Music Suggestions
Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time (A)

Liturgical Music

Official texts

Entrance Antiphon [Introit]:
1. Dum clamarem ad Dominum [Graduale Romanum, p.304]
2. Dum clamarem ad Dominum [Gregorian Missal, p.496]
3. Ego autem cum iustitia [Graduale Romanum, p.94]
4. Ego autem cum iustitia [Gregorian Missal, p.496]
5. Choose one Antiphona ad introitum and Psalmus from any of the eight Masses for Ordinary Time [Graduale simplex, pp.215-252]
6. When I cried out to the Lord [Simple English Propers, p.246 (Adam Bartlett)]
7. In my justice I shall see [Simple Choral Gradual, p.185 (Richard Rice) CMAA]
8. As for me, I will appear [Simple English Propers, p.247 (Adam Bartlett)]
9. As for me, in justice [Lumen Christi Missal, p.940 (Adam Bartlett) Illuminare Publications]
10. As for me, in justice [Saint Meinrad Antiphons for the Church Year (Columba Kelly OSB) p.62, Mode 1 / OCP]
11. As for me, in justice [The Proper of the Mass (Fr. Samuel F. Weber OSB) 4 versions, pp.545-547]
12. As for me, in justice [English Proper Chants (John Ainslie) p.135, with Psalm 17[16] / Liturgical Press]
13. As for me, in justice [Lumen Christi Simple Gradual (Adam Bartlett) #267, with Psalm 17 / Illuminare Publications]
14. As for me, in justice [Mass Propers for Ordinary Time / Summer (Penkala) p.2, with Psalm 63]
15. Choose one Entrance Antiphon and Psalm from any of the eight Masses for Ordinary Time [By Flowing Waters (Paul Ford) p.148-182 / Liturgical Press]
16. I Pleaded to the Lord my God [tune: Kingsfold] from Introit Hymns 51 (Christoph Tietze)
Gradual (Responsorial Psalm):
1. (A/C) Custodi me, Domine [Graduale Romanum, p.304]
2. (A/C) Custodi me, Domine [Gregorian Missal, p.498]
3. Custodi me Domine (Orlando di Lasso)
4. Choose one Psalmus responsorius from any of the eight Masses for Ordinary Time [Graduale simplex, pp.215-252]
5. Choose one Responsorial Psalm from any of the eight Masses for Ordinary Time [By Flowing Waters (Paul Ford) p.148-182 / Liturgical Press]
6. Chabanel Psalmody
7. Parish Book of Psalms(Arlene Oost-Zinner)
Alleluia (Gospel Acclamation):
1. Te decet hymnus, Deus [Graduale Romanum, p.305]
2. Te decet hymnus, Deus [Gregorian Missal, p.500]
3. Choose one Alleluia or Psalmus alleluiaticus from any of the eight Masses for Ordinary Time [Graduale simplex, pp.215-252]
4. Choose one Alleluia or Alleluia Psalm from any of the eight Masses for Ordinary Time [By Flowing Waters (Paul Ford) p.148-182 / Liturgical Press]
Offertory:
1. Ad te Domine levavi [Graduale Romanum, p.17]
2. Ad te Domine levavi [Gregorian Missal, p.501]
3. Ad te levavi (Johann Kaspar Aiblinger, Alessandro Scarlatti, Franz Xaver Witt)
4. Choose one Antiphona ad offertorium and Psalmus from any of the eight Masses for Ordinary Time [Graduale simplex, pp.215-252]
5. Unto you, O Lord [Simple English Propers, p.248 (Adam Bartlett)]
6. To you, O Lord [Simple Choral Gradual, p.186 (Richard Rice) CMAA]
7. Choose one Offertory Antiphon from any of those suggested in #144-157 [Lumen Christi Missal, pp.945-949 (Adam Bartlett) Illuminare Publications]
8. To you, O Lord [The Proper of the Mass (Fr. Samuel F. Weber OSB) 5 versions, pp.548-551]
9. You will save a lowly people [Lumen Christi Simple Gradual (Adam Bartlett) #291, with Psalm 18 / Illuminare Publications]
10. To you I lift up my soul [Mass Propers for Ordinary Time / Summer (Penkala) p.5, with Psalm 27]
11. Choose one Offertory Antiphon from any of the eight Masses for Ordinary Time [By Flowing Waters (Paul Ford) p.148-182 / Liturgical Press]
Communion:
1. Passer invenit sibi domum [Graduale Romanum, p.306]
2. Passer invenit sibi domum [Gregorian Missal, p.502]
3. Passer invenit sibi domum [Communio, p.188 (Richard Rice) CMAA]
4. Qui manducat carnem meam [Graduale Romanum, p.383]
5. Qui manducat carnem meam [Gregorian Missal, p.423]
6. Qui manducat carnem meam [Communio, p.213 (Richard Rice) CMAA]
7. Qui manducat carnem meam (Jacob Handl, Claudio Merulo)
8. Choose one Antiphona ad communionem and Psalmus from any of the eight Masses for Ordinary Time [Graduale simplex, pp.215-252]
9. The sparrow has found [Simple English Propers, p.249 (Adam Bartlett)]
10. The sparrow even finds a home [Simple Choral Gradual, p.187 (Richard Rice) CMAA]
11. The sparrow has found herself a home [Choral Communio, p.138 (Richard Rice) Hostia Laudis Co]
12. He who eats my flesh [Simple English Propers, p.251 (Adam Bartlett)]
13. Whoever eats my flesh [Simple Choral Gradual, p.188 (Richard Rice) CMAA]
14. Choose one Communion Antiphon from any of those suggested in #158-186 [Lumen Christi Missal, pp.949-956 (Adam Bartlett) Illuminare Publications]
15. Blessed are they who dwell in your house [Laudate Dominum Communion Antiphons (Andrew Motyka)]
16. The sparrow finds a home [Saint Meinrad Antiphons for the Church Year (Columba Kelly OSB) p.63, Mode 3 / OCP]
17. Whoever eats my flesh [Saint Meinrad Antiphons for the Church Year (Columba Kelly OSB) p.63, Mode 3 / OCP]
18. The sparrow finds a home [The Proper of the Mass (Fr. Samuel F. Weber OSB) 5 versions, pp.552-554]
19. Blessed are they who dwell in your house [English Proper Chants (John Ainslie) p.136, with Psalm 84[83] / Liturgical Press]
20. Whoever eats my flesh [English Proper Chants (John Ainslie) p.137, with Psalm 119[118] / Liturgical Press]
21. Blessed are they who dwell in your house [Lumen Christi Simple Gradual (Adam Bartlett) #309, with Psalm 84 / Illuminare Publications]
22. Whoever eats my flesh [Lumen Christi Simple Gradual (Adam Bartlett) #310, with Psalm 119 / Illuminare Publications]
23. The sparrow finds a home [Mass Propers for Ordinary Time / Summer (Penkala) p.8, with Psalm 34]
24. Whoever eats my flesh [Mass Propers for Ordinary Time / Summer (Penkala) p.8, with Psalm 34]
25. Choose one Communion Antiphon and Psalm from any of the eight Masses for Ordinary Time [By Flowing Waters (Paul Ford) p.148-182 / Liturgical Press]
Mass settings:
1. Latin Chant Masses VIII (De angelis) & XI (Orbis factor)
2. Latin Gregorian Chant Masses XI (Orbis factor) & VIII (De angelis)
3. Latin Missa sanctorum angelorum (Calvert Shenk)
4. Latin Mass of Saint Jerome (Christopher Bord)
5. Mass of Our Lady, Help of Christians (Richard Connolly)
6. Mass of Saint Agnes (B. Andrew Mills)
7. Mass of the Angels (Richard J. Clark)
8. Mass of the Redemption (Calvert Shenk / Adam Taylor)
9. Modal Mass (Calvert Shenk / Adam Taylor)
10. Stirling Bridge Mass (Gary Penkala)

