Schedule of Events
2025 Southeastern Sacred Music Workshop
Most Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church
Parish Activity Center
Friday, July 25, 2025
12:45-1:30pm Check in and Get Acquainted. (Water and light refreshments provided.)
1:30pm Welcome, Opening Prayer, Remembering 10 years of SESMW
2:00pm Group Session: Chanting the Ordinary (Mass XI) and Credo 3 in Latin.
3:15pm Group Session: Hymns and Salve Regina
4:00pm Break-out Sessions
Option 1 – Alex Hill – Why “mensurstriche” is your friend, and bar lines are not
Option 2 – Kevin Faulkner – Beginning program administration
5:00pm Chant Groups rehearsal
6:00pm Prayer before meal and Dinner
Saturday, July 26, 2025
8:00am Mass offered in Church (if you would like to attend)
8:00am Doors open – Light breakfast and coffee available.
8:45am Chanted Morning Prayer
9:00am Plenary: morning reminders, vocal warm-ups
9:30am Group Session: Talk from James Jordan from Paraclete Press
10:30am Chant Groups
11:30am Break-out Sessions
Option 1 – Alex Hill – Simple ways to add “chant-quality” to your liturgy
Option 2 – Kevin Faulkner – A short history of Latin after Vatican II
12:15pm Prayer before meal and Lunch
1:15pm Group Practices by chants
2:00pm Break
2:15 Group Practices
3:15 Final Rehearsal
4:00 Break/Rosary in Church
4:30pm Mass Begins
Photo and benediction
Ordo for Mass:
Saturday, July 26, 2025 Mass Time: 4:30pm
Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Readings: S&S Pg. 413
Prelude: instrumental
THE INTRODUCTORY RITES
Entrance: Introit from Graduale Romanum with English Verse
Kyrie: Mass XI (Missa Orbis Factor) – S&S Page 69
Glory to God: Mass XI (Missa Orbis Factor) – S&S Page 69
THE LITURGY OF THE WORD
Psalm: Gradual from Graduale Romanum – Advanced Men
Gospel Acclamation: Alleluia from Graduale Romanum – Advanced Ladies
THE LITURGY OF THE EUCHARIST
Creed: Credo III (Latin)
Offertory: Source and Summit Chant – Beginning Singers
Ego sum panis vivus – Palestrina
Holy: Mass XI (Missa Orbis Factor) – S&S Page 70
Mystery of Faith: Mass XVIII (Latin) – S&S Page 24
Amen: chant response to doxology
Lord’s Prayer: Spoken
Lamb of God: Mass XI (Missa Orbis Factor) – S&S Page 71
Communion: Communiono from Graduale Romanum with English Verse
Ave Verum Corpus – Mozart
Lead, Kindly Light (Lux in Tenebrae) – S&S 242
THE CONCLUDING RITES
Marian Anthem: Salve Regina – S&S 319
Recessional: Sing Praise to the Lord (Laudate Dominum) – Parry