Good Friday (2025)
Ordo:
Clergy entrance in complete silence
Psalm 31: “Father, into Your hands I commend my spirit.” (Video) a cappella
Gospel Acclamation a cappella
Adoration of the Holy Cross:
1st chant by JJR
Kiolbassa Reproaches (Playlist)
Crux Fidelis (Picardy / “Let all mortal flesh keep silence”)
*I will have a replacement page for you with the proper arrangement
During the Collection: Open, O Hard and Sinful Heart (Maggie & Lizzie - Music in the appendix of our Holy Week Book)
Communion Antiphon: Psalm 22 (same as Holy Thursday Psalm but with more/different verses; men=odd, women=even verses)
Communion Motet: Exaltabo Te, Domine (Playlist)
Communion Hymn: Stabat Mater Dolorosa (Video)
Silent Dismissal
(Old recording, but all voice parts are timestamped in the video.)
Full Playlist:
Full Playlist:
Holy Thursday (2025)
Ordo:
No Disgrace Wast Too Abhorrent (Picardy / “Let all mortal flesh keep silence”)
Simple Kyrie
Gloria from Missa Simplex by Proulx (Video)
Psalm 116, “Our blessing cup is a communion with the Blood of Christ” (same as this video, but with different verse texts)
Gospel Acclamation (Meditabor in mandatis tuis)
Foot Washing Antiphons: (full playlist)
Ubi Caritas by Ola Gjeilo (abridged)
Ubi Caritas (chant hymn) — time permitting
Communion Chants:
Hoc Corpus (Matt?)
Dominus Jesus (Ron?)
Communion Hymn: Adoro te devote (Pluth translation)
Full Playlist:
(Each video contains all voice parts in the time stamps.)
Palm Sunday (2025)
Hi Friends—
Here’s my (very late) ordo for you. I’m just going to list everything as links; this is faster and it’s easier to read, I think. Just click on whatever you need.
All Glory, Laud, and Honor (here’s our specific arrangement)
[no entrance antiphon]
NB: Kyrie comes immediately after All Glory, Laud, and Honor (it feels funny to transition this way)
Psalm 22, “My God, my God, why have You abandoned me?!”
Offertory Motet: My heart expected reproach and misery… (2.0)
Communion:
JJR chants antiphon.
Communion Hymn: Stricken, Smitten & Afflicted to the tune of God of Mercy and Compassion
Post-Communion Meditation: O Sacred Head (Passion Chorale NB: there are links to each voice part in the video description if you want to hear your part)
Recessional Hymn: The Royal Standard Forward Goes (Jesu Dulcis Memoria)
Lent V (C • 2025)
Greetings all—
Here is our ordo for this weekend:
Entrance Antiphon: Source & Summit (mp3 below)
Missa XVII (a full suite of practice tracks are available here or on the Cathedral website here)
Psalm 126: The Lord has done great things for us; we are filled with joy! (Playlist)
Gospel Acclamation: Salvation, glory, and power… (Demo)
Offertory Antiphon: Fr. Weber; James will chant.
Offertory Antiphon Hymn: God of Mercy and Compassion to PERGOLESI
Communion Antiphon: Nemo te conedemnavit, mulier? (mp3 below)
*Sadly, I discovered an error pertaining to my setting of the communio regarding Lazarus… that is for next year… so we get to sing a chant (in English) about the adulterous woman instead, and will alternate between men and women following the cues of the score.Communion Motet: Miserere by Lotti, arr. JJR (Playlist)
Communion Hymn: When I Survey the Wondrous Cross
Recessional Hymn: O Love Divine, What Hast Thou Done?! to the tune NEUMARK (mp3 below)
Offertory Hymn Tune:
Communion Antiphon:
Communion Motet:
Recessional Hymn Tune:
Some practice tracks: (piano booping over a recording)
Lent IV (C • 2025) “Lætare”
Greetings all—
Before we get started: one last reminder for those of you who are able to attend Chrism Mass (Tuesday, April 15, 2pm) to please use the signup form on this page to let me know you’re coming.
Also, please note that we will NOT have rehearsal this coming Wednesday, April 3, but will move rehearsal to FRIDAY (for those who can attend).
Lastly, a BIG THANK YOU to Stephanie and Tony for going with me to Holy Family Radio (and, of course, thank you to Holy Family Radio for hosting us!). We had a very successful interview. If you missed it but would like to listen in, here’s the link:
Here is our ordo for this weekend:
Entrance Antiphon Hymn: Rejoice, Jerusalem, Rejoice! to ELLACOMBE
Entrance Antiphon: Source & Summit (mp3 below)
Missa XVII (a full suite of practice tracks are available here or on the Cathedral website here)
Psalm 34: Taste and see that the Lord is good. (Playlist)
Gospel Acclamation: Salvation, glory, and power… (Demo)
Offertory Antiphon: Fr. Weber; James will chant.
Offertory Antiphon Hymn: O Prodigal, Prodigal to FOUNDATION
Communion Antiphon: Fr. Weber #476 (mp3 below)
*Men will sing the first half of each verse, Women will take over at the asterisks. This is for all verses and the Gloria Patri.Communion Motet: O Salutaris Hostia by Perosi (Playlist)
Communion Hymn: Afflictions, Tho’ They Seem Sever (Prodigal Son) to the tune NEW BRITAIN (aka “Amazing Grace”)
Recessional Hymn: To Christ, the Prince of Peace to the tune SWABIA
Offertory Hymn Tune:
Recessional Hymn Tune:
Some practice tracks: (piano booping over a recording)
Lent III (C • 2025)
Greetings all—
Before we get started: could those of you who are able to attend Chrism Mass (Tuesday, April 15, 2pm), please use the signup form on this page to let me know you’re coming? I know not all of you can make it, although I certainly hope many of you will! All the requisite PT’s are there and ready to go. But it will help me keep track of everything if you can let me know via the form that you’ll be there; then I’ll have your data in the same place and in the same format as everyone else’s. Thanks!
Here is our ordo for this weekend:
Entrance Antiphon: Source & Summit (mp3 below)
Missa XVII (a full suite of practice tracks are available here or on the Cathedral website here)
Psalm 103: The Lord is kind and merciful. (Playlist)
NB: the practice track has a different set of verses, but the music is the same.
Gospel Acclamation: Salvation, glory, and power… (Demo)
Offertory Antiphon: Fr. Weber; James will chant.
Offertory Antiphon Hymn: The precepts of the Lord are Right to THIRD MODE MELODY
Communion Antiphon: Fr. Weber #439 (mp3 below)
Communion Hymn 1: The Lord of Earth and Sky (Parable of the fig tree) to the tune LOVE UNKNOWN
Communion Hymn 2: My Jesus, As Thou Wilt to the tune PASSION CHORALE
Recessional Hymn: extracted verses from The Seven Dolors of Our Lady (starts, “O Thou Who hangèst on the Tree”) to the tune ERHALT UNS HERR
Offertory Hymn Tune:
Communion Hymn Tunes:
Recessional Hymn Tune:
Some practice tracks: (piano booping over a recording)