Other liturgical music

Gloria Vaticana (Gary Penkala)
Graduale Romanum [Solesmes edition]
Graduale simplex [Vatican edition]
How Lovely Is Your Dwelling Place (Vermulst) [WLP]
Psalm for Communion: Taste and See (David O'Donnell)
Psalm 25 (Christopher Bord)

Hymns

A Mighty Fortress (WIII #575, HPSC #100, CBW #641, PMB #145, EH #551)
Almighty God, Your Word Is Cast (ICEL #177, CH #631)
At the Name of Jesus (WIII #499, ICEL #104, HPSC #116, CBW #538, HH #137, AH #602, CH #538, CHB #207, SMH #438, EH #356, VII #310, LCH #98)
Blessed Jesus, At Thy Word (ICEL #180, CD #859, HH #208, CH #655, VII #308, SMH #458)
Children of the Heavenly Father
Christ's Church Shall Glory in His Power (WIII #616, CH #487)
Gift of Finest Wheat (WIII #736, HPSC #360, PMB #665, CBW #570, CH #389, SMH #528)
God Has Spoken By His Prophets (WIII #516, CH #652)
God's Blessing Sends Us Forth (PMB #153, CH #605, SMH #543)
His Voice Is in the Thunder, in the Storm (WIII #515)
How Shall They Hear the Word of God? (WIII #629)
I Sing the Mighty Power of God (WIII #502, ICEL #228, HPSC #197, AH #616, CH #565, SMH #575, VII #218, LCH #96)
Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee (CH #581, HPSC #203, WIII #525, SMH #601, EH #281, VII #224, LCH #82)
O Be Joyful in the Lord (HPSC #234, CD #905)
O God, beyond All Praising (WIII #579, HH #199, SMH #659, LCH #89)
O God, Our Help in Ages Past (HPSC #241, WIII #579, ICEL #237, CBW #640, CH #457, PMB #128, HH #169, AH #624, CHB #249, SMH #661, EH #289, VII #203, LCH #92)
Only-begotten Word of God Eternal (HPSC #273, CH #495, WIII #666, EH #228)
Praise to the Holiest in the Height (CBW #651, PMB #131, ICEL #50, HPSC #285, CBW #651, AH #615, CH #514, CHB #260, SMH #719, EH #343, VII #287)
Sing, All Creation (HPSC #296)
Tell Out, My Soul, the Greatness of the Lord (HPSC #311, CD #846, CBW #638, CHB #264, WIII #534)
There's A Wideness in God's Mercy (WIII #595, ICEL #52, PMB #54, AH #613, CH #535, CHB #268, SMH #791, EH #304, LCH #122)
Thy Strong Word Didst Cleave the Darkness (WIII #511, HH #206)
To Bless the Earth, God Sendeth (HPSC #332)
We Gather Together (PMB #234, WIII #760, HPSC #344, CH #558, SMH #820, EH #315)
We Plow the Fields and Scatter (ICEL #219, CH #628, SMH #821, EH #138)
Word of God, Come Down on Earth (CBW #559, WIII #513, HPSC #355, PMB #105, CH #654)
You Are the Way (ICEL #216, HH #216, CH #520)

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.

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

VII = Vatican II Hymnal, Corpus Christi Watershed

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

Choral Music

Adoro te devote (Andrew R. Motyka)
All Things Bright and Beautiful (arr. Jonathan Brannon)
God Be in My Head (Colin Brumby)
How Lovely Are Thy Dwellings Fair (Colin Brumby)
How Lovely Are Thy Temples (Widor/Brunelle) [Salabert]
How Lovely Is Thy Dwelling Place from A German Requiem (Johannes Brahms)
Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring (J.S. Bach)
Laus tibi, Christe [Music from Taizé] (Jacques Berthier) [GIA Publications]
O How Amiable (Ralph Vaughan Williams)
Quam dilecta tabernacula (André Campra) [Arista]
The Sufferings of the Present (Melchior Franck)
Thou Visitest the Earth (Maurice Greene)

