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The Second Sunday of Easter -or- Divine Mercy Sunday (A)

Liturgical Music

Official texts

  • Entrance Antiphon [Introit]:
    1. Quasi modo geniti [Graduale Romanum, p.216]
    2. Quasi modo geniti [Gregorian Missal, p.355]
    3. Ego sum pastor bonus [Graduale simplex, p.165]
    4. Ego sum pastor bonus (Thomas Kuras)
    5. Cantate Domino canticum novum [Graduale simplex, p.172]
    6. As newborn babes, alleluia [Simple English Propers, p.107 (Adam Bartlett)]
    7. Like newborn children [Simple Choral Gradual, p.93 (Richard Rice) CMAA]
    8. Rejoice to the full in the glory [Simple Choral Gradual, p.94 (Richard Rice) CMAA]
    9. Like newborn infants [Lumen Christi Missal, p.927 (Adam Bartlett) Illuminare Publications]
    10. As Newborn Infants Long for Milk [tune: Graefenberg] from Introit Hymns #23 (Christoph Tietze)
    11. Like newborn infants [Saint Meinrad Antiphons for the Church Year (Columba Kelly OSB) p.32, Mode 6 / OCP]
    12. Receive the joy of your glory [Saint Meinrad Antiphons for the Church Year (Columba Kelly OSB) p.32, Mode 4 / OCP]
    13. Like newborn infants [The Proper of the Mass (Fr. Samuel F. Weber OSB) 4 versions, pp.320-322 / Ignatius Press]
    14. Receive the joy of your glory [The Proper of the Mass (Fr. Samuel F. Weber OSB) 4 versions, pp.323-325 / Ignatius Press]
    15. Like newborn infants [English Proper Chants (John Ainslie) p.78, with Psalm 81[80] / Liturgical Press]
    16. Like newborn infants [Lumen Christi Simple Gradual (Adam Bartlett) #223, with Psalm 81 / Illuminare Publications]
    17. Alleluia: This is the day [By Flowing Waters (Paul Ford) p.95 / Liturgical Press]
    18. Like newborn infants [Mass Propers for Eastertide (Penkala) p.1, with Psalm 118]
    19. Receive the joy of your glory [Mass Propers for Eastertide (Penkala) p.1, with Psalm 118]
  • Alleluia I (Responsorial Psalm):
    1. Alleluia, in die resurrectionis meæ [Graduale Romanum, p.216]
    2. Alleluia, in die resurrectionis meæ [Gregorian Missal, p.356]
    3. Alleluia, confitemini Domino [Graduale simplex, p. 167 or 173]
    4. Psalm 118: Today is the day the Lord has made [By Flowing Waters (Paul Ford) p.97 / Liturgical Press]
    5. Chabanel Psalmody
    6. Parish Book of Psalms (Arlene Oost-Zinner)
  • Alleluia II (Gospel Acclamation):
    1. Alleluia, post dies octo [Graduale Romanum, p.217]
    2. Alleluia, post dies octo [Gregorian Missal, p.357]
    3. Post dies octo – Mane nobiscum (William Byrd)
    4. Alleluia, confitemini Domino [Graduale simplex, p.168 or 174]
    5. Psalm 114: Alelluia, alleluia [By Flowing Waters (Paul Ford) p.98 / Liturgical Press]
  • Sequence:
    The sequence, Victimæ paschali laudes, may be sung optionally on the weekdays during the Octave of Easter, and on the Second Sunday of Easter [see Gregorian Missal, p.357].
    1. Victimæ paschali laudes [Graduale Romanum, p.198]
    2. Victimæ paschali laudes [Gregorian Missal, p.351]
    3. Victimæ paschali laudes [Graduale simplex, p.160]
    4. Victimæ paschali laudes [CNP Booklet of Chant IV]
    5. Victimæ paschali laudes (Antoine Busnois, William Byrd, Orlando di Lasso, Cristóbal de Morales, Oscar Santos, Orazio Tarditi, Tomás Luis de Victoria, André Vierendeels)
