Music Suggestions
The Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time (A)

Liturgical Music

Official texts

Entrance Antiphon [Introit]:
1. Iustus es Domine [Graduale Romanum, p.332]
2. Iustus es Domine [Gregorian Missal, p.542]
3. Justus es Domine (Robert White)
4. Righteous, O Lord, Art Thou (Antonio Vivaldi) [Elkan-Vogel]
5. Choose one Antiphona ad introitum and Psalmus from any of the eight Masses for Ordinary Time [Graduale simplex, pp.215-252]
6. You are righteous, O Lord [Simple English Propers, p.292 (Adam Bartlett)]
7. Lord, you are just [Simple Choral Gradual, p.217 (Richard Rice) CMAA]
8. You are just, O Lord [Saint Meinrad Antiphons for the Church Year (Columba Kelly OSB) p.74, Mode 1 / OCP]
9. You are just, O Lord [The Proper of the Mass (Fr. Samuel F. Weber OSB) 4 versions, pp.621-623 / Ignatius Press]
10. You are just, O Lord [English Proper Chants (John Ainslie) p.155, with Psalm 119[118] / Liturgical Press]
11. You are just, O Lord [Lumen Christi Simple Gradual (Adam Bartlett) #275, with Psalm 119 / Illuminare Publications]
12. 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]
13. You are just, O Lord [Mass Propers for Ordinary Time / Fall (Penkala) p.1, with Psalm 100]
14. You are just, O Lord [Lumen Christi Missal, p.942 (Adam Bartlett) Illuminare Publications]
15. O Lord, My Good and Gracious God [tune: Old Hundredth] from Introit Hymns 60 (Christoph Tietze)
Gradual (Responsorial Psalm):
1. (A/B) Beata gens [Graduale Romanum, p.333]
2. (A/B) Beata gens [Gregorian Missal, p.543]
3. Blessed Is the Nation (John Stainer)
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. Domine, exaudi orationem [Graduale Romanum, p.334]
2. Domine, exaudi orationem [Gregorian Missal, p.544]
3. Domine, exaudi orationem (Antonio Cebrián, Anton Diabelli, Giovanni Gabrieli, Matthäus Nagiller)
4. Domine, exaudi orationem (Orlando di Lasso) [G. Schirmer]
5. Hear My Prayer, O Lord (Henry Purcell, Matthew Locke, Thomas Tomkins)
6. Choose one Alleluia or Psalmus alleluiaticus from any of the eight Masses for Ordinary Time [Graduale simplex, pp.215-252]
7. 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. Oravi Deum meum [Graduale Romanum, p.334]
2. Oravi Deum meum [Gregorian Missal, p.545]
3. Oravi ad Dominum (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina)
4. Choose one Antiphona ad offertorium and Psalmus from any of the eight Masses for Ordinary Time [Graduale simplex, pp.215-252]
5. I prayed to my God [Simple English Propers, p.293 (Adam Bartlett)]
6. I, Daniel, pleaded with the Lord [Simple Choral Gradual, p.218 (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. I, Daniel, prayed to my God [The Proper of the Mass (Fr. Samuel F. Weber OSB) 4 versions, pp.624-626 / Ignatius Press]
9. Look down, O Lord [Lumen Christi Simple Gradual (Adam Bartlett) #295, with Psalm 40 / Illuminare Publications]
10. Choose one Offertory Antiphon from any of the eight Masses for Ordinary Time [By Flowing Waters (Paul Ford) p.148-182 / Liturgical Press]
11. I, Daniel, prayed to my God [Mass Propers for Ordinary Time / Fall (Penkala) p.4, with Psalm 122]
Communion:
1. Vovete, et reddite [Graduale Romanum, p.335]
2. Vovete, et reddite [Gregorian Missal, p.546]
3. Sicut cervus desiderat (G.P. da Palestrina)
4. As the Deer for Water Longs (Handel/Hopson) [Agape]
5. As the Hart Panteth (Benedetto Marcello) [H.W. Gray]
6. Vovete, et reddite [Communio, p.298 (Richard Rice) CMAA]
7. Choose one Antiphona ad communionem and Psalmus from any of the eight Masses for Ordinary Time [Graduale simplex, pp.215-252]
8. Make vows unto the Lord [Simple English Propers, p.294 (Adam Bartlett)]
9. Make vows to the Lord [Choral Communio, p.163 (Richard Rice) Hostia Laudis Co]
10. Like a deer that longs [Simple Choral Gradual, p.219 (Richard Rice) CMAA]
11. I am the light of the world [Simple Choral Gradual, p.220 (Richard Rice) CMAA]
12. Choose one Communion Antiphon from any of those suggested in #158-186 [Lumen Christi Missal, pp.949-956 (Adam Bartlett) Illuminare Publications]
13. Make vows unto the Lord [Laudate Dominum Communion Antiphons (Andrew Motyka)]
14. Like the deer that yearns [Saint Meinrad Antiphons for the Church Year (Columba Kelly OSB) p.75, Mode 2 / OCP]
15. I am the light of the world [Saint Meinrad Antiphons for the Church Year (Columba Kelly OSB) p.75, Mode 2 / OCP]
16. Like the deer that yearns [The Proper of the Mass (Fr. Samuel F. Weber OSB) 5 versions, pp.627-630 / Ignatius Press]
17. Like the deer that yearns [English Proper Chants (John Ainslie) p.156, with Psalm 42[41] / Liturgical Press]
18. I am the light of the world [Lumen Christi Simple Gradual (Adam Bartlett) #318, with Psalm 36 / Illuminare Publications]
19. 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]
20. Like the deer that yearns [Mass Propers for Ordinary Time / Fall (Penkala) p.7, with Psalm 145]
21. I am the light of the world [Mass Propers for Ordinary Time / Fall (Penkala) p.7, with Psalm 145]
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

