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The Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary (EF)

Liturgical Music

Official texts

  • Introit:
    1. Suscépimus, Déus [Liber Usualis p.1361-1362]
    2. Suscépimus, Déus [Graduale Romanum p.432-433]
    3. Suscépimus, Déus [Gregorian Missal p.492]
    4. Suscépimus, Déus by Robert Hugill
       
  • Gradual:
    1. Suscépimus, Déus [Liber usualis, p.1362-1363]
    2. Suscépimus, Déus [Graduale Romanum p.433-434]
    3. Suscépimus, Déus [Gregorian Missal p. 582]
    4. Suscépimus, Déus by William Byrd
       
  • Alleluia:
    1. Sénex púerum portábat [Liber usualis, p.1363]
    2. Sénex púerum portábat [Graduale Romanum p.434]
    3. Sénex púerum portábat [Gregorian Missal p. 612-613]
    4. Sénex púerum portábat by various composers
       
  • Offertory:
    1. Diffúsa est [Liber usualis, p.1223-1224]
    2. Diffúsa est [Graduale Romanum p.58-59]
    3. Diffúsa est [Gregorian Missal p.613-614]
    4. Diffúsa est by various composers
       
  • Communion:
    1. Respónsum accépit Símeon [Liber usualis, p.1365]
    2. Respónsum accépit Símeon [Graduale Romanum p.435-436]
    3. Respónsum accépit Símeon [Gregorian Missal p.614-615]
    4. Respónsum accépit Símeon by William Byrd, Giovanni Giorgi and Nobuaki Izawa
       
  • Mass settings:
    1. Mass VIII "De Angelis" [Liber usualis, p.37-40]
    2. Mass X "Alme Pater" [Liber usualis, p.43-45]
    3. Mass VIII "De Angelis" [Graduale Romanum, p.28-31* in back of book]
    4. Mass X "Alme Pater" [Graduale Romanum, p.35-38* in back of book]
    5. Mass VIII "De Angelis"
    6. Mass X "Alme Pater"

Other liturgical music

Hymns

  • Before All Creation (CH #653)
  • Blest Are the Pure in Heart (CBW #719, CH #450, HH #257, HPSC #123, ICEL #182, CHB #208, EH #418, VII #320)
  • Canticle of Simeon (CBW #728)
  • Christ Is the World's Light (CBW #543, HPSC #130, WIII #543, CD #897, EH #258)
  • God of Mercy, God of Grace (HPSC #169, CH #636, VII #212)
  • Hail to the Lord Who Comes (WIII #692, ICEL #37, CHB #44, HH #258)
  • How Brightly Beams the Morning Star (CD #815, WIII #390, HH #55, CH #214, CHB #45, EH #329)
  • Immortal, Invisible, God Only Wise (PMB #118, WIII #512, ICEL #233, HH #193, CH #566, CHB #225, SMH #363, EH #301)
  • In His Temple Now Behold Him (ICEL #38, HPSC #196, HH #259, SMH #364)
  • Lift Up Your Heads, Ye Mighty Gates! (AH #485, HH #19, HPSC #211, ICEL #7, WIII #363, SMH #399, EH #484, VII #211)
  • Lord, Bid Your Servant Go in Peace (WIII #691, CH #439)
  • O Christ, the World's Salvation (Dennis DiPaolo)
  • O Lord of Light, by Love Inclined (CD #819)
  • O Lord of Light, Who Made the Stars (PMB #3)
  • O Morning Star, How Fair and Bright (HPSC #256)
  • O Word of God Incarnate (CH #657, SMH #469, EH #402)
  • Of the Father's Love Begotten (AH #331, CBW #470, CH #220, HH #44, HPSC #269, ICEL #25, WIII #398, CHB #28, SMH #473, EH #20, VII #332)
  • On Walls around Jerusalem from Hymns for the Liturgical Year (Kathleen Pluth)
  • Praise the Lord, Ye Heavens, Adore Him (WIII #529, ICEL #243, HPSC #282, PMB #662, CBW #656, CH #573, CHB #259)
  • Thanks Be to God (WIII #526, CBW #678)
  • The Lord Is King! Lift up Your Voice (CH #517, HPSC #326, CBW #422)
  • The Only Son from Heaven (HH #51, CD #817)
AH = The Adoremus Hymnal, Ignatius Press
CBW = Catholic Book of Worship II / Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops
CD = Cantate Domino / Hymnal Supplement, GIA Publications, Inc.
CH = The Collegeville Hymnal, The Liturgical Press
CHB = The Catholic Hymn Book [London Oratory], Gracewing Publishers
EH = The Hymnal 1940 (Episcopal), used by many Anglican Use Roman Catholic parishes
HH = Hymnal of the Hours, GIA Publications, Inc.
HPSC = Hymns, Psalms & Spiritual Canticles, out of print but excellent
ICEL = ICEL Resource Collection, GIA Publications, Inc.
LCH = Lumen Christi Hymnal, Illuminare Publications
PMB = People's Mass Book, World Library Publications, Inc.
SEC = Saint Edmund Campion Missal & Hymnal, Corpus Christi Watershed
SMH = The Saint Michael Hymnal – 4th Edition 2011, Saint Boniface Church, Lafayette IN
WIII = Worship, 3rd Edition, GIA Publications, Inc.

