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.