On the Feast of the Holy Family this Sunday, the St. Cecilia Girls Choir will sing at the 9am high mass, along with the women’s chant schola.
For Offertory, they have learned a medieval latin Christmas season hymn titled “Dies est Laetitiae”.
Some Translation:
This is the joyful day,
the royal dawn,
For today comes forth
Out of the womb of a maiden
A wonderful boy,
wholly delightful
in his humanity,
who is priceless
and ineffable
in his divinity.
At Communion they will sing:
“Jesu Redemptor Omnium” (Ravanello) (this is the vespers hymn for Christmas)
Franck’s “Panis Angelicus”
the Taize canon, “Jubilate Deo”.
They will begin and end mass with “The First Noel”, and “Good Christian Men, Rejoice”.
Happy Feast of the Holy Family!