Music for Lent-6-C (Mar 28) Palm-Passion

Prelude:           -silence-during-Lent-
Palm Blessing:     517 (gospel 519-C)
                   Hosanna: Berry
                   (11) Palm Sunday Antiphons: Schubert
Introit:           244: All Glory Laud And Honor
Kyrie:             -none-
Gloria:            -none-during-Lent-
Readings:          521 (gospel 524)
Psalm:             (Lent-6-C Guimont p 46) My God My God why ...
Acclamation:       (Lent-6-C TCBOGA p 26) Christ became obedient ...
Intercessions:     138: Lord hear our prayer
Offertory:         250: O Sacred Head Surrounded
Sanctus-Mem-Amen:  Missa XI (orbis factor): chant
Agnus Dei          Missa XI (orbis factor): chant
Communion Hymn:    311: Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence
Final Hymn:        -none-
Postlude:          -silence-during-Lent-

Music Notes:


Palm Sunday Antiphons: Hosanna filio David; benedictus qui
venit in nomine Domini. Rex Israel; Hosanna in excelsis.
(Hosanna to the Son of David, the King of Israel. Blessed
is he who comes in the name of the Lord. King of Israel;
Hosanna in the highest.) Pueri Hebraeorum, portantes ramos
olivarum, obviaverunt Domino, clamantes et dicentes: "Hosanna
in excelsis". (The children of Jerusalem welcomed Christ the
King. They carried olive branches and loudly praised the Lord:
"Hosanna in the highest") Pueri Hebraeorum vestimenta prosternebant
in via, et clamabant dicentes: "Hosanna filio David; benedictus
qui venit in nomine Domine". (The children of Jerusalem welcomed
Christ the King. They spread their cloaks before him and loudly
praised the Lord: "Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed is he who
comes in the name of the Lord!")


Sun 11 am Mass the Gospel is chanted, with choir singing crowd
parts composed by Orlande de Lassus (1530-1594).


Communion Antiphon (Graduale Romanum Chant Proper):
(Mt 26:42) Pater, si non potest hic calix transire,
nisi bibam illum; fiat voluntas tua (Father, if this
cup cannot pass away unless I drink it, thy will be done).

Music for Lent-5-C (Mar 21)

Prelude:           -silence-during-Lent-
Introit:           Introit (Proper Chant in English)
Kyrie:             Missa XI (orbis factor): chant
Gloria:            -none-during-Lent-
Readings:          516
Psalm:             (Lent-5-C Guimont p 45) The Lord has done ...
Acclamation:       (Lent-5-C TCBOGA p 26)  Even now says the...
Intercessions:     138: Lord hear our prayer
Offertory:         (5) 240: Hosea (Come Back To Me)
                   (830) 465: Forgive Our Sins
                   (11) (sheet) Forgive Our Sins: Sacred Harp
Sanctus-Mem-Amen:  Missa XI (orbis factor): chant
Agnus Dei          Missa XI (orbis factor): chant
Communion Hymn:    (5) 443: Without Seeing You
                   28: Be Merciful O Lord
Final Hymn:        353: What Wondrous Love
Postlude:          -silence-during-Lent-

Music Notes:


The Mass has three music categories. Dialogues are exchanges
between priest and people; texts never change. Ordinary (Kyrie,
Gloria, Creed, Sanctus, Agnus) are intended for all people to
sing; texts never change. Propers (Introit, Graduale,
Alleluia/Tract, Offertory, Communion) are intended for cantor
or choir to sing; texts change every week. In Sep 1958 permission
was given for In/Of/Co Propers to be substituted with hymns at
Low Mass; Vatican Council II (1962-1965) re-asserted the preference
for Propers; in 1969 the hymn permission was shown to be superseded
by Council desires of "singing the Mass not just singing during Mass";
in Sep 1993 this same clarification was repeated. Masses without
singing were to speak a text (see the Missalettes, these spoken
texts do not always match the sung Proper texts).


Listen to these marvelous Proper texts; they help direct our thoughts
toward God, shape our meditation, give insights into the other Scriptures
of the Day (First Reading, Psalm, Second Reading, Gospel Acclamation, Gospel).
Do join in singing the Doxology.


