Music for Lent-3-C (Mar 11)

Prelude:           -none-during-Lent--SILENCE--
Processional Hymn: 239: The Glory Of These Forty Days
Kyrie:             Missa XI (orbis factor): chant
Gloria:            -none-during-Lent-
Readings:          510 (Gospel 508)
Intercessions:     138: Lord hear our prayer
Offertory:         (11) Salvator mundi: Palestrina
Acclamations:      (5) 185: Missa XVIII (simplex): chant
                   Missa XI (orbis factor): chant
Agnus Dei:         (5) 187: Missa XVIII (simplex): chant
                   Missa XI (orbis factor): chant
Communion Hymn:    356: I Heard The Voice Of Jesus Say
Final Hymn:        348: There's A Wideness In God's Mercy
Postlude:          -none-during-Lent--SILENCE--

Music Notes:


The Lenten rubrics indicate that the organ remain
silent except on Laetare Sunday and Solemnities and Festive days
and at any time to accompany singing, hence there are no preludes
or interludes or postludes. The purpose of the silent time before
and after Mass remains the same: it is meant to be used to prepare
for the Sacred Mysteries, and to give proper thanks afterward.
Please help others to pray during Lent!


Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525-1594) took his last name
from his native town near Rome. He was a choirboy at St Mary Major
in Rome (by 1537); organist at the cathedral in Palestrina (1544);
then held a succession of choirmaster positions: St Peters (1551),
St John Lateran (1555), St Mary Major (1560), privately for
Cdl Ippolito d’Este (1567), St Peters (1571-1594). After his wife
died (1580), he thought about becoming a priest, but instead married
a rich widow (1581) and ran her fur business while continuing his
career as the leading composer of Catholic church music for
unaccompanied choir (~100 Masses, ~375 motets, psalms, etc).