Music Suggestions
First Sunday in Lent (EF)

Liturgical Music

Official texts

Introit:
1. Invocábit me et égo exáudiam éum [Liber Usualis p.532]
2. Invocábit me et égo exáudiam éum [Graduale Romanum p.93-94]
3. Invocábit me et égo exáudiam éum [Gregorian Missal p. 238]
4. Invocábit me et égo exáudiam éum (chant)
Gradual:
1. Angelis súis mandávit de te [Liber usualis, p.533]
2. Angelis súis mandávit de te [Graduale Romanum p.94]
3. Angelis súis mandávit de te [Gregorian Missal p. 239]
4. Angelis súis mandávit de te (chant)
5. Angelis súis mandávit de te by Manuel Cardoso
Tract:
1. Qui hábitat in adjutório Altíssimi [Liber usualis, p.533-534]
2. Qui hábitat in adjutório Altíssimi [Graduale Romanum p.95-98]
3. Qui hábitat in adjutório Altíssimi [Gregorian Missal p. 240-244]
4. Qui hábitat in adjutório Altíssimi (chant)
Offertory:
1. Scápulis súis obumbrábit tíbi Dóminus [Liber usualis, p.537]
2. Scápulis súis obumbrábit tíbi Dóminus [Graduale Romanum p.98-99]
3. Scápulis súis obumbrábit tíbi Dóminus [Gregorian Missal p. 244]
4. Scápulis súis obumbrábit tíbi Dóminus (chant)
5. Scápulis súis obumbrábit tíbi Dóminus by various composers
Communion:
1. Scápulis súis obumbrábit tíbi [Liber usualis, p.537-538]
2. Scápulis súis obumbrábit tíbi [Graduale Romanum p.99]
3. Scápulis súis obumbrábit tíbi [Gregorian Missal p. 245-246]
4. Scápulis súis obumbrábit tíbi (chant)
5. Scápulis súis obumbrábit tíbi 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)]
4. Mass XVII

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

Again We Keep This Solemn Fast (WIII #420, HH #78, LCH #46)
Father of Mercy, God of Consolation (HPSC #155, ICEL #333, CH #409, CHB #216, EH #238)
Forty Days and Forty Nights (AH #362, CH #242, HH #73, ICEL #43, WIII #419, CHB #50, SMH #526, EH #55, VII #241, LCH #40)
God of All Mercy (HPSC #168)
Hear Our Entreaties, Lord (AH #366, CH #238, ICEL #254, PMB #48, WIII #414, CHB #293)
Lord Jesus, As We Turn from Sin (HPSC #213, HH #63, CH #241, SMH #620)
Lord, Who throughout These Forty Days (WIII #417, ICEL #47, HH #65, AH #360, CHB #54, HPSC #212, SMH #625, EH #59, VII #240, LCH #43)
My Song Is Love Unknown (CH #258, HH #90, WIII #439, CHB #65, SMH #635, LCH #47)
O Lord, Incline Thine Ear / Attende Domine (HPSC #250)
Sole Hope of All the World (CH #247)
These Forty Days of Lent (PMB #45)
With All My Powers of Heart and Tongue (HPSC #352)
Within the Shelter of the Lord (HPSC #353)

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

A Lenten Meditation (Gardner)
Ah Holy Jesus (Stephen DeCesare)
Ah Holy Jesus (William Matthis)
Attende Domine from Chant Booklet, Volume 2 (ed. Chris Bord)
Attende Domine (Matthew Koraus)
Ave Regina coelorum (Gregorian chant) Proper Marian antiphon for Lent [Liber usualis, p.278]
Ave Regina cælorum (Calvert Shenk)
Blest Are They (Handel / Hopson)
Create in Me, O Lord (Johannes Brahms) [G. Schirmer]
De profundis (W.A. Mozart)
Have Mercy upon Me (Thomas Tomkins)
He Shall Give His Angels Charge Over Thee (C.S. Lang) [Novello]
Hear Me, O Lord (Heinrich Schütz)
Hear, O Lord from Christus (Felix Mendelssohn)
If Thou Shalt Confess with Thy Mouth (C.V. Stanfod) [Novello]
In Thee, O Lord (F.J. Haydn)
Invocabit me (Gregorian chant) Proper Introit for Lent I [Liber usualis, p.532]
Lamb of God (arr. Marie Pooler)
Libera nos, Domine (Jacques Berthier) from Music from Taizé
Lord, O Lord, Have Mercy (Orlando di Lasso) [Augsburg]
Miserere mei Deus (Gregorio Allegri, Josquin des Prez, William Byrd)
Miserere mei Domine (Calvert Shenk)
O Crux ave (Rev. David Friel)
O My God, Bestow Thy Tender Mercy (Pergolesi/Hopson)
O My People (Colin Brumby)
Preserve Me, O God (Paul Manz) [Augsburg]
Therefore We before Him Bending (James Morrison)
When through the Garden Mary Went (C.V. Stanford)

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.

Music SuggestionsFirst Sunday in Lent (EF)