    6. Christians, prasie the paschal victim! [By Flowing Waters (Paul Ford) p.101 / Liturgical Press]
    7. Praises to the Paschal Victim (Alex Hill)
  • Offertory:
    1. Angelus Domini [Graduale Romanum, p.217]
    2. Angelus Domini [Gregorian Missal, p.357]
    3. Angelus Domini [CNP #5151]
    4. Angelus Domini (Richard J. Clark)
    5. Angelus Domini (Felice Anerio, William Byrd, Joseph Furmanik, Andrea Gabrieli, José Maurício Nunes Garcia, Joseph Gruber, Hans Leo Hassler, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina)
    6. The Angel of the Lord [Simple English Propers, p.108 (Adam Bartlett)]
    7. An angel of the Lord [Simple Choral Gradual, p.95 (Richard Rice) CMAA]
    8. The angel of the Lord [Lumen Christi Missal, p.928 (Adam Bartlett) Illuminare Publications]
    9. The angel of the Lord [The Proper of the Mass (Fr. Samuel F. Weber OSB) 4 versions, pp.326-328 / Ignatius Press]
    10. The angel of the Lord [Lumen Christi Simple Gradual (Adam Bartlett) #224, with Matthew 28 / Illuminare Publications]
    11. The earth trembled [By Flowing Waters (Paul Ford) p.103, with Psalm 76 / Liturgical Press]
    12. The angel of the Lord [Mass Propers for Eastertide (Penkala) p.5, with Psalm 136]
  • Communion:
    1. Mitte manum tuam [Graduale Romanum, p.218]
    2. Mitte manum tuam [Gregorian Missal, p.358]
    3. Mitte manum tuam [Communio, p.150 (Richard Rice) CMAA]
    4. In Galilæa Jesum [Graduale simplex, p.170]
    5. Cantate Domino et benedicite [Graduale simplex, p.176]
    6. Mitte manum tuam [Communio, p.150]
    7. Stretch forth your hand [Simple English Propers, p.109 (Adam Bartlett)]
    8. Stretch forth your hand [Choral Communio, p.52 (Richard Rice) Hostia Laudis Co]
    9. Jesus spoke to Thomas [Simple Choral Gradual, p.96 (Richard Rice) CMAA]
    10. Bring your hand [Lumen Christi Missal, p.928 (Adam Bartlett) Illuminare Publications]
    11. Feel the place where the nails were [Laudate Dominum Communion Antiphons (Andrew Motyka)]
    12. Bring your hand and feel the place of the nails [Saint Meinrad Antiphons for the Church Year (Columba Kelly OSB) p.33, Mode 6 / OCP]
    13. Bring your hand and feel the place of the nails [The Proper of the Mass (Fr. Samuel F. Weber OSB) 4 versions, pp.329-331 / Ignatius Press]
    14. Bring your hand and feel the place of the nails [English Proper Chants (John Ainslie) p.79, with Psalm 118[117] / Liturgical Press]
    15. Bring your hand and feel the place of the nails [Lumen Christi Simple Gradual (Adam Bartlett) #225, with Psalm 118 / Illuminare Publications]
    16. Christ, our paschal lamb [By Flowing Waters (Paul Ford) p.103, with Psalm 66 / Liturgical Press]
    17. Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia [By Flowing Waters (Paul Ford) p.104, with Psalm 105 / Liturgical Press]
    18. Bring your hand and feel the place of the nails [Mass Propers for Eastertide (Penkala) p.9, with Psalm 66]
  • Mass settings:
    1. Mass of Our Lady, Help of Christians (Richard Connolly)
    2. Mass of the Angels (Richard J. Clark)
    3. Mass of the Redemption (Calvert Shenk)
    4. Missa I – Lux et origo (Gregorian chant) [Graduale Romanum, p.710]
    5. Missa I – Lux et origo (Gregorian chant) [Graduale simplex, p.75]
    6. Missa sanctorum angelorum (Calvert Shenk)
    7. Paschal Gloria (J. William Greene)

