Music for Lent-1-A (Feb 10)

Prelude:           -none-during-Lent--SILENCE--
Processional Hymn: 234: Parce Domine
Kyrie:             Missa XI (orbis factor): chant
Gloria:            -none-during-Lent-
Readings:          502
Intercessions:     138: Lord hear our prayer
Offertory:         243: Forty Days And Forty Nights
                   (11) Serenity: Ives
Acclamations:      Missa XI (orbis factor): chant
Agnus Dei:         Missa XI (orbis factor): chant
Communion Hymn:    336: Eagle Wings
Final Hymn:        237: From Ashes To The Living Font
Postlude:          -none-during-Lent--SILENCE--

Music Notes:


The Communion Antiphon (Graduale Romanum Chant Proper):
Scapulis suis obumbrabit tibi, et sub pennis eius sperabis:
scuto circumdabit te veritas eius (He will overshadow you with
his pinions, and you will find refuge under his wings. His
faithfulness will encompass you with a shield).


Liturgical Notes on SILENCE:


Sacrosanctum Concilium # 30 (Dec 1963):
To promote active participation, the people should be encouraged to
take part by means of acclamations, responses, psalmody, antiphons,
and songs, as well as by actions, gestures, and bodily attitudes.
And at the proper times all should observe a reverent silence.


Musicam sacram # 17 (Mar 1967):
At the proper times, all should observe a reverent silence
[footnote points to above]. Through it the faithful are not only
not considered as extraneous or dumb spectators at the liturgical
service, but are associated more intimately in the mystery that is
being celebrated, thanks to that interior disposition which derives
from the word of God that they have heard, from the songs and prayers
that have been uttered, and from spiritual union with the priest
in the parts that he says or sings himself.


General Instruction of the Roman Missal # 45 (Mar 2003):
Sacred silence also, as part of the celebration, is to be observed
at the designated times [footnote points to both above]. Its purpose,
however, depends on the time it occurs in each part of the celebration.
Thus within the Act of Penitence and again after the invitation to pray,
all recollect themselves; but at the conclusion of a reading or the
homily, all meditate briefly on what they have heard; then after
Communion, they praise and pray to God in their hearts.


Even before the celebration itself, it is commendable that silence
to be observed in the church, in the sacristy, in the vesting room,
and in adjacent areas, so that all may dispose themselves to carry
out the sacred action in a devout and fitting manner.