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If your schola cantorum sings the Traditional Latin Mass (1962 Missale Romanum) and would be assisted by organ accompaniment as they sing the chant propers from the Liber Usualis, Liber Brevior or Graduale Romanum, The Organist’s Accompaniment for the Gradulae Romanumis for you. Volume I presents everything from Advent through the Easter Vigil.

If your schola cantorum sings the Traditional Latin Mass (1962 Missale Romanum) and would be assisted by organ accompaniment as they sing the chant propers from the Liber Usualis, Liber Brevior or Graduale Romanum, The Organist’s Accompaniment for the Gradulae Romanumis for you. Volume III presents Feasts and Votive Masses.

If your schola cantorum sings the Traditional Latin Mass (1962 Missale Romanum) and would be assisted by organ accompaniment as they sing the chant propers from the Liber Usualis, Liber Brevior or Graduale Romanum, The Organist’s Accompaniment for the Gradulae Romanumis for you. Volume II presents everything from Easter Day through the 23rd Sunday after Pentecost

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Now your schola can sing the proper through-composed melismatic verses that correspond to the Offertory Proper Chants of the Liturgical Year (1962 Missal).

The Ceremonial for Sacred Music describes all the rubrics, traditions and customs of liturgical music as celebrated in the Extraordinary Form (1962 Missale Romanum).

This is a treasured resource for choirmasters, organists, choir members, as well as for Priests learning to sing Mass.

A special feature of this book is a complete chant tutorial for Priests, Deacons and Subdeacons learning to sing Orations, Prophecies, Epistles, and Gospels. Musical examples in square-note notation are included for every possible tone of the Orations, Epistles, Prophecies and Gospels.

This large-print edition of the 1954 Liber Brevior,includes the entireKyriale, all the liturgical chant propers for all Sundays, Commons and Feasts, plus Sunday Compline and Vespers as well as the Requiem and Burial liturgies.. Additional chants are included in honor of the Blessed Sacrament and the Virgin Mary and more. Special chants for the liturgical seasons are included as well.

(Sample page from the Liber Brevior)

This edition of the Liber Brevior works perfectly for the celebration of the Extraordinary Form (1962 Missal) and will only miss a few proper settings for saints canonized between 1954 and 1962, such as St. Martin de Porres. For those parishes who celebrate the Holy Week services according to the 1962 Missale Romanum, using the 1954 edition of the Liber Brevior will require careful consultation with the Missal as there were some liturgical modifications in those years.

Small choirs will be pleased to see that the Liber Brevior includes easier Psalm-tone settings for Graduals, Alleluias and Tracts in an appendix in the back of the book.

(Sample page of the simplified psalm-tone settings of the Graduals, Alleluias, etc. in the appendix.)

Unlike the Liber Usualis the Liber Brevior does not include the text of the Orations, Epistles and Gospels sung by the Priest at High Mass. Thus the Liber Brevior has fewer pages, a mere 800.

 

This is a DVD of the Traditional Latin Mass (Low Mass of Trinity Sunday), as celebrated according to the 1962 Missale Romanum at St. John Cantius Church in Chicago.

Special Features of this DVD:

Features:

* Full-length instructional video of the Low Mass from the perspective of the Priest
* Full-length instructional video for the altar server
* Over 500 carefully taken photos in slide shows of every ceremony of the Latin Mass
* Stunning choral and organ music
* Video of sacristy preparation and vesting rite

This DVD of the Low Mass (Extraordinary Form) provides two complete versions of the Mass - one from the perspective of the altar boy and one from the perspective of the priest. Also, this video shows the sacristan setting up the vestments in the traditional manner, as well as the vesting of the priest with the prayers from the 1962 Missale Romanum.

This DVD also features wonderful choral and organ music, demonstrating the approved way of ornamenting the Low Mass with Sacred Music. Among the music included is:

Ave Verum, Francis Poulenc (1899 - 1963)
Duo Seraphim, Richard Dering (c. 1580 -1630)
Cantate Domino, Heinrich Schütz (1585 - 1672)
Preludium in C-dur, BWV 545, Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

An added feature of this DVD is the multiple menu options (see list below), enabling the viewer to skip to just about any part of the Mass.

A feature of this DVD not seen anywhere else is a Slide show of the various scenes of the Mass. For each of the Menu options listed below, the viewer can either watch a sequence of carefully made photos or a short video clip of that scene.