Other liturgical music

Hymns

  • All Glory Be to God on High (CD #909, HPSC #104, WIII #527, SMH #411)
  • All You on Earth (PMB #70, HH #118)
  • Christ Is Alive (WIII #466, PMB #79, CBW #504, CH #269)
  • Come, Ye Faithful, Raise the Strain (AH #417, ICEL #72, WIII #456, CHB #77, CH #279, SMH #490, EH #94, VII #247)
  • O (Ye) Sons and Daughters, Let Us Sing (CBW #506, CH #290, HPSC #358, ICEL #74, PMB #76, WIII #447, CHB #86, AH #412, SMH #837, EH #99, VII #354, LCH #69)
  • Only-begotten Word of God Eternal (HPSC #273, CH #495, WIII #666, EH #228)
  • Praise, My Soul, the King of Heaven (WIII #530, HPSC #279, ICEL #242, CBW #650, PMB #123, AH #611, CHB #258, CH #513, SMH #716, EH #282, VII #216, LCH #80)
  • Sing Praise to God Who Reigns Above (WIII #528, ICEL #246, HPSC #301, HH #203, SMH #749, VII #219)
  • 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)
  • This Is the Day (PMB #65, HPSC #329, CBW #589, WIII #663)
  • This Is the Lord's Day (Kathleen Pluth) from Hymns for the Liturgical Year
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