Common Psalms for Schools and Parishes (Thomas Cosley)
Gospel Acclamation for Ordinary Time (Gary Penkala)
Psalm 95 (Heinrich Schütz)

Hymns

All Creatures of Our God and King (WIII #520, HPSC #103, CBW #620, PMB #120, HH #186, AH #600, CH #555, CHB #198, SMH #410, VII #206, LCH #87)
Blessed Jesu, in This Mystery (CD #884)
Christ Is Made the Sure Foundation (WIII #617, HPSC #128, ICEL #183, CBW #542, CH #485, AH #561, CHB #209, SMH #470, EH #384, VII #306, LCH #156)
Come, Let Us Sing unto the Lord (HPSC #137)
Dear Lord and Father of Mankind (CD #922, ICEL #40, CHB #212, EH #435)
Draw Us in the Spirit's Tether (CD #889, WIII #731, SMH #510)
Father, We Thank Thee, Who Hast Planted (WIII #558, HPSC #156, CH #374, PMB #121, CBW #676, AH #515, CHB #116, SMH #521, EH #195, VII #322, LCH #131)
Gift of Finest Wheat (WIII #736, HPSC #360, PMB #665, CBW #570, CH #389, SMH #528)
God of Our Fathers (PMB #124, CH #660, WIII #764, ICEL #227, AH #625, HPSC #167, SMH #538, EH #143)
God Whose Giving Knows No Ending (WIII #631, CD #873)
Help Us Accept Each Other (WIII #656)
How Good A Thing It Is (HPSC #186)
Love Divine, All Loves Excelling (ICEL #152, WIII #588, AH #470, CH #454, CHB #242, SMH #627, EH #479, VII #276, LCH #93)
O God, Empower Us (WIII #642)
O Lord, My Good and Gracious God [tune: Old Hundredth] from Introit Hymns #60 (Christoph Tietze)
Praise to the Lord (WIII #547, ICEL #245, HPSC #284, CH #592, PMB #122, CBW #653, AH #612, CHB #110, SMH #721, EH #279, VII #205, LCH #79)
Rejoice the Lord Is King (WIII #493, ICEL #108, HPSC #290, HH #181, CBW #645, CH #515, CHB #261, SMH #731, EH #350, LCH #138)
The Great Creator of the Worlds (HPSC #322, EH #298)
To God with Gladness Sing (HPSC #335, WIII #2, CH #577)
What Wondrous Love Is This? (CD #822, WIII #600, HH #95, PMB #157, ICEL #164, CH #530, HH #95, SMH #828, LCH #50)
Your Love, O God, Has All the World Created (WIII #638)

