Yesterday was a Holy Day of Obligation, and I didn't go to church. I'd planned on going, but the several people with whom I generally go to church were all lying unconscious in their beds, and I just didn't feel like going alone. At one point, I started to go to one of the neighborhood churches, but when I checked their Web sites for a start time, they'd not updated their calendars, so I didn't know when to show up.
Sunday, though, Laurent wandered over and we ventured off to St. Stephen for the 11 o'clock Mass, where they were observing the Feast of the Holy Family. The celebrant was all excited about it, and told us during the homily that that's because his middle name is Joseph.
Hymns were Irby for the processional, Divinum Mysterium for the offertory, a nasty responsorial version of Greensleeves for communion marching music, and Gloria for the recessional. Proulx's Mass for the City made up most of the Mass setting, with Gregorian chant Kyrie and Agnus Dei, and Hurd's New Plainsong Mass for the Gloria.The choir sang local CUA professor Leo Nestor's anthem "Who Comes?" as a post-communion motet. It was a sweet song reminiscent of carols like the well-known British atheist John Rutter's "What Sweeter Music".
After Mass, I snapped a photo of the organ and some of the choir (usually they have 8 to 10 singers), and a picture of the sanctuary still bedecked in Christmas greenery (remember, it's still "Christmas" in the Church through next Saturday).
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