The Three-Day Weekend

No, I don't mean Saturday, Sunday, and Labor Day.  I mean First Friday, Saturday, and Sunday!

MUSIC FOR HOLY MASS

Ordinary:
Gloria: recited, or Holy Angels Mass (BMP) (PDF) (omitted on Friday)
Sanctus, Amen, and Agnus Dei: A Community Mass (Richard Proulx)
Memorial C: ICEL chant

Alleluia: Owen Alstott (chant version in A-flat)

The rest:

First Friday (Sacred Heart Community Mass)
Friday IX-1 at 6 PM

O Sacred Heart, O Love Divine
Psalm 97: R./ Rejoice in the Lord, you just (Psalm Tone 8G)
Cor Dulce, Cor Amabile
Pange Lingua Gloriosi (Worship hymnal, #813, in Latin)
To Jesus' Heart, All-Burning ("Cor Amoris")

Sunday XXII of the Year
Saturday IX-2 at 5 PM; Sunday IX-3 at 7:30, 9, and 11:15 AM

Take up your cross (Worship hymnal, #634)
Psalm 63: R./ My soul is thirsting for you, O Lord, my God (Weber) (PDF)
When I survey the wondrous cross (Worship hymnal, #433)
Jesus, my Lord, my God, my All (Mother Alexis Donnelly, RSM)

- An audio file can be found by clicking here.  It is the sixth file on the sidebar of that site.  The recording was done at Holy Name of Jesus Church in Providence (where I was music director from 1999-2003) back in 1990 under the direction of the late Jon Carew.  I inherited this tune from the library of my predecessor (and still good friend) Dave Sylvestre.

All you who seek a comfort sure (Worship hymnal, #490)

Lift high the cross (Worship hymnal, #704)

Quod scripsi, scripsi!
BMP

Sunday XXI

MUSIC FOR HOLY MASS

Ordinary:
- Gloria: Holy Angels Mass (BMP) or recited
- Sanctus and Agnus: Mass for Christian Unity (Jan Vermulst)
- Memorial Acclamation A: Holy Angels Mass (BMP)
- Amen: Theodore Marier

Psalm 138: R./ Lord, your love is eternal; do not forsake the work of your hands (R./ Richard Proulx; V./ Joseph Gelineau)
Alleluia: Owen Alstott

Hymns, etc.:
The Church's one foundation (Maroon hymnal, #396)
Thou who at thy first Eucharst didst pray (Maroon hymnal, #191)
- sung to the familiar tune used with At that first Eucharist
He comes to us as one unknown ("Repton"; Charles Hubert Hastings Parry)
- This is the anthem during Communion.  However, feel free to join in.  It's in the Worship hymnal, #573.
How sweet the Name of Jesus sounds (Maroon hymnal, #455) (vv. 1-4)
Christ is made the sure foundation (back section of Maroon hymnal, #780)

Peace,
BMP

Sunday XX, and the Patrons of Fornelli

This Saturday's 5 PM Mass is our "Italian Heritage" Mass, in which we commemorate two patron saints (San Pietro Martire é San Domenico Abate) from Fornelli, Italy, the birthplace of much of our parish's ancestry. Brass trio (two trumpets and French horn) will be on hand).  Scripture and prayers, of course, correspond to the Sunday, that is, Sunday XX of the Year.

MUSIC FOR HOLY MASS

Ordinary (Saturday)

- Gloria, Sanctus, Amen (end of Gloria), and Agnus: Messa Populare "Laus Tibi Christe" (Federico Caudana)

- Memorial Acclamation (in Italian)

Ordinary (Sunday)

- Gloria: recited, or Holy Angels Mass (BMP)

- Sanctus and Agnus: Mass for Christian Unity (Jan Vermulst)

- Memorial Acclamation: Holy Angels Mass (BMP)

- Amen: Theodore Marier

Psalm 67 (all Masses): R./ O God, let all the nations praise you (Sam Schmitt) (PDF)
Alleluia (all Masses): Owen Alstott

Hymns, etc. (All Masses, except where noted)
Entrance: For all the saints (Worship hymnal, #705)
Offertory:
- (Saturday) By all your saints still striving (Worship hymnal, #706)
- (Sunday) Your hands, O Lord, in days of old (Worship hymnal, #750)
Communion anthem (except 7:30, of course): I cieli immensi (Benedetto Marcello, and yes, in Italian)
Post-Communion: Jesus, my Lord, my God, my All (Worship hymnal, #488)
Recessional: Holy God, we praise thy Name (Worship hymnal, #524)

Quod scripsi, scripsi!
BMP

The (Almost) Four-Day Weekend

You heard that right!  Almost four-day weekend!  Saturday and Sunday for the Nineteenth Sunday of the Year, and Tuesday for the Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, a Holy Day of Obligation.

