Music Suggestions
Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time (B)

Liturgical Music

Official texts

Entrance Antiphon [Introit]:
1. (B/C) Deus in adiutorium meum intende [Graduale Romanum, p.315]
2. (B/C) Deus in adiutorium meum intende [Gregorian Missal, p.516/533]
3. Deus in adiutorium (Girolamo Ferrari da Mondondone, Claudio Monteverdi)
4. Choose one Antiphona ad introitum and Psalmus from any of the eight Masses for Ordinary Time [Graduale simplex, pp.215-252]
5. (B/C) O God, come to my assistance [Simple English Propers, p.266 (Adam Bartlett)]
6. God, come to my help [Simple Choral Gradual, p.197 (Richard Rice) CMAA]
7. O God, come to my assistance [Lumen Christi Missal, p.941 (Adam Bartlett) Illuminare Publications]
8. O God, come to my assistance [Saint Meinrad Antiphons for the Church Year (Columba Kelly OSB) p.67, Mode 7 / OCP]
9. O God, come to my assistance [The Proper of the Mass (Fr. Samuel F. Weber OSB) 5 versions, pp.573-576]
10. O God, come to my assistance [English Proper Chants (John Ainslie) p.143, with Psalm 70[69] / Liturgical Press]
11. O God, come to my assistance [Lumen Christi Simple Gradual (Adam Bartlett) #270, with Psalm 70 / Illuminare Publications]
12. O God, come to my assistance [Mass Propers for Ordinary Time / Summer (Penkala) p.2, with Psalm 63]
13. 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]
14. (B/C) O God, Come to My Aid [tune: Saint George] from Introit Hymns 55 (Christoph Tietze)
Gradual (Responsorial Psalm):
1. (B/C) Benedicam Dominum [Graduale Romanum, p.316]
2. (B/C) Benedicam Dominum [Gregorian Missal, p.517/534]
3. Benedicam Dominum (Giovanni Croce, Josef von Eybler, Francesco Usper, Tomás Luis de Victoria)
4. I will alway give thanks (Charles King, Vaughan Richardson)
5. Choose one Psalmus responsorius from any of the eight Masses for Ordinary Time [Graduale simplex, pp.215-252]
6. Choose one Responsorial Psalm from any of the eight Masses for Ordinary Time [By Flowing Waters (Paul Ford) p.148-182 / Liturgical Press]
7. Chabanel Psalmody
8. Parish Book of Psalms (Arlene Oost-Zinner)
Alleluia (Gospel Acclamation):
1. Domine Deus salutis meæ [Graduale Romanum, p.317]
2. Domine Deus salutis meæ [Gregorian Missal, p.518/535]
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. (A/B) Precatus est Moyses [Graduale Romanum, p.317]
2. (A/B) Precatus est Moyses [Gregorian Missal, p.519/536]
3. Precatus est Moyses (Orlando di Lasso, 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. (A/B) Moses prayed to the Lord [Simple English Propers, p.268 (Adam Bartlett)]
6. (A/B) Moses pleaded with the Lord [Simple Choral Gradual, p.198 (Richard Rice) CMAA]
7. Choose one Offertory Antiphon from any of those suggested in #144-157 [Lumen Christi Missal, pp.946-949 (Adam Bartlett) Illuminare Publications]
8. Moses prayed in the sight of the Lord [The Proper of the Mass (Fr. Samuel F. Weber OSB) 2 versions, pp.576-579]
9. I will extol you, O Lord [Lumen Christi Simple Gradual (Adam Bartlett) #292, with Psalm 30 / Illuminare Publications]
10. Moses implored the Lord [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. Panem de cælo dedisti nobis [Graduale Romanum, p.319]
2. Panem de cælo dedisti nobis [Gregorian Missal, p.521/538]
3. Panem de cælo dedisti nobis [Communio, p.178 (Richard Rice) CMAA]
4. Choose one Antiphona ad communionem and Psalmus from any of the eight Masses for Ordinary Time [Graduale simplex, pp.215-252]
5. You gave us bread from heaven [Simple English Propers, p.270 (Adam Bartlett)]
6. You gave us bread from heaven [Choral Communio, p.150 (Richard Rice) Hostia Laudis Co]
7. You gave us bread from heaven [Simple Choral Gradual, p.199 (Richard Rice) CMAA]
8. The Lord says: I am the bread of life [Simple Choral Gradual, p.200 (Richard Rice) CMAA]
9. Choose one Communion Antiphon from any of those suggested in #158-186 [Lumen Christi Missal, pp.949-956 (Adam Bartlett) Illuminare Publications]
10. You gave us bread from heaven [Laudate Dominum Communion Antiphons (Andrew Motyka)]
11. You have given us, O Lord, bread from heaven [Saint Meinrad Antiphons for the Church Year (Columba Kelly OSB) p.67, Mode 5 / OCP]
12. I am the bread of life, says the Lord [Saint Meinrad Antiphons for the Church Year (Columba Kelly OSB) p.68, Mode 5 / OCP]
13. You have given us, O Lord, bread from heaven [The Proper of the Mass (Fr. Samuel F. Weber OSB) 4 versions, pp.580-582]
14. I am the bread of life, says the Lord [English Proper Chants (John Ainslie) p.145, with Psalm 36[35] / Liturgical Press]
15. You have given us, O Lord, bread from heaven [Lumen Christi Simple Gradual (Adam Bartlett) #312, with Psalm 78 / Illuminare Publications]
16. I am the bread of life, says the Lord [Lumen Christi Simple Gradual (Adam Bartlett) #313, with Psalm 36 / Illuminare Publications]
17. You have given us, O Lord, bread from heaven [Mass Propers for Ordinary Time / Summer (Penkala) p.9, with Psalm 34]
18. I am the bread of life, says the Lord [Mass Propers for Ordinary Time / Summer (Penkala) p.9, with Psalm 34]
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]
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)

