Category Archives: Music for Masses

Sunday 29th March 2026 Palm Sunday (A)

Posted on 24/03/2026 by RAR

Entrance: Hosanna filio David plainsong Procession: 17 All Glory, laud and honour Offertory motet: Pueri Hebraeorum TL da Victoria Communion motet: Christus factus est Felice Anerio Communion hymn: 13 Ah, Holy Jesus, how hast thou offended

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Sunday 22nd March 2026 Lent 5 (A)

Posted on 18/03/2026 by RAR

Introit: Iudica me Deus (plainsong – choir) Offertory motet: Ego sum panis vivus Juan Esquivel Communion motet: O Domine Jesu Christe Cristobal de Morales Communion hymn: 98 Breath on me, breath of God

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Sunday 15th March 2026 Lent 4 Laetare

Posted on 10/03/2026 by RAR

Entry hymn: 619 Rejoice the Lord is King Missa brevis in Eb (K,S/B,A) Piedro di Heredia Offertory motet: Laudate nomen Christopher Tye Communion motet: Jesu dulcis memoria TL da Victoria Communion hymn: 40 Amazing grace

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Sunday, 8th March 2026 Lent 3 (A)

Posted on 04/03/2026 by RAR

Introit: 757 Vaster far than any ocean Offertory motet: Ad te levavi Aiblinger Communion motet: Sicut cervus GP da Palestrina Communion hymn: 730 This is my body

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Sunday 1st March 2026 Lent 2 (A)

Posted on 25/02/2026 by RAR

Solemn Latin Mass: Plainsong Mass XVII Offertory motet: O nata lux Thomas Tallis Communion motet: Hic est filius meus dilectas Diego de las Muelas

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Sunday 22nd February 2026 Lent 1

Posted on 18/02/2026 by RAR

Entry hymn: 392: Lord, who throughout these forty days Offertory motet: Nolo mortem peccatoris Thomas Morley Communion motet: Call to remembrance, O Lord Richard Farrant Communion hymn: 60 Attend and keep this happy fast (T.548)

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Ash Wednesday 18th February 2026

Posted on 16/02/2026 by RAR

Entry hymn: 219 God of mercy and compassion Distribution of ashes: Emendemus in melius  PlainsongLord for thy tender mercy’s sake     Richard Farrant  (1525-1580) Offertory hymn: 185 Forty days and forty nights Communion: If ye love me Thomas Tallis (1505-1585) Recessional: Psalm 50 Miserere … Continue reading →

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Sunday, 15th February 2026 6th Sunday (A)

Posted on 10/02/2026 by RAR

Entry hymn: 109 Christ is made the sure foundation Kyrie/Sanctus/Agnus Dei: Missa ‘Vidi speciosam’ TL da Victoria Offertory motet: Teach me, O Lord William Byrd Communion motet: The God of love Thomas Tallis Communion hymn: 125 Come down O love … Continue reading →

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Sunday 8th February 2026 5th Sunday (A)

Posted on 04/02/2026 by RAR

Entry hymn: 796 What does the Lord require? Kyrie/Gloria: 459/460 Offertory motet: Dextera Domini Vinzenz Goller Communion motet: Ave verum Edward Elgar Communion hymn: 365 Light of our darkness Organ: March from ‘Athalie’ Mendelssohn

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Sunday, 1st February 2026 4th Sunday (A)

Posted on 28/01/2026 by RAR

Solemn Latin Mass: Mass in C RR Terry O Salutaris hostia Fernand Laloux Adoramus te, Christe Orlando Lassus Organ: Prelude & Fugue in G, BWV 550 (JS Bach)

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