MUSIC FOR HOLY MASS

Ordinary of the Mass:

Gloria: recited, or Holy Angels Mass (BMP)

Sanctus and Agnus Dei: Mass for Christian Unity (Jan Vermulst)

Memorial A: Holy Angels Mass (BMP)

Amen: Theodore Marier

Alleluia: Owen Alstott (A-flat chant setting)

The rest:

Sunday XIX of the Year

Saturday VIII-12 at 5 PM; Sunday VIII-13 at 7:30, 9, and 11:15 AM

When morning gilds the skies (Maroon hymnal, #367)

Psalm 85: R./ Lord, let us see your kindness, and grant us your salvation (BMP) (PDF)

O worship the King (Maroon hymnal, #288)

Adoro Te Devote (Mode V)
- This is the anthem during Communion.  However, you can join in.  This hymn is in the Worship hymnal, #489.

I sought the Lord (Maroon hymnal, #405)

Ye holy angels bright (Maroon hymnal, #600)

Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Tuesday VIII-15 at 9 AM and 7 PM

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

Psalm 45: R./ The queen stands at your right hand arrayed in gold (BMP) (PDF)

O Sanctissima (Worship hymnal, #712)

Ave Maria (setting TBD)

Salve Regina (Worship hymnal, #713)

Immaculate Mary (Worship hymnal, #708)

Pax!
BMP

The Three-Day Weekend

First Friday (Sacred Heart Community Mass), which is also the feast of St. John Vianney, plus this weekend, in which we celebrate the fixed date (August 6) feast of the Transfiguration of Our Lord, which trumps the 18th Sunday of the Year.  (The Gospel reading for the Transfiguration is very much similar to that of the Second Sunday of Lent.)

MUSIC FOR HOLY MASS

First Friday (Sacred Heart Community Mass)

Feast of St. John Vianney, Priest

Friday VIII-4 at 6 PM

O Sacred Heart, O Love Divine (on sheets provided)

Psalm 81: R./ Sing with joy to God our help (BMP) (PDF, versicles 1, 2, 4)

Alleluia: Alstott (the A-flat chant setting)

Alleluia! sing to Jesus (Maroon hymnal, #347, second tune, stanzas 1 and 4)
- I was looking for that "priest" motif and found it in stanza 4: Thou within the vail hast entered, robed in flesh our great High Priest, Thou on earth both Priest and Victim in the Eucharistic Feast.

Sung Mass:

- Sanctus and Agnus: Mass for Christian Unity (Vermulst)

- Memorial Acclamation A: Holy Angels Mass (BMP)

- Amen: Marier

Panis Angelicus (Hungarian tune)

To Jesus' Heart, all-burning (on sheets provided)

Transfiguration of the Lord

Saturday VIII-5 at 5 PM; Sunday VIII-6 at 7:30, 9, and 11:15 AM

O wondrous type, O vision fair (Maroon hymnal, #119)

Sung Mass:

- Gloria: Holy Angels Mass (BMP) or recited

- Sanctus and Agnus: Mass for Christian Unity (Vermulst)

- Memorial Acclamation A: Holy Angels Mass (BMP)

- Amen: Marier

Psalm 97: R./ The Lord is King, the Most High over all the earth (Proulx/Gelineau)

Alleluia: Alstott (the A-flat chant setting)

All hail the power of Jesus' Name (Maroon hymnal, #355, first tune)

Fairest Lord Jesus (tune: "Schonster Herr Jesu")
- Though this is the Communion anthem for the singers, you may join in.  It is in the maroon hymnal, #346, first tune.

I worship thee, Lord Jesus (Maroon hymnal, #252) (Listen)

Crown him with many crowns (Maroon hymnal, #352)

Peace,
BMP