Music for Lent-4-B (Mar 22) Laetare

Prelude:           -SILENCE-THROUGHOUT-LENT-
Processional Hymn: 342: Amazing Grace
Kyrie:             Missa XI (orbis factor): chant
Gloria:            -none-during-Lent-
Readings:          512
Intercessions:     138: Lord hear our prayer
Offertory:         353: What Wondrous Love Is This
                   (11) (score p 98) Surely he hath borne: Handel
Sanctus/Mem/Amen:  Missa XI (orbis factor): chant
Agnus Dei          Missa XI (orbis factor): chant
Communion Hymn:    242: Tree Of Life
Final Hymn:        423: Lift High The Cross
Postlude:          -SILENCE-THROUGHOUT-LENT-

Music Notes:


Today is "Laetare Sunday", so named from the opening
word of the Introit (Isaiah 66:10-11 and Psalm 121:1):
"Laetare Jerusalem (Rejoice Jerusalem)". The special signs
of joy (flowers, rose vestments, greater use of instruments)
permitted this day encourage us in our course through this
season of penance. We have reached the mid-point of our
Season of Lent, having completed three weeks, with three
weeks remaining.


This weekend at the Saturday 5 pm (Vigil) Mass the Music
is led by the School Choir (Rebecca Monson, dir).


Please maintain Silence before and after every Mass.
During the Penitential Season of Lent, various Church
documents call for changes of our external and internal
dispositions, in order to make more room for God. The
"fasting" from solo organ works provides a silence before
and after Mass; all are encouraged to continue to use the
silence to prepare for the Sacred Mysteries, and to give
proper thanks at the end, without distraction toward others.


The Communion Antiphon (Graduale Romanum Chant Proper):
Ierusalem, quae aedificatur ut civitas, cuius participation
eius in idipsum; illuc enim ascenderunt tribus, tribus Domini,
ad confitendum nomini tuo, Domine (Jerusalem, built as a city
whose parts are bound firmly together! It is there that the
tribes go up, the tribes of the Lord, to give thanks unto your
name O Lord).