Music Suggestions
Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time (B)

• Awake, O Sleeper, Rise from Death (WIII #586)
• Christ Is Made the Sure Foundation (WIII #617, HPSC #128, ICEL #183, CBW #542, CH #485, AH #561, CHB #209)
• Come Down, O Love Divine (WIII #472, HPSC #133, CBW #517, PMB #93, HH #140, AH #440, CH #498, CHB #92)
• Go Make of All Disciples (WIII #628, CH #635)
• God Is My Strong Salvation (HPSC #165, ICEL #208, CH #646, HH #302)
• God Whose Giving Knows No Ending (WIII #631, CD #873)
• Holy God, We Praise Thy Name (WIII #524, ICEL #134, HPSC #180, CBW #631, PMB #127, AH #461, CH #568, CHB #222)
• How Shall They Hear the Word of God? (WIII #629)
• Lord of Light (CH #638)
• Lord, You Gave the Great Commission (WIII #470, HPSC #597, CH #639)
• Praise to the Lord (WIII #547, ICEL #245, HPSC #284, CH #592, PMB #122, CBW #653, AH #612, CHB #110)
• The Church of Christ in Every Age (WIII #626, CH #613)
• There's A Wideness in God's Mercy (WIII #595, ICEL #52, PMB #54, AH #613, CH #535, CHB #268)
• Where Cross the Crowded Ways of Life (ICEL #206)

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.

WIII = Worship, 3rd Edition, GIA Publications, Inc.

• "Modal Mass" (Calvert Shenk) CNP Catalog #3115

• "Blessed Be the Father" (Paul Christiansen) [AMSI]
• "How Lovely Are the Messengers" from Saint Paul (Felix Mendelssohn)
• "How Lovely Is Your Dwelling Place" from A German Requiem (Johannes Brahms)
• "How Lovely Is Your Dwelling Place" (Randall DeBruyn) [OCP Publications]
• "Lead Me, Lord" (Samuel Wesley)
• "O Hold Thou Me Up" (Benedetto Marcello)
• "O How Amiable Are Thy Dwellings" (Ralph Vaughan Williams)
• "Open Your Hearts to Christ" (Eugene Englert) [GIA Publications]
• "The Lord Will Come and Not Be Slow " (Christopher Tye) [RSCM]
• "Three Sacred Rounds (Colin Brumby) CNP Catalog #5133
• "Veritas de terra" (Adriano Banchieri)

• "Adagio" from Sonata I (Felix Mendelssohn)
• "All Praise to Thee, My God" (Paul Manz)
• "Chorale Prelude on Lobe den Herren" (John Hebden Schaffner) [Organist's Companion, May 1999 - McAfee Music Corp]
• "Come Down, O Love Divine" (Wilbur Held)
• "Cantrapunctus I" from Art of the Fugue (J.S. Bach)
• "Grosser Gott wir loben dich" (Max Reger) [Thirty Chorale Preludes - Peters 3980]
• "Holy God, We Praise Thy Name" (Heinrich Fleischer) [Parish Organist, Part 1 - Concordia]
• "Holy God, We Praise Thy Name" (Wilbur Held) [Hymn Preludes for the Pentecost Season - Concordia 97-5517]
• "Holy God, We Praise Thy Name" (Paul Manz) [Improvisations for Pentecost & Trinity Sunday - Morning Star Music Publ 10-500]
• "Kommst du nun, Jesu, vom Himmel herunter" (J.S. Bach) [Orgelwerke VII - Peters 246] [Church Organist's Golden Treasury II - Oliver Ditson Co]
• "Lobe den Herren" (Max Reger) [Thirty Chorale Preludes - Peters 3980]
• "Lobe den Herren" (J.G. Walther) [Eighty Chorale Preludes - Peters 4448] [Church Organist's Golden Treasury II - Oliver Ditson Co] [Anthologia pro organo IV - Schott Frères]
• "Partita on Lobe den Herren" (Don Freudenberg) [Organist's Companion, June 1986 - McAfee Music Corp]
• "Praise to the Lord" (Calvin Hampton) [Organist's Companion, October 1986 - McAfee Music Corp]
• "Praise to the Lord" (Paul Manz) [Five Improvisations for Wedding and General Use - Morning Star Music Publ 10-850]
• "Praise to the Lord" (Friederich Zipp) [Parish Organist XII - Concordia]
• "Prelude on Rhosymedre" (Ralph Vaughan Williams)
• "Postlude and Chorale on Grosser Gott" (Michael Sullivan) [Organist's Companion, May 1991 - McAfee Music Corp]
• "Prelude on Grosser Gott" (Michael Sullivan)
• "Processional" (Martin Shaw)
• "Toccata in e minor" (Johann Pachelbel)
• "Toccata on Holy God, We Praise Thy Name" (Kevin Norris) [H.W. Gray]
• "Toccata on Lobe den Herren" (Gordon Young) [Five Toccatas - Flammer HF-5009]
• "Variations on In babilone" (Raymond Haan)

Structure, Elements and Parts of the Mass: Chants between the Readings (GIRM #61)

After the first reading comes the responsorial psalm, which is an integral part of the liturgy of the word and holds great liturgical and pastoral importance, because it promotes meditation on the Word of God.

The responsorial psalm should correspond to each reading and should customarily be taken from the Lectionary.

It is appropriate that the responsorial psalm be sung, as least as far as the people's response is concerned. Hence the psalmist or cantor of the song sings the verses of the psalm at the ambo or other suitable place. However, in order that the people may be able to join in the responsorial psalm more readily, the people remain seated and listen, but also as a rule take part by singing the response, except when the psalm is sung straight through without the response. If the psalm cannot be sung, then it should be recited in a way more suited to fostering meditation on the word of God.

When sung, the following may be used in place of the psalm assigned in the Lectionary: either the gradual from the Graduale Romanum or the responsorial psalm or the Alleluia psalm from The Simple Gradual in the form they have in those books.

Commentary: The psalm between the readings is called the "responsorial" psalm primarily because it serves as a response to the First Reading and is thematically linked to it. In addition, it is "responsorial" because it often is sung in a format with a response for the congregation. Although as a general practice it should, this psalm is not required to have a part for the people. They can legitimately listen to a psalmist (cantor) sing a through-composed setting of the proper psalm, perhaps from the Graduale Romanum or The Simple Gradual. Why, three decades later, are there still surprises like this?