Music Suggestions
Twenty-fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time (C)

Liturgical Music

Official texts

Entrance Antiphon [Introit]:
1. Salus populi ego [Graduale Romanum, p.339]
2. Salus populi ego [Gregorian Missal, p.552]
3. Choose one Antiphona ad introitum and Psalmus from any of the eight Masses for Ordinary Time [Graduale simplex, pp.215-252]
4. I am the salvation of the people [Simple English Propers, p.304 (Adam Bartlett)]
5. I am the Savior of all people [Simple Choral Gradual, p.225 (Richard Rice) CMAA]
6. I am the salvation of the people [Lumen Christi Missal, p.943 (Adam Bartlett) Illuminare Publications]
7. I am the salvation of the people [Saint Meinrad Antiphons for the Church Year (Columba Kelly OSB) p.77, Mode 4 / OCP]
8. I am the salvation of the people [The Proper of the Mass (Fr. Samuel F. Weber OSB) 5 versions, pp.640-643]
9. I am the salvation of the people [English Proper Chants (John Ainslie) p.159, with Psalm 78[77] / Liturgical Press]
10. I am the salvation of the people [Lumen Christi Simple Gradual (Adam Bartlett) #277, with Psalm 37 / Illuminare Publications]
11. 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]
12. I am the salvation of the people [Mass Propers for Ordinary Time / Fall (Penkala) p.1, with Psalm 100]
13. I Am the Salvation [tune: Laudate Dominum] from Introit Hymns 62 (Christoph Tietze)
Gradual (Responsorial Psalm):
1. (C) Quis sicut Dominus [Graduale Romanum, p.269]
2. (C) Quis sicut Dominus [Gregorian Missal, p.443]
3. Choose one Psalmus responsorius from any of the eight Masses for Ordinary Time [Graduale simplex, pp.215-252]
4. Choose one Responsorial Psalm from any of the eight Masses for Ordinary Time [By Flowing Waters (Paul Ford) p.148-182 / Liturgical Press]
5. Chabanel Psalmody
6. Parish Book of Psalms (Arlene Oost-Zinner)
Alleluia (Gospel Acclamation):
1. Confitemini Domino, et invocate [Graduale Romanum, p.340]
2. Confitemini Domino, et invocate [Gregorian Missal, p.553]
3. O Render Thanks and Bless the Lord (Thomas Clark)
4. Choose one Alleluia or Psalmus alleluiaticus from any of the eight Masses for Ordinary Time [Graduale simplex, pp.215-252]
5. 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. Si ambulavero [Graduale Romanum, p.341]
2. Si ambulavero [Gregorian Missal, p.554]
3. Choose one Antiphona ad offertorium and Psalmus from any of the eight Masses for Ordinary Time [Graduale simplex, pp.215-252]
4. If I walk in the midst of tribulation [Simple English Propers, p.305 (Adam Bartlett)]
5. Though I walk in the midst of affliction [Simple Choral Gradual, p.226 (Richard Rice) CMAA]
6. Choose one Offertory Antiphon from any of those suggested in #144-157 [Lumen Christi Missal, pp.945-949 (Adam Bartlett) Illuminare Publications]
7. If I shall walk in the midst of tribulation[The Proper of the Mass (Fr. Samuel F. Weber OSB) 4 versions, pp.643-646]
8. Look down, O Lord [Lumen Christi Simple Gradual (Adam Bartlett) #295, with Psalm 40 / Illuminare Publications]
9. Choose one Offertory Antiphon from any of the eight Masses for Ordinary Time [By Flowing Waters (Paul Ford) p.148-182 / Liturgical Press]
10. Though I walk amid distress [Mass Propers for Ordinary Time / Fall (Penkala) p.4, with Psalm 122]
Communion:
1. Tu mandasti [Graduale Romanum, p.342]
2. Tu mandasti [Gregorian Missal, p.555]
3. Tu mandasti [Communio, p.270 (Richard Rice) CMAA]
4. Tu mandasti [Graduale simplex, p.247]
5. You have ordered that your commandments [Simple English Propers, p.306 (Adam Bartlett)]
6. You have ordered that your commandments [Choral Communio, p.167 (Richard Rice) Hostia Laudis Co]
7. You have laid down your precepts [Simple Choral Gradual, p.227 (Richard Rice) CMAA]
8. I am the Good Shepherd [Simple Choral Gradual, p.228 (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. O that my ways may be guided [Laudate Dominum Communion Antiphons (Andrew Motyka)]
11. You have laid down your precepts [Saint Meinrad Antiphons for the Church Year (Columba Kelly OSB) p.78, Mode 5 / OCP]
12. I am the Good Shepherd [Saint Meinrad Antiphons for the Church Year (Columba Kelly OSB) p.78, Mode 5 / OCP]
13. You have laid down your precepts [The Proper of the Mass (Fr. Samuel F. Weber OSB) 4 versions, pp.646-648]
14. I am the Good Shepherd [English Proper Chants (John Ainslie) p.160, with Psalm 23[22] / Liturgical Press]
15. Bring offerings, and enter his courts[Lumen Christi Simple Gradual (Adam Bartlett) #319, with Psalm 96 / Illuminare Publications]
16. 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]
17. You have laid down your precepts [Mass Propers for Ordinary Time / Fall (Penkala) p.8, with Psalm 145]
18. I am the Good Shepherd [Mass Propers for Ordinary Time / Fall (Penkala) p.8, 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