Other liturgical music

Adoro te devote (arr. Gary Penkala)
Godhead Here in Hiding: A Marian Communion Piece (Msgr. Anthony Mancini)
Graduale Romanum [Solesmes edition]
Graduale simplex [Vatican edition]
Jesu dulcis: The Taste of Goodness (Robert Kreutz) [GIA Publications]
O sacrum convivium (Colin Brumby)
Psalm 34 (Gary Penkala)
Psalm 145 (Howard Hughes, SM)
Renaisance Alleluia (arr. Gary Penkala)
Taste and See: Psalm 34 (Gary Penkala)
Universal Music for Morning Prayer (Gary Penkala)
Universal Music for Evening Prayer (Gary Penkala)

Hymns

All My Hope on God Is Founded (CD #923, CHB #200, CBW #667, SMH #416)
Alleluia! Sing to Jesus (HPSC #112, ICEL #130, WIII #737, CBW #536, AH #601, PMB #663, CH #504, CHB #112, SMH #426, EH #347, VII #277, LCH #86, SEC #936, CBH #9)
Bread of the World, in Mercy Broken (CH #375, EH #196, CBH #27/28)
For the Beauty of the Earth (WIII #557, ICEL #225, HPSC #158, HH #163, CBW #624, PMB #125, CH #562, SMH #524, EH #296, VII #207, LCH #104, CBH #76)
Gift of Finest Wheat (WIII #736, HPSC #360, PMB #665, CBW #570, CH #389, SMH #528)
God Is My Strong Salvation (HPSC #165, ICEL #208, CH #646, HH #302)
Godhead Here in Hiding [Adoro te devote] (AH #511, CH #368, HPSC #164, ICEL #138, WIII #489, CHB #117, LCH #103, SMH #541)
Holy, Holy, Holy (WIII #485, ICEL #94, HPSC #185, CBW #634, CH #306, AH #460, CHB #96, SMH #562, EH #266, VII #209, LCH #126, SEC #929, CBH #109)
How Light the Bread of Angels from Hymns for the Liturgical Year
Humbly We Adore Thee [Adoro te devote] (PMB #675, CBW #587, CH #369, SMH #570, EH #204)
O Bread of Life (PMB #664)
O Food of Exiles Lowly (WIII #729, CH #380, SMH #655, VII #284)
O Lord Jesus, I Adore Thee (AH #513)
O salutaris Hostia (AH #519, WIII #757, CH #362, PMB #677, ICEL #148, SMH #681/2/3, LCH #163/4/5, SEC #968, CBH #204/205)
O Source of Life Divine (CD #888)
Panis angelicus (AH #523, CH #363, SMH #709, VII #309, LCH #116/7, SEC #895, CBH #224)
See Us, Lord, about Your Altar (PMB #666, CH #392, CBW #565)
The Head That Once Was Crowned with Thorns (WIII #464, ICEL #105, HH #303, CH #516, CHB #90, SMH #783, EH #106, VII #253)

