THANKSGIVING DAY and FIRST SUNDAY OF ADVENT

THANKSGIVING DAY; XI-28-13, 9 AM

A very happy and blessed Thanksgiving to all parishioners at Sacred Heart.  One of the many reasons I am thankful is that I am able to serve this parish as your organist, for our singers for their assistance at Holy Mass, for Fr. Bucci for keeping me on board (plus his excellent homilies), and for you, the people that make up our wonderful parish.  And most important, to my own family for their love and support which make my existance possible.

That said...

MUSIC FOR HOLY MASS

Sung Ordinary of the Mass: Missa Populare "Laus Tibi Christe", music by Federico Caudana, for one last time.  Then I shall put it away until after Pentecost.

Entrance hymn: We gather together to ask the Lord's blessing (Maroon hymnal, #315)

Responsorial Psalm: Blessed be the name of the Lord for ever, sung to Psalm Tone 8G

Alleluia: from Christ is the King (Red Worship, #500)

Offertory hymn: Come, ye thankful people, come (Maroon hymnal, #137) (Listen)

- The hymn starts at the 1:36 mark of the listen link.

Communion music: organ improvisations on themes to be determined

Meditation hymn: Jesus, my Lord, my God, my All (Red Worship, #488)

Recessional hymn: Now thank we all our God (Maroon hymnal, #276)

Postlude: Nun Danket Alle Gott (Now thank we all our God), Sigfried Karg-Elert

FIRST SUNDAY OF ADVENT; XII-1-13

Simpler Mass ordinaries will be used during the season of Advent, as we prepare and await the festive time of our Lord's birth.  Further, on Sundays of Advent, the Gloria is omitted completely.

MUSIC FOR HOLY MASS

All numbers given for this weekend are in the Maroon hymnal.

Sung Ordinary of the Mass: Mass XVIII, the simple chant setting of the Sanctus and Agnus Dei, along with the chant Memorial Acclamation Mortem Tuam annuntiamus, Domine, and the Amen based on the beginning of the Sanctus from Mass VIII.

Entrance hymn: Lift up your heads, ye mighty gates (#484)

Responsorial Psalm: Let us go rejoicing to the house of the Lord, music by yours truly (same Psalm as the previous weekend, Christ the King)

Alleluia: adapted from the Mode IV chant tune Conditor Alme Siderum (which we know in English as Creator of the stars of night).

Offertory hymn: Lo! He comes with clouds descending (#5, second tune)

Communion anthem: To you I lift my soul, text by John Dunn, tune by John Ireland

Meditation hymn: O come, O come, Emmanuel (#2, verses 5, 6, and 7 only)

Recessional hymn: Rejoice, rejoice, believers (#4) (Listen)

Peace,

BMP

OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, KING OF THE UNIVERSE

This is one of those rare times in the three-year liturgical cycle that the same Psalm (in this case, Psalm 122) appears after the first reading.  We close Year C (in the Proper of Time, sometimes known as the Proper of Seasons) with three versicles of Psalm 122, along with the antiphon Let us go rejoicing to the house of the Lord.  Next Sunday, the First Sunday of Advent, we open Year A with Psalm 122 also, but with five versicles.  The only two other times a Psalm antiphon normally gets repeated on two or more consecutive Sundays are:

1. In Year B, Psalm 89 (antiphon: For ever I will sing the goodness of the Lord) on the Fourth Sunday of Advent and the Vigil Mass for Christmas, and

2. Also in Year B, Psalm 34 (antiphon: Taste and see the goodness of the Lord) on the 19th, 20th, and 21st Sundays of Ordinary (read: ordered) Time.

Our brass trio (two trumpets and French horn) will join us for the 5:00 PM Mass this Saturday, and the 9:00 and 11:15 AM Masses this Sunday, as we celebrate the Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, Universal King (in Festo Domini Nostri Jesu Christe, Universorum Regis).

MUSIC FOR HOLY MASS:

Numbers given are in the Red hymnal (Worship).

Entrance hymn: Rejoice, the Lord is King (#493) (with brass)

Gloria: Messa Populare "Laus Tibi Christe", music by Federico Caudana (with brass)

Responsorial Psalm: Let us go rejoicing to the house of the Lord, music by yours truly.

 

Alleluia: from the hymn Christ is the King (with brass)

Offertory hymn: Christ is the King (#500) (with brass)

Sanctus: "Laus Tibi Christe" Mass (with brass)

Memorial Acclamation: When we eat this bread..., adapted by yours truly from excerpts of the Gloria from the "Laus Tibi Christe" Mass

Amen: same as the Amen that concludes the Gloria from the "Laus Tibi Christe" Mass (with brass)

Agnus Dei: "Laus Tibi Christe" Mass

Communion anthem: Laudate Dominum, by Giuseppe Pitoni

Recessional hymn: To Jesus Christ, our Sov'reign King (#497) (with brass)

NOTE: Some Masses MAY end with Eucharistic Benediction.  If that's the case, the recessional will be omitted, and the following will be sung (all with brass):
1) O Salutaris (#757)
2) Tantum Ergo (#758)
3) Holy God, we praise Thy Name (#524)

Peace,
BMP

SUNDAY XXXIII

MUSIC FOR HOLY MASS

Sung Mass Ordinary and Alleluia: same as last weekend

All numbers given are in the Maroon hymnal.

Entrance hymn: Lo! he comes with clouds descending (#5, second tune) (Listen)

Responsorial Psalm: The Lord comes to rule the earth with justice, music by Fr. Samuel Weber

Offertory hymn: Faith of our fathers (#393)

Communion anthem: Wake, awake, for night is flying, music by Philip Nicolai, arranged by Johann Sebastian Bach (Those who wish to join in may do so - #3 in maroon hymnal)

Recessional hymn: O worship the King (#288) (Listen)

Peace,
BMP

SUNDAY XXXII

Just three more weeks before another liturgical year comes to a close.

MUSIC FOR HOLY MASS

The sung Mass Ordinary and Alleluia are the same as last Sunday.

Entrance hymn: The kingdom of God (Worship, #615)
- Same tune as Sing praise to the Lord, which we have sung before.

Responsorial Psalm: Lord, when your glory appears, my joy will be full, music by Father Samuel Weber, OSB (though it sounds like it could have been Ted Marier).

Offertory hymn: I heard the voice of Jesus say (Worship #607) (Listen)

Communion anthem: Jesu, joy of man's desiring, music by Johann Sebastian Bach

Meditation hymn: I vow to thee, my country (words will be printed in the bulletin) (Listen)

- Text written by Cecil Spring-Rice.  Tune, Thaxted, by Gustav Holst, which also served as part of Jupiter, from Holst's major work, The Planets.

Recessional hymn: God of our fathers (Worship, #764) (Listen)

Peace,

BMP