Category: 2020

  • Music for Easter Sunday

    Music for Easter Sunday

    Easter Sunday The Solemnity of Solemnities

    Resurrexit sicut dixit! He has arisen, as He said!

    May the joy of Jesus’ rising bring you peace and respite from the frustration and hardship caused by the coronavirus.

    Happy Easter!

    Resurrexit sicut dixit!

    Alleluia!

  • Music for the Easter Vigil

    Music for the Easter Vigil

    Sicut cervus & Sitivit anima mea – Palestrina

    The text is taken from the Easter Vigil liturgy.

  • Music for Good Friday

    Music for Good Friday

    Sung by Offertorium
    Mark Emerson Donnelly, director
    Miserere Mei, Deus
    by Gregorio Allegri
    Sung by Offertorium
  • Music for Maundy Thursday

    Music for Maundy Thursday

    Dextera Domini, Giovanni Battista Martini

  • Music for Palm Sunday

    Music for Palm Sunday

    Allegri’s Miserere meI Deus
  • Music for Passion Sunday: Part I

    Music for Passion Sunday: Part I

    We are still restricted due to the Corona Virus, and have no public Mass.

    For those of you who can’t stream the Mass today (or those of you who just want to listen to the music), this is the first part of the music for Passion Sunday, March 29, 2020.

    May God Bless you!

    Holy Family Parish

    Music for the 1st Sunday of Passiontide, Part I

    Entance Hymn: The Royal Banners (VEXILLA REGIS)

    “Organum Novi Mundi” (ONM) by Mark Emerson Donnelly

    Asperges me “ad lib” (ONM)

    Introit: Judica me Deus

    Kyrie XVII, mode 1 (ONM)

    Gradual: Eripe me, Domine

    Tract: Saepe expugnaverunt me

    Performed by “Offertorium”, a chamber ensemble drawn from our larger parish choir, Chorus Faustinae.

    Cantors: Francis & Mark Donnelly

    Mark Emerson Donnelly, director

  • Music for Passion Sunday: Part II

    Music for Passion Sunday: Part II

    Here is the second part of the music for Passion Sunday — the Credo to the Recessional Hymn.

  • Annunciation Music: Part I

    Annunciation Music: Part I

    Due to the Corona Virus, we have no public Mass. Below is music sung by the Offertorium which we would have sung for the Annunciation of the Angel Gabriel to the Blessed Virgin Mary if we were able to have a Mass.

  • Annunciation Music: Part II

    Annunciation Music: Part II

    Below is the Gradual and Tract.