Songs & Updates for Saturday, December 21, 2024 [updated]

4th Sunday of Advent

Thanks to all who were able to help with Immaculate Conception, Our Lady of Guadalupe, the Pageant and Saturday Mass last week! It was definitely our busiest week of the season! Everything came together quite well, and there have been many positive comments on the music.

Here's the audio for the Pageant & Saturday Mass. The OLG Celebration was also livestreamed.

Welcome to the final week of Advent! Is anyone not able to be at Mass? The reason I ask is I have a little something for each of you :-). If you're out, no worries -- we can catch up some other time.

Just a quick heads up that one of our music stands is out-of-commission (it won't stay up). Joe's taking a look (thanks, Joe!). In the meantime, we have spares in the Agape Hall store room if needed.

For those here for Christmas, let's meet at 3:30 on Saturday to go over some of the more critical music:

4:00 PM Children's Mass:

Preludes - O Holy Night - Lisa & Ginny
Psalm - GC3 #064 - Ps 89 - For Ever I Will Sing - Lisa & Ginny
Voice parts/other regular Mass music (as needed) - Lisa, Ginny & Cris

6:00 PM Mass:

Preludes - Masters in This Hall & Gaudete - Lisa, Jake, Cris (& Joe?)
Communion - Night of Silence / Silent Night - All
Voice parts/other regular Mass music (as needed) - All

Here's (what should be!) the final 6:00 program. If anything else changes in the next week, I'll be in touch :-). A few logistical notes:

For preludes, Joanne didn't have a chance to prep the accompaniments for Arise! Shine and I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day, so we replaced these with Masters in This Hall and Gaudete (a capella pieces from last year). Jake, Lisa and I will sing these.

The remaining preludes (below) are pieces the Sunday folks typically do. These will be a mix of large-group and solo pieces. Please don't feel obligated to spend a bunch of time on these! At this stage, I'd rather we focus on our two preludes and regular Mass music instead. I'll try to get you copies of anything that's not in the book, though; stay tuned!

In the Bleak Midwinter - All
GC3 #451 - Lo, How a Rose E’er Blooming - All [only if needed for time]
GC3 #445 - Infant Holy, Infant Lowly - All [only if needed for time]
O Holy Night - ~~Lisa and/or~~ Denise C. ~~(?)~~
Breath of Heaven - Carrie M.
Joseph’s Song - Evan M. ~~and/or Cris~~

Cantors will be needed for the Psalm, Acclamation and Night of Silence / Silent Night. Let me know if you'd be interested! My thought is to ask if the Sunday folks would like to handle the Psalm, while we do the Acclamation & Communion. But I'm flexible!

The rest of the music should be familiar. Please make sure you're good with the parts -- it would be wonderful to split these out as much as possible.

As for a large-group rehearsal, I'm seeing if we can do something the evening of Monday, 12/23. If not, we'll find some time on our own to make sure things are in good shape.

On Christmas Eve, please be there by 3:15 PM for the Children's Mass & ~~5:15 PM~~ 5:00 PM for the adult Mass. That'll give us time to prep for preludes, which start 15-20 min. before Mass.

UPDATE: 12/20: An email went out with some tweaks to all of this; we reduced the number of preludes and sorted out cantors. There will be no large group rehearsal, just soloist rehearsals. We'll sort out what we need to this Saturday and the hour before Christmas Mass. More to come this weekend!

Looking ahead, Masses for the Solemnity of Mary (New Year's Eve/Day) will be celebrated on Dec. 31st @ 7 PM & Jan. 1st @ 9 AM. Stay tuned for details.

Finally, thanks to everyone who responded to Bev's poll about our next Quarterly Potluck! This is now planned for Feb. 1st after Mass. Here's the food signup. More to come closer to that date.

I think that's it (for now!). Have a great week!

(All Mass Parts, except the Gospel Acclamation, are from Mass of Joy & Peace, including Holy, Eucharistic Acclamation 'B' (When We Eat This Bread), Doxology & Lamb of God)

Out: None (?)

Entrance:

GC3 #398 - Prepare! Prepare! (Pishner)