Holy Hour and Sunday IV

This Friday we have a special Holy Hour at 7 PM in honor of the Miraculous Missionary Image of Our Lady of Guadalupe.  The format is the same as our usual Marian Devotions we have in May and October.

ORDER OF MUSIC

Immaculate Mary (Worship hymnal, #708)

O Salutaris Hostia (Back cover of missalette, tune by Anthony Werner)

(Rosary and Litany are said)

Tantum Ergo (Back cover of missalette, tune by Oreste Ravanello)

Adoremus in aeternum Sanctissimum Sacramentum (Mode V)

Hail, holy Queen enthroned above (Worship hymnal, #702)

MUSIC FOR HOLY MASS

Sunday IV

Ordinary:
- Gloria: recited or Holy Angels Mass (BMP) (PDF)
- Sanctus and Agnus Dei: Mass for Christian Unity (Jan Vermulst)
- Memorial Acclamation: We proclaim your death, O Lord (Holy Angels Mass/BMP) (PDF)
- Dresden Amen

Psalm 146: R./ Blessed the poor in spirit; the kingdom of heaven is theirs (Sam Schmitt) (PDF)
Alleluia: Marier

Voluntaries:
Prelude: improvisation on Deus Tuorum Militum
Elevations and Postlude: improvisation on Deo Gratias (aka "The Agincourt Song")

Hymns, etc.:
Come, thou almighty King (Maroon hymnal, #271)
O love, how deep, how broad, how high (Maroon hymnal, #344)
Beati qui lugent ("Motetto") (Lorenzo Perosi)
Blest are the pure in heart (Maroon hymnal, #418)
Crown him with many crowns (Maroon hymnal, #352)

Peace,
BMP

Sunday III

MUSIC FOR HOLY MASS

Ordinary:
- Gloria: recited or Holy Angels Mass (BMP) (PDF)
- Sanctus and Agnus Dei: Mass for Christian Unity (Jan Vermulst)
- Memorial Acclamation: We proclaim your death, O Lord (Holy Angels Mass/BMP) (PDF)
- Dresden Amen

Psalm 27: R./ The Lord is my light and my salvation (Richard Proulx/Pére Joseph Gelineau, SJ)
- Music in Worship hymnal, #871
Alleluia: Marier

Voluntaries: TBD

Hymns, etc.
Sing praise to God who reigns above (Worship hymnal, #528)
Go, make of all disciples (Worship hymnal, #628)
Cantate Domino canticum novum (Vincent d'Indy)
I sought the Lord (Maroon hymnal, #405)
The Church's one Foundation (Maroon hymnal, #396)

Peace,
BMP

Sunday II, Ordinary Time, and Numbering

I'll bet some were expecting Baptism of the Lord this Sunday.  Sorry, that was last Monday.  You see, anytime the Sunday of Epiphany falls on January 7 or 8 (in this year's case, January 8), Baptism of the Lord gets moved to the Monday following (in this year's case, January 9).

Instead, we move onto the Second Sunday of Ordinary Time.  How is it that we always skip to the Second Sunday of Ordinary Time and not the First?  That's because the Baptism of the Lord (even when it does fall on a Sunday) is not the beginning of Ordinary Time, but the end of the Christmas Season.  The following day (this year, Tuesday, January 10) marks the beginning of the First Week of Ordinary Time.  So we call the Sunday that follows the "Second Sunday" (even though there was no "First Sunday") to mark the beginning of the new week.

So, without furthere ado...

MUSIC FOR HOLY MASS

Ordinary:
- Gloria: recited or Holy Angels Mass (BMP) (PDF)
- Sanctus and Agnus Dei: Mass for Christian Unity (Jan Vermulst)
- Memorial Acclamation: We proclaim your death, O Lord (Holy Angels Mass/BMP) (PDF)
- Dresden Amen

Psalm 40: R./ Here am I, Lord, I come to do your will (Richard Proulx/Pére Joseph Gelineau, SJ)
- The music is in the Worship hymnal, #868.
Alleluia: Theodore Marier

Voluntaries:
- Prelude and Elevations: TBD
- Postlude: improvisation on In der ist Freude

Hymns, etc.:

(Note: while the first two hymns appear in the Advent section of the hymnal, and the recessional hymn appears in the Epiphany section, all three go hand-in-hand with the Gospel for this Sunday.)

On Jordan's bank (Maroon hymnal, #10)
Hark! a thrilling voice is sounding (Maroon hymnal, #9)
In thee is gladness ("In der ist Freude"/Gastoldi)
Blest are the pure in heart (Maroon hymnal, #418)
Songs of thankfulness and praise (Maroon hymnal, #53)

Quod scripsi, scripsi!
BMP

First Three-Day weekend of 2017

This three-day weekend consists of the First Friday (January 6: Optional Memorial of Saint Andre Bessette) and this weekend (January 7/8: Solemnity of the Epiphany of the Lord).

MUSIC FOR HOLY MASS

First Friday (Sacred Heart Community Mass)
Optional Memorial of St. Andre Bessette
Friday I-6 at 6 PM

St. Andre spent some time in little old West Warwick.

Ordinary: Mass XVIII (Sanctus, Agnus); Mortem Tuam, Dresden Amen
Psalm 34: R./ Taste and see the goodness of the Lord (BMP) (PDF)
Alleluia "Divinum Mysterium" (Mode V, adapt. BMP) (PDF)

Voluntaries:
Prelude and Postlude: TBD
Elevations: improvisation on the Mode I Puer Natus in Bethlehem

Hymns, etc.:
Angels we have heard on high (Worship hymnal, #376)
Adeste Fideles (in Latin, Worship hymnal, #392)
Puer natus in Bethlehem (Mode I)
Hark! the herald angels sing (Worship hymnal, #387)

Solemnity of the Epiphany of the Lord
Saturday I-7 at 5 PM; Sunday I-8 at 7:30, 9, and 11:15 AM

The brass will be on hand for the 5 PM Mass this Saturday, and the 9 and 11:15 AM Masses this Sunday.

Ordinary:
- except 7:30: Mass of the Shepherds (Yon) (Gloria, Sanctus, Agnus)
- 7:30 only: Mass VIII (Gloria); Mass XVIII (Sanctus, Agnus)
- all Masses: Mortem Tuam, Dresden Amen
Psalm 72: R./ Lord, every nation on earth will adore you (BMP) (PDF)
Alleluia "Divinum Mysterium" (Mode V, adapt. BMP) (PDF)

Voluntaries:
Prelude: TBD
Elevations: Fanfare in B-flat (Ferguson)
Postlude: Nöel Suisse (Daquin)

Hymns, etc.:
O come, all ye faithful (Maroon hymnal, #12, verses 1, 2, 3, and 6)
We three kings of Orient are (Maroon hymnal, #51)
Break forth, O beauteous heav'nly light (Schop, arr. J.S. Bach)
As with gladness men of old (Maroon hymnal, #52)
What star is this with beams so bright (Maroon hymnal, #47)

Peace,
BMP