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Resources • Pentecost Sunday (1962 Missal)

Jeff Ostrowski · May 22, 2015

RESPONSES FOR HIGH MASS

PDF Score (Singer) • printed on a single sheet

PROCESSIONAL

Organist.

VIDI AQUAM

Vidi Aquam (Singer PDF) • (PDF) Organ Accompaniment • YouTube

INTROIT • Sung by the men only.

PDF Score (Singer) • Practice Audio (Singer)

KYRIE ELEISON • Palestrina Parody Mass

To practice the polyphony for the 1st Section, you must locate #5054.

To practice the (solfège) polyphony for the 2nd Section, you must locate #5053.

GLORIA IN EXCELSIS • Zachariis (†1594)

To practice, you must locate #5051.

EASTERTIDE GRADUAL (ALLELUIA)

To practice, you must locate #5050.

You don’t need to practice the chant verses which change each week.

PENTECOST SEQUENCE

To practice, you must locate #4973.

CREDO IV • Alternatim

PDF Score (Singer) • Practice Audio (Singer) • Organist

OFFRT. ANTIPHON

PDF Score (Singer)

OFFRT. HYMN • Gratia Tua w/ Polyphony

To practice, you must locate #4972.

SANCTUS • Palestrina (“Vexilla”)

To practice the polyphic “Hosanna,” you must locate #5048.

You don’t need to practice the Chant Part.

AGNUS DEI • Guillaume Dufay (d. 1474)

To practice, you must locate #5047.

COMM. ANTIPHON

PDF Score (Singer) • Practice Audio (Singer)

COMMUNION ORGAN

Organist.

AFTER MASS • “Veni Creator Spiritus” sung by all to gain indulgence

Everything our choir members need is HERE.

Page 956 in Campion Missal.

RECESSIONAL

Organist.

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About Jeff Ostrowski

A theorist, organist, and conductor, Jeff Ostrowski holds his B.M. in Music Theory from the University of Kansas (2004), and did graduate work in Musicology. He serves as choirmaster for the new FSSP parish in Los Angeles, where he resides with his wife and children.

Sonata during the Gradual?

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart wrote seventeen Church Sonatas between 1772 and 1780. These are short pieces intended to be played between the Epistle and the Gospel (during Mass). Shortly after Mozart left Salzburg, the Archbishop mandated that an appropriate choral motet or congregational hymn be sung at that point in the liturgy, with the result that the “Epistle Sonata” fell into disuse.

—Jeff Ostrowski

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—Jeff Ostrowski

Positive Message from a Catholic Priest

Today, we received this wonderful message from a Catholic Priest: I want to say thank you for everything you have done to bring back the sense of the sacred in The liturgy. We are going through a liturgical renewal here in the parish where I was assigned as a parochial vicar. I’ve only been a priest for 1 year and 8 days! We are beginning to use your psalms for our English Masses.

—Jeff Ostrowski

These prayers were not peculiar to Good Friday in the early ages (they were said on Spy Wednesday as late as the eighth century); their retention here, it is thought, was inspired by the idea that the Church should pray for all classes of men on the day that Christ died for all. Duchesne is of opinion that the “Oremus” now said in every Mass before the Offertory—which is not a prayer—remains to show where this old series of prayers was once said in all Masses.

— Catholic Encyclopedia (1909)