Adoro te devote (Gary Penkala)
Canticle of the Three Children (A. Gregory Murray)
Graduale Romanum [Solesmes edition]
Graduale simplex [Vatican edition]
Let All the People Praise You (Dale Wood)
Psalm 40 (Gary Penkala)
Psalm 69 (Gary Penkala)
Spirit of Strength and Courage from Seven Roman Basilica Processionals (Gary Penkala)
You Will Not Be Strangers(Alex Hill)
We Should Glory in the Cross from Seven Roman Basilica Processionals (Gary Penkala)

Hymns

Before Thy Throne, O God, We Kneel (CH #600, EH #499)
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)
Crown Him with Many Crowns (AH #481, CBW #549, CH #525, HPSC #145, ICEL #106, PMB #96, WIII #496, CHB #141, SMH #499, EH #352, VII #214, LCH #136)
Draw Near and Take the Body of the Lord (CD #181, WIII #732, ICEL #132, CH #378, EH #202, VII #278/9, SMH #509)
Festival Canticle: Worthy Is Christ (CH #265, WIII #458)
Gift of Finest Wheat (WIII #736, HPSC #360, PMB #665, CBW #570, CH #389, SMH #528)
Holy God, We Praise Thy Name (WIII #524, ICEL #134, HPSC #180, CBW #631, PMB #127, AH #461, CH #568, CHB #222, SMH #561, EH #273, VII #217, LCH #81)
I Want to Walk As A Child of the Light (WIII #510)
Lord, Whose Love in Humble Service (WIII #630, CH #606)
O Jesus, Joy of Loving Hearts (WIII #605, ICEL #139, HH #249, CH #510, SMH #665, EH #485)
O Lord, I Am Not Worthy (CD #894, AH #512, CH #376, SMH #672, VII #304, LCH #114)
O Love, Who Drew from Jesus' Side (AH #562, CH #492)
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)
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)
Sent Forth by God's Blessing (PMB #148)
The Church of Christ in Every Age (WIII #626, CH #613)
Those Who Love and Those Who Labor (WIII #632, CH #481)
What Wondrous Love Is This? (CD #822, WIII #600, HH #95, PMB #157, ICEL #164, CH #530, HH #95, SMH #828, LCH #50)
When Jesus Came Preaching the Kingdom of God (WIII #614, CH #647)
Worship the Lord in the Beauty of Holiness (ICEL #247, HH #59, SMH #836)

