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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