A rare Christmas CD ~ a giveaway with your {bits & pieces}!
The weekly “little of this, little of that” feature here at Like Mother, Like Daughter! (This will all look and work better if you click on the actual post and do not remain on the main page.)
Another giveaway! For TWO winners! {The winners of the two books are posted down below!}
Here is one for the ages: A fantastic Christmas CD like no other. This will take a little explanation, but have a listen to this snippet – it will only take a minute!
What we have here is the world premiere recording of a late-Sarum-Rite-era English Mass by William Rasar, called Lux Fulgebit.
Charles Weaver (assistant director of music, also sings bass in the schola, husband of one of the sopranos heard here!) dug up evidence of this 16th-century Mass Christe Jesu by William Rasar, and edited it from the original part-books (available to view online—what a time to be alive, when the most obscure treasures can be found at a click).
This Mass setting is a hidden gem of the highest quality. The recording does it justice. It’s sung by the Schola Cantorum of St. Mary’s in Norwalk, CT, a professional choir that provides the sacred music (not performances!) at the Extraordinary Form Mass there. The voices are a joy to listen to.
The CD is a complete Mass (the vanishingly rare Christmas Mass at Dawn* with its own beautiful Propers about the first light after the darkness of Advent). The pastor chants the lessons and prayers, and there are even bells and silence in between the Sanctus and Benedictus, to chilling (in a holy way) effect.
If I went on and on about this CD and how amazing it is, this post would be ridiculously long. You can read about it on the church’s website.
Update: You can hear the full Credo here and the Agnus Dei here.
If you have someone on your gift roster who loves sacred music, early music, and choral music, this is a Must Have! If you can’t wait for the giveaway to end, you can order it here (the proceeds go to the church’s sacred music program) and get 20% off with the code LMLD — $16 instead of $20! This code will be good through Christmas Day. You can also order the MP3 on Amazon and on ITunes (giftable on both sites).
Leave a comment to be entered! I will also post on Instagram, so be sure to go over there and enter a comment there as well, tagging a friend! I’ll choose one winner here and one there!
*Christmas is a feast that has three distinct Masses, each with its own Propers, or changeable parts of the Mass reflecting the particular emphasis that Holy Mother Church wishes to give the faithful at that moment. John Saward, author of the breathtaking book Cradle of Redeeming Love, says,
In the tradition of mystical exegesis of the liturgy, another kind of threefold birth, corresponding to the three Masses of Christmas, is attributed to Christ; “the one eternal, from the heart of the Father [Mass at Midnight]; the second fleshly, from the womb of the Virgin [Mass at Dawn]; the third spiritual, by which He is born in the minds of those who are converted to Him or re-born in Him. [Mass at Morning]”
Isn’t that awesome and so beautiful and inspiring?
Now on to our links:
In “tidying up and letting you know”:
The winners of the two books, Leila Miller’s Primal Loss and Fr. Jacques Philippe’s Searching for and Maintaining Peace, are Lisa Trahan, Kari, and Betsy. An email will be coming your way shortly!
For those of you who didn’t win, Leila Miller is generously offering a discount on a signed copy of the book! Just email her at primalloss@gmail.com. The price will be $15! If you want to order from Amazon (where it’s on Kindle as well), it’s here (this is an affiliate link, thank you!).
The Fr. Philippe book, Searching for and Maintaining Peace, is available here, and I highly recommend it for everyone from your favorite young (anyone in high school would benefit greatly from it) to elderly person. It’s a small volume and would make an excellent stocking stuffer.
If you are within shouting distance of Clinton, Massachusetts next Sunday, December 17 (look at a map — you may be!), do, do come to a concert of Adventine organ works at St. John Guardian of Our Lady at 5pm. David J. Hughes, one of our country’s foremost organists and church musicians (and music director at St. Mary’s in Norwalk, CT, where he directs the Schola whose album we are offering in today’s giveaway!) will offer an hour-long recital of organ works by Tallis, Bach, Tournemire, and Distler, with improvisations on submitted themes. He will be joined by Marc DeMille, who will sing Gregorian chant as well. Marc is the music director at St. John’s and a well known and cherished Early Music performer in the Boston area. Freewill offering at the door! I hope to see you there!
A miscellany:
Why would a young woman become a nun? A great interview with Jade Banks, soon entering the Discalced Carmalites.
Is Persuasion Jane Austen’s greatest novel? I’m willing to listen!
Need to repair a wet book? Here is a video on how to do it. (I would have preferred just an article with pictures, and definitely turn the sound off because the “music” is super annoying, but the visuals are helpful.)
Is Canon Law (the law in the Catholic Church) a set of human rules or is it divinely inspired? Canonist Ed Peters looks at a case.
I thought this article and video about the Japanese custom of repairing cracked pottery with gold and silver can easily be applied to so many aspects of life and spirit.
From the archives:
Don’t forget the Advent and Christmas music we recommended in this post, as well as the Lux Fulgebit CD we are featuring here! I’m going to add to that list a CD on a much less sublime level, much beloved in our family just because I literally picked it up from a rack at the grocery store some Advent lost in the mists long ago, and we all know that “tradition” is “what we listened to when we were little”: Reba MacEntire’s Merry Christmas to You, don’t judge me/my kids.
We also love Chanticleer Sing We Christmas and Anonymous 4 The Cherry Tree. Elizabeth Mitchell’s The Sounding Joy has that simple traditional sound for the littles. If your childhood was in the 60s, like mine was, Peter Paul and Mary are a must — but for anyone, their rendition of Children, Go Where I Send Thee is just awesome.
Advent is the beginning of Wonder. It’s not too late to begin again.
If you scroll and scroll in this post, you will come to my list of family cookie favorites with links to recipes. They truly are the best! Well, we love them!
Today is the feast of Juan Diego — an amazing story of childlike faith!
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