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

Bless the Lord, All Nations (Caldara / Burkhardt) [Morning Star Music Publishers]
Cantate Domino (Giovanni Croce)
Christ Is Made the Sure Foundation (arr. Alan Smith)
Christ Is Our Cornerstone (Noel Rawsthorne) [Kevin Mayhew Ltd]
Come Ye Now, Make a Joyful Noise (Heinrich Schütz)
Concentus gaudii: Cantate Domino (J. William Greene)
Draw Us in the Spirit's Tether (Harold Friedell) [H.W. Gray]
God Reigns (Josquin des Pres) [Flammer]
God Was in Jesus (Johannes Herbst) [Boosey & Hawkes]
Justus es Domine (Cipriano de Rore)
O Come and Sing unto the Lord (Eugene Englert) [GIA Publications]
O Come, Let Us Sing unto the Lord (Orlando Gibbons) [Concordia]
O Come, Let Us Worship (G.P. da Palestrina) [E.C. Schirmer]
O Grant Me Wisdom (Gary Penkala)
O Lord, Thou Hast Searched Me (Carrie Nixon)
Prayer of Saint Francis (Gary Penkala)
Psalm 42: As Pants the Deer (Alfred Fedak) [Selah Publishing Co]
Sicut cervus (G.P. da Palestrina/Angelini)
The Lord Is a Mighty God (Felix Mendelssohn)
Ubi caritas (Gregorian chant) from Booklet of Chant, Volume 3
Venite exultemus Domino (J.P. Sweelinck)
You Shall Love the Lord Your God (Eugene Englert) [World Library Publications]

