This weekend, we have it all. First Friday Mass at 6 PM, Saturday Funeral Mass at 9 AM, Saturday Nuptial Mass at 2:30 PM, and the usual Saturday/Sunday schedule.
MUSIC FOR HOLY MASS:
FIRST FRIDAY, IX-6, 6 PM
SACRED HEART COMMUNITY MASS
Entrance hymn: O Sacred Heart, O Love Divine (sheets provided)
Responsorial Psalm: I trust in the mercy of God for ever, Psalm Tone 8g
Alleluia: music by Robert Twynham (same as last Sunday)
Offertory hymn: Cor Dulcis, Cor Amabile
Ordinary of the Mass: Community Mass (same as last Sunday)
Communion anthem: Panis Angelicus, music by Cesar Franck
Recessional hymn: To Jesus' Heart, all-burning (sheets provided)
FUNERAL MASS, IX-7, 9 AM
Introit: Requiem Aeternam, Chant, Mode VI
- sung while the procession approaches the casket
Entrance hymn: Worship #704 Lift high the cross
- sung while the procession approaches the altar
Responsorial Psalm: Worship #32, antiphon I My shepherd is the Lord, nothing indeed shall I want, music by Joseph Gelineau, SJ
Alleluia: same as last Sunday
Offertory anthem: Ave Maria, music by Tomas Luis da Victoria
Ordinary of the Mass: Mass XVIII, pro defunctis
Communion hymn: Maroon #431 In heav'nly love abiding
Final Commendation: I believe that my Redeemer lives, music by Henri St. Louis
- Henri St. Louis is organist at Holy Apostles Church in Cranston. He is a well-known local concert organist and choral director as well, working with the Salisbury Singers.
Recessional hymn: Worship #178 In Paradisum
NUPTIAL MASS, IX-7, 2:30 PM
Alleluia and Ordinary: same as last Sunday
Entrance march: The Prince of Denmark's March, Jeremiah Clarke
Responsorial Psalm: Worship #819 The earth is full of the goodness, the goodness of the Lord, music by J. Robert Carroll and Joseph Gelineau, SJ
Offertory anthem: Ave Maria, music by Franz Schubert
Communion hymn: Maroon #479, first tune Love divine, all loves excelling
Recessional march: Trumpet Tune, Henry Purcell
- Henry Purcell also wrote the music we normally sing to the hymn Christ is made the sure foundation (Worship #617, Maroon #780)
SUNDAY XXIII OF ORDERED TIME, IX-8
Alleluia and Ordinary: same as last Sunday
Entrance hymn: Worship #675 When morning gilds the skies (Listen)
Gloria: recited or Mass VIII
Responsorial Psalm: In every age, O Lord, you have been our refuge, music by yours truly
Offertory hymn: Worship #634 Take up your cross
Communion anthem: Like as the hart, music by Vincent Novello
Meditation hymn: Worship #491 To Christ, the Prince of Peace
Recessional hymn: Worship #704 Lift high the cross
Peace,
BMP
