4th Sunday after Easter 2026
Processional hymn: Christ the Lord is Ris’n Again, 846
Recessional hymn: Praise, My Soul, the King of Heaven, 933
Kyriale: Mass I, 696; Creed I, 768
Marian Antiphon: Regina Cœli, Antonio Lotti
Antonio Lotti’s Regina Cœli was first published nearly 100 years after its creation by German Catholic Priest, Fr. Karl Proske in 1859. The composition is perhaps the most well known choral setting of the Marian Antiphon. Lotti sets the four voices together rhythmically which allows for the text to be heard clearly, and the bright major key highlights the joyful tenor of the prayer.
Antonio Lotti (1667–1740) was an Italian composer who spent is musical career at St. Mark’s in Venice working his way from a staff singer to organist and eventually choirmaster. His music was renowned in his own time as Johann Sebastian Bach, George Frideric Handel, and Jan Dismas Zelenka were all documented to have copies of Lotti’s Missa Sapientiae.