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title: 'Holy Week Music List, 2023'
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date: '2023-04-01'
description: 'Palm Sunday Solemn Mass (10:00am) Before the blessing of Palms: Plainsong 508 – The Children of the Hebrews (Mode 1) After the Palm Gospel is read: Processional Hymn 509 All Glory Laud and Honour. At the entrance to the Sanctuary and censing: Pr'
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# Holy Week Music List, 2023

## [Holy Week Music List, 2023](https://www.stmichaelandallangels.nz/news/holy-week-music-list-2023)

    1st Apr 2023  Tags: [music](https://www.stmichaelandallangels.nz/tag:music#body-wrapper)  

## Palm Sunday

### Solemn Mass (10:00am)

*Before the blessing of Palms:* Plainsong 508 – The Children of the Hebrews (Mode 1)

*After the Palm Gospel is read:* Processional Hymn 509 All Glory Laud and Honour.

*At the entrance to the Sanctuary and censing:* Prophetic Anthem 510 O Jerusalem Plainsong Tone 1

*Mass setting:* St Mary’s Mass (Anthony Caesar)

*Psalm:* 118

*Offertory Hymn:* 86 My Song is Love Unknown

*Communion motet:* Pueri Hebreorum (Tomas Luis da Victoria)

*Communion hymn:* 269 The Heavenly Word

*Final hymn:* 511 Ride On, Ride On In Majesty.

*Voluntary:* Organ Prelude in C Minor BWV 546 (JS Bach)

### Stations of the Cross (7:00pm)

*Introit:* Choir Antiphon (David Ogden)

*Prologue:* Vexilla Regis (NEH 79 vv I and 2)

*Station I:* Ecce quomodo (Jacob Handl, AWTE p67)

*Station II:* Choir Antiphon

*Station III:* O vos omnes (Giovanni Croce, AWTE p129)

*Station IV:* At the cross her station (NEH 97 1, 3, & 5)

*Station V:* Peccantum me quotidie (Christobal Morales, AWTE p27)

*Station VI:* Vexilla Regis (NEH 79 vv. 3, 4 & 5)

*Station VII:* CHOIR ANTIPHON

*Station VIII:* Adoramus te (Orlando de Lassus, AWTE p69)

*Station IX:* Christus factus est (Felice Anerio, AWTE p52)

*Station X:* Choir Antiphon

*Station XI:* Were you there? (NEH 93, vv.1-3)

*Station XII:* Agnus Dei (Thomas Morley, AWTE p33)

*Station XIII:* Drop,drop slow tears (Orlando Gibbons NEH 82)

*Station XIV:* Vexilla Regis (NEH 79 vv 6&7)

*Epilogue:* When I survey the wondrous Cross (NEH 95)

## Holy Thursday

### Solemn Mass (7:00pm)

**Organ:** Eric Apperley and Paul Ellis

*Voluntary:* Cantabile (Flor Peeters)

*Introit:* Hymn 273 And now O Father

*Mass setting:* St Mary’s Mass (Anthony Caesar)

*Gloria:* Noel Rawsthorne

*Psalm:* 116

*Foot washing:*
Ubi caritas (Anthony Caesar)
In the heart where love is abiding (John Barnard)

*Communion anthem:* Solus ad victimam (Kenneth Leighton)

*Communion hymn:* 302 O thou who at thy Eucharist didst pray (Orlando Gibbons, vv 1 & 4)

*Procession to the altar of repose:* Hymn 268 Of the glorious body telling.

*Psalm:* 22 (C Hylton Stewart)

## Good Friday

### The Liturgy of the Passion (12:00pm)

**Soloists:** Matthew Harris and Craig Knowles

*Hymn:* 95 When I survey

*Psalm:* 31

The Passion according to St John (Tomas Luis da Victoria)

The Reproaches (Tomas Luis da Victoria)

*Hymn:* 83 Glory be to Jesus

*Hymn:* 90 O Sacred head

*Motets:*
Crux fidelis (John VI of Portugal)
O vos omnes (Felice Anerio)

## Holy Saturday

### The Easter Vigil (7:00pm)

**Choir:** Keryn Ward, Amelia Ryman, Derek Ward, Adrian Lowe, and Matthew Harris.

*Psalm:* 16

*Psalm:* I will sing unto the Lord

*Psalm:* 104

*Gloria:* A Festive Eucharist (Noel Rawsthorne)

*Psalm:* 118

*Offertory hymn:* 345 Christ is the King

*Sanctus, Benedictus and Agnus Dei:* Mass for 4 Voices (William Byrd)

*Communion Motet:*
Haec dies (Giovanni Puerluigi da Palestrina)
*Surgens Jesus* (Peter Phillips)

*Hymn:* 118 The Lord is risen indeed!

*Recessional:* William Mathias

## Easter Day

### Solemn Mass (10:00am)

*Organ voluntary:* Sarabande for the morning of Easter (Herbert Howells)

*Processional hymn:* 109 Hail thee, Festival Day

*Mass setting:* A Festive Eucharist (Noel Rawsthorne)

*Psalm:* Easter Anthems

*Offertory hymn:* 271 Alleluia! Sing to Jesus

*Anthem:* Most glorious Lord (William Harris, AWTE p 182)

*Communion hymn:* 118 The Lord is risen indeed

*Final hymn:* 120 Thine be the glory

*Choral Postlude:* Hallelujah Chorus (GF Handel)

### Festal Evensong and Benediction (7:00pm)

*Organ:* Christ lag in Todesbanden (JS Bach)

*Introit:* This joyful Eastertide (NEH 121)

*Psalm:* 114 (Edward Bairstow, AWTE p165)

*Preces and responses:* John Sanders

*Office hymn:* 101

*Canticles:* Stanford in C

*Anthem:* The Easter song of praise (Richard Shephard, AWTE p212)

*Hymn:* 112 Jesus lives

*Organ postlude:* An Easter Hymn (Gordon Slater)

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