Our traditional liturgical music combines the mysterious, ancient beauty of Gregorian Chant with the resplendent choral harmonies of later centuries.
Our organist Fr David Smith provides voluntaries before and following Mass most weeks (except during Lent).
Below you will find the selections for the upcoming season of choral service music at S. Bart’s.
Sunday, September 17, 2023
Trinity 15
(Back to Church Sunday)
Sung Mass at 11:00 a.m.
- Mass Setting: Missa Brevis on Two Chansons by Lassus – Walter MacNutt (1965)
- Offertory Motet: O sing joyfully – Adrian Batten (1591-1637)
- Communion Motet: Ave Verum Corpus – Plainchant
Sunday, September 24, 2023
Trinity 16
Sung Mass at 11:00 a.m.
- Mass Setting: Missa Orbis Factor
- Offertory Motet: Lord, for thy tender mercies’ sake – Richard Farrant (1530-1580)
Friday, September 29, 2023
Michaelmas
Mass time 6:15 p.m.
- Mass Setting: Missa Brevis in C – Charles Gounod (1890)
- Offertory Motet: Factum est silentium – Felice Anerio (c. 1560-1614)
- Communion Motet: Panis angelicus – Claudio Casciolini (1697-1760)
Sunday, October 1, 2023
Feast of the Dedication
(150th anniversary presentation)
Sung Mass at 11:00 a.m.
- Mass Setting: Missa Brevis on Two Chansons by Lassus – Walter MacNutt (1965)
- Offertory Motet: Locus iste – Anton Bruckner (1886)
Sunday, October 8, 2023
Harvest Festival
Sung Mass at 11:00 a.m.
- Mass Setting: Missa Brevis on Two Chansons by Lassus – Walter MacNutt (1965)
- Offertory Motet: God is our hope and strength – J.S. Bach (1723)
- Communion Motet: O lovely peace – G.F. Handel (from Judas Maccabeus, 1746)
Sunday, October 15, 2023
Trinity 19
Sung Mass at 11:00 a.m.
- Mass Setting: Missa Orbis Factor
- Offertory Motet: Confitebor tibi, Domine – G.B. Casali (1715-1792)
- Communion Motet: O salutaris hostia – Charles Gounod (1898)
Wednesday, October 18, 2023
Feast of St. Luke
(Ordination of Louis Harris)
Mass time 6:15 p.m.
- Mass Setting: Missa Doulce Memoire – Orlando Lassus (1577)
- Music for the Reception of a Bishop: Ecce Sacerdos Magnus – Edward Elgar (1888)
- Offertory Motet: O quam gloriosum est regnum – Jacobus Vaet (1599)
- Communion Motet: Sacerdotes Domini – William Byrd (1605)
Sunday, October 22, 2023
Trinity 20
Sung Mass at 11:00 a.m.
- Mass Setting: Missa Orbis Factor
- Offertory Motet: The Lord is my shepherd – Howard Goodall (1994)
- Communion Motet: Homo quidem (plainchant)
Sunday, October 29, 2023
Christ the King
Sung Mass at 11:00 a.m.
- Mass Setting: Missa L’Hora Passa – Ludovico Viadana (1596)
- Offertory Motet: Come, let us join in cheerful songs – the Psalmodica Evangelica (1789)
- Communion Motet: O esca viatorum – Heinrich Isaac (c. 1450-1517)
Wednesday, November 1, 2023
All Saints
Mass time 6:15 p.m.
- Mass Setting: Missa de Beata Virgine – Gregor Aichinger (1603)
- Offertory Motet: Exultate justi – Ludovico Viadana (1627)
- Communion Motet: O sacrum convivium – Ludo vico Viadana (1623)
Thursday, November 2, 2023
All Souls
Mass time 6:15 p.m.
- Mass Setting: Missa defunctorum – Clemens non Papa (ca. 1515-1556)
- Offertory Motet: Psalm 121 – Henry Walford Davies (1915)
Sunday, November 5, 2023
Trinity 22
(Baptism)
Sung Mass at 11:00 a.m.
- Mass Setting: Missa Orbis Factor
- Offertory Motet: If ye love me – Thomas Tallis (1560)
Sunday, November 12, 2023
Trinity 23; Remembrance Sunday
Sung Mass at 11:00 a.m.
- Guest Trumpeter: Bailey Underwood-Doe
- Mass Setting: Missa defunctorum – Clemens non Papa (ca. 1515-1556)
- Offertory Motet: Peace, perfect peace – Orlando Gibbons (1623)
- Communion Motet: De profundis (plainchant)
Sunday, November 19, 2023
Trinity 24
Sung Mass at 11:00 a.m.
- Mass Setting: Missa Orbis Factor
- Offertory Motet: O Lord, increase my faith – Henry Loosemore (1607-1670)
Sunday, November 26, 2023
The Sunday Next Before Advent
Sung Mass at 11:00 a.m.
- Mass Setting: Missa Seraphica – anon.
- Offertory Motet: Dearest Lord Jesu – J.S. Bach (1736)
Thursday, November 30, 2023
Feast of S. Andrew
Mass time 6:15 p.m.
- Mass Setting: Cunctipotens genitor (plainchant)
- Offertory Motet: Cum pervenisset beautus Andreas (plainchant)
Sunday, December 2, 2023
Advent Sunday
Sung Mass at 11:00 a.m.
- Mass Setting: Missa Seraphica – anon.
- Offertory Motet: Adam lay ybounden – Boris Ord (1957)
Saturday, December 9, 2023
Rorate Caeli Mass for Our Lady
(Mass time TBA)
- Featuring Marian medieval polyphony for women’s voices
Sunday, December 10, 2023
Advent 2
Sung Mass at 11:00 a.m.
- Mass Setting: Missa Seraphica – anon.
- Offertory Motet: Lord, we beseech thee – Adrian Batten (1591-1637)
Sunday, December 17, 2023
Advent 3 (Gaudete)
Sung Mass at 11:00 a.m.
- Mass Setting: Missa Seraphica – anon.
- Offertory Motet: Rejoice in the Lord – anon. (16th century)
Sunday, December 24, 2023
Vigil Mass of Christmas / Christmas Eve
Sung Mass at 11:00 a.m.
- Mass Setting: Missa Alme Pater (plainchant)
- Offertory Motet: I sing of a maiden – Patrick Hadley (1936)
Christmas Eve Mass at 9:00 p.m.
- Gallery Carols before 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);
O salich, heylich Bethlehem – Guillielmus Messaus (1629)
Monday, December 25, 2023
Christmas Day
Sung Mass at 11:00 a.m.
- Mass Setting: Missa Alme Pater (plainchant)
- Offertory Motet: An earthly tree – William Byrd (1589)
- Communion Motet: Hodie nobis de caelo – Alessandro Grandi (1616)
Sunday, December 31, 2023
Christmas 1
Sung Mass at 11:00 a.m.
- Mass Setting: Missa Alme Pater (plainchant)
- Offertory Motet: Myn Lyking – R.R. Terry (1912)
Saturday, January 6, 2024
Feast of the Epiphany
Sung Mass at 10:00 a.m.
- Mass Setting: Missa ad praesepe – George Malcolm (1917-1997)
- Offertory Motet: Tribus miraculis – Luca Marenzio (1585)
- Communion Motet: O salich, heylich Bethlehem – Guillielmus Messaus (17th century)
Additional Music information coming soon…