SUNDAY XXVI and LAST WEEK'S 10:00 MISADVENTURES

For the next few weeks I will be putting my personal electric keyboard on loan to Sacred Heart Church.

Those who came to the 10:00 Mass last Sunday was treated (for lack of a better term) to a capella singing.  About ten minutes before Mass, I customarily began my prelude when the organ (a Rodgers Trillium 807 installed brand new in 2001) started making some weird noises, a combination of whistle-like sounds and sounds as if the organ was losing air pressure (something belonging to a pipe organ, however, this organ is not pipe, it's digital, although the pipe case of the old Kilgen organ is still standing prominently in the choir loft).  I quickly ended the prelude in the most diplomatic way I could and shut the organ off.  After about ten seconds, I turned the organ back on, and the organ completely froze.  The welcome screen was lit, but blank, the lights for the great expression shoe were all lit, and the lights for the swell expression shoe were all off (I'll explain expression shoes in another post), although both shoes were open only about a third of the way.  I could not open any stops or press any pistons (the buttons that turn on pre-set combinations).  I couldn't even shut the organ back off.  The only way it shut off was when Ashley tripped the breaker for it.

This morning Paul and I (mostly Paul as I had to print and fold bulletins yet) got a visit from David Ogeltree from Rodgers Organs of New England in Needham, Massachusetts.  They are THE authorized Rodgers sales and service reps for this region.  The organ needs a considerable amount of work - two digital voice module boards (isn't technology wonderful? ha ha!) to be replaced, the pedalboard (the keyboard for the feet) needs to be rebuilt, possibly two "daughter cards" for the voice module.

Safe to say, my digital keyboard will be in use for a few weeks until the Rodgers organ can get repaired.

I have to say, David Ogeltree is a highly skilled organist, as is his business partner, Doug Marshall (Doug was, for a time, Alex Peloquin's accompanist at the Cathedral in Providence).  The two, in addition to selling and servicing Rodgers organs, are also builders of digital organs in their own right.  All of their organs (branded as Marshall & Ogeltree) thus far are large scale (three- and four-manual) instruments, intended for larger churches.

Before I go into this weekend's music list, I invite you to click here to listen to Doug Marshall and David Ogeltree at the Methuen Memorial Music Hall in Methuen, Massachusetts.  David is on the four-manual Aeolian Skinner pipe organ, the Music Hall organ, while Doug is on the three-manual Rodgers digital organ.  The two play (and the audience sings) the hymn, Praise, my soul, the King of heaven (a hymn we've sung at times here at Sacred Heart).  Enjoy!

And now...

MUSIC FOR HOLY MASS

ORDINARY OF THE MASS:

Gloria: Holy Angels Mass (BMP) (or recited, celebrant's discretion)

Sanctus and Agnus Dei: People's Mass (Jan Vermulst) (Listen)
Memorial Acclamation: Save us, Savior of the world (ICEL chant)

Amen: Danish Amen

PROPER OF THE MASS:

Readings: Pew Missal, page 248

Psalm 146: R./ Praise the Lord, my soul (Fr. Samuel Weber, OSB)

Alleluia: Chant, Mode VI

HYMNS, etc.:

Entrance hymn: Maroon hymnal, #326 To the Name of our salvation ("Oriel") (Listen)

Offertory hymn: Pew Missal, #265 There's a wideness in God's mercy ("In Babilone") (Listen)

Music during Communion:

- responsory: Psalm 119, R./ Remember your word to your servant, O Lord (Adam Bartlett)
- or motet: O sacrum Convivium (Roberto Remondi)

Recessional hymn: Maroon hymnal, #600 Ye holy angels bright ("Darwall's 148th") (Listen)

Quod scripsi, scripsi!

BMP

SUNDAY XXV

And today we're back to "normalcy" (quoting Warren Harding), but only "for a time" (quoting Father Bucci) as we return to numbered Sundays of the Year.  Come November there will be two consecutive Sundays that go unnumbered (and I'm not even counting Christ the King).  November 2 and 9 are All Souls Day (formal name: The Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed) and the Feast of the Dedication of the Basilica of St. John Lateran in Rome.  I'll post more on those before the time comes.

That said, let's jump to...