MENU OPTIONS
PREPARATIO ORATIONES PRO VESTIENTE
PROCESSIO
SIGNUM CRUCIS
PSALMUS XXXXII
CONFITEOR
DEUS, TU CONVÉRSUS
AUFER A NOBIS
ORÁMUS TE, DOMINE
INTROITUS
KÝRIE ELÉISON
GLORIA IN EXCÉLSIS DEO
ORATIO
EPISTOLA
GRADUALE
ALLELUIA
MUNDA COR MEUM
DOMINUS SIT IN CORDE MEO
EVANGELIUM
PER EVANGÉLICA DICTA DELEÁNTUR NOSTRA DELÍCTA
CREDO IN UNUM DEUM
ANTIPHONA AD OFFERTORIUM
SUSCIPE, SANCTE PATER
DEUS, QUI HUMÁNÆ SUBSTÁNTIÆ
OFFÉRIMUS TIBI, DÓMINE
IN SPÍRITU HUMILITÁTIS
VENI, SANCTIFICÁTOR
LÁVABO INTER INNOCÉNTES MANUS MEAS
SÚSCIPE, SANCTA TRÍNITAS
ORÁTE FRATRES
SECRETA
PRÆFATIO DE SANCTISSIMA TRINITATE
SANCTUS, SANCTUS, SANCTUS
TE IGITUR
COMMEMORATIO PRO VIVIS
COMMUNICANTES
HANC IGITUR
QUAM OBLATIONEM
QUI PRIDIE
SIMILI MODO
UNDE ET MEMORES
SUPRA QUAE
SUPPLICES TE ROGAMUS
COMMEMORATIO PRO DEFUNCTIS
NOBIS QUOQUE PECCATORIBUS
PER QUEM HÆC OMNIA
PER IPSUM
PATER NOSTER
LÍBERA NOS
PAX DÓMINI SIT SEMPER VOBÍSCUM
AGNUS DEI
DÓMINE JESU CHRISTE, QUI DIXISTI
DÓMINE JESU CHRISTE, FILI DEI VIVI
PERCÉPTIO CÓRPORIS TUI
PANEM CÆLESTEM
DÓMINE NON SUM DIGNUS
CORPUS DÓMINI NOSTRI JESU CHRISTI
QUID RETRÍBUAM
SANGUIS DÓMINI NOSTRI JESU CHRISTI
ECCE AGNUS DEI
COMMUNIO POPULI
QUOD ORE SÚMPSIMUS
CORPUS TUUM, DÓMINE
ANTIPHONA AD COMMUNIONEM
POSTCOMMUNIO
ITE, MISSA EST
PLÁCEAT TIBI
BENEDICTIO
EVANGELIUM: IOANN. 1, 1-14
ORATIONES LEONIS XIII POST MISSAM

Credits

Celebrant
Reverend C. Frank Phillips, C.R.
Pastor
Saint John Cantius Church, Chicago, Illinois

Altar Server
Reverend Scott A. Haynes, S.J.C.
Associate Pastor
Saint John Cantius Church, Chicago, Illinois

Congregation
Kelli Campillo
Clare Campillo
Donna Connolly
Rosemary L. Geter
Andrew Karas
Athanasius Karas
Faustina Karas
Laura Karas
Sally Mordente
Anne Seybert
Clifford Seybert
James Seybert
Marie Seybert
Angela Teska
Rich Teska
Anatole Upart

Director
Reverend Scott A. Haynes, S.J.C.

Assistant
Brother Joshua Caswell, S.J.C.

Technical Advisor
Brother Robert Maresh, S.J.C.

Graphic Design and Photography
Brother Joshua Caswell, S.J.C.

Cantate Domino Choir

Soprano I
Jillian Krickl
Stephanie Sheffield
Anna Pacek
Simonetta Pacek

Soprano II
Kathryn Michalowski
Katherine Swee
Claire Yashar

Alto
Ashley Michalowski
Sarah Michalowski
Elizabeth Miller
Michelle Vezzoli
Ava Voissem

Director of the Cantate Domino Choir
Reverend Scott A. Haynes, S.J.C.

Organist
Brother Jonathan Ryan, S.J.C.

Processional Music
Plein jeu from Ave maris stella from Première Livre d’Orgue, Nicolas de Grigny (1672-1703)
Edition: Brother Jonathan Ryan, S.J.C.

Offertory Music
Ave Verum, Francis Poulenc (1899-1963)
Edition: Salabert

Offertoire, Charles Alexis Chauvet (1837-1871)
Edition: Brother Jonathan Ryan, S.J.C.

