Music for Lent-5-B (Mar 29)

Prelude:           -SILENCE-THROUGHOUT-LENT-
Processional Hymn: 229: Attende Domine
Kyrie:             Missa XI (orbis factor): chant
Gloria:            -none-during-Lent-
Readings:          515
Intercessions:     138: Lord hear our prayer
Offertory:         237: From Ashes To The Living Font
                   (11) (score p 115) He trusted in God: Handel
Sanctus/Mem/Amen:  Missa XI (orbis factor): chant
Agnus Dei          Missa XI (orbis factor): chant
Communion Hymn:    384: Take Up Your Cross
Final Hymn:        316: Thanks Be To You Forever
Postlude:          -SILENCE-THROUGHOUT-LENT-

Music Notes:


"Love one another". The virtue of Love or Charity is an act of the will whereby we choose the good of another. It is difficult to reconcile Charity with creating a distraction by chatter, versus maintaining silence to help a fellow parishioner to pray.


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 is one such rubric. It provides a more noticeable silence before and after Mass.


Please maintain the Silence inside the church both Before and After every Mass. All are reminded to continue to use the silence to prepare for the Sacred Mysteries, and to give proper thanks at the end, without creating a distraction for others by talking inside the church. The noise has become increasingly noticeable.


The Communion Antiphon (Graduale Romanum Chant Proper): Qui mihi ministrat, me sequatur; et ubi ego sum, illic et minister meus erit (If a man would serve me, let him follow me; wherever I am, my servant will be there too).