Happy Fathers Day to all the dads of the parish!
ORDINARY TIME, OR SEASON OF THE YEAR?
We are now into "Ordinary Time", which is by no means ordinary as in "regular", or in "back to normal", or (quoting the late President Warren Harding) a "return to normalcy", but in "Ordered Time". The Roman Missal, in the Latin which it was conceived, refers to this time as "Tempus per Annum", that is, "Season of the Year". Some might remember when the numbered Sundays were labeled as "Second Sunday of the Year" (circa 1970). So we've gone from "Xth Sunday after Epiphany (or after Pentecost)" to "Xth Sunday of the Year" in 1970. Then, a few years later, at least in a few vernacular tongues, it became "Xth Sunday of Ordinary Time".
BUT FIRST, SOME SOLEMNITIES!
In any case, before we get to those "numbered Sundays of the Year (er, Ordinary Time)", we have some Solemnities to get past first. The remainder of the month of June is chock-full of solemnities of the Lord. Four solemnities afoot, three of them on Sundays: Most Holy Trinity (this Sunday), Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ (Sunday VI-22), Most Sacred Heart of Jesus (Patronal Feast of our parish, Friday VI-27), and, from the Proper of Saints, Saints Peter and Paul (Sunday VI-29, Patrons of our diocesan Cathedral, and supercedes the 13th Sunday of the Year even without the patronal distinction). With those solemnities, we will be singing the Ordinary of the Mass from Federico Caudana's Laus Tibi Christe, which is familiar to most of you at this point.
MUSIC FOR HOLY MASS
Sung Ordinary of the Mass: Missa Populare "Laus Tibi Christe", music by Federico Caudana
Alleluia: Mode VI chant (also very familiar)
- These will be the settings for the remainder of June.
Numbers given are in the red Worship hymnal.
Entrance hymn: Come now, almighty King, #487
Responsorial Psalm: Glory and praise for ever, music by yours truly
- Though called the "responsorial Psalm", this responsory is not from the Book of Psalms, but from the "Canticle of the Three Young Men", which is from the Book of the prophet Daniel 3: 52-56. The full version of this canticle is about 30-some verses. For the readings of the Mass, it has been truncated to five.
Offertory hymn: Holy, holy, holy, #485
Communion anthem: Psalm 150 (O praise God in his holiness), by Charles Villiers Stanford)
Meditation hymn: Jesus, my Lord, my God, my All, #488
Recessional hymn: O God, almighty Father, #484
- one of a number of translations of, and/or hymns based on, the German Gott Vater! sei gepriesen, or as I like to say, "The Gott Vater!" ;)
Peace,
BMP
BUT FIRST, SOME SOLEMNITIES!
In any case, before we get to those "numbered Sundays of the Year (er, Ordinary Time)", we have some Solemnities to get past first. The remainder of the month of June is chock-full of solemnities of the Lord. Four solemnities afoot, three of them on Sundays: Most Holy Trinity (this Sunday), Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ (Sunday VI-22), Most Sacred Heart of Jesus (Patronal Feast of our parish, Friday VI-27), and, from the Proper of Saints, Saints Peter and Paul (Sunday VI-29, Patrons of our diocesan Cathedral, and supercedes the 13th Sunday of the Year even without the patronal distinction). With those solemnities, we will be singing the Ordinary of the Mass from Federico Caudana's Laus Tibi Christe, which is familiar to most of you at this point.
MUSIC FOR HOLY MASS
Sung Ordinary of the Mass: Missa Populare "Laus Tibi Christe", music by Federico Caudana
Alleluia: Mode VI chant (also very familiar)
- These will be the settings for the remainder of June.
Numbers given are in the red Worship hymnal.
Entrance hymn: Come now, almighty King, #487
Responsorial Psalm: Glory and praise for ever, music by yours truly
- Though called the "responsorial Psalm", this responsory is not from the Book of Psalms, but from the "Canticle of the Three Young Men", which is from the Book of the prophet Daniel 3: 52-56. The full version of this canticle is about 30-some verses. For the readings of the Mass, it has been truncated to five.
Offertory hymn: Holy, holy, holy, #485
Communion anthem: Psalm 150 (O praise God in his holiness), by Charles Villiers Stanford)
Meditation hymn: Jesus, my Lord, my God, my All, #488
- one of a number of translations of, and/or hymns based on, the German Gott Vater! sei gepriesen, or as I like to say, "The Gott Vater!" ;)
Peace,
BMP
