iSNARK! 183

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Merry and Blessed Christmas to all of you!  Are we too late to say that? Hell, no! Christmas just started last Sunday. And today we bring you our Christmas Special, featuring a good chunk of the music we did at Mass this Christmas.

Feasts for the Week, covering the entire Christmas Season, and most of the Jungle Screechers' gift vodka is missing. Where did it go?
Don't Do This at Church: Santa's got a gun?
Commercials: the usuals, usually scattered.

In What We Have Done, and in What We're Going to Do: (today's feature topic) featuring what we did for Christmas, and what we will be doing New Year's Weekend (a funeral, a wedding, AND Mary Mother of God).
Shamus' Christmas Adventures: Shamus O'Reilly discovers a Christmas Tree on Smith Hill.
Random Thought: remakes

Music:
1. Good Christian Men, Rejoice (tune: In Dulci Jubilo) (Brass trio)
2. O Little Town of Bethlehem (tune: Forest Green) (Quartet)
3. Tollite Hostias (written by Camille Saint-Saëns) (Quartet)
4. What Child Is This (tune: Greensleeves) (Brass trio)
5. O Come, All Ye Faithful/Adeste Fideles (arranged by David Willcocks) (Brass trio, Quartet, and Congregation)
6. Gloria from Mass of the Shepherds (written by Pietro Yon) (Quartet)
7. For Ever I Will Sing (written by yours truly) (Quartet and Congregation)
8. Alleluia (with verse from the Vigil Mass) (adapted by yours truly from the Mode V chant tune Divinum Mysterium) (Quartet and Congregation)
9.  Hark! the Herald Angels Sing (written by Felix Mendelssohn, arranged by David Willcocks) (Brass trio, Quartet, and Congregation)
10., 11. Sanctus and Agnus Dei from Mass of the Shepherds (written by Pietro Yon) (Quartet)
12. O Holy Night (written by Adolphe Adam) (Quartet)
13. Silent Night, Holy Night (tune: Stille Nacht) (Quartet and Congregation)
14. Hallelujah (from Messiah, by George Frederic Handel) (Quartet)
15. Fugli sings the Coventry Carol, brought to you by Music Alley

Additional link: All the Ends of the Earth, written by Richard Rice.

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CHRISTUS VINCIT ANYWHERE! 98

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Part three of our series about Psalm Tones. Today we hear Psalm Tone 4 (TWO mediants, FIVE terminations), and Psalm Tone 5 (TWO mediants, just ONE termination).
Check out our German introduction, too!
Feasts for the week:  September 24-30.  For more information, see the New Advent Website.
In What We Have Done, and In What We Are Going to Do: Reviewing the music of the Twenty-Fifth Sunday of Ordinary Time, plus a choral wedding from last Saturday; then a rundown of the music for the Twenty-Sixth Sunday of Ordinary Time.

Music:
1. Ave Verum (Mozart); 2. Godhead, Here in Hiding (tune: Adoro Te Devote; Mode V)
3-8. Tu Mandasti (Psalm Tones 4g, 4c, 4E, two versions of 4A, and 5a)
9-10. You Have Ordered (Psalm Tones 4g and 5a, with alternate mediant)
11. Go East, by The Plugs, courtesy of Podsafe.

Commercials:
Divine Mercy Podcast, iPadre Network,
Disciples with Microphones

Top Ten Things (Rest Assured) You'll Never See in the Extraordinary Form of the Mass (if we can help it!), brought to you by Mammon.

Additional Links:
The Chabanel Psalm Project,
Order of St. Benedict Psalm Tone Pages

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CHRISTUS VINCIT PODCASTING 44

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I just bought a new mic, but I'm still making adjustments. So please bear with me.

What is a bench fee, and why is it highly supported by parish organists? This pertains primarily to funerals and weddings. Feasts for the week: August 28-29
Music List: Twenty-First Sunday of Ordinary Time (We finished our third and final consecutive week of Taste and See as the responsorial Psalm)

Music:
1. Sanctus XVIII (Chant); 2. Ubi Caritas (Chant, Mode VI)
3. Grand Frere, by Pierre Journel, courtesy of the Podsafe Music Network

Commercials: Going Fourth; iPadre Podcast/Videocast; Disciples with Microphones
Christus Vincit Sports: Shamus talks about the slumping Red Sox and wishes he had steroids. Blogs mentioned: The New Liturgical Movement, Catholic Caveman
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Receiving the Holy Eucharist edition (encore from Podcast #12), brought to you by Inflatable Church
Thank you for your Podcast Alley votes this month. 14 is most votes in one month in Christus Vincit history!
Closing notes, a plug for my parish by the author of The Reform of the Reform?, and we read some feedback from our listeners.

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