Music for Lent-1-C (Feb 21)

Prelude:           -silence-during-Lent-
Introit:           Introit (Proper Chant in English)
Kyrie:             Missa XI (orbis factor): chant
Gloria:            -none-during-Lent-
Readings:          504
Psalm:             (Lent-1-C Guimont p 33) Be with me Lord ...
Acclamation:       (Lent-1-C TCBOGA p 26) One does not live ...
Intercessions:     138: Lord hear our prayer
Offertory:         336: On Eagle's Wings
                   (11) (sheet) Serenity: Ives
Sanctus-Mem-Amen:  Missa XI (orbis factor): chant
Agnus Dei          Missa XI (orbis factor): chant
Communion Hymn:    447: Shepherd Of Souls
Final Hymn:        243: Forty Days And Forty Nights
Postlude:          -silence-during-Lent-

Music Notes:


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


The Mass has three music categories. The Dialogues are
exchanges between priest and people. The Ordinary (Kyrie,
Gloria, Creed, Sanctus, Agnus) are intended for the people
to sing; the texts remain the same every week. The Propers
(Introit, Graduale, Alleluia/Tract, Offertory, Communion)
are intended for the cantor or choir to sing; the texts
change every week; in Sep 1958 permission was given for these
Propers to be substituted with hymns at Low Mass; Vatican Council II
(1962-1965) promoted the Proper texts; in 1969 the hymn permission
was shown to be superseded by Council desires to "sing the Mass"
not "sing during Mass"; in Sep 1993 this same clarification
was repeated. For the occasion in which singing was not able
to occur, a spoken text was provided (as seen in the Missalettes)
and to be used (these spoken texts do not usually match the sung
Proper texts).


During the Season of Lent (for five weekends) the Proper Introit
will be sung (in English) at the beginning of all weekend Masses;
it consists of: Antiphon (fragment of Scripture), Psalm verse,
Doxology (Glory be ...), repeated Antiphon. The melody is well-known
to all who attend the Sun 8:30 am Mass; it has been in use for almost
fourteen years! For those attending Sat 5 pm Mass and Sun 11 am Mass,
this will be a new experience. All are encouraged to listen to these
marvelous Scriptures which help direct our thoughts toward, and shape
our meditations of, the depth of Worship that is the Mass, and may
produce profound insights into the other Scriptures of the Day (First
Reading, Psalm, Second Reading, Gospel Acclamation, Gospel). You are
welcome to sing the Doxology.


The Introit (Lent-1): [Antiphon] When he calls to me, I will answer
him; I will rescue him, and give him honor; with length of days will I
satisfy him. [Psalm] Who so dwells under the defense of the Most High;
shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. [Doxology] Glory be to
the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost, as it was in the
beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen [Antiphon
repeated].


The Communion Antiphon (Graduale Romanum Chant Proper):
(Ps 90:4-5) 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).


Various Church documents call for changes of our external and
internal dispositions during the Penitential Season of Lent, in
order to make more room for God. The "fasting" from solo organ works
provides a silence before and after Mass; please use the silence
to prepare for the Sacred Mysteries, and to give thanks at the end,
without distraction from others. Conversations outside only, please.