Hosanna

English Chants for Holy Week and Easter

Format: Audio CD
Produced by: The Music Makers

This CD is the English complement to Exsultet. Both contain the chants for Holy Week from Palm Sunday to the Easter Vigil. While Exsultet contains the chants in their original Latin, the chants in this CD are the English translation from the Roman Missal, 3rd Edition. Hosanna is sung by Jeremy de Satgé, assisted by Patrizia Kwella.


 

From the General Instruction of the Roman Missal

The Importance of Singing

The Christian faithful who come together as one in expectation of the Lord’s coming are instructed by the Apostle Paul to sing together Psalms, hymns, and spiritual canticles (cf Col 3:16).

Singing is the sign of the heart’s joy (cf Acts 2:46). Thus Saint Augustine says rightly, ‘Singing is for one who loves’, and there is also an ancient proverb: ‘Whoever sings well prays twice over’.

Great importance should therefore be attached to the use of singing in the celebration of the Mass, with due consideration for the culture of peoples and abilities of each liturgical assembly.

However, in the choosing of the parts actually to be sung, preference is given to those that are of greater importance and especially to those which are to be sung by the Priest or the Deacon or a reader, with the people replying, or by the Priest and people together.

It has been both a privilege and a pleasure to record this CD of English-texted music for what is the most important week of the Church’s year and richest liturgically. The new English edition of the Missale Romanum encourages the liturgy to be sung.

Included here are the Gospels for Palm Sunday, Collects and Presidential Prayers, sung to solemn tone and both the shorter and longer form of the Easter Proclamation [Exsultet]. Several Prefaces have been included.

Unfortunately, it has not been possible to fit the Eucharistic Prayers on to this CD; but these may be found on the double CD And With Your Spirit, available from CNP.

It is hoped that this CD will act as an aid to all those wishing to sing the liturgy at this time, both clergy and laity alike.

Jeremy de Satgé
The Music Makers
December 2012

1. Hosanna to the Son of David
2. Gospel Year A
3. Gospel Year B
4. Gospel Year B alternative
5. Gospel Year C
6. Beginning of Procession: Invitation to Process
7. Glory and honor and praise
8. Collect
9. Prayer over the Offerings
10. Preface: The Passion of the Lord
11. Prayer after Communion
12. Prayer over the People

13. Collect
14. Where true charity: Ubi caritas
15. Prayer over the Offerings
16. Preface: The Sacrifice and the Sacrament of Christ
17. Prayer after Communion

18. Solemn Intercessions I
19. Solemn Intercessions II
20. Solemn Intercessions III
21. Solemn Intercessions IV
22. Solemn Intercessions V
23. Solemn Intercessions VI
24. Solemn Intercessions VII
25. Solemn Intercessions VIII
26. Solemn Intercessions IX
27. Solemn Intercessions X
28. The Showing of the Holy Cross
29. Faithful Cross: Crux fidelis
30. Prayer after Communion
31. Blessing

32. Lucernarium
33. Easter Proclamation [Exsultet] – longer version
34. Easter Proclamation [Exsultet] – shorter version
35. Gloria – intonation only
36. Easter Alleluia
37. Baptismal Liturgy
38. Litany of Saints
39. Blessing of Baptismal Water
40. The Blessing of Water
41. Vidi aquam – Latin
42. Vidi aquam – English
43. Prayer over the Offerings
44. Preface I of Easter
45. Prayer after Communion
46. Solemn Blessing
47. Easter Dismissal

48. Collect
49. Prayer over the Offerings
50. Prayer After Communion

51. Preface II of the Passion of the Lord