Pentecost Octave Evensong

Pentecost 2012

Saturday, 26 May 2012 at 6pm:
Sung Mass of the Vigil of Pentecost at Holy Rood, Folly Bridge, Oxford

Preacher: Fr Richard Duffield, Cong. Orat.
Music: Haydn, Missa Sancti Nicolai (The Newman Consort)

and

Wednesday, 30 May 2012 at 7.30pm
Solemn Evensong and Benediction of Wednesday in Whitsun-week

Preacher: The Rev’d Professor Allen Brent, DD
Music includes: Fayrfax, Magnificat Regale, De la Rue, O Salutaris

About the preacher:
Allen Brent is a scholar in the field of Early Christian History, exploring the interface between Christianity and Classical Culture, particularly in the development of Church Order. In 2008 he was awarded a higher doctorate (D.D.) at Cambridge University following an examination of his published works.

He is a Senior Member of St Edmund’s College, Cambridge, and was for two years (2008-2010) an Affiliated Lecturer in the University’s Faculty of Divinity, where he taught a Tripos Paper on early Christian life and thought. He remains a Faculty Member. At present he is Visiting Professor and Senior Research Fellow, University of London, King’s College, working with Professor Markus Vinzent, with a British Academy (BARDA)award, see BARDA Epigraphy.

Recently he has been appointed to a Professorship at the Augustinianum, the Patristics Institute of the Lateran University, Rome, where, commencing February 2012, he will be teaching a second semester course on early Christian history, addressing non literary, epigraphic and iconographic sources in addition to literary ones. He will be joined by his King’s London PhD students, who will be resident and supervised at the British School at Rome.

He is joint editor with Markus Vinzent of Studia Patristica and is a member of the editiorial board of Vetera Christianorum.

Formerly an Anglican, he was ordained to the Catholic Priesthood at Norwich Cathedral on Wednesday 15th June, 2011, as part of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham and the Blessed John Henry Newman which, in response to the appeal of Pope Benedict XVI has fulfilled the aim of the Oxford Movement and entered the unity of the Catholic Church.

Mass this Saturday, 19th May 2012 – Vigil of the Ascension

At Holy Rood Church, Oxford:

5.30pm – Exposition of the Most Blessed Sacrament

6pm – Solemn Mass of the Vigil of the Ascension

Preacher: The Rev’d Dcn. James Patrick (His Honour Judge Patrick)

Music of the Mass: Palestrina, Missa Viri galilaei; Motet: Palestrina, Viri galilaei (The Newman Consort)

Mass this Saturday, 12th May 2012 – Easter VI (Rogation Sunday)

Mass at Holy Rood, Oxford at 6pm, preceded by Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament from 5.30pm.

Music of the Mass: Heinrich Isaac (1450-1517), Missa Paschalis; John Taverner (1490-1545), Dum transisset Sabbatum.

Preacher: Fr Daniel Lloyd

Masses: New Times

Following the ordination of Fr Daniel Lloyd to the priesthood, the Oxford Ordinariate is experimenting with a new daily pattern of masses, interweaving with existing provision at Holy Rood.

The new pattern is:

Saturday: (of Sunday) 6pm Solemn Mass (Ordinariate)

Sunday: 11.15am Family Mass (Parish)

Monday: 9am Mass (Ordinariate)

Tuesday: 9am Mass (Ordinariate)

Wednesday: 9am Mass (Parish); 10am Mass at Oxford Oratory (Ordinariate)

Thursday: 6.30pm Mass (Ordinariate)

Friday: 12.30pm Mass (Latin) (Ordinariate)

Saturday:  9am Mass (Parish)

It should be noted that, on solemnities, weekday masses are at 6.30pm, as announced.  It should also be noted that Hinksey Parish (to which Holy Rood belongs) has three other churches and already has a daily mass schedule shared between the churches.

The Newman Consort: ‘A busy weekend’

Dr Alex Lloyd of the Newman Consort writes…

It has been lovely to read so many positive comments about the music at Frs James Bradley and Daniel Lloyd’s ordination last Saturday. It was sung by the Newman Consort, the Oxford Ordinariate Group’s in-house choir, under the direction of Paul Kolb, with singers drawn from Oxford and London.