Organ Music

A Mighty Fortress (Murray Bradshaw) [Organist's Companion, September 1991]
A Mighty Fortress (Wilbur Held) [Hymn Preludes for the Autumn Festivals - Concordia 97-5360]
A Mighty Fortress (Paul Manz) [Improvisations on Reformation Hymns - Morning Star Music Publ 10-803]
A Mighty Fortress (David Polley) [Organist's Companion, September 1990]
A Mighty Fortress Is Our God (Samuel Scheidt) [Parish Organist, Part 1 - Concordia]
A Mighty Fortress Is Our God (Russell Schulz-Widmar) [Organist's Companion, October 1980]
Adoro te devote from Two Communion Pieces for Manuals (Donna N. Robertson)
Butresses from Gothic Suite (Gordon Young)
Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott (J.S. Bach) [Orgelwerke VI - Peters 245]
Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott (Jan Bender) [Organist's Companion, October 1984]
Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott (Dieterich Buxtehude) [Church Organist's Golden Treasury I - Oliver Ditson Co] [Organist's Companion, October 1986] [Organist's Companion, October 1986]
Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott (C.F. Engelbrecht) [Organist's Companion, September 2001]
Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott (J.N. Hanff) [Church Organist's Golden Treasury I - Oliver Ditson Co] [Organist's Companion, June 1983]
Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott (A.F. Hesse) [Organist's Companion, October 1988]
Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott (G.F. Kauffmann) [Organist's Companion, September 1997]
Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott (J.C. Kittel) [Church Organist's Golden Treasury I - Oliver Ditson Co]
Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott (Carl Kuntze) [Organist's Companion, September 1989]
Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott (F.W. Marpurg) [Twenty-one Chorale Preludes - Augsburg] [Organist's Companion, September 1992]
Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott (Johann Pachelbel) [Eighty Chorale Preludes - Peters 4448] [Church Organist's Golden Treasury I - Oliver Ditson Co]
Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott (Michael Praetorius) [Eighty Chorale Preludes - Peters 4448]
Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott (Max Reger) [Thirty Chorale Preludes - Peters 3980]
Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott (J.C.H. Rinck) [Organist's Companion, October 1985 & September 1996]
Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott (Wilhelm Rudnick) [Organist's Companion, October 1987]
Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott (David Schack) [Organist's Companion, October 1982]
Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott (J.G. Walther) [Eighty Chorale Preludes - Peters 4448] [Church Organist's Golden Treasury I - Oliver Ditson Co] [Seasonal Chorale Preludes for Manuals, Bk 2 - Oxford] [Organist's Companion, September 1993 & 1995]
Ellacombe (Lois Hill) [Organist's Companion, March 1999]
Fantasia in g minor (J.S. Bach)
Fantasie über Ein feste Burg (John Knowles Paine) [Collected Works]
Festival Intrada on Ellacombe (Roger Bailey) [Consoliere V-2]
Festival Prelude on Ein feste Burg (William Faulkes) [Novello]
Hambleton Suite(Tim Knight)
Hymn Prelude on In Babilone (Peter Pindar Stearns) [Eight Hymn Preludes for Ascension & Pentecost - Flammer]
Hymn to Joy (Wilbur Held) [Organist's Companion, August 1982]
Kremser (George Lachenauer) [Organist's Companion, September 1998]
Introduction and Processional for the Wedding Day (Gilbert Martin) [The Sacred Organ Folio - Lorenz Publ Co]