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

From All That Dwell (Colin Brumby)
Help Us to Help Each Other (S.Drummond Wolff) [Concordia Publishing House]
Laudate nomen Domini (Christopher Tye) [Novello]
Laudate pueri Dominum from Solemn Vespers (W.A. Mozart)
Laudate pueri Dominum (G.S. Geiger)
Laudate pueri Domino (Felice Anerio,Moritz Brosig, Dietrich Buxtehude, William Byrd, George Frideric Handel, Felix Mendelssohn, Domenico Scarlatti, Tomás Luis de Victoria)
Miserere nostri Domine (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina)
O Blessed Are the Poor in Spirit (Byzantine/Slavonic chant) [Worship III #620]
O Come, Ye Servants of the Lord (Christopher Tye) [Hinshaw]
O Jesus, King Most Wonderful (Christopher Tye)
O quam suavis est (Calvert Shenk)
Praise the Lord, Ye Servants (Richard Peek, John Blow)
Psalm 148 (Rev. Joseph Gelineau) [GIA Publications]
What God Ordains Is Right (Johann Pachelbel)

Organ Music

Adagio (Louis Vierne)
Adagio from Sonata II (Felix Mendelsson)
All Glory Be to God on High (J.S. Bach) [Wedding Music, Part II - Concordia 97-1370]
All Glory Be to God on High (J.S. Bach) [Parish Organist, Book 8 - Concordia 97-1404]
All Glory Be to God on High (Paul Manz) [Improvisations for Pentecost & Trinity Sunday - Morning Star Music Publ 10-500]
All Glory Be to God on High (Charles Ore) [Eleven Compositions for Organ Bk 1 - Concordia 97-5019]
All Glory Be to God on High (Johann Pachelbel) [Parish Organist, Part 1 - Concordia]
Allein Gott in der Höh (Andreas Armsdorf) [Church Organist's Golden Treasury I - Oliver Ditson Co]
Allein Gott in der Höh (J.C. Bach) [Organist's Companion, June 1980]
Allein Gott in der Höh (J.S. Bach) [Orgelwerke VI - Peters 245] [Church Organist's Golden Treasury I - Oliver Ditson Co]
Allein Gott in der Höh (Georg Böhm) [Church Organist's Golden Treasury I - Oliver Ditson Co]
Allein Gott in der Höh (J.P. Kirnberger) [Organist's Companion, October 1982 - McAfee Music Corp]
Allein Gott in der Höh (F.W. Marpurg) [Twenty-one Chorale Preludes - Augsburg] [Organist's Companion, July 1998]
Allein Gott in der Höh (Johann Pachelbel) [Church Organist's Golden Treasury I - Oliver Ditson Co] [Organist's Companion, August 1982]
Allein Gott in der Höh (David Polley) [Organist's Companion, May 1989]
Allein Gott in der Höh (Max Reger) [Thirty Chorale Preludes - Peters 3980]
Allein Gott in der Höh (J.C.H. Rinck) [Organist's Companion, July 1992]
Allein Gott in der Höh (G.P. Telemann) [Organist's Companion, July 1995]
Allein Gott in der Höh (A.N. Vetter) [Eighty Chorale Preludes - Peters 4448]
Allein Gott in der Höh (J.G. Walther) [Eighty Chorale Preludes - Peters 4448] [Church Organist's Golden Treasury I - Oliver Ditson Co] [Organist's Companion, October 1984]
Allein Gott in der Höh (F.W. Zachau) [Eighty Chorale Preludes - Peters 4448] [Organist's Companion, June 1984]
Andante sostenuto (Charles-Marie Widor)
Ave verum from Two Chant Meditations for Organ (Kevin Waters SJ)
Bicinium on All Glory Be to God on High (J.P. Sweelinck) [Consoliere VII-2 - World Library Publ]
Chorale Prelude on Duke Street (Robert J. Powell) [American Organ Music, Vol 2 - Sacred Music Press]
Duke Street (Mark Albrecht) [Organist's Companion, March 2002]
Herr Jesu Christ, dich zu uns wend (J.S. Bach)
Holy God, We Praise Thy Name (Paul Manz)
I Know That My Redeemer Lives (Hugo Gehrke) [Parish Organist, Part 10: Funeral Music - Concordia]
I Know That My Redeemer Lives (Charles Ore) [Eleven Compositions for Organ Bk 3 - Concordia 97-5702]
I Know That My Redeemer Lives (Richard Wienhorst) [Parish Organist, Part 1 - Concordia]
Jesus Shall Reign (Burton Isaac)
Partita on Duke Street (Donald Rotermund) [Concordia]
Partita on Jesus I Shall Ne'er Forsake (Johann Gottfried Walther)
Prelude and Chorale on Duke Street (David Schack) [Organist's Companion, April 1980]
Prelude on Allein Gott in der Höh (David Schack) [Organist's Companion, August 1985]
Ricercare (G.P. da Palestrina)
Rigaudon (André Campra)
Rosace (Henri Mulet)
Suite for Worship on Truro and Duke Street (G.W. Cassler) [Organist's Companion, April 1985]
Three Pieces for Chamadron (Michael Starke)
Toccata on Duke Street (Gilbert Martin) [The Sacred Organ Folio - Lorenz Publ Co]
Variations on Duke Street (Randolph Currie) [Organist's Companion, March 1996]
Variation sur un thème de Clément Jannequin (Jehan Alain)
Voluntary in A Major (William Selby)
Was Gott tut das ist wohlgetan (J.G. Walther)

