Music Suggestions
The First Sunday of Lent (A)

• Again We Keep This Solemn Fast (WIII #420, HH #78)
• Father of Mercy, God of Consolation (HPSC #155, CH #409)
• Forty Days and Forty Nights (WIII #419, ICEL #43, HH #73, AH #362, CH #242)
• God of All Mercy (HPSC #168)
• Hear Our Entreaties, Lord / Attende Domine (AH #366, CH #238)
• Lord Jesus, As We Turn from Sin (HPSC #213, HH #63)
• Lord, Who throughout These Forty Days (WIII #417, ICEL #47, HH #65, HPSC #212, AH #360, CBW #482, CH #241)
• My Song Is Love Unknown (CD #926, CH #258)
• O Lord, Incline Thine Ear / Attende Domine (HPSC #250)
• Sole Hope of All the World (CH #247)
• These Forty Days of Lent (PMB #45)
• With All My Powers of Heart and Tongue (HPSC #352)
• Within the Shelter of the Lord (HPSC #353)

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.

• "At the Cross Her Station Keeping" (Christopher Bord) CNP Catalog #6038
• "Chant Booklet, Volume 4" (ed. Chris Bord) with chant Mass for Lent CNP Catalog #2004
• "Communion Psalms for the Liturgical Seasons" (Gary Penkala) CNP Catalog #3020
•  Graduale Romanum [Solesmes edition] CNP Catalog #2100
•  Graduale Simplex [Vatican edition] CNP Catalog #2150
• "Lenten Introits for Choir & Congregation" (Richard Rice) CNP Catalog #3122
• "Processional Psalm for Lent" (Richard Proulx) [GIA Publications]
• "Psalm 130" (Christopher Bord) CNP Catalog #1130-1
• "Universal Music for Morning Prayer" (Gary Penkala) CNP Catalog #3100
• "Universal Music for Evening Prayer" (Gary Penkala) CNP Catalog #3101
• "Wondrous Love: A Mass for Lent" (J. William Greene) CNP Catalog #3091
• "You Will Not Be Strangers" (Alex Hill) Music for the Dismissal Rite CNP Catalog #3095

• "A Lenten Meditation" (Gardner)
• "Ah Holy Jesus" (William Matthis)
• "Attende Domine" from Chant Booklet, Volume 2 (ed. Christopher Bord) CNP Catalog #2002
• "Ave Regina coelorum" (Gregorian chant) Proper Marian antiphon for Lent [Liber usualis, p.278]
• "Blest Are They" (Handel/Hopson)
• "Create in Me, O Lord" (Johannes Brahms) [G. Schirmer]
• "De profundis" (W.A. Mozart)
• "Have Mercy upon Me" (Thomas Tomkins)
• "Hear Me, O Lord" (Heinrich Schütz)
• "Hear, O Lord" from Christus (Felix Mendelssohn)
• "In Thee, O Lord" (F.J. Haydn)
• "Invocabit me" (Gregorian chant) Proper Introit for Lent I [Liber usualis, p.532]
• "Lamb of God" (arr. Marie Pooler)
• "Libera nos, Domine" (Jacques Berthier) from Music from Taizé
• "Lord, O Lord, Have Mercy" (Orlando di Lasso) [Augsburg]
• "Miserere mei Deus (Gregorio Allegri, Josquin des Prez, William Byrd)
• "O My God, Bestow Thy Tender Mercy" (Pergolesi/Hopson)
• "O My People" (Colin Brumby) CNP Catalog #5140
• "Preserve Me, O God" (Paul Manz) [Augsburg]
• "When through the Garden Mary Went" (C.V. Stanford)

• "Erbarm' dich mein, o Herre Gott" (J.S. Bach, J.N. Hanff, J.L. Krebs & J.G. Walther) from The Church Organist's Golden Treasury, Vol.1 [Oliver Ditson Co.]
• "Erhalt uns, Herr, bei deinem Wort" (J. G. Walther) from Eighty Chorale Preludes [C.F. Peters #4448]
• "Hilf Gott, dass mir's gelinge" (J.S. Bach) from Orgelbuchlein
• "Prelude on Heinlein" (David N. Johnson) [Augsburg]
• "Prelude on Repton" (Peter P. Stearns)
• "Prelude on Saint Flavian" (Healey Willan) from Ten Hymn Preludes, Set I [C.F. Peters Corp]

1. The people gather beforehand in a chapel or other suitable place outside the church.
2. The celebrant puts on purple Mass vestments, perhaps with cope rather than chasuble.
3. He goes to the gathering place accompanied by song.
4. After the singing has ended, he greets the people, giving a brief introduction.
5. Then with outstretched hands, he says an opening prayer on the mystery of the holy cross (Sept 14), on forgiveness of sins (#40), or for the local church.
6. He puts incense in the censer.
7. As the deacon announces, "Let us go forth in peace," the procession to the church is formed and during it the Litany of the Saints is sung. Saints special to the local church may be inserted.
8. When the procession reaches the church all go to their appointed places.
9. The celebrant reverences the altar and incenses it.
10. He than goes to the chair and exchanges cope for chasuble.
11. The introductory rites of Mass are omitted.
12. The celebrant prays the Opening Prayer and Mass continues as usual with the Liturgy of the Word.