Communion Music
Duo Seraphim, Richard Deering (1580-1630)
Edition: Reverend Scott A. Haynes, S.J.C.

Adagio from Fantasie en ut majeur, Op. 16, César Franck
Edition: Brother Jonathan Ryan, S.J.C.

Recessional Music
Prelude from Praeludium et Fuga in C, BWV 545, Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Edition: Brother Jonathan Ryan, S.J.C.

Film Location
Saint John Cantius Roman Catholic Church
825 North Carpenter Street, Chicago, Illinois 60642-5499
United States of America

The Canons Regular of St. John Cantius was founded in 1998 by Reverend C. Frank Phillips, C.R., with the blessing of Francis Cardinal George, Archbishop of Chicago, as a Roman Catholic religious community of men dedicated to the restoration of the sacred in the context of parish ministry. Its mission is to help Catholics rediscover a profound sense of the sacred through solemn liturgies, devotions, sacred art, sacred music, as well as instruction in Church heritage, catechetics, and Catholic culture. This mission is reflected in the community’s motto Instaurare Sacra - To Restore the Sacred. To learn more about the Canons Regular of Saint John Cantius, visit us on the web at: http://www.canons-regular.org/

Learn more about the Traditional Latin Mass at: http://www.sanctamissa.org/

Today and during the Sacred Triduum, the Matins and Lauds of the Divine Office are often sung in a haunting service known as the Tenebrae service (“tenebrae” meaning “shadows”), which is basically a funeral service for Our Lord. During the Matins on Good Friday, one by one, the candles are extinguished in the Church, leaving the congregation in total darkness, and in a silence that is punctuated by the strepitus (a loud clatter intended to evoke the earthquake that was said to happen at the moment of death) meant to evoke the convulsion of nature at the death of Christ. It has also been described as the sound of the tomb door closing.

                                                   

	Tenebrae Service for Holy Thursday 5 1/2 by 8 inch booklet (approximately 28 pages)                                                                                                 1-49 $10.00 ea.         50-99 $8.00 ea.         100 or more $6.00 ea.
	Tenebrae Service for Good Friday  5 1/2 by 8 inch booklet (approximately 28 pages)                                                                                                 1-49 $10.00 ea.         50-99 $8.00 ea.         100 or more $6.00 ea.
	Tenebrae Service for Holy Saturday 5 1/2 by 8 inch booklet (approximately 28 pages)                                                                                                 1-49 $10.00 ea.         50-99 $8.00 ea.         100 or more $6.00 ea.

As the Traditional Tenebrae services are intimidating for smaller parishes (approximately 2 hours of singing), Monsignor Martin B. Hellriegel, created a modified Tenebrae Service for parishes. He maintains the entire structure of the service, but shortens the readings and psalms. In his Tenebrae services (approximately 45 minutes long), the Psalms are chanted in English according to simple Gregorian melodies and tones, yet some of the Latin and simple Greek Chants are provided (i.e. Christus Factus Est). See sample pages below.

Monsignor Martin B. Hellriegel (1890-1981) an Apostolic Protonotary, was one of the giants of the 20th century Liturgical Movement that Pope Pius X inspired. A native of Heppenheim, Germany, his most productive years were spent in America, where he was chaplain to the Most Precious Blood Sisters in O’Fallon, Missouri, then pastor of Holy Cross parish in St. Louis. Monsignor Hellrigel was influential in promoting liturgical reforms that Pope Pius XII had urged in Mediator Dei, his 1947 encyclical on the liturgy—in particular the restoration of the Easter Vigil and the participation of the congregation in the chants of the Mass.

During the Triduum, the Matins and Lauds readings come from the following day’s readings each night because the hours of Matins and Lauds were pushed back so that the public might better participate during these special three days (i.e., the Matins and Lauds readings heard at Spy Wednesday’s tenebrae service are those for Maundy Thursday, the readings for Maundy Thursday’s tenebrae “Cercis siliquastrum” service are from Good Friday, and Good Friday’s readings are from Holy Saturday’s Divine Office).

Legend says that the tree upon which Judas hanged himself was the

“Cercis siliquastrum” —a tree that is now known as the “Judas Tree.” It is a beautiful tree, native to the Mediterranean region, with brilliant deep pink flowers in the spring—flowers that are said to have blushed in shame after Judas’s suicide.

