Sexagesima Sunday

For Feb 27, 2011 which is Sexagesima Sunday, we are going to sing:

1. Procession: O God Almighty Father
   
2. Asperges me
3. Introit: Exsurge, quare obdormis
4. Kyrie XI (Orbis factor)
5. Gradual: Sciant gentes
   
6. Tract: Commovisti
   
7. Credo IV
8. Offertory: Perfice gressus meos
9. Offertory hymn: Ave Maria (J. Arcadelt)
10. Sanctus XI
11. Agnus Dei XI
12. Communion: Introibo ad altare Dei with Psalm 42:4
    
13. Recession: Hail True Victim, Life And Light

Click on the links to hear samples and to obtain the scores where available.

2011

This year marks:

a) The 400th (Quadricentennial or quartercentenary) Anniversary of:
The departure for the Japanese Mission from the Philippines of the great Dominican Missionary and Blessed Martyr Alphonsus Navarette. He is called the "St Vincent de Paul of Japan," because it was he who first began the tremendous task of caring for the abandoned babies there.

b) The 300th (Tercentennial or tricentennial) Anniversary of:
The falling asleep of Bl. Fr Joseph Vaz, Apostle of Ceylon (Sri Lanka), in the Kingdom of Kandy.

c) The 150th (Sesquicentennial) Anniversary of:

The cessation of the persecution of the Catholics of Vietnam which has given the Church 92 Blessed Martyrs. Among these we celebrate the actual 150th anniversary of the martyrdoms of; St Theophane Venard, aged 31; the holy bishop St Stephen Cuenot, Vicar Apostolic of East Cochin-China, consecrated at Singapore (he died in prison perhaps from poison, shortly before the date fixed for his execution); the holy bishop St Theodore Guenot, also Vicar Apostolic in Cochin-China, who died of ill-treatment in prison; Bl. Matthew Phuong, beheaded near Dong-hoi for being a catechist: of St Joseph Khang, a Dominican Tertiary and servant of Bl. Jerome Hermosilla, whom he tried to deliver from prison. Caught in the attempt, he was punished with 120 lashes and after other most cruel tortures, was beheaded. Likewise we commemorate the triumph in China of St John Baptist Lo, a servant beheaded at Tsin-gai and St Martha Wang, a Vietnamese woman who carried letters from the imprisoned seminarians Sts Joseph Tshang and Paul Tcheng to their bishop. She was arrested and beheaded with them at Tsingai.

For more details, please refer to this excellent blog post on the Vietnamese Martyrs: http://andrew4jc.blogspot.com/2007/06/vietnamese-martyrs.html

Sixth Sunday after Epiphany

For Feb 13, 2011 which is the 6th Sunday after Epiphany, we are going to sing:

1. Procession: Holy God, We Praise Thy Name
   
2. Asperges me
3. Introit: Adorate Deum
   
4. Kyrie VIII (De Angelis)
5. Gloria VIII
   
6. Gradual: Timebunt gentes
   
7. Alleluia: Dominus regnavit, exsultet
   
8. Credo III
9. Offertory:Dextera Domini
   
10. Offertory hymn: Inviolata
    
11. Sanctus VIII
12. Agnus Dei VIII
13. Communion hymn: Benedictus Qui Venit
    
14. Communion: Mirabantur
15. Recession: Ave Regina Caelorum
    

Click on the links to hear samples and to obtain the scores where available.

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