ORDINARY OF THE MASS:

Gloria: Holy Angels Mass (BMP) (or recited, celebrant's discretion)

Sanctus and Agnus Dei: People's Mass (Jan Vermulst) (Listen)
Memorial Acclamation: Save us, Savior of the world (ICEL chant)

Amen: Danish Amen

PROPER OF THE MASS:

Readings: Pew Missal, page 246

Psalm 113: R./ Praise the Lord, who lifts up the poor (Fr. Samuel Weber, OSB)

Alleluia: Chant, Mode VI

HYMNS, etc.:

Entrance hymn: Maroon hymnal, #343 Praise to the holiest in the height (first tune/"Newman") (Listen)

Offertory hymn: Maroon hymnal, #431 In heav'nly love abiding ("Nyland") (Listen)

Hymn during Communion: Red Worship hymnal, #632 Those who love and those who labor ("Dohmnach Trionoide") (Listen)

Recessional hymn: Maroon hymnal, #288 O worship the King ("Hanover") (Listen)

Quod scripsi, scripsi!
BMP

EXALTATION OF THE HOLY CROSS

It's been a long time since September 14 fell on a Sunday - 11 years, for that matter.  The reason I say that:  September 14 is the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, which is considered a Feast in the liturgical calendar.  Now, while most Feasts do not trump the regularly numbered Sunday of the year like Solemnities do, the Exaltation of the Holy Cross is one that does.  So, as the networks say when a special is about to air on TV, "The Twenty-Fourth Sunday of the Year will not be seen this Sunday so we can bring you the Exaltation of the Holy Cross."

That said:

MUSIC FOR HOLY MASS

ORDINARY OF THE MASS:

Gloria: Holy Angels Mass (BMP) (or recited, celebrant's discretion)

Sanctus and Agnus Dei: People's Mass (Jan Vermulst) (Listen)
Memorial Acclamation: Save us, Savior of the world (ICEL chant)

Amen: Danish Amen

PROPER OF THE MASS:

Readings: Pew Missal, page 244

Psalm 78: R./ Do not forget the works of the Lord (Fr. Samuel F. Weber, OSB)
Alleluia: Chant, Mode VI

HYMNS, etc.:

Entrance hymn: Pew Missal, #253 Take up thy cross ("Breslau") (Listen)

Offertory hymn: Red Worship, #433 When I survey the wondrous cross ("Rockingham") (Listen)

Motet during Communion: Adoramus te, Christe (Theodore Dubois)

- The translation is something we proclaim at the beginning of every Station of the Cross, "We adore thee, O Christ, and we bless thee, because by thy Holy Cross thou hast redeemed the world."

Recessional hymn: Pew Missal, #183 Lift high the Cross ("Crucifer") (Listen)

Quod scripsi, scripsi!
BMP

SUNDAY XXIII, "PEOPLE'S MASS" RETURNS and THE CROSS IN SONG

At long last, the return of People's Mass by Jan Vermulst!  Now that I think of it, in my short stint at Sacred Heart way back when (January-April 1989), we were singing People's Mass.  This time, it returns, and with the proper adaptation in the Sanctus for the 2011 Missal translation (the Agnus Dei remains the same).

Click here to listen to the Sanctus and Agnus Dei from People's Mass.

For these next two weekends, we will be singing Cross-themed hymns (two this weekend, three next weekend).  In addition, the Memorial Acclamation Save us, Savior of the world, for by your Cross and Resurrection you have set us free will be sung for September and October.  In this weekend's Gospel according to Luke, Jesus tells is disciples, "Whoever does not take up his cross and follow me cannot be my disciple."  In addition, the following Sunday (September 14) is the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, one of those feasts which, while not a Holyday of Obligation when on a weekday, takes place over the 24th Sunday of the Year when on a Sunday.

A funny note: When I was working at a church in Tiverton, a visiting priest came to say Mass.  I don't remember what year (was either 2005, 2006 or 2007 - Year A, B or C, respectively, and yes, "taking up your cross" was also rendered in Gospel readings according to Matthew and Mark; Luke's rendition is this year) - but nonetheless, two of the hymns just happened to be two of the hymns we will be singing these next two weeks.  At the end of Mass, the visiting priest exclaimed (in a not-so-happy tone), "I feel like I'm in LENT!"  Hint for the locals: this priest made a few records and one could often see him with his signature 12-string guitar, especially in nearby Massachusetts.

That said:

MUSIC FOR HOLY MASS

ORDINARY OF THE MASS:

Gloria: Holy Angels Mass (BMP) (or recited, celebrant's discretion)

Sanctus and Agnus Dei: People's Mass (Jan Vermulst)
Memorial Acclamation: Save us, Savior of the world (ICEL chant)

Amen: Danish Amen

PROPER OF THE MASS:

Readings: Pew Missal, page 242

Psalm 90: R./ In every age, O Lord, you have been our refuge (BMP)
Alleluia: Chant, Mode VI

HYMNS, etc.:

Entrance hymn: Pew Missal, #207 O God, our help in ages past ("St. Anne") (Listen)

Offertory hymn: Pew Missal, #253 Take up thy cross ("Breslau") (Listen)

Communion music:

- Responsory: Psalm 76, R./ Make your vows unto the Lord and accomplish them (BMP)
- or Motet: Like as the hart (Vincent Novello)

Recessional hymn: Pew Missal, #183 Lift high the Cross ("Crucifer") (Listen)

Quod scripsi, scripsi!
BMP