The choral season begins Sunday, September 14, the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross. On Good Friday, we concentrate on Jesus’ sacrifice on the Cross. On Holy Cross day we celebrate the Cross as the instrument Christ used for our salvation. We rejoice as children with Easter joy.
We will have strings playing the prelude and postlude on Sunday. Specifically the prelude will be the first movement, Allegro, from Guiseppe Sammartini’s organ concerto in F, Opus 9, Number 2.
The postlude is the third and final movement of the same work.
The annual Blessing of the Animals will take place at 9:00am, after the morning Mass on the rectory lawn.
November 2, the Commemoration of All Faithful Departed falls on a Sunday, and we will be in the church rather that the cemetery.
The Aiken Civic Orchestra and the USC-Aiken choir will perform at Saint Mary’s, 138 Fairfield SE, at 4:00pm, the famous Vivaldi Gloria.
During Lent, we will start using the Introit, or Entrance Antiphon, before the Entrance Hymn. This will complete what the series of what is sometimes known as the choral propers. Before Vatican II, the choir/cantor were responsible for