AH = The Adoremus Hymnal, Ignatius Press

CBH = A Catholic Book of Hymns, Sacred Music Library

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 Hymnal & Missal, Corpus Christi Watershed

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

Anima Christi (Calvert Shenk)
Aquinas: Two Eucharistic Texts (Colin Brumby)
Ave Christe (Josquin des Prez)
Blessed Jesus, at Your Word (Henry Lebedinsky)
Christ Is the Heavenly Food (Roger Petrich)
Domine ad adjuvandum (Giovanni Battista Martini, Johann Simon Mayr, Tomás Luis de Victoria, Antonio Vivaldi)
God Be in My Head from Three Sacred Rounds, Volume 2 (Colin Brumby)
Gustate et videte (Heinrich Isaac) [Chester]
Gustate et videte (Giovanni Matteo Asola, Giovanni Paolo Cima, Orlando di Lasso)
Haste Thee, O God (Adrian Batten)
Jesus Said unto the People (John Stainer) [G. Schirmer]
Now, My Tongue, the Mystery Telling (arr. Alan Smith)
O esca viatorum (Heinrich Isaac) [GIA Publications]
O esca viatorum (Franz Joseph Haydn, Johann Michael Haydn, Peter Piel)
O quam suavis est (Calvert Shenk)
O sacrum convivium (Eugene Englert)
O sacrum convivium (Michael Lawrence)
O Taste and See (R. Evan Copley) [Augsburg]
O Taste and See (John Goss) [Novello]
O Taste and See (Ralph Vaughan Williams) [Oxford]
Salve Regina (Colin Brumby)
Schaffe in mir, Gott, ein reines Herz (Heinrich Schütz)
Soul of Christ, Sanctify Me (Alan Smith)
Tantum ergo Sacramentum (Christopher L. Bord)
Therefore We, before Him Bending (James C. Morrison)
Through all the changing scenes of life (Thomas Clark, Joseph Stephenson)
Two Settings of Tantum ergo (Rene Vierne & Wendelin Knauschner, ed. Andreas Willscher)

