Music for Advent-1-A (Dec 2) Sunday A, Weekday 2

Prelude:           Conditor alme siderum (verset 1): Titelouze
Processional Hymn: 195: Creator Of The Stars Of Night
Kyrie:             Missa XVII (kyrie salve): chant
Gloria:            -none-during-Advent-
Readings:          477
Intercessions:     115: Lord hear our prayer
Offertory:         196: O Come Divine Messiah
                   (11) O thou that tellest: Handel
Acclamations:      Missa XVII (kyrie salve): chant
Agnus Dei:         Missa XVII (kyrie salve): chant
Communion Hymn:    199: Wait For The Lord
Final Hymn:        190: O Come O Come Emmanuel
Postlude:          Conditor alme siderum (verset 3): Titelouze

Music Notes:


Happy Liturgical New Year to all! The New Church Year begins
this weekend, and for the next twelve months our Scripture texts
will be found in the Hymnals under the headings "Sunday A" and
"Weekday 2". We begin the eighth year of use of the Catholic
Community Hymnal (blessed and distributed Dec 2000).


During Advent, our Introductory Rite is noticeably more penitential:
the Kyrie becomes more prominent as we set aside the Gloria except for
feast days (Dec 8 Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception, Dec 12 Feast of
Our Lady of Guadalupe).


The Communion Antiphon (Graduale Romanum Chant Proper): Dominus
dabit benignitatem; et terra nostra dabit fructum suum (The Lord will
bestow his loving kindness; and our land will yield its fruit).


Jean Titelouze (1563-1633) at a young age became organist at the
cathedral in Rouen France, and remained there the rest of his life.
Among his many compositions are three versets on the melody of "Conditor
alme siderum" (see Hymnal 195); the prelude and postlude this weekend
are his first and third versets (first with melody in pedals, third with
melody hidden among other notes in manuals and pedals).