Organ Music

  • Alleluia! Resurrexit (Andrew Fletcher)
  • Alleluya (William Faulkes) [A Victorian Organ Album - Oxford]
  • Auf, auf, mein Herz, mit Freuden (F.W. Marpurg) [Twenty-One Chorale Preludes - Augsburg]
  • Awake, My Heart, with Gladness (Camil van Hulse) [Seven Preludes on Hymns for Easter - Concordia 97-1390]
  • Awake, My Heart, with Gladness (Wilbur Held) [Six Preludes on Easter Hymns - Concordia]
  • Awake, My Heart, with Gladness (Paul Manz) [Improvisations for the Easter Season, Set I - Morning Star Music Publ 10-402]
  • Awake, My Heart, with Gladness (Rudolph Moser) [Parish Organist, Part 1 - Concordia]
  • Chorale Fantasia on Lasst uns erfreuen (Flor Peeters)
  • Chorale Fughetta on O filii et filiæ (J.F. Konkel) [Organist's Companion, March 1992 & 1995]
  • Chorale Prelude on Mit freuden zart (William J. Ross) [Organist's Companion, April 1988]
  • Chorale Toccata on Lasst uns erfreuen (R. Evan Copley) [H.W. Gray]
  • Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing (George Lachenauer) [Organist's Companion, July 1998]
  • Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing (Paul Manz) [Improvisations on General Hymns - Morning Star Music Publ 10-830]
  • Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing (Alessandra Ward) [Organist's Companion, October 1988 - McAfee Music Corp]
  • Come, Ye Faithful, Raise the Strain (Alfred Fedak) [Organist's Companion, April 1984]
  • Come, Ye Faithful, Raise the Strain (Wilbur Held) from Six Preludes on Easter Hymns [Concordia 97-5330]
  • Easter Hymn (Richard Elsasser) [The Christian Year - Sacred Songs Co.]
  • Easter Hymn (Lois Hill) [Organist's Companion, March 2001 - McAfee Music Corp]
  • Ellacombe (Lois Hill) [Organist's Companion, March 1999 - McAfee Music Corp]
  • Fantasia on O filii et filiæ (Gilbert Martin) [The Sacred Organ Folio - Lorenz Publ Co]
  • Festival Intrada on Ellacombe (Roger Bailey) [Consoliere V-2]
  • Fugue: Chant du Pâques (Clément Loret) [Organist's Companion, March 1993]
  • Good Christian Men, Rejoice and Sing (Paul Manz) [Improvisations for the Easter Season, Set I - Morning Star Music Publ 10-402]
  • Hymn Prelude on In Babilone (Peter Pindar Stearns) [Eight Hymn Preludes for Ascension & Pentecost - Flammer]
  • Hymn Prelude on Llanfair (Peter Pindar Stearns) [Eight Hymn Preludes for Ascension & Pentecost - Flammer]
  • Jesus Christ Is Risen Today (Heinrich Fleischer) [Parish Organist, Part 1 - Concordia]
  • Jesus Christ Is Risen Today (Calvin Hampton)
  • Jesus Christ Is Risen Today (Wilbur Held) [Six Preludes on Easter Hymns - Concordia]
  • Jesus Christ Is Risen Today (Paul Manz) [Improvisations for the Easter Season, Set I - Morning Star Music Publ 10-402]
  • Jesus Christ Is Risen Today (Healey Willan) [Parish Organist, Book 8 - Concordia 97-1404]
  • Lasst uns erfreuen (Lois Hill) [Organist's Companion, May 2001]
  • Llanfair (David Schack) [Organist's Companion, April 1981]
  • Maestoso: Five Processionals (Calvert Shenk)
  • O filii et filiæ (Alexandre Guilmant) [The Sacred Organ Journal, Vol.13, No.4 - Lorenz]
  • O Sons and Daughters (Jean François Dandrieu) [Parish Organist, Book 8 - Concordia 97-1404]
  • O Sons and Daughters (Alfred Fedak) [Organist's Companion, April 1988]
  • O Sons and Daughters, Let Us Sing (George Lachenauer) [Organist's Companion, March 2002]
  • Offertoire pour le Temps pascal (Renaud de Vilbac) [Organist's Companion, March 1997]
  • Offertoire pour le Jour de Pâques (Jean-François Dandrieu) [Organist's Companion, March 1994]
  • Old Easter Melody with Variations (John E. West) [Organist's Companion, March 1998]
  • Partita on Gelobt sei Gott (Theodore Ripper) [Organist's Companion, April 1987 - McAfee Music Corp]
  • Partita on O filii et filiae (Jean-Francois Dandrieu)
  • Partita on O Sons and Daughters (Wilbur Held) [Augsburg 11-819]
  • Postlude on In Babilone (Gordon Young) [Collage for Organ - Flammer HF-5011]
  • Postlude on Lasst uns erfreuen (Gordon Young) [Collage for Organ - Flammer HF-5011]
  • Postlude on Lasst uns erfreuen (Gordon Young) [Collage for Organ - Flammer HF-5011]
  • Prelude for Easter Dawning (Dominick Argento) [AGO 90th Anniversary Anthology of American Organ Music - Oxford]
  • Prelude on Ellacombe (Alfred Fedak) [Organist's Companion, March 1991]
  • Prelude on Lasst uns erfreuen (Paul Manz) from Improvisations for the Easter Season [Morning Star Music Publishers #10-402]
  • Prelude on Lasst uns erfreuen (Russell Schulz-Widmar) [Organist's Companion, June 1980]
  • Prelude on O filii et filiæ (Healey Willan) [Ten Hymn Preludes, Set I - Peters 6011]
  • Prelude on Saint Magnus (Robert Hobby)
  • Prelude on Victimae paschali laudes (John Reese)
  • The Easter Sequence (Wilbur Held) from Six Preludes on Easter Hymns [Concordia 97-5330]
  • Toccata on Gelobet sei Gott (Alfred Fedak) [Organist's Companion, April 1986 - McAfee Music Corp]
  • Toccata on O filii et filiæ (Lynnwood Farnam) [Presser]
  • Variations on Ellacombe [Organist's Companion, September 1996]
  • Variations on In Babilone (Raymond Haan) [Flammer]
  • Variations on Lasst uns erfreuen (Thomas Bohlert) [Organist's Companion, June 1988]
  • Variations on O filii et filiæ (Raymond Haan)
  • Variations on O filii et filiæ (Joseph Noyon) [Consoliere VII-2 - World Library Publ]
  • Variations on O filii et filiæ (David Ruhl) [Organist's Companion, March 1991]
  • Variations on O Sons and Daughters (Alexandre Guilmant)
  • Ye Sons and Daughters of the King" (Jan Bender) [Parish Organist, Book 8 - Concordia 97-1404]
  • Ye Sons and Daughters of the King" (Camil van Hulse) [Seven Preludes on Hymns for Easter - Concordia 97-1390]

Liturgical Hints & Ideas

During the Easter Season the Church extends the joy and gladness of Easter day throughout several weeks. The Solemnity of Easter itself (and in particular the Great Easter Vigil) is the highpoint of the liturgical year. Since the celebration of the Easter feast is of such pre-eminence, the Church extends that celebration for seven days, called Easter Week. Each day of Easter Week is a solemnity of high rank, and rituals peculiar to Easter (like the double "Alleluia" sung at the dismissal) are continued each day during Easter Week. The importance of the "Week of Easters" is such that the Church multiplies it seven times, creating a season of joy and festivity. Thus the Easter Season is highly symbolic in length, a season of 7 times 7 days, culminating in the descent of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost (pente meaning "fiftieth").

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