Organ Music

Adagio cantabile (Giuseppe Tartini)
Adoro te devote (Sr. Teresine Fonder) [Twenty-Six Miniatures]
Agincourt Hymn (John Dunstable)
Ave verum from Two Chant Meditations (Kevin Waters SJ)
Break Thou the Bread of Life (Wilbur Held) [Organist's Companion, October 1980]
Chorale Prelude on Holy, Holy, Holy (Beatrice Miller) [Organist's Companion, May 1993]
Christus der ist mein Leben (Johann Pachelbel)
Duet and Trio on Hyfrydol [Organist's Companion, August 1982]
Echo Fantasia (Jan Pietersoon Sweelinck)
Hambleton Suite (Tim Knight)
Holy, Holy, Holy (Hugh Livingston) [Organist, May 1981]
Humbly I Adore Thee (Myron Casner) [Parish Organist XI - Concordia]
Hyfrydol (Lois Hill) [Organist's Companion, November 1999]
Hymn Prelude on Nicæa (Peter Pindar Stearns) [Eight Hymn Preludes for Ascension & Pentecost - Flammer]
Improvistation / Elevation from Suite medievale (Jean Langlais)
Jam lucis orto sidere from Three Preludes on Chant Hymns (Mark Siebert)
Let Us Ever Walk with Jesus (Theodore Beck)
Meditation on Adoro te devote (Jack Goode) [Organist's Companion, June 1983]
O Bread of Life from Heaven (Jan Bender) [Organ Music for the Communion Service - Concordia 97-1395]
O Saving Victim (Robert Hebble) [For the Masses - The Sacred Music Press]
Pange lingua (Nicolas deGrigny) [Anthologia pro organo IV - Schott Frères]
Partita on Adoro te devote (Anthony Giamanco) [Organist's Companion, May & September 2000]
Partita on Nicæa (Charles Callahan) [Morning Star Music Publ]
Partita on Nicæa (Kathleen Scheide) [Organist's Companion, May 1996]
Prelude in F Major (Carl Nielson)
Prelude on Hyfrydol (Iteke Prins) [Organist's Companion, March 2002]
Prelude on Hyfrydol (Ralph Vaughan Williams) [Three Preludes on Welsh Hymn Tunes - Galaxy Music Corp]
Prelude on Hyfrydol (Healey Willan) [Ten Hymn Preludes, Set I - Peters 6011]
Prelude on Pange lingua (Donna N. Robertson)
Recessional (Charles Talmidge) [J. Fischer]
Sonata in g minor (Don Ignazio Cirri)
Thee We Adore (Daniel Burton) [Organist's Companion, March 1999]
Thee We Adore, O Savior (G. Winston Cassler) [This Is the Victory - Augsburg 11-9497]
Thee We Adore, O Savior (Healey Willan) [Organ Music for the Communion Service - Concordia 97-1395]
Toccata and Variation on Hyfrydol (Gordon Young) [American Organ Music, Vol 2 - Sacred Music Press]
Toccata on Duke Street (Gilbert Martin)
Variations on Adoro te devote (Dale Wood) [Music for Organ - The Sacred Music Press]
Variations on Nicæa (Robin Rokey) [Organist's Companion, May 1999]

Liturgical Hints & Ideas

During Ordinary Time in Year B we will highlight passages from the General Instruction on the Roman Missal (GIRM) that pertain to music during the liturgy. The GIRM contains rubrics and instructions (some of them new) for the celebration of the Mass. The first section below is a direct quote from the English translation of the document. The second section is a commentary on the passage.

Structure, Elements and Parts of the Mass: Fraction of the Bread (GIRM #83)

… The supplication Agnus Dei (Lamb of God) is usually sung by the choir or cantor with the congregation replying; or at least recited aloud. This invocation accompanies the fraction of the bread and, for this reason, may be repeated as many times as necessary until the rite has been completed. The final time it concludes with the words grant us peace.

Commentary: What is clear is that a musical setting of the Agnus Dei accompanies the action of the breaking of the bread. It should not start during the Rite of Peace and the music should continue as long as the fraction. What is not entirely clear is how this is to happen.

The GIRM text notes that the invocations may be repeated as long as necessary, ending with: Grant us peace — absolutely no mention is made of added tropes. Herein lies a controversy. An old document of the U.S. bishops, Liturgical Music Today (1982), suggested that in large liturgies, when the Fraction Rite would take considerable time, "one should not hesitate to add tropes to the litany" [#20]. This document has been replaced by Sing to the Lord (2007), which likewise states, "When the Agnus Dei is sung repeatedly as a litany, Christological invocations with other texts may be used" [#188].

The situation is this: The GIRM is an official document from the Vatican, binding on everyone involved in liturgy, bishops included. The document, Sing to the Lord, is a set of guidelines issued by the U.S. bishops, and is not rubrically binding on the liturgy, even within the U.S. Further, I'm not sure where the bishops found the authority to alter liturgical texts, something strictly forbidden by Vatican documents ["The reprobated practice by which Priests, Deacons or the faithful here and there alter or vary at will the texts of the Sacred Liturgy that they are charged to pronounce, must cease" Redemptionis sacramentum #59].

I would suggest that we sing the Agnus Dei as written in its three-part form. If large liturgies require extra time, the choir can sing an extension, perhaps a Renaissance setting of the Agnus Dei.

Music SuggestionsEighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time (B)