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Link to Music Today we learn a short doxology -- sung in Monasteries and the Eastern Rites of the Church -- dating back to the 4th century! Thou art worthy of praise, thou art worthy of hymns, to Thee be glory: to God the Father and the Son with the Holy Ghost, world without end. Amen.

Link to Music Today we learn a wonderful hymn to our glorious mother! August 15 - 22nd is a little octave of Our Lady, and this hymn should be a part of everyone's celebration of her Assumption and Crowning.

Link to Music Learn to sing the Solemn Tone of the Salve Regina. This beautiful Marian Antiphon is traditionally sung after the Rosary and after Night Prayer during Ordinary time. Mary has also revealed in visions that this is one of her favorites!

Link to music Learn the Missa de Angelis Part 4 -- Agnus Dei

Link to music Learn Mass VIII (Missa de Angelis) Part 3 -- Sanctus

Link to Music Learn the Missa de Angelis, Part 2 -- Gloria

Link to Music Learn the Missa de Angelis: Part 1 -- Kyrie

Link to Music Learn the hymn written by St. Simon Stock, the prior of the Carmelite order to whom Mary appeared and gave the brown scapular as a privilege to the Carmelite order. This was originally used as the sequence for the feast of St. Simon, then for the feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel (July 16th). Now it's just a devotional hymn, but since the Church has given us all the privilege of part...

Link to Music "Give peace in our time, O Lord, because there is none other that fighteth for us, but only Thou, O God."

Link to Music Another Hymn to St. John the Baptist (Feast: June 24th). This and it's more famous counterpart Ut Queant Laxis were originally part of the same hymn, split into three for the Divine Office. Both can be sung to the same melody (which you can learn in Episode 50) but today we'll learn a new melody. O more than blessed, merit high attaining, Pure as the snow-drift, innocent of evil, Chi...

Link to Music Today we learn a chant setting of the well-known prayer to St. Michael the Archangel. Enjoy!

Links to music: Introit; Gradual(A); Gradual (B and C) Alleluia; Offertory; Communion (A and C) ; Communion (B) Today we learn the propers for the 5th Sunday in Ordinary Time. Extraordinary Form propers repeat again this week, see episode 80.

Link to Music Today we learn the propers for Septuagesima Sunday. Enjoy!

Link to Music Today we learn the most commonly sung melody for the Nicene Creed. Enjoy!

Music: Introit; Gradual; Alleluia; Offertory; Communion (Year A); Communion (Year B and C) Today we learn the propers for the 4th Sunday in Ordinary time (Extraordinary Form repeats 3rd Sunday after Epiphany this week!).

Link to Music Today we learn another hymn of Prudentius -- listen to Audit Tyrannus Anxius from a few weeks ago to learn about his story -- O Sola Magnarum Urbium . This Epiphany hymn is also drawn from his Cathemerinon, and sings the praises of Bethlehem, noblest of cities, where the Lord was born and the Kings came to worship. 1. Bethlehem! of noblest cities None can once with thee compare; Thou...

Link to Music Link to Year A and B Introit Link to Year A Communio "Venite Post Me" Today we learn the Proper antiphons from the 3rd Sunday (in Ordinary Time/After Epiphany). Enjoy!

Link to Music Happy Epiphanytide! Today we learn the introit from the Mass for Epiphany, and for those who haven't listened to our Propers of the Year series, we get a peak into the chants of the Holy Mass. Behold, the Sovereign Lord is coming; kingship, government and power are in his hands.

Link to music Link to Novus Ordo Communio, Laetabimur in salutari tuo Today we learn the propers for the 2nd Sunday (of Ordinary Time or Epiphany)

Link to Music Happy New Year's Eve! Today we learn a hymn in honor of the Holy Innocents, killed by the tyrant Herod while he searched for the Christ Child. The first blood shed for our Lord was by these innocent children, and it's impossible not to compare slaughter of the innocents with the slaughter of the unborn in our day. Sing the praises of these innocents, and beg for their intercession fo...

Link to Music Today we learn the propers for the Feast of Epiphany. Enjoy!

Link to Music Merry Christmas! Today we learn one of the most popular medieval Christmas hymns: Puer Natus in Bethlehem. Let's all raise our voices to praise God for the Incarnation! A child is born in Bethlehem, Exult for joy, Jerusalem! Allelujah. With an exultant heart, let us adore the new-born Christ, with a new song. The Son of God the Father, In the highest has taken flesh, Allelujah. By an...

Links to music (courtesy of CCWatershed): Introit; Gradual; Alleluia; Offertory; Communion In this episode we learn the propers for the Solemnity of Mary the Mother of God, January 1st. In 2023 this falls on Sunday, the Octave of Christmas. In the extraordinary form this day is the Octave of Christmas/The Circumcision of the Lord, and the propers are the same as those of Christmas Mass during the...

Link to Music Today we learn the antiphon for Rorate Caeli , a hymn based on the beginning of the Introit for the 4th Sunday of Advent. A wonderful, simple antiphon to have on our lips during this last week before the Lord Comes! Drop down, ye heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness. Be not wroth very sore, O Lord, neither remember iniquity for ever: thy holy city is a wilde...