LITURGY & MUSIC
WEEKEND MASSES,
December 24/25, 2025
The
Nativity of the Lord
December 24 4:00pm: Saint Olaf Seasonal Choir & Ensemble
December 24 Midnight: Saint Olaf Parish Choir
& Ensemble
December 25 6:00am: no music
December 25 8:00am: cantor, organ/piano
December 25 10:00am: Saint Olaf Parish Choir
& Ensemble
December 25 12:00noon: Schola of the Saint
Olaf Parish Choir & Ensemble
December 25 4:00pm: cantor, organ/piano
PRELUDE with choir on Christmas
Eve; and Christmas Day 10:00am & 12:00pm:
Angels, from the Realms of Glory #358 - James Montgomery, tune: REGENT
SQUARE, Henry Smart
Personent
Hodie (not at Midnight Mass) – Piae Cantiones; arr. Gustav Holst
In the
Bleak Midwinter – Christina Rossetti; setting by
Gustav Holst
Carol
of the Bells – M. Leontovich, arr.
Peter J. Wilhousky
Angels
We Have Heard on High #347 (Christmas Eve only) – trad. French carol
What
Shall We Give (Christmas Eve only) – trad. Catalan carol, arr. Stephen Dean
Wexford
Carol (Christmas Day only) – trad. Irish carol, arr. Philip WJ Stopford
Donkey Carol –
John Rutter
O Holy
Night (Christmas Eve only) – Adolphe Adam, Placide Cappeau;
tr. John Sullivan Dwight
PRELUDE with cantor on Christmas
Day 8:00am and 4:00pm:
Angels, from the Realms of Glory #358 – James Montgomery; tune: REGENT
SQUARE, Henry Smart
O
Little Town of Bethlehem – Phillips Brooks; tune: ST.
LOUIS, Lewis H. Redner
Good
King Wenceslas – 13th C. carol; Piae Cantiones; John Mason Neale, 1853
Good
Christian Friends, Rejoice #362 – In dulci
jubilo; 14th C.
Latin & German carol, tr. J.M. Neale
PROCLAMATION OF THE BIRTH OF
CHRIST (Midnight Mass only)
ENTRANCE O
Come, All Ye Faithful #341 (choir
arr. D. Willcocks)
GLORIA New Mass for Congregations – C.T. Andrews
SCRIPTURE Christmas
Eve: Isaiah 9:1-6; Christmas Day: Isaiah 62:11-12; Christmas Day 4:00pm: Isaiah
52:7-10
RESPONSORIAL
PSALM 98:1, 2-3, 3-4, 5-6 setting
by L. Trapp
SCRIPTURE Christmas Eve: Titus 2:11-14; Christmas Day: Titus 3:4-7; Christmas Day 4:00pm: Hebrews 1:1-6
GOSPEL
ACCLAMATION Noël
Nouvelet, setting by L. Trapp & J. Anderson
GOSPEL Christmas Eve: Luke 2:1-14; Christmas Day: Luke
2:15-20; Christmas Day 4:00pm: John 1:1-18
HOMILY; PROFESSION
OF FAITH
PRAYER OF THE
FAITHFUL setting by J. Anderson
PREPARATION OF
THE GIFTS Christmas Eve: Gesu Bambino – P. Yon,
F.H. Martens; Christmas Day: Angels
We Have Heard on High #347
EUCHARISTIC
ACCLAMATIONS Resonet
in Laudibus Eucharistic Acclamations – J. Pascual
OUR FATHER
LAMB OF GOD Resonet
in Laudibus Eucharistic Acclamations – J. Pascual
COMMUNION PROPER chanted by choir/cantor Christmas Eve: Psalm 110:3; Christmas Day: Zechariah 9:9; Day 4:00pm: Psalm 98:3
COMMUNION Sing
Alleluia – F.P. O’Brien; Silent Night #352
SENDING FORTH Hark! the Herald Angels Sing #348 (choir arr. D. Willcocks)
Copyright Acknowledgements
All Rights Reserved. Reprinted under One License #A-704043:
Mass
in F-sharp by J. Anderson © 2020; New Mass for Congregations ©
1970, 2011, GIA Publications, Inc.; Alleluia 17 © 1998, Ateliers et
Presses de Taizé, GIA Publications, Inc.; agent; Daybreak Mass by W.
Pitts © 2011; Mass of the Angels and Saints © 1996, 2010, GIA Publications,
Inc.; Let All Creation Bless the Lord by
C. Daw © 1989, Hope Publishing Company; God of Day and God of Darkness ©
1985, 1994, GIA Publications, Inc.; Psalm 146 by R. Proulx © 1975, GIA
Publications, Inc.; Psalm 146 by M. Guimont © 1994, GIA Publications, Inc.; To the Poor a Lasting Treasure by F.P. O’Brien © 1996, GIA
Publications, Inc.; You Satisfy the Hungry Heart © 1977, Archdiocese of
Philadelphia; What You Have Done for Me by T. Alonso © 2001, GIA
Publications, Inc.; The Church of Christ in Every Age by F.P. Green ©
1972, Hope Publishing Company; Canticle of the Turning © 1990, GIA Publications, Inc.