Introit (Lent-5): [Antiphon] Give sentence with me, O God,
and defend the cause of my soul against the ungodly people;
deliver me, and rid me from the deceitful and wicked; for you,
O Lord, art my God, and my strong salvation. [Psalm] O send out
your light and your truth, that they may lead me; and bring me
unto your holy hill, and to your dwelling. [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]


Communion Antiphon (Graduale Romanum Chant Proper):
(Jn 8:10,11) Nemo te condemnavit, mulier? Nemo, Domine.
Nec ego te condemnabo; iam amplius noli peccare.
(Woman, has no one condemned you? No one, Lord.
Neither do I condemn you; go and do not sin again.)

Music for Lent-4-C (Mar 14) Laetare

Prelude:           -silence-during-Lent-
Introit:           Introit (Proper Chant in English)
Kyrie:             Missa XI (orbis factor): chant
Gloria:            -none-during-Lent-
Readings:          513
Psalm:             (Lent-4-C Guimont p 42) Taste and see ...
Acclamation:       (Lent-4-C TCBOGA p 26) I will get up and go ...
Intercessions:     138: Lord hear our prayer
Offertory:         240: Hosea
                   (11) (sheet) There is joy: Sullivan
Sanctus-Mem-Amen:  Missa XI (orbis factor): chant
Agnus Dei          Missa XI (orbis factor): chant
Communion Hymn:    27: The Cry Of The Poor
Final Hymn:        342: Amazing Grace
Postlude:          -silence-during-Lent-

Music Notes:


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


The Introit (Lent-4): [Antiphon] Rejoice O Jerusalem; and
gather round rejoicing in gladness, all you that delight in
her; exult and sing for joy with her, all you that in sadness
mourn for her. [Psalm] I was glad when they said unto me;
we will go into the house of the Lord. [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]


Communion Antiphon (Graduale Romanum Chant Proper):
(Lk 15:32) Oportet te fili gaudere, quia frater tuus mortuus
fuerat, et revixit; perierat, et inventus est. (My son, you
should rejoice; for your brother who was dead has come back
to life; he was lost and he has been found.)


Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan MVO (1842–1900) was an English composer,
of Irish and Italian descent, best known for his operatic collaborations
with librettist W S Gilbert. "The Prodigal Son (1869)", an oratorio for
choir and soloists (Soprano, Contralto, Tenor, Bass), is the first setting
of this Gospel of Luke text. He completed it in about three weeks;
it reveals a strong musical influence of Felix Mendelssohn.

Music for Lent-3-C (Mar 7)

Prelude:           -silence-during-Lent-
Introit:           Introit (Proper Chant in English)
Kyrie:             Missa XI (orbis factor): chant
Gloria:            -none-during-Lent-
Readings:          510
Psalm:             (Lent-3-C Guimont p 39) The Lord is kind ...
Acclamation:       (Lent-3-C TCBOGA p 26) Repent says the Lord ...
Intercessions:     138: Lord hear our prayer
Offertory:         (5) 232: Somebody's Knocking
                   (830) 239: The Glory Of These Forty Days
                   (11) (NCAB p 224) Lord for thy tender mercy’s sake: Farrant
Sanctus-Mem-Amen:  (5) 117-118-119: Peoples/Danish
                   Missa XI (orbis factor): chant
Agnus Dei          (5) 187: Missa XVIII Agnus Dei: chant
                   Missa XI (orbis factor): chant
Communion Hymn:    242: Tree Of Life
Final Hymn:        (5) 386: Go Down Moses
                   348: There's A Wideness In God's Mercy
Postlude:          -silence-during-Lent-

Music Notes:


This is the weekend after First Friday. Saturday 5 pm Vigil
Mass: Lectors are from Grades 5 and 6; the Music is led by
the School Choir (Rebecca Monson, director).


The Introit (Lent-3): [Antiphon] My eyes are ever looking towards
the Lord, for he shall pluck my feet out of the snare; look upon
me and have mercy on me. [Psalm] Unto you, O Lord, do I lift up
my soul; my God, in you have I trusted, let me not be confounded.
[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 83:4,5) Passer invenit sibi domum, et turtur nidum, ubi reponat
pullos suos; altaria tua Domine virtutum, Rex meus,
et Deus meus; beati qui habitant in domo tua, in saeculum
saeculi laudabunt te (The sparrow has found herself a home,
and the turtledove a nest in which to lay her young;
at your altars, O Lord of hosts, my King and my God!
Blessed are they who dwell in your house, they shall praise
you for ever and ever).