Christmas 2022 at S. Bart’s

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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.


Christmas Eve: Saturday, 24 December 2022

  • 11:00 a.m. Low Mass (of the Vigil)
  • 10:30 p.m. Christmas Eve Carol Singing
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    • Good King Wenceslas
    • Hark, how all the welkin rings
    • In the bleak midwinter
    • While shepherds watched their flocks by night
    • The holly and the ivy
  • 11:00 p.m. Procession & Solemn First Mass of Christmas (Midnight Mass):
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    • Prelude: Noel sur less Flutes — Louis Claude Dacquin (1694-1772)
    • Motets: O magnum mysterium — Tomás Luis de Victoria (1572)
      Verbum caro factum est — Hans Leo Hassler (1591)
      Quem vidistis, pastores? — Hans Leo Hassler (1601)
    • Mass: Missa super Dixit Maria — Hans Leo Hassler (1599)
    • Hymns: Of the Father’s love begotten
      Hark! the herald Angels sing
      O little town of Bethlehem
      O come, all ye faithful
    • Postlude: Fuga sopra il Magnificat BWV 733 — J.S. Bach (1685-1750)

Christmas Day: Sunday, 25 December 2022

  • 8:30 a.m. Low Mass (at Dawn)
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  • 11:00 a.m. Sung Mass (in the Day):
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    • Prelude: Es ist ein Ros entsprungen Op. 111 (Lo, how a Rose e’er blooming) — Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
    • Motet: An earthly tree — William Byrd (1589)
    • Mass: Missa Alme Pater; Missa de Angelis
    • Hymns: Christians awake, salute the happy morn
      From east to west, from shore to shore
      In the bleak midwinter
      O come, O come, Emmanuel
    • Postlude: Voluntary X Grave and Double Fuge — William Boyce (1711-1779)

New Year’s Day: Sunday, 1 January 2023

The Circumcision of our Lord Jesus Christ (Octave Day of Christmas)

  • 9:00 a.m. Low Mass
  • 11:00 a.m. Sung Mass

 

Christmas 2022 at S. Bart’s