Missa Cantata: In Nativitate S. Johannis Baptistae (Solemnitas)

If you happen to be in the Washington, DC area this weekend, do not pass up the opportunity to attend this liturgy featuring the schola cantorum assembled as part of the Church Music Association of America's Sacred Music Colloquium. Sponsored as well by the Center for Ward Method Studies of the Benjamin T. Rome School of Music at the Catholic University of America, the schola will assist at this special Mass at the beautiful and historic Franciscan Monastery in Washington, D.C.

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The choir will sing all Latin propers of the Mass of the Solemnity of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist, along with a Mass setting in Gregorian Chant from the Graduale Romanum. The polyphony will include the "Justus ut palma" by Palestrina and the Tantum Ergo by Durufle.

If you have never toured his wonderful monastery, this is your opportunity to see the gardens and grounds, and hear the magnificent organ on this solemn feast. The choir will sing the Mass in precisely the normative form encouraged by Benedict XVI, John Paul II, and Pius X.