Sounds so... ordinary... doesn't it? Which is part of the reason I still use the phrase "of the year" instead of "in/of Ordinary Time." Those days that don't fall in a named season anymore. At one time they did fall in named seasons. In the liturgical calendar before the 1969 major tinkering thereof, today would have been Holy Family, which now falls during the Christmas Octave. The Sundays to follow would have been "Sundays after Epiphany", thus giving Epiphany a season, that is, until the last three Sundays before Ash Wednesday, which would have been Septuagesima, Sexagesima, and Quinquagesima, respectively (roughly 70, 60, and 50 days, affectionately known as "Pre-Lent"), followed by Ash Wednesday, which begins Lent, which is, in Latin, Quadragesima (40 days). Those Sundays marked as "Ordinary Time" during the summer and fall months were once known as "Sundays after Pentecost", thus that entire stretch was known as the "Season after Pentecost".
The other reason I still use the phrase "of the year", for example, "Second Sunday of the Year," is that "of the year" is almost the literal translation from which the Latin Missal uses even to this day: "per annum." The only difference is the preposition "per," which is "through". For the few years of the 1969 Missal, "of the Year" was used in many of the English language liturgical books. In fact, Fr. Samuel Weber, OSB, the Benedictine priest from the famed St. Meinrad Archabbey in Indiana whose responsorial Psalms are often sung here, in many of his settings used the phrase "Nth Sunday through the Year" in the headings, literally faithful to the (even present) Latin from which our English Mass is translated.
That said:
MUSIC FOR HOLY MASS
ORDINARY OF THE MASS:
Gloria: Holy Angels Mass (BMP) or recited.
Sanctus and Agnus Dei: Mass for Christian Unity (Jan Vermulst)
Memorial Acclamation: We proclaim your death, O Lord... from Holy Angels Mass (BMP)
Amen: Dresden
Alleluia: setting by Theodore Marier (founder of the famed choir school st St. Paul's in Cambridge, MA, also known for his contributions to the Pius X Hymnal, published in 1953)
January 15: Sunday II through the Year
(stealing the cue of the aforementioned Fr. Weber)
Entrance hymn: On Jordan's bank ("Winchester New"/Maroon hymnal, #10)
Psalm 40: R./ Here am I, Lord; I come to do your will (Richard Proulx/Pérè Joseph Gelineau, SJ) (Worship hymnal, #868)
Offertory hymn: Hark! a thrilling voice is sounding ("Merton"/Maroon hymnal, #9)
Music during Communion:
- Responsory: We shall rejoice... (BMP) (PDF)
- or anthem: In thee is gladness (Giovanni Giacomo Gastaldi)
Meditation hymn: Jesus, my Lord, my God, my All ("Sweet Sacrament"/Worship hymnal, #488)
Recessional hymn: Songs of thankfulness and praise ("Salzburg"/Pew Missal, #246)
January 22: Sunday III through the Year
Entrance hymn: To the Name of our salvation ("Oriel"/Maroon hymnal, #326)
Psalm 27: R./ The Lord is my light... (Richard Proulx/Pérè Joseph Gelineau, SJ) (Worship hymnal, #871)
Offertory hymn: Go, make of all disciples ("Ellacombe"/Pew Missal, #137)
Music during Communion:
- Responsory: Look toward the Lord... (Adam Bartlett)
- or motet: Cantate Domino canticum novum (Vincent d'Indy)
Meditation hymn: I sought the Lord ("Artavia"/Maroon hymnal, #405)
Recessional hymn: Ye holy angels bright ("Darwall's 148th"/Maroon hymnal, #600)
January 29: Sunday IV through the Year
Entrance hymn: Come, thou almighty King ("Italian Hymn"/Pew Missal, #113)
Psalm 146: R./ Blessed are the poor in spirit... (Sam Schmitt)
Offertory hymn: O Love, how deep, how broad, how high ("Deus Tuorum Militum"/Maroon hymnal, #344)
Music during Communion:
- Responsory: Remember, Lord, thy servants (BMP) (PDF)
- or hymn: God is my great desire ("Leoni"/Worship hymnal, #581)
Meditation hymn: Blest are the pure in heart ("Franconia"/Maroon hymnal, #418)
Recessional hymn: Crown him with many crowns ("Diademata"/Pew Missal, #119)
February 3: Sacred Heart Community Mass (First Friday/6 PM)
Optional Memorial of St. Blaise
Entrance hymn: To Jesus' Heart, all-burning ("Cor Amoris"/in Mass Guide)
Psalm 117: R./ Go out to all the world... (BMP, adapted from Adoremus in Aeternum) (PDF)
Offertory hymn: Take up thy cross ("Breslau"/Pew Missal, #253)
Communion hymn: Pange lingua gloriosi (Chant, Mode III/Pew Missal, #226)
Recessional hymn: For all the saints ("Sine Nomine"/Pew Missal, #130)
- NOTE: If the Blessing of Throats is to take place after Mass, the recessional hymn may be dispersed.
