III EASTER / C'EST LE MOIS DE MARIE

C'est le mois de Marie, French for This is the month of Mary, was a hymn often heard in churches in Woonsocket, including Precious Blood (where I was music director for eight years).  Each Sunday in May there will be at least one hymn or motet dedicated to Mary.  These may be lesser-known and will be sung during Communion, but Mary-themed just the same.

This week's Communion is Daily, daily, sing to Mary.  I included the music (tune is "Omni Die Dic Mariae", also known in German as "Alle Tage Sing und Sage") in this weekend's Mass guide (included with the bulletin), as well as the English verses.  There may be some Latin verses in alternation, but the English verses are there for you.  This is the tune used in most American hymnals that include Daily, daily.  In the United Kingdom, there is a tune simply titled "Daily, Daily".  I will improvise on that tune as part of the prelude and postlude at both Masses this weekend.

Feel free to grab a Mass guide and sing along.  If you don't like to sing, take one with you anyways and hand it to someone next to you who doesn't have one.  He/she might sing.  ;)

Enough said there.

MUSIC FOR HOLY MASS

ORDINARY OF THE MASS:

Missa Cristo Risusciti (Luigi Picchi) (Gloria, Sanctus and Agnus)

- Memorial Acclamation and Amen are adapted from parts of the above Mass.

ALLELUIA "O Filii" (Mode II, arr. and versicle music BMP)

Entrance hymn: Jesus lives! thy terrors now ("St. Albinus") (Listen)

Psalm 30: R./ I will praise you, Lord, for you have rescued me (Theodore Marier)

Offertory hymn: Shepherd of souls ("St. Agnes") (Listen)

Hymn during Communion: Daily, daily, sing to Mary ("Omni Die")

- NOTE: English verses are in the Mass guide.  Latin verses may be sung in alternation.

Meditation hymn: Regina Caeli (Mode VI/in Latin and English)
Recessional hymn: He is risen, he is risen ("Unser Herrsher") (Listen)

Quod scripsi, scripsi!
BMP

LOW SUNDAY / QUASIMODO SUNDAY / DIVINE MERCY SUNDAY / II EASTER

MUSIC FOR HOLY MASS

ORDINARY OF THE MASS:

Missa Cristo Risusciti (Luigi Picchi) (Gloria, Sanctus and Agnus)

- Memorial Acclamation and Amen are adapted from parts of the above Mass.

Entrance hymn: Jesus Christ is ris'n today ("Easter Hymn")

Psalm 118: R./ Give thanks to the Lord for he is good; his love is everlasting (Owen Alstott)

Alleluia: O Filii et Filiae (Mode II/BMP) (PDF)

Offertory hymn: Ye sons and daughters ("O Filii et Filiae")

Hymn during Communion: Adoro Te Devote (Mode V)

Antiphon after Communion: Regina Caeli (English/Latin) (Mode VI)

Recessional hymn: We walk by faith ("St. Anne")

- NOTE: Tune is the same as "O God, our help in ages past."

Blessed Low/Quasimodo/Divine Mercy Sunday, and a most blessed Paschaltide!

Quod scripsi, scripsi!
BMP

THE SACRED TRIDUUM through EASTER SUNDAY

MUSIC FOR HOLY MASS

April 17 - Holy Thursday of the Supper of the Lord (7 PM)

Entrance hymn: Lift high the Cross ("Crucifer")
Gloria: Messa Popolare "Laus Tibi Christe" (Federico Caudana)
Psalm 116: R./ Our blessing cup is a communion with the blood of Christ (BMP) (PDF)
Gospel Acclamation: Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ... (Fr. Samuel Weber, OSB)
Offertory hymn: Ubi Caritas (Mode VI) (Listen)
Sanctus XVIII
Memorial Acclamation: Save us, Savior of the world (ICEL chant)
Amen: single (do do-re)
Agnus Dei XVIII
Communion motet: Ave Verum (Lorenzo Perosi)
Solemn Translation of the Holy Eucharist: Pange Lingua (Mode III) (Listen)

April 18 - Good Friday of the Passion of the Lord (7 PM)

ALL ENTER IN SILENCE
Psalm 31: R./ Father, into your hands I commend my spirit (Theodore Marier)
Gospel Acclamation: Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ... (Fr. Samuel Weber, OSB)
During the kneel/pause: Adoramus te, Christe (Theodore Dubois, from his Seven Last Words of Christ)
During the Adoration of the Holy Cross:
1. Vexilla Regis Prodeunt (Fr. Carlo Rossini, alternating with Mode I)
2. O sacred Head surrounded ("Passion Chorale")
At the throning of the Holy Cross, the refrain Christ Jesus, Victor (from "To Jesus Christ, our sov'reign King") is sung once.
Holy Communion:
As the Holy Eucharist is brought from the repository to the sanctuary in procession: Tantum Ergo (Oreste Ravanello)
At the Communion procession:
1. Adoro Te, O Panis Caelice (from Louvain)
2. Jesu, Salvator Noster (Fr. Carlo Rossini)
As the Holy Eucharist is returned to the repository: the Ravanello Tantum Ergo is repeated.
ALL DEPART IN SILENCE

April 19 - The Easter Vigil in the Holy Night (7 PM)

ALL ENTER IN SILENCE
Responsorial Psalms (Readings I, II, and III from the Old Testament are read):
I. Psalm 104: Lord, send out your Spirit... (Owen Alstott)
II. Psalm 16: You are my inheritance, O Lord... (BMP) (PDF)
III. Exodus 15: Let us sing to the Lord... (Theodore Marier)
Gloria: Missa Cristo Risusciti (Luigi Picchi)
Alleluia "O Filii" (Mode II/BMP) (PDF)
Litany of Saints: Missal chant
Rite of Sprinkling: Vidi Aquam (Joseph Gruber)
Offertory hymn: The day of Resurrection ("Ellacombe") (Listen)
Sanctus through Agnus: Missa Cristo Risusciti (Luigi Picchi)
- NOTE: The Memorial Acclamation "We proclaim your death, O Lord" and Amen are adapted from "Missa Cristo Risusciti".  As this Mass was published around 1938, there was no such thing as a Memorial Acclamation at that time.