Choral Music

  • Alma redemptoris mater (Stephen McManus)
  • Alma redemptoris mater (Palestrina/Angelini)
  • And He Shall Purify from Messiah (G.F. Handel)
  • Brightest and Best of the Stars of the Morning (Larkin)
  • Christ the Glory (Lallouette) [GIA Publications]
  • Gaudete, gaudete (Colin Brumby)
  • Great Is the Lord (Leo Sowerby) [H.W. Gray]
  • Haec Deum cæli (Jacob Obrecht)
  • Hodie Beata Virgo (Jacques Arcadelt, William Byrd, Fabio Costantini, Claudio Merulo, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Peter Philips, Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck)
  • I Have Rejoiced (Antonio Vivaldi) [Augsburg]
  • I Was Glad (William Boyce) [Novello]
  • I Was Glad (C. Hubert Parry) [Novello]
  • I Was Glad (Daniel Pinkham) [AMP]
  • I Was Glad (Henry Purcell) [Novello]
  • I Was Glad; (Leo Sowerby) [H.W. Gray]
  • In the Breaking of the Bread (Austin Lovelace)
  • Jesus, Sun of Life, My Splendor (G.F. Handel)
  • King of Glory (Robert Powell) [GIA Publications]
  • Laetatus sum (M.A. Charpentier) [Concordia]
  • Laetatus sum (Claudio Monteverdi) [Mark Foster]
  • Laudate pueri Dominum (G.S. Geiger)
  • Lift Up Your Heads (Rev. Brian K. Muzas)
  • Lift Up Your Heads, O Ye Gates from Messiah (G.F. Handel)
  • Lift Up Your Heads, O Ye Gates (John Blow) [Novello]
  • Lift Up Your Heads, O Ye Gates (William Croft) [Abingdon]
  • Lift Up Your Heads, O Ye Gates (Orlando Gibbons) [Oxford]
  • Lift Up Your Heads, O Ye Gates (Andreas Hammerschmidt) [Presser]
  • Lift Up Your Heads, O Ye Gates (Healey Willan) [Concordia]
  • Lord of Life and King of Glory (Grancini) [GIA Publications]
  • Media vita (John Sheppard)
  • Mirabile misterium! (David Barton)
  • Ne timeas Maria (Tomas Luis de Victoria) [Broude]
  • Nunc dimittis Music from Taizé (Jacques Berthier) [GIA Publications]
  • Nunc dimittis (Sumison)
  • Nunc dimittis (Thomas Tomkins) [Presser]
  • O Splendor of God's Glory Bright (John Reese)
  • O Thou That Tellest from Messiah (G.F. Handel)
  • Of the Father's Love Begotten (Michael Cox)
  • Of the Father's Love Begotten (Andrew Motyka)
  • Presentation of Christ in the Temple (John Eccard) [Novello]
  • Reges Tharsis (Adam Taylor)
  • Song of Simeon (Claude Goudimel) [Presser]
  • Te Deum laudamus (Calvert Shenk)
  • The Glory of the Father (Egil Hovland)
  • The Lord Is King (Heinrich Schütz)
  • The Lord Is My Light and My Salvation (Eugene Englert) [GIA Publications]
  • The Lord Is My Light and My Salvation (Heinrich Schütz)) [Belwin]
  • Videte miraculum (Thomas Tallis)
  • When to the Temple Mary Went (Johannes Eccard)

