The Inaugural St. Vincent Concert Series!

This fall (actually, beginning this August!) St. Vincent de Paul Church is proud to begin a concert series of instrumental and vocal music. The first concert of the series is Sunday, 7 August 2011, at 7:00pm in the church. Entitled On a Mid-Summer's Eve: chamber music for flute, oboe, and piano, this program will feature Lucy Minichillo, Marilyn Odendahl, and Kevin Vaughn. All of the recitals in the series are offered free-of-charge and the public is welcome. The poster with all four events and their dates and times is below. See you there!

Fall Recital Series 2011

One of my favorites...

O sacrum convivium, Giovanni Croce

Magnificat antiphon, Second Vespers, Solemnity of Corpus Christi

O sacred banquet!

in which Christ is received,

the memory of his passion is renewed,

the mind is filled with grace,

and a pledge of future glory to us is given.

Alleluia.

The Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Piano Prelude: Prelude and fugue in Bb, WTC book 1, J. S. Bach

Introit: "God is in his holy habitation," Healey Willan

At the Procession: Glory and praise to our God

Gradual Psalm: Ps. 119, "Lord, I love your commands." Guimont Psalter

Offertory: Lord of all hopefulness, Slane, arr. Hancock, Rawsthorne

Communion: This is my body

Communion Motet: O sacrum convivium, Croce

Hymn of Thanksgiving: O God our help in ages past, St. Anne, arr. Norris, Rawsthorne

Organ Postlude: St. Anne, Healey Willan

Leon Boellmann

This famous French composer of the late 1800's worked for most of his life at St. Vincent de Paul Parish in Paris, first as sub-organist, then cantor, and then titular organist. This beautiful church contains two Cavaille-Coll pipe organs. I feel a Boellmann-inspired recital coming up...

Read more about Boellmann and the Church of St. Vincent here.

The Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Piano Prelude: Prelude and fugue in A major, WTC 1, J. S. Bach

Introit: Behold, God is mine helper, Healey Willan

At the Procession: There's a wideness in God's mercy, In babilone

Gradual Psalm: Ps. 86, "Lord, you are good and forgiving." Guimont Psalter

Offertory: Praise my soul the king of heaven, Lauda anima

Communion Chant: Acceptabis sacrificium, mode IV

Communion Hymn: Keep in mind

Communion Motet: Christus factus est, Anerio

Hymn of Thanksgiving: Forgive our sins, Detroit

Organ Postlude: Verbum supernum, Dupre

The Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Piano Prelude: Prelude and Fugue in g#, Well-Tempered Clavier, book 1, J.S. Bach

Introit: In your justice I shall see your face, arr. Richard Rice

At the Procession: Father, we thank thee, Rendez a Dieu

Gloria in excelsis, A New Mass for Congregations, Andrews

Gradual: Ps. 65, "The seed that falls on good ground," Guimont Psalter

Alleluia: O'Carroll

Offertory: You satisfy the hungry heart, Bicentennial

Sanctus: Land of Rest, Pruner

Memorial Accl.: A Community Mass, Proulx

Amen: plainsong

Agnus Dei: Mass of the Most Sacred Heart, Bancks

Communion Hymn: Take and eat

Communion Motet: Sicut cervus, Palestrina

Hymn of Thanksgiving: I want to walk as a child of the light, Houston

Organ Postlude: Erhalt uns Herr bei deinem Wort, Buxtehude

Mass of the Most Sacred Heart

We have received permission from the Bishop of Ft. Wayne-South Bend, the Most Rev. Kevin C. Rhoades, to begin learning and singing music for the Ordinary of the Mass with the new translation of the Roman Missal in September of this year. The first setting our parish will learn is the Mass of the Most Sacred Heart by Jacob Bancks. You may download the music for free and listen to a good recording of this music at Mr. Bancks's website.

Booklets with the music will be in the pews on the first Sunday in September!

The Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Prelude: Psalm Prelude, Set 1, No. 3 (Ps. 23, v4), Herbert Howells

At the Introit: Praise to the Lord, the almighty, Lobe den herren

Gloria in excelsis: A New Mass for Congregations, Carroll Andrews

Gradual: Ps. 145, "I will praise your name forever..." Guimont Psalter

Alleluia: Celtic Alleluia

Offertory: Christ be beside me, Bunessan

Sanctus: Land of Rest Mass, Pruner

Mem. Accl.: A Community Mass, Proulx

Agnus Dei: Mass of the Most Sacred Heart, Bancks

Communion Chant: Gustate et videte, mode III

Communion Hymn: All who hunger

Communion Motet: Adoramus te, Lassus

Hymn of Thanksgiving: I heard the voice of Jesus say, Kingsfold

Post-Dismissal: America the beautiful, Materna

The Solemnity of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus

Special thanks to the women of the St. Vincent de Paul Women's Schola (above) for their beautiful contribution to the Mass on the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus! This feast marks the end of a five-day period of 24-hour Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament in St. Vincent's church. Below is the music list featuring some wonderful pieces for treble voices.

The Litany of the Sacred Heart (spoken)

Tantum ergo sacramentum at the incensation of the Blessed Sacrament

Hymn of Praise: Holy God, we praise thy name, Grosser Gott

Introit: Cogitationes corde eius from Introits for Treble Voices, Richard Rice

Kyrie, Mass XVIII

Gloria in excelsis, Mass VIII, de Angelis

Gradual Psalm: Ps. 103, "The Lord's kindness is everlasting..." Guimont Psalter

Alleluia, plainchant, mode VI

Offertory: Improperium, Oreste Ravanello

Sanctus & Agnus Dei, Mass XVIII

Communion Chant: Unus militum, plainchant, mode VII

Communion Psalm: Ps. 34, "Gusten y vean" Pedro Rubalcava

Organ postlude: Jubilate Deo omnis terra, Dom. Paul Benoit