Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Schola Calendar: March

Memorial Mass for Anna Agnello at OLPH
March 7 (Monday) at 10 AM (warm-up at 9:15AM)

Introit : Requiem Aeternam

Kyrie XI

Responsorial Psalm:
The Lord is my shepherd; there is nothing I shall want.

Gospel Acclamation:
Come, you who are blessed by my Father, says the Lord;
inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.


Offertory: Ave Maria

Sanctus

Mysterium Fidei (priest)

Mortem tuam annuntiamus Domine,
et tuam resurrectionem confitemur, donec venias

(We proclaim Thy death, O Lord,
and we confess Thy resurrection, until Thou comest.)

Doxology: Amen

Agnus Dei

Communio: Lux Aeterna

Recessional : In Paradisum and Chorus Angelorum


At OLPH
Saturday Mass (8:15AM) (Warm - up at 7:40)
March 5, 19

Kyrie XVII
Gospel Accl.
Sanctus XVIII
Mysterium Fidei and Amen
Agnus Dei XVIII
Gustate et Videte (March 5)
Joseph fili David
Ave Regina Caelorum


At Resurrection Church
Satruday Mass (9AM) (Warm-up starts at 8:30)
March 12, 26

Kyrie XVII
Gospel Accl.
Sanctus XVIII
Mysterium Fidei and Amen
Agnus Dei XVIII
Attende Domine
Ave Regina Caelorum



At St. Martin's (Little Sisters of the Poor)
Second Sunday of Lent

March 20, 10:30 AM (warm-up at 10AM)

Introit (Entrance Proper) : schola
My heart has prompted me to seek your face;
I seek it, Lord; do not hide from me

Kyrie (857)

Responsorial Psalm:
Lord, let your mercy be on us,
as we place your trust in you.

Gospel Acclamation:
Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ,
King of endless glory!

Offertory Proper (schola)

Sanctus (859)

Mysterium Fidei (priest)

(all)
Mortem tuam annuntiamus Domine,
et tuam resurrectionem confitemur, donec venias

(We proclaim Thy death, O Lord,
and we confess Thy resurrection, until Thou comest.)

Doxology: Amen

Agnus Dei (862)

Communion Proper: (schola)
This is my Son, my beloved,
in whom is all my delight: listen to him.

Communion Hymn: Lord, Throughout These Forty Days (136)

Recessional Hymn: Salve Regina (708)




Children's Schola
(classes at St. Paul on Monday & at St. Michael's Academy on Thursday)

At OLPH
First Friday Mass, March 4
8:15 AM (warm up starts at 7:45 AM)

Ave Maria(prelude)
Kyrie XVI
Gospel Accl.
Veni Creator Spiritus (offertory)
Sanctus XVIII
Mysterium Fidei and Amen
Agnus Dei XVIII
Adoro Te Devote

At St. Alphonsus
2nd Thursday Mass, March 10
11 AM (warm up at 10:30 AM)

Ave Maria(prelude)
Kyrie XVI
Gospel Accl.
Attende Domine (offertory)
Sanctus XVIII
Mysterium Fidei and Amen
Agnus Dei XVIII
Adoro Te Devote (communion)
Salve Regina

Saturday, February 19, 2011

Children's schola class: Blessings

Hi, everyone,

I just wanted share what we've been doing in our chant class.
Last few weeks have been especially rewarding for me to see what they've learned in the class.

Some of the highlights;
My youngest student who joined the class this year with a special permission :-), Faith (61/2 years old) on Monday class sang Ave Maria perfectly from memory and most beautifully with everything I taught for the proper singing, good singing posture, deep breathing, creating space inside the mouth and beautiful pure vowels. (It was so beautiful, I had to blink my eyes quickly to stop tears.)

Anna N. on Thursday class who used to be one of my youngest until last year , memorized Veni Creator and lead the class in singing it.

Peter, who think singing chant is actually fun and always full of energy, calmly explained the different bows on Jesus name and Holy Trinity, especially when we sing chants.

The high school students, like Emma (Monday) and Madeline (Thursday) are excellent in explaining the meaning of the chant.

Gregorian Hymns, such as Adoro te Devote by St. Thomas Aquinas, are truly uplifting. They are of course more than 'safe hymns' to sing because they are accepted by the Church and the tradition. As you might have noticed there are many modern hymns with questionable texts and musical styles to be used in Holy Mass and have not gone through the test of the time. Music can be a powerful tool, and we need to be careful about 'what and how' we sing.

We started to read notes ("reading notes' in music means be able to sing the notes ) in solfege from the music in the chant book and compare modern notation and chant notation. They are catching up very quickly, and I am very pleased with their progress.

I won't go though the progress of each student here, but all the children in the class are truly working hard, and I feel very blessed.

Thank you so much for all your support.

Mia

Friday, February 18, 2011

Thursday, February 17, 2011

Confessions of a Former Contemporary Music Minister

http://catholicphoenix.com/2011/02/17/confessions-of-a-former-contemporary-music-minister/

There is a lot of potential division in our Church today, and predominantly over liturgical norms in Divine Worship. No one ever said that re-uniting is an easy act. It’s messy business! Consequently, expressing thoughts on this matter can be messy, too. A recent “Catholic Answers Live” interview with Francis Cardinal Arinze, Prefect Emeritus of the Congregation of Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, is the source of my inspiration to tackle this topic now.



Program host Patrick Coffin posed:

There is a sad irony here, Your Eminence, in which people who are attached to the Traditional Latin Mass often get into fractious arguments with people who prefer the Novus Ordo, so it’s almost like the mass itself, in a sense, is a source of division. Is there a way for it to bring all the members of the Body of Christ together, and does the Apostolic Letter Summorum Pontificum signal a kind of turn toward the future of greater reverence and greater unity?

Cardinal Arinze answered:

Yes, the Pope’s document is a great help to get all of us better together. We should accept and recognize that when we say “Latin Mass” it can be the traditional way of saying (it) up to Vatican II. It can also be the way of celebrating the mass now in the last 40 years. The way we say mass now can all be done in Latin today so that if perhaps some use the term Tridentine Mass, even though the term is not so exact, because that mass had that form even before the Council of Trent. So Pope Benedict has given it the two terms, the Extraordinary and Ordinary form of the Latin Rite. Both are of the Latin Rite. And the Holy Father, by giving out that document (i.e. Summorum Pontificum), wants to give people freedom. If people find their spirituality better nourished by the traditional celebration of the form that is what we call now Extraordinary, very good, let them not be denied that. If people find themselves nourished by the present way of celebrating mass, what some call Novus Ordo, which the Holy Father calls Ordinary Form, so be it. The main thing is to follow what Holy Mother Church has laid down. Indeed, if every priest who celebrated the mass according to Novus Ordo were to follow the books exactly, add nothing, subtract nothing, not project yourself, celebrate in Latin sometimes, you will find that most of that tension would be gone.

Friday, February 11, 2011

Revised Roman Missal: Understanding the reasons for the changes

“We are beggars before God,” said Father Stravinskas. “We are not his equals. He’s not our buddy. He is our Creator, and as his creatures we owe him adoration. We haven’t come to Mass to give orders, but to receive orders. The current texts have blocked that distinction.”

All this matters, of course, because in the journey to holiness, humility is a must.


http://www.osv.com/tabid/7621/itemid/7529/Revised-Roman-Missal-Understanding-the-reasons-fo.aspx