February 5: Sunday V through the Year
Entrance hymn: When morning gilds the skies ("Laudes Domini"/Worship hymnal, #675)
Psalm 112: R./ The just man is a light... (BMP) (PDF)
Offertory hymn: O Jesus, I have promised ("Day of Rest"/Maroon hymnal, #570, second tune)
Music during Communion:
- Responsory: I will go to the altar of God... (Pérè Joseph Gelineau, SJ/Worship hymnal, #38)
- or motet: Panis Angelicus (Cesar Franck)
Meditation responsory: My shepherd is the Lord (Pérè Joseph Gelineau, SJ/Worship hymnal, #32, response is Antiphon I)
Recessional hymn: O worship the King (Maroon hymnal, #288)
February 12: Sunday VI through the Year
Entrance hymn: We sing the praise of him who died ("Breslau"/Maroon hymnal, #340)
Psalm 119: R./ Blessed are they who follow the law of the Lord (Fr. Samuel Weber, OSB)
Offertory hymn: Jesus, lover of my soul ("Aberystwyth"/Maroon hymnal, #415)
Music during Communion:
- Responsory: They ate, and they were fully satisfied (BMP) (PDF)
- or hymn/motet: Pange lingua gloriosi (Chant Mode III/Pew Missal, #226) alternating with a tone by yours truly (PDF)
Meditation hymn: O God of love, O King of peace ("Hesperus"/Maroon hymnal, #528)
- NOTE: The tune "Hesperus" is known in some hymnals as "Quebec".
Recessional hymn: Sing praise to the Lord ("Laudate Dominum"/Worship hymnal, #539)
February 19: Sunday VII through the Year
Entrance hymn: Father, we thank thee who hast planted (Pew Missal, #129)
Psalm 103: R./ The Lord is kind and merciful (BMP) (PDF)
Offertory hymn: Love divine, all loves excelling (Pew Missal, #192)
Hymn during Communion: Jesus, my Lord, my God, my All (Mother Alexis Donnelly, RSM)
- - NOTE: If anyone ever drives through northern Cumberland, if you turn onto Sumner Brown Road from Wrentham Road (Route 121), you will find the Sisters of Mercy residence and a small street, Alexis Donnelly Way, named after the composer.
Meditation hymn: Fairest Lord Jesus ("St. Elizabeth"/Pew Missal, #127)
Recessional hymn: Christ is the King ("Gelobt sei Gott"/Worship hymnal, #500)
- NOTE: On this Sunday before Ash Wednesday, it is customary in some churches to "put the Alleluia away", as "Alleluia" is not sung or said during Lent. In the Extraordinary Form of the Mass, which uses the calendar prior to 1969, this custom would take place on January 29, the Sunday before Septuagesima (thus the aforementioned moniker, "Pre-Lent").
Quod scripsi, scripsi!
BMP