The setting of the ordinary was Tomas Luis de Victoria’s Missa Laetatus sum for three choirs (SSAT.SATB.SATB). The verses of the responsorial psalm were set to an Anglican chant by Thomas Attwood Walmisley, with a simple Gregorian psalm-tone response, and brought a more obvious element of Anglican Patrimony into the repertoire. Monteverdi’s setting of the Communion antiphon, Ego sum pastor bonus, was sung by a trio, and the accompanying motet (Laetatus sum – ‘I was glad’) to Victoria’s mass setting was sung during the distribution of Holy Communion. We also supported the singing of some fine selections of hymnody: ‘Ye sons and daughters of the King’ (T: O filii et filiae) as a processional, ‘Come, ye faithful, raise the strain’ (T: Ave Virgo Virginum) at the offertory, and the Fr Caswall/Sir R.R.Terry combination of ‘O Godhead hid’, to the tune Aquinas, a version of St Thomas’s Adoro te devote, at Communion. Finally, the Consort sang Gregor Aichinger’s Regina coeli – a joyful end to a beautiful service.

On Sunday morning, members of the Consort travelled to Balham to join the choir at Fr Bradley’s first Mass, and in the evening the Consort provided the music for Fr Lloyd’s first Mass at Holy Rood, Oxford. We began with the Eastertide favourite ‘The strife is o’er’, before singing the introit. The Propers of the day were sung to Gregorian chant, and grateful thanks go to Julian Griffiths of the Gregorian Chant Society who acted as cantor. The exception to this chant regime was the Gradual, Cognoverunt discipuli, which was sung to a setting by William Byrd. The mass setting was Christopher Tye’s Missa Euge bone, of which all but the Creed was sung. Since, as was usual at the time, Tye wrote no Kyrie, this was sung to Lux et origo, the plainsong setting traditionally associated with Eastertide. The congregation had two well-known pieces to sing in a row: Credo III and the offertory hymn, which was ‘At the Lamb’s high feast we sing’.

After the Communion antiphon, the Consort sang Pierre de la Rue’s O salutaris hostia, which was followed by the hymn ‘And now, O Father, mindful of the love’, by William Bright, sometime Regius Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Oxford, sung to W.H. Monk’s tune Unde et memores. The service concluded with Haydn’s Te deum in C Major, accompanied by David Allen on the newly installed organ, inaugurated at a concert last week. This jubilant piece brought back happy memories for the newly ordained Fr Lloyd of student days in Vienna, and mirrored the joy of all those present.

After a busy weekend, the Consort had a well-earned, though brief, rest, before services resumed with a Sung Mass for the Solemnity of St George, with music by Michael Haller (Missa Secunda) and Palestrina (Jesu rex admirabilis), as well as all the propers from the Graduale Romanum.

The Consort continues to provide music for the regular Saturday evening Ordinariate Mass at Holy Rood, as well as travelling further afield. We have been invited to sing this month at St Birinus, Dorchester, SS Gregory and Augustine, Oxford, and continue our regular monthly engagement with the FSSP at St William of York, Reading.

For more information, or to engage the Consort at a liturgical event, please see our website, www.newmanconsort.com.

 

Music List Trinity 2012

NB This list is subject to correction, addition, etc… We hope to fill it out by adding chant, hymns and so on. All Masses are at Holy Rood on Saturdays at 6pm, unless otherwise stated.

21 April – Third Sunday of Easter
Tye, Missa Euge bone; Byrd Cognoverunt discipuli; De la Rue O Salutaris; Haydn Te Deum No. 2 in C

28 April – Fourth Sunday of Easter
Guerrero, Missa Congratulamini mihi; Lassus, Surrexit pastor bonus

5 May – Fifth Sunday of Easter
Taverner, Western Wind Mass; Richafort, Christus resurgens

12 May – Sixth Sunday of Easter
Isaac, Missa Paschalis; Philips, Surgens Jesus; Taverner, Dum transisset Sabbatum

19 May – Ascension
Palestrina, Missa Viri galilaei; Palestrina, Viri galilaei

26 May – Vigil of Pentecost
TBC; Palestrina, Loquebantur; Victoria, Dum complerentur

2 June – The Holy Trinity
Fayrfax, Missa Regali ex progenie; Lassus, Tibi laus

9 June – Corpus Christi
Josquin, Missa Pange lingua; Marenzio, O sacrum convivium

16 June – Trinity II
Hassler, Missa octava; Byrd, Unam petii a Domino

23 June – Nativity of St John Baptist
Monteverdi, Messa a4 (1641); Isaac, Loquebar de testimoniis