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St. John Henry Newman is to be declared a Doctor of the Church on 1NOV2025, All Saints Day.

Advent/Christmas: St. John Henry Newman Quasi-Parish, Victoria, BC

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From the SJHN website: http://www.victoriaordinariate.com/music.html

8 December (ADVENT II)Plainsong Mass (Kyrie, Sanctus-Benedictus & Agnus Dei)
Missa Simplicior (Credo) (Merbecke)
Offertory Motet: Alma Redemptoris Mater (Palestrina)
Communion Motet: Jerusalem surge (Martini)
During Communion: The Advent Prose
Opening: The Advent of our King (St Thomas, BCP 59)
Offertory: Hills of the North, rejoice (Little Cornard, BCP 282)
Final: ‘Thy kingdom come’ – on bended knee (Irish, BCP 73)

15 December (GAUDETE SUNDAY)Mass for Four Voices (Kyrie, Sanctus-Benedictus & Agnus Dei) (Byrd)
Missa Simplicior (Credo) (Merbecke)
Offertory Motet: Lord, we beseech thee (Batten)
Communion Motet: Rejoice in the Lord alway (Anon)
During Communion: The Advent Prose
Opening: Rejoice, the Lord is King (Gopsal, BCP 392)
Offertory: Hail to the Lord’s Anointed (Crüger, BCP 396)
Final: On Jordan’s bank, the Baptist’s cry (Winchester New, BCP 67)

22 December (ADVENT IV)Plainsong Mass (Kyrie, Sanctus-Benedictus & Agnus Dei)
Missa Simplicior (Credo) (Merbecke)
Offertory Motet: Ave Maria (Victoria)
Communion Motet: Ecce concipies (Handl)
During Communion: The Advent Prose
Opening: O come, O come, Emmanuel (Veni Emmanuel, BCP 62)
Offertory: The Angel Gabriel (Gabriel’s Message, CP 242)
Final: Lo, he comes with clouds descending (Hemsley, BCP 60)

24 December (CHRISTMAS EVE)Blessing of the Crib & Midnight Mass at 10 pm
Missa Alme Pater (Kyrie, Gloria, Sanctus-Benedictus & Agnus Dei)
Missa de Angelis (Credo)
Offertory Motet: Dixit Maria (Hassler)
Communion Motet: O Magnum Mysterium (Victoria)
Opening: Once in royal David’s city (Irby, BCP 733)
Procession to the Crib: O come, all ye faithful (Adeste Fidelis, BCP 75)
Communion: Silent Night (Silent Night, BCP 739)
Offertory: It came upon the midnight clear (Noel, BCP 319)
Final: Hark! the herald angels sing (Mendelssohn, BCP 77)

25 December (CHRISTMAS DAY)Solemn Mass at 12 Noon
Missa Dixit Maria (Kyrie, Sanctus-Benedictus & Agnus Dei) (Hassler)
Missa de Angelis (Gloria & Credo)
Offertory Motet: Quem Pastores (Praetorius)
Communion Motet: There is no rose (Joubert)
Opening: Christians, awake, salute the happy morn (Yorkshire, BCP 78)
Offertory: O little town of Bethlehem (Forest Green, BCP 82)
Final: Hark! the herald angels sing (Mendelssohn, BCP 77)

29 December (HOLY FAMILY SUNDAY)Missa kyrie fons bonitatis (Kyie, Gloria, Sanctus-Benedictus, Agnus Dei)
​Missa de Angelis (Gloria & Credo)
Offertory Motet: Natus est nobis (Handl)
Communion Motet: Lo, how a rose (traditional)
Opening: See, amid the winter’s snow (See Amid, BCP 736)
Offertory: Of the Father’s love begotten (Corde Natus, BCP 79)
Final: O come, all ye faithful (Adeste Fidelis, BCP 75)

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