Tuesday, 24 December, 2024
Midnight Mass of Christmas
- 10:30 p.m. Gallery Carols before Mass
- 11:00 p.m. Procession & Solemn First Mass of Christmas
- Celebrant & Preacher: The Father Vicar
- Sung by the Choir of S. Bartholomew’s
- Cantors: Katherine Hill, Jesse Billett
- Parish Organist: Fr David Smith
- Prelude: Noël sur les Flûtes – Louis-Claude Daquin (1694-1772)
- Mass Setting: Messe de Minuit pour Noël – M.A. Charpentier (1690)
- Offertory Motet: Salve Puerule – M.A. Charpentier (1684)
- Communion Motet: Apostrophe au petit Jesu couché dans la crèche – Peter Phillips (1616)
- Postlude: Improvisation – Fr David Smith
- Live-stream link
- Download leaflet here
Wednesday, 25 December, 2024
Christmas Day: The Nativity of our Lord
- 8:30 a.m. Low Mass (at Dawn)
- Celebrant: The Father Vicar
- Download leaflet here
- 11:00 a.m. Sung Mass (in the Day)
- Cantors: Katherine Hill, Rebecca Claborn, Margaret Cormier
- Parish Organist: Fr David Smith
- Prelude: Chorale ‘In dulci jubilo’ BWV 729 – J.S. Bach (1685-1750)
- Mass Setting: Missa Stelliferi Conditor orbis
- Offertory Motet: Verbum patris umanantur – English, ca. 1200
- Communion Motet: There is no rose of such virtue – English, ca. 1420
- Postlude: Improvisation – Fr David Smith
- Live-stream link
- Download leaflet here
Weekdays during the Christmas Octave, Mass will be offered at 11:00 a.m.
Christmas at S. Bart’s