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The First Sunday of Advent (A)

Hymns:
  • Awake, Awake, Fling Off the Night (CBW #445)
  • Behold! the Mountain of the Lord (ICEL #179)
  • Eternal Ruler of the Ceaseless Round (CD #916)
  • Hark! A Herald Voice Is Calling (ICEL #4, HPSC #183, CBW #453, CH #176, CHB #4, SMH #336)
  • He Walks among the Golden Lamps (WIII #684, CH #533)
  • High in the Heavens, Eternal God (HPSC #184)
  • Lo, He Comes with Clouds Descending (AH #304, CHB #7, SMH #401)
  • O Come, Divine Messiah (ICEL #6, WIII #367, PMB #6, CD #803, HH #26, CBW #441, CH #173, SMH #440)
  • O Quickly Come, Great Judge of All (HH #21)
  • O Savior, Rend the Heavens Wide (HH #13, CH #181, SMH #470)
  • Rejoice, Rejoice, Believers (HPSC #287, HH #7, SMH #509)
  • Sleepers, Wake! (CH #186, WIII #371, ICEL #11, AH #306, HH #25, PMB #10, CBW #451)
  • The Day Is Surely Drawing Near (HPSC #315)
  • To You I Lift My Soul (HPSC #337)
  • To You, O Lord, I Lift My Soul (CH #463)
  • Up, Awake, from Highest Steeple (HPSC #338)
  • Wake, Awake, for Night Is Flying (AH #306, CBW #451, CH #186, HH #25, ICEL #11, PMB #10, WIII #371, CHB #10, HPSC #338)
  • Wake, O Wake, and Sleep No Longer (WIII #371, SMH #594)
  • With Joy We Go up to the House of the Lord (HPSC #354)
  • Your Kingdom Come (CH #551, SMH #620)
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
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.
PMB = People's Mass Book, World Library Publications, Inc.
SMH = The Saint Michael Hymnal, Saint Boniface Church, Lafayette IN
WIII = Worship, 3rd Edition, GIA Publications, Inc.
Liturgical Music:
  • "Communion Psalms for the Liturgical Seasons" (Gary Penkala) CNP Catalog #3020
  • "Emmanuel: An Advent Processional" (Gary Penkala) CNP Catalog #3035
  •  Graduale Romanum [Solesmes edition] CNP Catalog #2100
  •  Graduale Simplex [Vatican edition] CNP Catalog #2150
  • "I Rejoiced When I Heard Them Say" (Richard Proulx) [GIA Publications]
  • "Making Music to Thy Name: Volume 1 [Advent]" (Gary Penkala) easy 2 and 3-part hymn accompaniments CNP Catalog #6071
  • "Mass Propers of Advent" (Gary Penkala) CNP Catalog #3201
  • "Missa XII - Orbis factor" (Gregorian chant) [Booklet of Chant, Volume 4] CNP Catalog #2004
  • "Missa XVII - Adventus et quadragesimæ" (Gregorian chant) [Booklet of Chant, Volume 4] CNP Catalog #2004
  • "Psalm 25" (Christopher Bord) CNP Catalog #1025-1
  • "Psalm 80" (Rev. Joseph Gelineau)
  • "Psalm 80" (Robert Schaffer)
  • "Universal Music for Evening Prayer" (Gary Penkala) CNP Catalog #3101
Choral Music:
  • "Ad te levavi" (Gregorian chant) Proper Introit for Advent I [Liber usualis p.318]
  • "Ad te levavi" [ant] & "Psalm 25" [ps tone] (Greg chant) [Graduale simplex, p.54]
  • "Advent Message" (Robert How)
  • "And It Shall Come to Pass" (Jean Berger) [Augsburg]
  • "Creator alme siderum" (Rev. Thomas Buffer) CNP Catalog #5015
  • "Creator alme siderum" (Gregorian chant) Booklet of Chant, Volume 1 CNP Catalog #2001 [This was the proper Vesper hymn for Advent]
  • "I Was Glad" (William Boyce, C. Hubert Parry, Henry Purcell, Healey Willan)
  • "Introit for Advent" (Philip Ledger)
  • "Lætatus sum" (Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Claudio Monteverdi, Antonio Vivaldi)
  • "Lo! He Comes with Clouds Descending" (arr. Willcocks) [Carols for Choirs III, Oxford]
  • "My Lord, What A Mournin'" (Spiritual, arr. William Dawson)
  • "Psalm 122" (Giles Farnaby, Leo Sowerby, J.P. Sweelinck)
  • "Rejoice, O Jerusalem" (Healey Willan)
  • "Ten New Carols for Advent and Christmas, Volume 1" (Gary Penkala) CNP Catalog #4010
  • "Ten New Carols for Advent and Christmas, Volume 2" (Greene, Brumby, Penkala) CNP Catalog #4020
  • "Wachet auf! ruft uns die Stimme" (J.S. Bach) the chorale or the cantata movement
  • "Wake, Awake!" (Franz Tunder)
Organ Music:
  • "Advent Prelude on Merton" (Edward G. Mead) [Consoliere VI-4 - World Library Publ]
  • "Chorale Improvisation on Wachet auf" (Paul Manz) [AGO 90th Anniversary Anthology of American Organ Music - Oxford]
  • "Lob sei dem allmachtigen Gott" (J.S. Bach) from Orgelbüchlein
  • "The King Shall Come When Morning Dawns" (David Johnson)
  • "Two Variations on Wachet auf" (Edward Beals) [Organist's Companion, November 1996 - McAfee Music Corp]
  • "Wachet auf! ruft uns die Stimme" (J.S. Bach) [Orgelwerke VII - Peters 246] [Church Organist's Golden Treasury III - Oliver Ditson Co]
  • "Wachet auf! ruft uns die Stimme" (John G. Barr) [Organist's Companion, November 1998 - McAfee Music Corp]
  • "Wachet auf! ruft uns die Stimme" (J.L. Krebs) [Treasury of Shorter Organ Classics - Merrymount Music Press]
  • "Wachet auf! ruft uns die Stimme" (Flor Peeters) [Thirty Chorale Preludes]
  • "Wachet auf! ruft uns die Stimme" (David Polley) [Organist's Companion, December 1986 - McAfee Music Corp]
  • "Wachet auf! ruft uns die Stimme" (Max Reger) [Thirty Chorale Preludes - Peters 3980]
  • "Wachet auf! ruft uns die Stimme" (J.G. Walther) [Eighty Chorale Preludes - Peters 4448]
  • "Wake, Awake, for Night Is Flying" (Paul Manz) [Improvisations for the Christmas Season, Set I - Morning Star Music Publ 10-100]
  • "Wake, Awake, for Night is Flying" (Flor Peeters) [Thirty Chorale Preludes, Book 1 - Peters 6023]
  • "Wake, Awake, for Night Is Flying" (Frank Speller) [Three Organ Settings for Advent - Concordia]
Liturgical Hints & Ideas:
The themes of Second Coming, night, darkness and vigilance are prevalent in today's liturgy. Somber and solemn music may help to point out this chilling reminder of the end of the world and our own destiny.

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