III EASTER / C'EST LE MOIS DE MARIE

C'est le mois de Marie, French for This is the month of Mary, was a hymn often heard in churches in Woonsocket, including Precious Blood (where I was music director for eight years).  Each Sunday in May there will be at least one hymn or motet dedicated to Mary.  These may be lesser-known and will be sung during Communion, but Mary-themed just the same.

This week's Communion is Daily, daily, sing to Mary.  I included the music (tune is "Omni Die Dic Mariae", also known in German as "Alle Tage Sing und Sage") in this weekend's Mass guide (included with the bulletin), as well as the English verses.  There may be some Latin verses in alternation, but the English verses are there for you.  This is the tune used in most American hymnals that include Daily, daily.  In the United Kingdom, there is a tune simply titled "Daily, Daily".  I will improvise on that tune as part of the prelude and postlude at both Masses this weekend.

Feel free to grab a Mass guide and sing along.  If you don't like to sing, take one with you anyways and hand it to someone next to you who doesn't have one.  He/she might sing.  ;)

Enough said there.

MUSIC FOR HOLY MASS

ORDINARY OF THE MASS:

Missa Cristo Risusciti (Luigi Picchi) (Gloria, Sanctus and Agnus)

- Memorial Acclamation and Amen are adapted from parts of the above Mass.

ALLELUIA "O Filii" (Mode II, arr. and versicle music BMP)

Entrance hymn: Jesus lives! thy terrors now ("St. Albinus") (Listen)

Psalm 30: R./ I will praise you, Lord, for you have rescued me (Theodore Marier)

Offertory hymn: Shepherd of souls ("St. Agnes") (Listen)

Hymn during Communion: Daily, daily, sing to Mary ("Omni Die")

- NOTE: English verses are in the Mass guide.  Latin verses may be sung in alternation.

Meditation hymn: Regina Caeli (Mode VI/in Latin and English)
Recessional hymn: He is risen, he is risen ("Unser Herrsher") (Listen)

Quod scripsi, scripsi!
BMP