Gloria VI

We are currently singing Mass VI at our Missa Cantata, and it is, in my opinion, an exceptionally singable mass setting. The Gloria is particularly memorable, and the use of identical cadences creates a lovely echo effect.

After we have learned Mass VI very well, it would be a worthy goal to learn to sing the strophes antiphonally between choir and congregation. This is the admirable practice of French traditional Catholics, and nothing is more thrilling than hearing the call-and-response effect between choir and congregation at the church of Ste.-Eugene-Ste.-Cecile when they sing the Ordinary of the Mass.

A recording is available at the liturgia.com website here. 

Some of the altar servers chillin' after Mass on Sunday.

Nice review about our TLM

I happened to come across this favorable commentary, Praying like it's 1962, about our Sunday Latin Mass celebration at St. John's Chapel Cemetery. It was written by Ryan James Girdusky, a member of the congregation and featured on the local online news site operated by the Juniper Park Civic Association.

Thank you so much, Ryan, for the nice words!

Mass VI, Rex Genitor

Deus, Rex Genitor (O God, our Father, Lord and King!)

We will be singing Mass VI from the Kyriale, the Missa Rex Genitor, for the next couple of weeks. Practice videos and mp3's are available here from Corpus Christi Watershed:

Kyrie

Gloria

Sanctus

Agnus Dei

Even more Candlemas Pictures

Angelis Suis by John Joseph Fux

This lovely piece is taken from the Gradual of the First Sunday of Lent. Score may be found here.

Angelis suis Deus mandavit de te: ut custodiant te in omnibus viis tuis.

In manibus portabunt te, ne unquam offendas ad lapidem pedem tuum.

God shall give His angels charge over thee: to keep thee in all thy ways.

They shall bear thee in their hands:
lest thou should ever strike thy feet against a stone.

My favorite chant schola

. . . is the original Schola Bellarmina under the direction of Fr. Bernard Lorber. I listen to their recordings of the Sunday propers from the Graduale Romanum every week in preparation for the coming Sunday, I have been using their 7-volume set of L'Annee Liturgique as my primary resource for the propers for three years running and never fail to find fresh insights.

I never tire of their light, serene interpretation, buoyed as it is by an ingeniously subtle modal organ accompaniment.

Comprehensive review of  Corpus Christi Waterhed's fine new Missal, the St. Edmund Campion Missal and Hymnal, by Fr. Justin Nolan, FSSP, at Rorate Caeli blog.

Some of my friends have this splendid hand missal, and there are lots of oohs and ahs when they let the rest of us look through it after Mass. This might be especially useful for those new to the traditional Latin Mass and for children and young adults.

More pictures of Candlemas

Candle Mass

Still basking in the glow from our beautiful Mass this morning on the Feast of the Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary. We processed around the chapel outdoors since the weather was fine and there was a blessing of throats after Mass so the liturgy was lengthy but it didn't feel long at all----in fact, I didn't want to leave after Mass, it was such a lovely, festive morning.