GOOD FRIDAY STATIONS (at 3:00) and EASTER SUNDAY (at 8:00)

April 19 - Stations of the Cross (Good Friday) (3 PM)

Entrance hymn: #159 O sacred Head surrounded ("Passion Chorale") (Listen)

Verses at each station sung to the tune "Stabat Mater"

- Little known fact about the "Stabat Mater": "Stabat Mater", or "At the Cross her station keeping" is actually a sequence prescribed for September 15, the Seven Sorrows of the Blessed Virgin Mary (now known as "Our Lady of Sorrows").  Until 1969, the sequence was required for that date.  Since 1969, it is merely optional.  Also, before 1969, the Seven Sorrows, if on a Sunday, superseded any numbered Sunday after Pentecost, unlike today.
Recessional hymn: #154 Sing, my tongue, the Savior's glory ("Pange Lingua") (Listen)
- This will be sung a capella, as we did at the 8:00 Mass on Palm Sunday.

We now move from a day of great sorrow to a day of great joy...

April 20 - Easter Sunday of the Resurrection of the Lord (10 AM)

Entrance hymn: #177 Alleluia, alleluia! Let the holy anthem rise ("Holy Anthem") (Listen)
Gloria: Holy Angels Mass (BMP) (Listen)
Psalm 118: This is the day the Lord has made... (Owen Alstott)
Sequence: Christians, to the Paschal Victim (Mode I)
Alleluia "O Filii" (Mode II/BMP) (PDF)
Rite of Sprinkling: Vidi Aquam (from the Liber Cantualis, 1983)
Offertory hymn: #176 The day of Resurrection ("Ellacombe") (Listen)
Sanctus through Agnus: Heritage Mass (Owen Alstott)
Responsory during Communion: Psalm 118, Christ our Pasch... (BMP) (PDF)
Meditation hymn: #191 Be joyful, Mary, heav'nly Queen ("Regina Caeli, Jubila")
- Throughout the year, there is what is known as a Marian Antiphon.  From Advent until the Presentation of the Lord (February 2), the antiphon is "Alma Redemptoris Mater".  From February 2 and throughout Lent, it is "Ave Regina Caelorum".  Throughout Easter season, the antiphon is "Regina Caeli", from which "Be joyful, Mary" is translated.  Finally, from the day after Pentecost to the last day before Advent, it is "Salve Regina".  "Be joyful, Mary" will be our meditation hymn throughout Eastertide, including Pentecost.
Recessional hymn: #194 Jesus Christ is ris'n today ("Easter Hymn") (Listen)

Happy and blessed Easter!

Quod scripsi, scripsi! (What I have written, I have written! ~ P. Pilate, according to St. John)
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