We did the plainsong "Veni Creator Spiritus" as a prelude, Thomas Weelkes's "Alleluia - I Heard A Voice" for offertory, the plainsong sequence "Veni Sancte Spiritus", and our organist's arrangement of the same chant for organ and SATB for communion today.
It rocked the house. Especially our organist's WILD setting of the Veni Sancte. You never heard so many cluster chords and galloping arpeggios in your life.
Stop! Stop! You're making me want to cry (again).
Week before last, our cantor sang a rendition of "Ave Maria" just before Mass (he is GOOD, having just gotten back from a performance for (among others) Pope Benedict). This was followed immediately by the entrance song (OCP) "Sing a New Song Unto the Lord". The juxtaposition of those two pieces brought tears to my eyes (and NOT tears of joy).
Utter sublimity followed by trite, tin-panny TV commercial music. Sheesh!