Music Suggestions
Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time (B)

• Father, We Thank Thee, Who Hast Planted (WIII #558, HPSC #156, CH #374, PMB #121, CBW #676, AH #515, CHB #116)
• For the Fruits of This Creation (PMB #155, WIII #562, CBW #678)
• Gift of Finest Wheat (WIII #736, HPSC #360, PMB #665, CBW #570, CH #389)
• God Whose Giving Knows No Ending (WIII #631, CD #873)
• I Sing the Mighty Power of God (WIII #502, ICEL #228, HPSC #197, AH #616, CH #565)
• Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence (AH #605, CBW #571, CH #377, HPSC #209, ICEL #137, PMB #657, WIII #523, CHB #120)
• Let All Things Now Living (WIII #559, HPSC #208, CH #567)
• Now Thank We All Our God (CBW #674, PMB #30, WIII #560, ICEL #235, HPSC #231, CBW #674, PMB #130, AH #607, CH #570, CHB #246)
• O Jesus, Joy of Loving Hearts (WIII #605, ICEL #139, HH #249, CH #510)
• Praise God from Whom All Blessing Flow (ICEL #166, CBW #622, AH #521, PMB #206)
• Praise We Christ's Immortal Body (PMB #674)
• See Us, Lord, about Your Altar (PMB #666, CH #392, CBW #565)
• Shepherd of Souls, in Love, Come Feed Us (PMB #653)
• To Jesus Christ Our Sovereign King (WIII #497, CH #546, PMB #98, CBW #548, AH #480)
• Wondrous Gift! (ICEL #149, CH #398)

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.

• "Adoro te devote" (arr. Gary Penkala) CNP Catalog #2010
• "Psalm 145" (Howard Hughes, SM)
• "Renaisance Alleluia" (arr. Gary Penkala) CNP Catalog #3079

• "Anima Christi (Calvert Shenk) CNP Catalog #5110
• "Ave verum" (Gregorian chant) [Liber usualis p.1856 - or - ICEL Collection #131]
• "Ego sum panis" (William Byrd)
• "He Watching over Israel" (Felix Mendelssohn)
• "Oculi omnium in te" (Heinrich Schütz) [Plymouth]
• "Remember Your Love for Me, O Lord" (Eugene Englert) CNP Catalog #5030
• "The Eyes of All Wait upon Thee" (Jean Berger)
• "Three Sacred Rounds (Colin Brumby) CNP Catalog #5133

