Music - Palm Sunday, Holy Week, Easter -   2009
St. Peter's Cathedral


Palm Sunday     April 5     10:30 a.m.    
Blessing & Distribution of Palms,  Procession and High Mass
Mass - Missa L'Hora Passa - Viadana
Motet - Hosanna to the Son of David - Michael Praetorius

Wednesday in Holy Week     April 8     7:30 p.m.    Tenebrae
Psalms - Gregorian
Lamentations of Jeremiah -  Authentic Tone
Responds  -  Healey Willan
Miserere  (Psalm 51) - Allegri

Maundy Thursday   April 8   6:30 p.m.  "Evening Mass of the Lord's Supper",  
          Procession to the Altar of Repose, Stripping of the Altar
Mass - Missa L'Hora Passa - Viadana
Stripping of the Altar - Psalm 22 - Psalm Tone

Good Friday   April 9   10 a.m.  Good Friday Liturgy
Plainsong  psalms and canticles
Reproaches -  Authentic Tone (plainsong)
Motet - Faithful Cross -  King John IV of Portugal

Good Friday evening    7:30 p.m.  Tenebrae
Psalms - Gregorian
Lamentations of Jeremiah - Authentic Tone
Responds -  Healey Willan
Miserere (Psalm 51) - Allegri

Holy Saturday   April 11     10 a.m.
Liturgy of Jesus Christ in the Church Expectant
Psalms, Canticles, and Proper - Gregorian Tones

Easter Eve   April 11    9 p.m.     Easter Vigil ceremonies & First Mass of Easter
Exultet - traditional
Motet - Sicut Cervus - Palestrina
Mass Setting - Missa Brevis No. 10 - Healey Willan
Voluntary (Organ Postlude) - Prelude on a melody by Vulpius - Healey Willan

Easter Day   April 12   10:30 a.m.
Mass - Missa Brevis No. 10 - Healey Willan
Motet - Haec Dies - Ingegneri
Voluntary - Te Deum - Jean Langlois
Youth Choir - He is Risen  - Walter L. Pelz

Easter Day    Festal Evensong, Procession, and Benediction   (7:30 p.m.)
Psalms 113 & 114 - Plainsong psalm tones
Magnificat  ii, 2  -  Faux Bourdons by Willan
Nunc Dimittis  iii.4  -  Faux Bourdons by Willan
Motets - Alleluia, Amen - Kirke Mechem
        - Rise up, my Love, my Fair One - Healey Willan
Voluntary -  Meditation on "Hail Thee Festival Day" - Charles Callaghan

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