Fr. Brady, the priest who's assisting at St. Stephen while he works on his doctorate in canon law at Catholic University, was celebrant and homilist at Mass yesterday. He had a friend from his home diocese in Louisiana there to help out, but I'm not so sure where the guy is from, since he lacked the distinct characteristic accent of a native Louisianan or even a Southerner.
Nothing exciting at Mass. Hymns were Victory for the processional, Noel nouvelet (Now the green blade rises) for the offertory, the Wilcock "Taste and see" antiphon for the communion "responsorial," and Truro (Christ is alive! Let Christians sing) for the recessional.
The Mass setting included a chant Kyrie (with extensions from Missa Aeterna Christi Munera by Palestrina) and Agnus Dei (with an uncredited Palestrinaesque extension), Gloria from Martin How's Parish Communion Service, and the consecration section from Hughes' Mass of the Divine Word.
During post-communion ablutions, the choir sang "Ye Choirs of New Jerusalem" by Charles Villiers Stanford. This is one of the few Stanford anthems I've never sung, so I didn't know it at all.
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