• "Adoration on a Traditional French Melody" (Alice Jordan) [Organist's Companion, February 1983 - McAfee Music Corp]
• "Adoro te devote" (Sr. Teresine Fonder) [Twenty-Six Miniatures]
• "Allegro maestoso e vivace" (Felix Mendelssohn)
• "Ar Hyd Y Nos" (Jean Drahmann) [Organist's Companion, June 1984 - McAfee Music Corp]
• "Ave verum" (Sr. Teresine Fonder) [Twenty-six Miniatures]
• "Ave verum" (Michael Sullivan) [Organist's Companion, September 1996 - McAfee Music Corp]
• "Bread of the World, in Mercy Broken" (Michael Beyer) [Parish Organist XII - Concordia]
• "Break Thou the Bread of Life" (Wilbur Held)
• "Credo in unum Deum" (Everett Titcomb)
• "Ellacombe" (Lois Hill) [Organist's Companion, March 1999 - McAfee Music Corp]
• "Eucharistica" (Joseph J. McGrath)
• "Festival Intrada on Ellacombe" (Roger Bailey) [Consoliere V-2]
• "Fugue in g minor" (J.S. Bach)
• "Fugue sur le Pange lingua" (Nicolas deGrigny) [Anthologia pro organo II - Schott Frères]
• "Hail, True Body" (Daniel Burton) [Organist's Companion, January 1999 - McAfee Music Corp]
• "Humbly I Adore Thee" (Myron Casner) [Parish Organist XI - Concordia]
• "Improvistation / Elevation" from Suite medievale (Jean Langlais)
• "Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence" (Myron Cassner) [Parish Organist XII - Concordia]
• "Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence" (John Diercks) [Six Sacred Compositions for Organ - Abingdon APM-255]
• "Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence" (Paul Manz) [Improvisations on Great Hymns of Faith - Morning Star Music Publ 10-839]
• "Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence" (Richard Warner) [Organ Music for the Communion Service - Concordia 97-1395]
• "Lo, He Comes with Clouds Descending" (Gerald Bales) [Preludes and Postludes, Vol 2 - Augsburg]
• "Meditation on Adoro te devote" (Jack Goode) [Organist's Companion, June 1983 - McAfee Music Corp]
• "Meditation on Picardy" (Edward Beals) [Organist's Companion, January 1993 - McAfee Music Corp]
• "Now Thank We All Our God" (Jan Bender) [Parish Organist, Part 9: Wedding Music - Concordia]
• "Now Thank We All Our God" (Wilbur Held) [Hymn Preludes for the Autumn Festivals - Concordia 97-5360]
• "Now Thank We All Our God" (Paul Manz) [Five Hymn Improvisations for Wedding or General Use - Morning Star Music Publ 10-850]
• "Now Thank We All Our God" (Paul Manz) [Improvisations on Hymns of Praise - Morning Star Music Publ 10-750]
• "Now Thank We All Our God" (Piet Post) [Triptych for Organ - Augsburg]
• "Now Thank We All Our God" (David Schack) [Nine Chorale Preludes - Concordia 97-5045]
• "Nun danket alle Gott" (J.S. Bach) [Orgelwerke VII - Peters 246]
• "Nun danket alle Gott" (J.S. Bach) from Cantate No.79 [Mercury Music W-142; H.W. Gray Publ - St.Cec.No.868]
• "Nun danket alle Gott" (Dieterich Buxtehude) [Joyce Jones Christmas Album]
• "Nun danket alle Gott" (Lois Hill) [Organist's Companion, September 1995 - McAfee Music Corp]
• "Nun danket alle Gott" (Sigfrid Karg-Elert) [Wedding Music, Part II - Concordia 97-1370]
• "Nun danket alle Gott" (G.F. Kaufmann) [Eighty Chorale Preludes - Peters 4448]
• "Nun danket alle Gott" (J.C. Kellner) [Organist's Companion, September 1994 - McAfee Music Corp]
• "Nun danket alle Gott" (M.F.A. Koehler) [Organist's Companion, October 1986 - McAfee Music Corp]
• "Nun danket alle Gott" (Michael Krentz) [Organist's Companion, September 1991 - McAfee Music Corp]
• "Nun danket alle Gott" (Selmar Müller) [Organist's Companion, October 1983 - McAfee Music Corp]
• "Nun danket alle Gott" (J.C. Oley) [Seasonal Chorale Preludes for Manuals, Bk 2 - Oxford]
• "Nun danket alle Gott" (Max Reger) [Thirty Short Chorale Preludes - Peters 3980]
• "Nun danket alle Gott" (J.E. Rembt) [Organist's' Companion, September 1989 - McAfee Music Corp]
• "O Bread of Life from Heaven" (Jan Bender) [Organ Music for the Communion Service - Concordia 97-1395]
• "Partita on Adoro te devote" (Anthony Giamanco) [Organist's Companion, May & September 2000 - McAfee Music Corp]
• "Praise God from Whom All Blessings Flow" (Paul Manz)
• Prelude and Chorale: Now Thank We All Our God" (G.F. Kauffmann) [Consoliere IV-4 - World Library Publ]
• "Prelude & Fugue in G Major" (Felix Mendelssohn)
• "Prelude and Varied Harmonization on Picardy" (Anthony Giamanco) [Organist's Companion, January 2001 - McAfee Music Corp]
• "Prelude on Ellacombe" (Alfred Fedak) [Organist's Companion, March 1991 - McAfee Music Corp]
• "Prelude on Picardy" (Peter Pindar Stearns) [Eight Meditations on Communion Hymns - Flammer]
• "Prelude on Wareham" (Healey Willan) [Ten Hymn Preludes for Organ, Set II - Peters]
• "Recessional" (Charles Talmidge) [J. Fischer]
• "Rendez à Dieu" (Robert J. Powell) [Eleven Chorale Preludes on Hymn Tunes - Flammer]
• "Thee We Adore" (Daniel Burton) [Organist's Companion, March 1999 - McAfee Music Corp]
• "Thee We Adore, O Savior" (G. Winston Cassler) [This Is the Victory - Augsburg 11-9497]
• "Thee We Adore, O Savior" (Healey Willan) [Organ Music for the Communion Service - Concordia 97-1395]
• "Toccata" (Bernardo Pasquini)
• "Variants on Let All Mortal Flesh" (Russell Schulz-Widmar) [Organist's Companion, October 1982 - McAfee Music Corp]
• "Variations on Adoro te devote" (Dale Wood) [Music for Organ - The Sacred Music Press]
• "Variations on Ellacombe" [Organist's Companion, September 1996 - McAfee Music Corp]

Structure, Elements and Parts of the Mass: Preparation of the Gifts (GIRM #74)

The procession bringing the gifts is accompanied by the liturgical song for the preparation of the gifts, which continues at least until the gifts have been placed on the altar. The rules for this liturgical song are the same as for singing the entrance antiphon (see GIRM #48). The liturgical song may always be associated with the offertory rites.

Commentary: The Offertory Procession is a time for music, be it organ, instrumental, choral, vocal, or congregational. In general, I would suggest not using congregational hymns here. Attention is often elsewhere, and simple music to accompany the procession and preparation of the gifts seems better than a congregational "event."

The prescribed Antiphona ad offertorium is not found in the Sacramentary but does occur in the Graduale Romanum and the Graduale Simplex.