Advent 2023

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Join us on Sundays in Advent.
Low Mass at 9 a.m., Mattins at 10 a.m., Sung Mass at 11 a.m.


Sunday, 3 December 2023:

The First Sunday in Advent

  • 9:00 a.m. Low Mass
  • 10:00 a.m. Mattins
  • 11:00 a.m. Litany in Procession & Sung Mass
    • Mass Setting: Missa Seraphica – anon.
    • Offertory Motet: Adam lay ybounden – Boris Ord (1957)

Saturday, 9 December, 2023:

Rorate Caeli Mass for Our Lady

  • 7:30 a.m. Sung Mass

    • Featuring Marian medieval polyphony for women’s voices

Sunday, 10 December, 2023:

The Second Sunday in Advent

  • 9:00 a.m. Low Mass
  • 10:00 a.m. Mattins
  • 11:00 a.m. Sung Mass
    • Mass Setting: Missa Seraphica – anon.
    • Offertory Motet: Lord, we beseech thee – Adrian Batten (1591-1637)

Wednesday, 13 December, 2023:

S. Lucy

  • 6:15 p.m. Sung Mass
    • Women’s voices singing Gregorian chant and medieval polyphony

Sunday, 17 December, 2023:

The Third Sunday in Advent

  • 9:00 a.m. Low Mass
  • 10:00 a.m. Mattins
  • 11:00 a.m. Sung Mass
    • Mass Setting: Missa Seraphica – anon.
    • Offertory Motet: Rejoice in the Lord – anon. (16th century)

Sunday, 24 December, 2023:

The Fourth Sunday in Advent

  • 9:00 a.m. Low Mass
  • 10:00 a.m. Mattins
  • 11:00 a.m. Sung Mass
    • Mass Setting: Missa Alme Pater (plainchant)
    • Offertory Motet: A solis ortus cardine – Chant/Hermann Schein (1645)

Christmas Eve

  • 10:30 p.m. Gallery Carols before Mass
  • 11:00 p.m. Procession & Solemn First Mass of Christmas (Midnight Mass):
    • Mass Setting: Messe de Minuit – M.A. Charpentier (ca. 1694)
    • Offertory Motet: Salve Puerule – M.A. Charpentier (1684)
    • Communion Motet: Graces au petit Jesus – Peter Phillips (1616)

Monday, 25 December, 2023:
Christmas Day

  • 8:30 a.m. Low Mass (at Dawn)
  • 11:00 a.m. Sung Mass (in the Day):
    • Mass Setting: Missa Alme Pater (plainchant)
    • Offertory Motet: An earthly tree – William Byrd (1589)
    • Communion Motet: Hodie nobis de caelo – Alessandro Grandi (1616)

Advent 2023