Organ Music

Alleluya (William Faulkes) [A Victorian Organ Album - Oxford]
Andantino (César Franck)
Bell Symphony (Henry Purcell)
Cantabile from Symphony VI (Charles-Marie Widor)
Cantilena (Josef Rheinberger)
Capriccio (Tarquino Merula)
Chorale Fantasia on Lasst uns erfreuen (Flor Peeters)
Chorale Prelude on Lobe den Herren (John Hebden Schaffner) [Organist's Companion, May 1999]
Chorale Toccata on Lasst uns erfreuen (R. Evan Copley) [H.W. Gray]
Christ Is Our Cornerstone (George T. Miles) [Parish Organist, Part 1 - Concordia]
Dear Lord and Father of Mankind (George Lachnauer) [Organist's Companion, September 1997]
God of Our Fathers (Carlos Staszeski) [Organist's Companion, September 1997]
Kommst du nun, Jesu, vom Himmel herunter (J.S. Bach) [Orgelwerke VII - Peters 246] [Church Organist's Golden Treasury II - Oliver Ditson Co
Lasst uns erfreuen (Lois Hill) [Organist's Companion, May 2001]
Liebster Jesu, wir sind hier (Paul Manz, J.S. Bach, Johann Walther)
Llangloffan (George Lachenauer) [Organist's Companion, September 2001]
Lobe den Herren (Johann Pachelbel)
Lobe den Herren (Max Reger) [Thirty Chorale Preludes - Peters 3980]
Lobe den Herren (J.G. Walther) [Eighty Chorale Preludes - Peters 4448] [Church Organist's Golden Treasury II - Oliver Ditson Co] [Anthologia pro organo IV - Schott Frères]
Meditation on Kyrie de Angelis (Glenn Caluda)
O Love How Deep (Paul Manz) [Morning Star Music Publishers]
Partita on Lobe den Herren (Don Freudenberg) [Organist's Companion, June 1986]
Postlude on Lasst uns erfreuen (Gordon Young) [Collage for Organ - Flammer HF-5011]
Praise to the Lord (Calvin Hampton) [Organist's Companion, October 1986]
Praise to the Lord (Paul Manz) [Five Improvisations for Wedding and General Use - Morning Star Music Publ 10-850]
Praise to the Lord (Friederich Zipp) [Parish Organist XII - Concordia]
Prelude, Fugue and Variation (César Franck)
Prelude in B-flat Major (J.S. Bach)
Prelude on Hyfrydol (Healey Willan, Paul Manz, Ralph Vaughan Williams)
Prelude on Lasst uns erfreuen (Russell Schulz-Widmar) [Organist's Companion, June 1980]
Prelude on National Hymn (Edward Mead) [Three Preludes]
Prelude on Wondrous Love (Rev. Brian K. Muzas) from Three Hymn Tune Preludes
Procession (Russell Schulz-Widmar) [Organist's Companion, August 1980]
Processional (Martin Shaw)
Rendez à Dieu (Robert J. Powell) [Eleven Chorale Preludes on Hymn Tunes - Flammer]
Toccata on Darwall (Dennis R. Johnson) [Organist's Companion, July 1999]
Toccata on God of Our Fathers (Craig Penfield) [Organist's Companion, September 1994]
Toccata on Lobe den Herren (Gordon Young) [Five Toccatas - Flammer HF-5009]
Variations on Lasst uns erfreuen; (Thomas Bohlert) [Organist's Companion, June 1988]
Variations on Christ Is Made the Sure Foundation (David Johnson)
Wondrous Love (Robin Dinda) [Organist's Companion, May 1990]
Wondrous Love (Don Freudenburg) [Organist's Companion, July 1996]
Wondrous Love (David N. Johnson) [American Organ Music, Vol 2 - Sacred Music Press]
Wondrous Love (Craig Penfield) [Organist's Companion, May 1995]
Wondrous Love (Russell Schulz-Widmar) [Organist's Companion, February 1982]
Wondrous Love (Dorothy Howell Sheets) [Organist's Companion, September 1991]

Liturgical Hints & Ideas

Catholic church music programs in the United States have strayed far from the ideal that is outlined for the Entrance Song in the rubrics of the Roman Missal. Paragraph 48 of the General Instruction of the Roman Missal reads: "This chant is sung alternately by the choir and the people or similarly by the cantor and the people, or entirely by the people, or by the choir alone. [… the antiphon with its Psalm from the Graduale Romanum … or the Gradual Simplex may be used …]." While most parishes opt for a standard hymn at the entrance, the rubrical preference for a psalm with antiphon may still be accommodated today. Ideally, we should be singing chant Propers from the official books. If this is not possible, however, there are many published responsorial psalm settings and it should be easy to find a version that matches the entrance psalm specified for each Sunday.

Here is today's specific entrance psalm, and some information about it:

Psalm 119

The regular structure of this psalm is apparent in its twenty-two stanzas of eight verses each. The psalm is an acrostic, with each stanza headed by a letter of the Hebrew alphabet, and each verse in the stanza beginning with that letter. It might be titled, "The Word of God," as every one of the psalm's 176 verses mentions the Word of God, using terms like way, law, decrees, precepts, statutes, commands, ordinances, words. As this psalm is used for three entrance chants during Fall Ordinary Time, here we will examine the first group of seven stanzas only.

Stanza 1: Those who walk in the law of the Lord shall be happy.
Stanza 2: Inexperienced youth learns to delight in God's statutes.
Stanza 3: The pilgrim on earth gains counsel from the decrees of the Lord.
Stanza 4: Through pain comes understanding.
Stanza 5: The Lord teaches his commands.
Stanza 6: The Lord is proclaimed by those seek his precepts.
Stanza 7: God remembers the outcast who keeps the law.

Music SuggestionsThe Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time (A)