Sacred Music
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SACRED MUSIC plays a primary role in the worshipping and missionary life of St John Henry’s. As a community conscious of our role to preserve and promote the treasures of the Anglican musical patrimony within the Catholic Church, the vast treasury of English sacred and choral music and hymnody is maintained and nurtured alongside the older Roman usage of Gregorian chant and plainsong.
As a parish, we take seriously the Second Vatican Council’s clear reminder, that: The Church acknowledges Gregorian chant as specially suited to the Roman liturgy: therefore, other things being equal, it should be given pride of place in liturgical services. But other kinds of sacred music, especially polyphony, are by no means excluded from liturgical celebrations, so long as they accord with the spirit of the liturgical action. - Sacrosanctum Concilium 116 From Monday to Saturday the Church’s daily public morning prayer of Mattins - psalms, canticles, hymn, and lections - is chanted in traditional English, and on Sundays the Solemn Mass, which is the highlight of our week as a parish family, is enriched by congregational, plainsong, and polyphonic settings of the Mass in English and Latin, together with anthems, motets, and hymns from the Anglican and Catholic traditions. Our monthly music list below gives you something of the flavour of our deep commitment to the ministry of sacred music within the life of the Ordinariate.
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St John Henry’s is blessed to have in its possession a first-class relic of St Cecilia, early martyr of the Church, and patron saint of musicians.
He who sings well prays twice. |
Our choirmaster and singers welcome interest in the opportunity to sing at St John Henry’s. The choir rehearse on Wednesday evenings and sing for all Solemn Masses, Evensongs, and special services within the life of our community. For further information please contact Mr Scott Vannan.
Music List - March 2020
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Please click on the links (i.e. on the title of the hymn) to listen to recordings
1 March (LENT I)
The Litany in Procession
Mass XVII (Kyrie, Sanctus-Benedictus, & Agnus Dei)
Opening: Forty days and forty nights (Aus Der Tiefe, EH 73)
Offertory: My song is love unknown (Love Unknown, NEH 86)
Offertory Motet: Scapulis Suis (Lassus)
Communion Motet: Ave Regina Caelorum (Lotti)
After Communion: The Lent Prose (EH 736)
Final: Take up thy cross, the Saviour said (Breslau, EH 484)
8 March (LENT II)
Mass XVII (Kyrie, Sanctus-Benedictus, & Agnus Dei)
Opening: Father, hear the prayer we offer (Sussex, EH 385)
Offertory: Jesu, Lover of my soul (Aberystwyth, EH 414)
Offertory Motet: Clamabat Autem Mulier (Guerrero)
Communion Motet: Ave Verum Corpus (Byrd)
After Communion: The Lent Prose (EH 736)
Final: All ye who seek a comfort sure (St Bernard, EH 71)
15 March (LENT III)
Mass XVII (Kyrie, Sanctus-Benedictus, & Agnus Dei)
Opening: Lord Jesus, think on me (Southwell, EH 77)
Offertory: There's a wideness in God's mercy (Cross of Jesus, NEH 461)
Offertory Motet: Nolo Mortem Peccatoribus (Morley)
Communion Motet: Passer Invenit Sibi Domum (Isaac)
After Communion: The Lent Prose (EH 736)
Final: Praise to the Holiest in the height (Billing)
22 March (LAETARE/MOTHERING SUNDAY)
Opening: The God of love my Shepherd is (University, EH 93)
Offertory: Sing we of the blessed Mother (Abbot's Leigh, NEH 185)
Offertory Motet: Accepit Jesus Panes (Guerrero)
Communion Motet: Media Vita in Morte (Manchicourt)
After Communion: The Lent Prose (EH 736)
Final: Jerusalem the golden (Ewing, EH 412)
25 March (LADY DAY)
Solemn Mass at 6.30 pm
Missa Dixit Maria (Sanctus-Benedictus & Agnus Dei) (Hassler)
Missa Alme Pater (Gloria) & De Angelis (Credo)
Offertory: Dixit Maria (Hassler)
Communion: Ave Maria (Victoria)
Opening: Shall we not love thee, Mother dear (Beatitudo, NEH 184)
Offertory: Ye who own the faith of Jesus (Daily, Daily, NEH 188 2nd tune)
Communion: Her Virgin eyes saw God incarnate born (Farley Castle, EH 217)