Organ Music

  • Allein Gott in der Höh sei Ehr (J.G. Walther)
  • Chaconne for Violin/Flute, Cello, and Organ (André Campra / arr. Gary D. Penkala)
  • Divinum mysterium (Richard Purvis) [Leeds Music Corp]
  • Divinum mysterium (Dorothy Howell Sheets) [Organist's Companion, November 1992]
  • Fanfare (Jean Mouret)
  • Fantasia and Fugue in g minor (J.S. Bach)
  • Four Preludes on Chant Hymns (Mark Siebert)
  • God of Grace and God of Glory (Paul Manz)
  • How Lovely Shines the Morning Star (Jan Bender) [Parish Organist, Part 9: Wedding Music - Concordia]
  • How Lovely Shines the Morning Star (Paul Manz) [Improvisations for the Christmas Season, Set III - Morning Star Music Publ 10-102]
  • How Lovely Shines the Morning Star (Flor Peeters) [Thirty Chorale Preludes, Book 1 - Peters 6023]
  • How Lovely Shines the Morning Star (Max Reger) [Chorale Preludes for the Church Year - Carl Fischer]
  • Immortal, Invisible (Harold Rohlig) [Parish Organist XII - Concordia]
  • Lift Up Your Heads (Ewald Weiss) [Parish Organist XII - Concordia]
  • Maestoso: Five Processionals (Calvert Shenk)
  • Music for a Festive Occasion (Tim Knight)
  • Of the Father's Love Begotten (Wilbur Held) [Six Carol Settings - Concordia 97-4985]
  • Of the Father's Love Begotten (David N. Johnson) [Augsburg 11-841]
  • Prelude and Postlude on Jesu Redemptor omnium (Jonathan Hellerman)
  • Psalm XIX (Benedetto Marcello)
  • Suite for Worship on Truro and Duke Street (G. Winston Cassler) [Organist's Companion, April 1985]
  • Wie schön leuchet der Morgenstern (Andreas Amrsdorff) [Church Organist's Golden Treasury III - Oliver Ditson Co]
  • Wie schön leuchet der Morgenstern (J.C. Bach) [Eighty Chorale Preludes - Peters 4448]
  • Wie schön leuchet der Morgenstern (J.S. Bach) [Church Organist's Golden Treasury III - Oliver Ditson Co]
  • Wie schön leuchet der Morgenstern from Five Chorale Preludes (Colin Brumby)
  • Wie schön leuchet der Morgenstern (Dieterich Buxtehude) [Church Organist's Golden Treasury III - Oliver Ditson Co]
  • Wie schön leuchet der Morgenstern (Victor Klauss) [Organist's Companion, November 1989] [Organist's Companion, November 1997]
  • Wie schön leuchet der Morgenstern (Johann Pachelbel) [Church Organist's Golden Treasury III - Oliver Ditson Co]
  • Wie schön leuchet der Morgenstern (Flor Peeters) [Thirty Chorale Preludes]
  • Wie schön leuchet der Morgenstern (Max Reger) [Thirty Chorale Preludes - Peters 3980] [Joyce Jones Christmas Collection - Bradley Publ]
  • Wie schön leuchet der Morgenstern (Stephen Rohde) [Organist's Companion, December 1985]
  • Wie schön leuchet der Morgenstern (Russell Schulz-Widmar) [Organist's Companion, December 1980]

Psalm numbering is according to the Latin Vulgate Bible.

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