY OF THE WORD

The Lesson (sit)                           Ezekiel 34: 11-12, 15-17

The Gradual                            

[Cantors]        His dominion shall be also from one sea / to the other: * 

[Full]                and from the flood unto // the world’s end.  

[Cantors]        All kings shall fall / down be-fore^him:  *

[Full]                all nations shall // do him service.   

The Epistle      1 Corinthians 15: 20-27, 28  

[Cantors]         Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia.  

[Full]                Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia. 

[Cantors]        His dominion is an ever/lasting^Dominion, (†) * 

                          which shall not / pass a-way:  

[Full]                and his kingdom that which shall not // be des-troyed. 

                          Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia.

The Holy Gospel                          Matthew 25: 31-46  

The Homily                                   Fr. John Hodgins

Reception and Confirmation of: 

      Christopher Richard Collins and Edward Thomas Lauder  

THE LITURGY OF THE EUCHARIST   

 Bread and wine are offered with tithes while prayers are said by the priest.

Offertory                                          MODE VI

[Cantors]          Desire of / me, (†) * and I shall give ye the nations 

                            for / thine in-heritance: * 

[Full]                  and the utmost parts of the earth for / thy pos-session.

Hymn  O What they joy and their glory must be. (Regnator Orbis)

Motet:  Tui sunt caeli/ “Thine are the heavens” –  William Byrd  

Sanctus &  Benedictus                  Merbecke                      

The Roman Canon (kneel)                                                                              

The Lord’s Prayer (stand)           Merbecke                                                                 

THE COMMUNION RITE

Agnus Dei                                        Merbecke                                                                  music – page 54

Communion                                    Mode VI 

[Cantors]          The Lord remaineth a / King for ever: 

[Full]                  the Lord shall give his people the bless//ing of peace

Communion Motet:  O God, the King of Glory – Henry Purcell

THE CONCLUDING RITES (kneel)                                                                     

Recessional Hymn # 381 – Jerusalem the golden (Ewing)  

The Angelus  
                                                                                                                                                                                                       

Please join us following Mass for the Mary, Mother of God 

School Sale with refreshments in the Parish Hall.

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 ADVENT LESSONS AND CAROLS

with 

BENEDICTION OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT

Tuesday, December 19 

at 7:30 p.m. 

SUNDAY, DECEMBER  24

  

Fourth Sunday of Advent         12:30 pm   D.W. SUNG MASS

Christmas Eve *                            6:00 pm  D.W. HIGH MASS

Requiem High Mass for Remembrance Sunday

A Catholic Goes to the Movies - A New Book by Fr. Callam

A Catholic Goes to the Movies, is a collection of thirty-seven film reviews by Father Daniel Callam, CSB. It will be released by Justin Press in November 2017.

The author is the founder and editor of The Canadian Catholic Review. The reviews found in this book were originally published in The Chesterton Review.

Father Callam’s witty and insightful analysis of contemporary films seen through the double lens of the Catholic faith and the works of G.K. Chesterton offers the reader an entirely new perspective on an important medium. The films are seen as mirrors of the culture in which they originate and as windows that reveal both the Christian roots of the culture and the spiritual malaise that afflicts it. The reviews reflect the familiarity of the author with the classics of literature, both English and French.

Fr. Callam discusses the moral problems in twenty-first-century films with dazzling virtuosity and wide-ranging erudition. This is Catholic criticism that is in every way catholic.

Father Owen Lee, CSB

The book will be of value to anyone seeking more than entertainment by going to the movies.

A CATHOLIC GOES TO THE MOVIES

199 pages, 14.95 CDN, at www.justinpress.ca.

Music for Remembrance Sunday - November 12

Kyrie

Missa pro defunctis, Palestrina

Sanctus, Benedictus, Agnus Dei        

Missa defunctorum – Jacob C. non Papa

Hymns: New English Hymnal

Let saints on earth in concert sing – Dundee  

Contakion of the Dead         Kiev Melody        

         

Motets: 

Souls of the Righteous – T. Tertius Noble 

Beati quorum via – C. V. Stanford

The Royal Anthem  with the “Coronation” introduction

      

Organ Postlude: 

Fugue in E-flat Major (Clavierübung III) (J. S. Bach) − J. S. Bach

Mass Music for Sunday Nov. 5 at 12:30 noon

Before Mass:  

Verset 4, “Deposuit potentes,” Magnificat Sexti Toni 

− Jehan Titelouze (Organ Works, p. 133)

Kyrie, Sanctus, Benedictus, Agnus Dei: 

Communion Service in F Major – Harold Darke

Motets:  

Vir erat in terra Hus – Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina 

                           

O King all glorious – Healey Willan

                                                                                                                                                                                                                               

Organ:  

Fuga sopra il Magnificat, “Meine Seele erhebt den Herrn” (BWV733) − J. S. Bach

Remembrance Sunday Mass at 12:30

An Act of Remembrance for those who have given their lives in service to God and humanity will precede the High Mass on Sunday at STM, Toronto.  

Refreshments will follow.  

All Canadian Forces personnel are especially welcome.

Music for Sunday, Oct. 29 at 12:30 pm

Kyrie - Mass for Four Voices, William Byrd 

Gloria - Merbecke 

Hymn - The God whom earth and sea and sky (Eisenach)

Offertory Motet - Super flumina Babylonis, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

Motet - Sacerdotes Domini. William Byrd

Sanctus and Benedictus - Merbecke

Agnus Dei - Mass for Four Voices, William Byrd

Sunday Mass Music for October 22

Music at the 12:30 Divine Worship Sung Mass:
               

Kyrie, Agnus Dei    Mass for Four Voices, William Byrd  

Gloria, Sanctus and Benedictus      John Merbecke

Motets:                        

Sacerdotes Domini       William Byrd                         

Teach me, O Lord          Thomas Attwood 

Portrait of William Byrd circa A.D. 1580

Byrd produced sacred music for use in Anglican services, although he himself later  professed the Catholic Faith and wrote much specifically Catholic sacred music. Today his work is widely performed in Anglican and Catholic churches.

Byrd's commitment to the Catholic Faith found expression in his motets. He composed about fifth between 1575 and 1591.

Scholars such as Joseph Kerman have detected a profound change of direction in the texts which Byrd set in the motets of the 1580s.

In particular there is a persistent emphasis on themes such as the persecution of the chosen people (Domine praestolamur ) the Egyptian or Babylonian captivity (Domine tu iurasti) and the long-awaited coming of deliverance (Laetentur caeli, Circumspice Jerusalem).

Kerman believes that Byrd was reinterpreting biblical and liturgical texts in a contemporary context and writing laments and petitions on behalf of the persecuted Catholic community.

Some texts should probably be interpreted as warnings against spies (Vigilate, nescitis enim) or lying tongues (Quis est homo) or celebration of the memory of martyred priests (O quam gloriosum). 

Byrd's setting of the first four verses of Psalm 78 (Deus venerunt gentes) is widely believed to refer to the brutal execution of Father (now Saint) Edmund Campion in 1581 an event that caused widespread revulsion on the Continent as well as in England.