Music Suggestions
Holy Thursday (EF)

Liturgical Music

Official texts

Introit:
1. Nos autem gloriári [Liber Usualis p.654]
2. Nos autem gloriári [Graduale Romanum p.201-202]
3. Nos autem gloriári [Gregorian Missal p. 286]
4. Nos autem gloriári (chant)
Gradual:
1. Chrístus fáctus est [Liber usualis, p.655-656]
2. Chrístus fáctus est [Graduale Romanum p.202-203]
3. Chrístus fáctus est [Gregorian Missal p. 287-288]
4. Chrístus fáctus est (chant)
5. Chrístus fáctus est by various composers
Offertory:
1. Dextera Dómini [Liber usualis, p.656]
2. Dextera Dómini [Graduale Romanum p.209-210]
3. Dextera Dómini [Gregorian Missal p. 293-295]
4. Dextera Dómini (chant)
5. Dextera Dómini by various composers
Communion:
1. Dominus Jésus [Liber usualis, p.657]
2. Dominus Jésus [Graduale Romanum p.210]
3. Dominus Jésus [Gregorian Missal p. 297-298]
4. Dominus Jésus (chant)
5. Dominus Jésus by various composers
Mass settings:
1. Mass XVIII "Deus Genitor alme" [Liber usualis, p.62-63]
2. Mass XVIII "Deus Genitor alme" [Graduale Romanum, p.57-58* in back of book]
3. Mass XVIII (Deus Genitor alme)

Other liturgical music

Asperges me [Liber usualis, p.11]
Asperges me Graduale Romanum, p.707
Asperges me Gregorian Missal (2010), p.84
Asperges me Corpus Christi Watershed

Hymns

Adoro te devote (ICEL #129/138, WIII #489, CH #370, CBW #587, CHB #291, AH #510, SMH #408)
An Upper Room (CD #879)
Ave verum Corpus (ICEL #131, WIII #730, HPSC #118,CHB #296, AH #514, SMH #444, LCH #132)
Lift High the Cross (WIII #704, HPSC #207, CD #847, PMB #56, HH #268, CBW #545, CH #542, AH #606, SMH #614, VII #244, LCH #151)
Now My Tongue the Mystery Telling (HPSC #228, EH #199)
O Food of Exiles Lowly (WIII #729, CH #380, SMH #655, VII #284)
Pange lingua gloriosi (ICEL #143, CH #361, AH #391, HPSC #275, CBW #584, CHB #303, SMH #706/7, VII #270, LCH #56)
Praise We Christ's Immortal Body [Pange lingua] (PMB #674, SMH #722)
Sing, My Tongue, the Glorious Battle (AH #404, CBW #583, CH #364, HPSC #298, ICEL #145, WIII #437, CHB #69, EH #66, VII #274/5)
The Lamb's High Banquet (ICEL #147, CBW #564, LCH #72)
Ubi caritas (CD #918, ICEL #60, CH #386, AH #390, CBW #575, CHB #309, SMH #806, LCH #54)
Weave a Song within the Silence [Pange lingua] (HH #250)
What Shall I Render to the Lord (HPSC #349, SMH #826)

AH = The Adoremus Hymnal, Ignatius Press

CBW = Catholic Book of Worship II / Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops

CD = Cantate Domino / Hymnal Supplement, GIA Publications, Inc.

CH = The Collegeville Hymnal, The Liturgical Press

CHB = The Catholic Hymn Book [London Oratory], Gracewing Publishers

EH = The Hymnal 1940 (Episcopal), used by many Anglican Use Roman Catholic parishes

HH = Hymnal of the Hours, GIA Publications, Inc.

HPSC = Hymns, Psalms & Spiritual Canticles, out of print but excellent

ICEL = ICEL Resource Collection, GIA Publications, Inc.

LCH = Lumen Christi Hymnal, Illuminare Publications

PMB = People's Mass Book, World Library Publications, Inc.

SEC = Saint Edmund Campion Missal & Hymnal, Corpus Christi Watershed

SMH = The Saint Michael Hymnal – 4th Edition 2011, Saint Boniface Church, Lafayette IN

WIII = Worship, 3rd Edition, GIA Publications, Inc.

Choral Music

Aquinas: Two Eucharistic Texts (Colin Brumby)
Ave verum corpus (William Byrd, Giacomo Carissimi, Christoph Dalitz, Gabriel Fauré, Mariano Garau, W.A. Mozart, Michael J. Oczko, Lorenzo Perosi, Josquin des Prez, Josef Rheinberger)
Ave verum (Timothy Flynn)
Beloved, Let Us Love One Another (Mark Siebert)
Faith, Hope and Love (Alexander Peloquin) [GIA Publications]
Godhead Here in Hiding (Msgr. Anthony Mancini)
I Give You a New Commandment (Harold Owen)
In Memory of You (Alexander Peloquin) [GIA Publications]
Mandatum novum do vobis (Gregorian chant) Proper Antiphon for Foot-Washing [Graduale Romanum, p.167; Graduale simplex, p. 132]
Nos autem gloriari (Gregorian chant) Proper Introit for Holy Thursday [Graduale Romanum, p.162; Graduale simplex, p.129; Liber usualis, p.654]
Now, My Tongue, the Mystery Telling, (arr. Alan Smith)
O sacrum convivium (Giovanni Croce, G.P. da Palestrina)
O sacrum convivium, omitting final verse (Colin Brumby)
O salutaris (César Franck, arr. Jon Naples)
O Thou, Who at Thy Eucharist (Temple Bevan) from The Oxford Easy Anthem Book, p.99
Pange lingua gloriosi (Gregorian chant) from Booklet of Chant, Volume 2
Sacris solemniis (Claudio Casciolini, arr. Timothy Flynn)
Tantum ergo sacramentum (Christopher Bord)
The Lord Is My Shepherd (Stephen DeCesare)
Therefore We, before Him Bending (James Morrison)
Two Settings of Tantum ergo sacramentum (Rene Vierne & Wendelin Knauschner)
Ubi caritas (Gregorian chant) Proper Offertory for Holy Thursday [Graduale Romanum, p.168; Graduale simplex, p. 133; Liber usualis, p.664]
Ubi caritas (Maurice Duruflé)
Ubi caritas et amor (Luke Mayernik) [GIA Publications] with tenor solo
Ubi caritas et amor (Richard Proulx) [GIA Publications] uses handbells
Verbum caro (G.P. da Palestrina)
We Should Glory (Thomas Buffer)

Organ Music

According to De musica sacra et sacra liturgia – Instruction on Sacred Music and Sacred Liturgy (September 3, 1958) —

The playing of the organ, and all other instruments is forbidden [at Liturgies] during the following times:

Lent and Passiontide, from Ash Wednesday until the hymn Gloria in excelsis Deo in the Solemn Mass of the Easter Vigil

However, the following exceptions to the rule may be made:

a) the organ may be played, and other instruments used, on holy days of obligation

b) the organ may be used on the fourth Sunday of Lent, on Thursday of Holy Week during the Mass of Chrism, and during the solemn evening Mass of the Last Supper from the beginning to the end of the hymn Gloria in excelsis Deo

Throughout the Sacred Triduum, from the midnight before Holy Thursday until the hymn Gloria in excelsis Deo of the Solemn Mass of the Easter Vigil, the organ shall remain completely silent, excepting the instance mentioned in paragraph 83b.

Psalm numbering is according to the Latin Vulgate Bible.

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