Hugill in New York: Laetare Jerusalem at St Patrick's Cathedral

St Patrick's Cathedral, New York (Photo from the Live Stream)

A Facebook contact very kindly alerted me to the fact that the 10:15am Solemn Mass at St Patrick's Cathedral in New York on Sunday 15 March (Laetare Sunday) was going to feature my motet Laetare Jerusalem. Luckily the service is Live Streamed so we were able to eavesdrop on the performance. Bravo and many thanks to the choir and their music director.

The service is available on YouTube, on the cathedral's YouTube Channel.

Laetare Jerusalem is a setting of the Introit for the Fourth Sunday in Lent and comes from Tempus per Annum my sequence of motets for the church's year, setting the Latin introits for Sundays and major feasts. All are available from CPDL.

    Rejoice, O Jerusalem: and come together all you that love her:
    rejoice with joy, you that have been in sorrow:
    that you exult, and be filled from the breasts of your consolation.
    I rejoiced at the things that were said to me:
    we shall go into the house of the Lord.