Liturgical Hints & Ideas

The theology of the Eucharist is central to any understanding of liturgy, and close to the heart of Saint John Paul II and Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI. The Catholic bishops of Pennsylvania have produced an excellent booklet called Questions and Answers on the Eucharist and have granted permission for us to reproduce excerpts here. Please contact the Communications Director for the Pennsylvania Catholic Conference for copies of the full booklet, or to obtain permission to reproduce excerpts. The mailing address and website are found at the end of this page.

What is the relationship between the Eucharist and the Last Supper?

The origins of the Eucharist are found in the Last Supper. The Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches us that

in order to leave them a pledge of this love, in order never to depart from his own and to make them sharers in his Passover, he instituted the Eucharist as the memorial of his death and resurrection, and commanded his apostles to celebrate it until his return; 'thereby he constituted them priests of the New Testament' (1337).

In the context of the Last Supper Jesus instituted a new memorial sacrifice. As a perpetual memorial to his death and resurrection, in the course of the Passover meal with his apostles, he took the bread, "blessed and broke it and gave it to his disciples and said, 'Take, eat, this is my body'" (Mt 26:26). In like manner he took the ceremonial cup of wine, "gave thanks and passed it to his disciples saying, 'this cup which is poured out for you is the new covenant in my blood'" (Lk 22:20). Finally, he commanded them: "Do this in remembrance of me" (I Cor 11:24).

Like the Passover meal, this memorial sacrifice of the new law is both sacrifice and sacred meal. Both aspects remain inseparably a part of the same mystery. In an unbloody re-presentation of the sacrifice of the cross and in application of its saving power, the Lord is offered in the sacrifice of the Mass when through the words of consecration and the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, Christ is present in a sacramental form under the appearance of bread and wine to become the spiritual food of the faithful.

What does it mean that Jesus died once and for all?

It is true that there is only one sacrifice — the self-giving of Christ on the cross at Calvary. Once and for all Jesus, who was the victim for our sins, offered himself up for our redemption. "Therefore he is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who are called may receive the promise of eternal inheritance, since a death has occurred which redeems them from the transgressions under the first covenant" (Heb 9:15).

This one great sacrifice was accomplished by Jesus, the priest and victim, who offered himself on the altar of the cross for our redemption. This sacrifice need not and cannot be repeated, but it can be re-presented so that we are able, sacramentally and spiritually, to enter it and draw spiritual nourishment from it. While it is true that we cannot be physically present at Calvary, there is a real, sacramental and spiritual sense in which we are present as we participate in the Eucharist since the merit obtained for us through the death of Jesus is applied to us in what we call the paschal mystery — passover from death to life.

Continued next week…

Music SuggestionsTwenty-fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time (C)