Final: Sing we of the blessed Mother (Abbot's Leigh, NEH 185)
29 March (PASSION SUNDAY)
The Litany in Procession
Mass XVII (Kyrie, Sanctus-Benedictus, & Agnus Dei)
Opening: O sacred head, sore wounded (Passion Chorale, EH 102)
Offertory: When I survey the wondrous cross (Rockingham, EH 107)
Offertory Motet: Adoramus te, Christe (Anerio)
Communion Motet: Hoc Corpus (Robledo)
After Communion: The Lent Prose (EH 736)
Final: The royal banners forward go (NEH 79, tune: Gonfalon Royal, NEH 128 ii)
5 April (PALM SUNDAY)
Blessing of Palms & Palm Procession
Procession 1: All glory, laud, and honour (St Theodulph, EH 622)
Procession 2: Ride on, ride on in majesty! (Winchester New, EH 620)
Procession 3: Onward, Christian soldiers (St Gertrude, EH 643)
Before the Passion: Glory be to Jesus (Caswall, NEH 138)
Offertory: My song is love unknown (Love Unknown, NEH 86)
Offertory Motet: Pueri Hebraeorum (Victoria)
Communion Motet: Pater, Si non Potest (Isaac)
After Communion: The Lent Prose (EH 736)
Final: The royal banners forward go (NEH 79, tune: Gonfalon Royal, NEH 128 2nd tune)
1 March (LENT I)
The Litany in Procession
Mass XVII (Kyrie, Sanctus-Benedictus, & Agnus Dei)
Opening: Forty days and forty nights (Aus Der Tiefe, EH 73)
Offertory: My song is love unknown (Love Unknown, NEH 86)
Offertory Motet: Scapulis Suis (Lassus)
Communion Motet: Ave Regina Caelorum (Lotti)
After Communion: The Lent Prose (EH 736)
Final: Take up thy cross, the Saviour said (Breslau, EH 484)
8 March (LENT II)
Mass XVII (Kyrie, Sanctus-Benedictus, & Agnus Dei)
Opening: Father, hear the prayer we offer (Sussex, EH 385)
Offertory: Jesu, Lover of my soul (Aberystwyth, EH 414)
Offertory Motet: Clamabat Autem Mulier (Guerrero)
Communion Motet: Ave Verum Corpus (Byrd)
After Communion: The Lent Prose (EH 736)
Final: All ye who seek a comfort sure (St Bernard, EH 71)
15 March (LENT III)
Mass XVII (Kyrie, Sanctus-Benedictus, & Agnus Dei)
Opening: Lord Jesus, think on me (Southwell, EH 77)
Offertory: There's a wideness in God's mercy (Cross of Jesus, NEH 461)
Offertory Motet: Nolo Mortem Peccatoribus (Morley)
Communion Motet: Passer Invenit Sibi Domum (Isaac)
After Communion: The Lent Prose (EH 736)
Final: Praise to the Holiest in the height (Billing)
22 March (LAETARE/MOTHERING SUNDAY)
Opening: The God of love my Shepherd is (University, EH 93)
Offertory: Sing we of the blessed Mother (Abbot's Leigh, NEH 185)
Offertory Motet: Accepit Jesus Panes (Guerrero)
Communion Motet: Media Vita in Morte (Manchicourt)
After Communion: The Lent Prose (EH 736)
Final: Jerusalem the golden (Ewing, EH 412)
25 March (LADY DAY)
Solemn Mass at 6.30 pm
Missa Dixit Maria (Sanctus-Benedictus & Agnus Dei) (Hassler)
Missa Alme Pater (Gloria) & De Angelis (Credo)
Offertory: Dixit Maria (Hassler)
Communion: Ave Maria (Victoria)
Opening: Shall we not love thee, Mother dear (Beatitudo, NEH 184)
Offertory: Ye who own the faith of Jesus (Daily, Daily, NEH 188 2nd tune)
Communion: Her Virgin eyes saw God incarnate born (Farley Castle, EH 217)
Final: Sing we of the blessed Mother (Abbot's Leigh, NEH 185)
29 March (PASSION SUNDAY)
The Litany in Procession
Mass XVII (Kyrie, Sanctus-Benedictus, & Agnus Dei)
Opening: O sacred head, sore wounded (Passion Chorale, EH 102)
Offertory: When I survey the wondrous cross (Rockingham, EH 107)
Offertory Motet: Adoramus te, Christe (Anerio)
Communion Motet: Hoc Corpus (Robledo)
After Communion: The Lent Prose (EH 736)
Final: The royal banners forward go (NEH 79, tune: Gonfalon Royal, NEH 128 ii)
5 April (PALM SUNDAY)
Blessing of Palms & Palm Procession
Procession 1: All glory, laud, and honour (St Theodulph, EH 622)
Procession 2: Ride on, ride on in majesty! (Winchester New, EH 620)
Procession 3: Onward, Christian soldiers (St Gertrude, EH 643)
Before the Passion: Glory be to Jesus (Caswall, NEH 138)
Offertory: My song is love unknown (Love Unknown, NEH 86)
Offertory Motet: Pueri Hebraeorum (Victoria)
Communion Motet: Pater, Si non Potest (Isaac)
After Communion: The Lent Prose (EH 736)
Final: The royal banners forward go (NEH 79, tune: Gonfalon Royal, NEH 128 2nd tune)