Motet during Communion: O Sacrum Convivium (Roberto Remondi)
Meditation hymn: Regina Caeli (Mode VI in English and Latin) (Listen)
Recessional hymn: Jesus Christ is ris'n today ("Easter Hymn") (Listen)

April 20 - Easter Sunday of the Resurrection of the Lord (10 AM)

Entrance hymn: Alleluia, alleluia! Let the holy anthem rise ("Holy Anthem") (Listen)
Gloria: Missa Cristo Risusciti (Luigi Picchi)
Psalm 118: This is the day the Lord has made... (Owen Alstott)
Sequence: Christians, to the Paschal Victim (Mode I)
Alleluia "O Filii" (Mode II/BMP) (PDF)
Rite of Sprinkling: Vidi Aquam (from the Liber Cantualis, 1983)
From the Offertory to the end of Mass: same as at the Easter Vigil, except:
- Responsory during Communion: Psalm 118, Christ our Pasch... (BMP) (PDF)

Happy and blessed Easter!

Quod scripsi, scripsi!
BMP

PALM SUNDAY OF THE PASSION OF THE LORD

I'm always amazed at the mood change within the Palm Sunday Mass.  We begin with the Lord's triumphant entry into Jerusalem.  There will be a prelude, and the liturgy begins with the blessing of the palms, the palms that were touted by the people that welcomed Christ the King.  The triumphant hymn  to Christ the King, All glory, laud and honor, is sung.  But then (thud!)  The mood swings from triumphant to solemn and somber.  We now go from the Lord's triumphant entry into Jerusalem to his Passion and death.  And hymns range from O sacred Head to Vexilla Regis to Sing my tongue ("Sweet the nails and sweet the wood, laden with so sweet a load!" sings verse 2, describing the Cross of Christ).

MUSIC FOR HOLY MASS

ORDINARY OF THE MASS:

Sanctus: Mass XVIII (5 PM); from Six Palm Sunday Acclamations (Schubert) (10 AM)

Memorial Acclamation: Save us, Savior of the world... (ICEL chant)

Single amen

Agnus Dei XVIII

The rest:

Entrance antiphon:

- Hosanna Filio David (Mode VII) (5 PM)

- Pueri Hebraeorum from Six Palm Sunday Acclamations (Schubert) (10 AM)

Processional hymn: All glory, laud and honor ("St. Theodulph") (Listen)

Psalm 22: R./ My God, my God, why have you abandoned me? (BMP) (PDF)

Gospel Acclamation: Praise to you, Lord, Jesus Christ, King of endless glory (Fr. Samuel Weber, OSB)

Offertory hymn: O sacred Head surrounded ("Passion Chorale") (Listen)

- In your spare time, listen to the hymn, then listen to Paul Simon's "American Tune".  Yes, Paul Simon based his "American Tune" on the hymn tune "Passion Chorale". ;)

Communion hymn/motet: Vexilla Regis prodeunt (Mode I)

- At the 10 AM Mass, the verses alternate with those set by Fr. Carlo Rossini.

Recessional hymn: Sing, my tongue, the Savior's glory ("Pange Lingua") (Listen)

- NOTE: This will be sung a capella.  The tune is that of the "Pange Lingua" that is usually sung at the end of Holy Thursday Mass (the solemn translation of the Holy Eucharist).  Further, there will be no postlude afterwards.

Quod scripsi, scripsi! (You'll soon hear those words in the Good Friday Passion - that is, What I have written, I have written!)
BMP

V LENT

Jesus: Has no one condemned you?
Woman who committed adultery: No one, sir.
Jesus: Nor do I condemn you.  Go and sin no more.

The mercy of Jesus in action!

MUSIC FOR HOLY MASS

ORDINARY OF THE MASS:
Kyrie XVII (or recited)
Sanctus and Agnus Dei XVII
Memorial Acclamation: Save us, Savior of the world (Official ICEL chant)
Amen: single Amen sung on two notes: do do-re (A-men_), a capella.

GOSPEL ACCLAMATION (in lieu of Alleluia): Praise to you, Lord, Jesus Christ, King of endless glory (Fr. Samuel Weber, OSB)

HYMNS, etc.
Entrance hymn: At the Name of Jesus ("King's Weston") (Listen)
Psalm 126: R./ The Lord has done great things for us, we are filled with joy (Alfred Calabrese) (PDF)
Offertory hymn: Abide with me ("Eventide") (Listen)
Music during Communion:
- Responsory: Psalm 32, R./ I condemn you not; go and sin no more (BMP) (PDF)
- or Motet: Parce Domine (Fr. Carlo Rossini)
Recessional hymn: There is a green hill far away ("Horsley") (Listen)

Quod scripsi, scripsi!
BMP