Liebster Jesu (George Lachenauer) [Organist's Companion, May 1996]
Liebster Jesu (David Polley) [Organist's Companion, June 1985 - McAfee Music Corp]
Liebster Jesu, wir sind hier (J.S. Bach) [Orgelbüchlein] [Church Organist's Golden Treasury II - Oliver Ditson Co]
Liebster Jesu, wir sind hier (Carl Kuntze) [Organist's Companion, January 1998]
Liebster Jesu, wir sind hier (Max Reger) [Thirty Chorale Preludes - Peters 3980]
Liebster Jesu, wir sind hier (J.C.H. Rinck) [Organist's Companion, October 1984]
Liebster Jesu, wir sind hier (Randall Thompson) [24 Chorale Preludes, 4 Inventions & a Fugue - E.C. Schirmer]
Liebster Jesu, wir sind hier (J.G. Walther) [Eighty Chorale Preludes - Peters 4448] [Church Organist's Golden Treasury II - Oliver Ditson Co] [Organist's Companion, May 1990]
Méditation (Jean Langlais)
Meditation on Ein feste Burg (Jean Drahmann) [Organist's Companion, September 1998]
O God, Our Help in Ages Past (Heinrich Fleischer) [Wedding Music, Part II - Concordia 97-1370]
Our God, Our Help in Ages Past (George T. Miles) [Parish Organist, Part 3 - Concordia]
Partita on Hymn to Joy (Charles Callahan) [Morning Star Music Publ]
Partita on Saint Anne (Paul Manz) [Concordia 97-5307]
Paspied on Kremser (Bill Cain) [Organist's Companion, September 2000]
Postlude V (Hermann Schroeder)
Postlude on Hymn to Joy (Gordon Young) [Seven Chorale Preludes]
Postlude on In Babilone (Gordon Young) [Collage for Organ - Flammer HF-5011]
Postlude on Kremser (Dennis Johnson) [Organist's Companion, September 1991]
Prelude on Ebenezer Paul Manz, Charles Ore, David Ruhl)
Prelude on Ein feste Burg (J.S Bach, Marpurg, Pachelbel, Walther, Praetorius, Buxtehude, Reger, Hanff, Kittel)
Prelude on Ellacombe (Alfred Fedak) [Organist's Companion, March 1991]
Prelude on Hymn to Joy (Michael Burkhardt) [Morning Star Music Publ]
Prelude on In Babilone (Paul Manz, Wilbur Held, Raymond Haan)
Prelude on Kremser (Wilbur Held, Dennis Johnson, Michael Sullivan, Murray Bradshaw)
Prelude on Liebster Jesu (Bach, Walther, Reger, Manz, Thompson, Ore, Rinck)
Prelude on Morning Song (Wilbur Held, David Johnson)
Prelude on Richmond (Healey Willan) [Ten Hymn Preludes, Set I - Peters 6011]
Prelude on Saint Anne (Alfred Fedak) [Organist's Companion, June 1983]
Preludio ed Aria (Giovanni Battista Martini)
Processional on Hymn to Joy (Alice Jordan) [Organist's Companion, August 1986]
Thaxted from Two Preludes on British Hymns (John Ignatowski)
The Beatitudes: Eight Miniatures for Flute and Organ (Stephen McManus)
Three Variations on Kremser (Michael Sullivan) [Organist's Companion, October 1985]
Toccata in do (Michelangelo Rossi)
Toccata on Saint Anne (Gordon Young) [Five Toccatas - Flammer HF-5009]
Toccata-Prelude on Saint Anne (Garth Edmundson) [J. Fischer & Bros]
Variations on a Theme by Beethoven (Joseph Lowe) [Organist's Companion, June 1985]
Variations on Ellacombe[Organist's Companion, September 1996]
Variations on In Babilone (Raymond Haan) [Flammer]
Variations on King's Weston (Alfred Fedak) [Organist's Companion, June 1985]
Variations on Liebster Jesu (J.C.H. Rinck)
Variations on Saint Anne (James Konkel) [Organist's Companion, January 2001]
Voluntary on Ein feste Burg (Gordon Young)
Voluntary on Kremser (Gordon Young)
We Gather Together (Murray Bradshaw) [Organist's Companion, September 1992]
We Gather Together (J. William Greene)
We Gather Together (Wilbur Held) [Hymn Preludes for the Autumn Festivals - Concordia 97-5360]
We Gather Together (Lois Hill) [Organist's Companion, September 1999]
We Gather Together (Robin Rokey) [Organist's Companion, September 2001]
We Gather Together (Russell Schulz-Widmar) [Organist's Companion, October 1984]