Sample Pages from the Holy Thursday Tenebrae Booklet

Sample Pages from the Good Friday Tenebrae Booklet

Sample Pages from the Holy Saturday Tenebrae Booklet

 

This hymnal for most of this past century has been acclaimed as the standard and most popular Catholic choir hymnal in the United States from the 1920s until the 1960s. This is a masterful reprint of the 1941 edition. It contains a complete collection of approved English and Latin Hymns, Motets, Masses and Liturgical Music for the various seasons of the Ecclesiastical Year. This beautiful, easy to read, and complete edition also contains the organ and piano accompaniment along with four-part music. A most favorite treasury of Catholic music, it contains devotional melodies from traditional sources that are truly Catholic in origin. Melodies and Hymn tunes that are known and loved by the French, Slovak, Polish, Italian, German, and other Catholics, are here given in their original form with appropriate English texts. Included in the almost 450 music enteries are selections for Advent, Christmas, Lent , Passiontide, Palm Sunday, Eastertide, Pentecost, Holy Trinity, Corpus Christi, the Blessed Sacrament, The Blessed Virgin, the Saints, Holy Communion, Holy Souls, Holy Week Responsories, Forty Hours Adoration, Confirmation, First Friday, Holy Hour, Pontifical Ceremonies, The Sacred Heart and a complete set of Benediction Motets. Music for High Mass is also included (Asperges and Vidi Aquam), together with the Responses, etc., and the Mass of the Blessed Virgin (Missa. B.M.V. cum jubilo), with Credo No. 4. Includes Alphabetical Index of First Lines, Classified Index of English Hymns and Latin Hymns and Motets.

The church choir wanting to sing the Gregorian Chant propers from the Liber Usualis will find the organ accompaniments of the Proprium de Tempore a great assistance in singing for the Tridentine Latin High Mass.

The Proprium de Tempore (“Proper of the Season”) gives the organist the complete accompaniment for the Gregorian Chant propers (e.g., the Introit, Gradual, Alleluia, Tract, Sequence, Offertory, Communion) for all Sundays and seasonal feast days.

First published in 1947, this organ accompaniment book has in modern notation all of the seasonal propers for the liturgical year. Throughout the entire book, the organ notation is underscored by the Latin words, each hyphenated under the appropriate note.

Handily included at the bottom of each page an artful translation of the text is provided in both English and French. Fully indexed, all notations and text are in printed in black ink on medium stock paper to ensure durability, while the spacious comb-binding gives the organist easy and quick access.

This is an invaluable book for the members of the choir and schola singing the Traditional Latin Mass (1962 Missale Romanum). This was the primary ‘proper’ chant book for High Mass choir members in the United States from the 1930s until Vatican II. If the Liber Usualis is intimidating for the smaller or less experienced choir/schola, this is the answer!

The ‘Proper’ Of The Mass is set to very basic Gregorian Psalm-tones with organ accompaniment. These ‘proper’ chants for the entire year are beautiful yet simple enough for most choir members to sing with limited practice. Includes complete daily, seasonal, ember-day, ferial, common Masses, etc. Table of Contents.

Also includes Preface, Instructions from the author to the organist & choir members, Preface, rules for liturgical pronunciation of Latin, notes on when to sing the various chants of the ‘proper’, and rules for
good vocal production.

The Liber Usualis is a must for any choir or schola member wanting to sing the Gregorian Chant of the Traditional Latin Mass. It has the complete Latin settings of Gregorian Chant for every Mass of the year (Sundays, Solemnities, Commons and Feasts). It also has the complete music for Nuptial Masses, Requiem Masses, Holy Week, and Ordination. Additionally it provides much of the Gregorian Chant to be sung in Latin for the Divine Office (Vespers, Compline, etc.), as well as many other traditional Latin chants and hymns (Litanies, Benediction, etc.) The preface of the Liber Usualis tells the interested choir member how to read and sing Gregorian Chant. This book is a must for any person wanting to sing for the Tridentine Latin Mass.

We are happy to offer the Liber Usualis at the low price of $99.00 (USD), plus shipping and handling charges.

The Liber Usualis

• 1962 edition
• Originally published in Belgium in 1962 & edited by the Benedictines of Solesmes
• 7½ x 5 x 3½ thick
• Durable black cloth hardbound hardbound cover
• Gold embossed “Liber Usualis” on the spine
• Smythe sewn binding
• Seven colored ribbon markers
• Contains all the Little Hours of the Divine Office
• Includes tone for the Gloria Patri and also the eight tones of the Psalms
• Additional material, such as new text of Pope Pius XII for the Assumption, Signum Magnum