Liturgical Hints & Ideas

Various tools are extremely useful to the musician responsible for planning liturgical music. During the summer Sundays in Ordinary Time we will explore these tools. The more of these you own or have access to, the easier and more complete will be your planning.

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The translation of Scripture found in the New American Bible (NAB) is that which is most commonly used in the United States. Having a hard copy of the full Bible or online version at New American Bible is useful for many reasons. Often, examining the context of the selected passage from the Lectionary (the text before and after what we hear at Mass) can clarify the fuller meaning. Brief passages are often selected for their pertinence to the celebration at hand, and brevity may necessitate reducing the amount of explanatory material before the passage.

The New American Bible, too, is noted for the quality of its introductions and footnotes. These can help educate us in matter scriptural. For example, in its introduction to The Book of Leviticus the NAB says:

The name "Leviticus" was bestowed on the third book of the Pentateuch by the ancient Greek translators because a good part of this book consists of sacrificial and other ritual laws prescribed for the priests of the tribe of Levi.

Further, in The Book of Revelation we hear of "One like the Son of Man, wearing an ankle length robe ... and a sharp, two-edged sword came out of his mouth." The footnote reads:

a sharp, two-edged sword: the word of God (Eph 6:17; Heb 4:12), which will destroy unrepentant sinners.

Having this tool at hand can do nothing but facilitate both our study of Scripture and our appreciation of the selections made by the Church for our worship.

Music SuggestionsFifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time (A)