Music Suggestions
Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time (B)

• All My Hope on God Is Founded (CD #923, CHB #200)
• Alleluia! Sing to Jesus (HPSC #112, ICEL #130, WIII #737, CBW #536, AH #601, PMB #663, CH #504, CHB #112)
• Bread of the World, in Mercy Broken (CH #375)
• For the Beauty of the Earth (WIII #557, ICEL #225, HPSC #158, HH #163, CBW #624, PMB #125, CH #562)
• Gift of Finest Wheat (WIII #736, HPSC #360, PMB #665, CBW #570, CH #389)
• God Is My Strong Salvation (HPSC #165, ICEL #208, CH #646, HH #302)
• Godhead Here in Hiding (AH #511, CH #368, HPSC #164, ICEL #138, WIII #489, CHB #117)
• Holy, Holy, Holy (WIII #485, ICEL #94, HPSC #185, CBW #634, CH #306, AH #460, CHB #96)
• Humbly We Adore Thee / Adoro te devote (PMB #675, CBW #587, CH #369)
• O Bread of Life (PMB #664)
• O Food of Exiles Lowly (WIII #729, CH #380)
• O Lord Jesus, I Adore Thee (AH #513)
• O Salutaris Hostia (AH #519, WIII #757, CH #362, PMB #677, ICEL #148)
• O Source of Life Divine (CD #888)
• Panis angelicus (AH #523, CH #363)
• See Us, Lord, about Your Altar (PMB #666, CH #392, CBW #565)
• The Head That Once Was Crowned with Thorns (WIII #464, ICEL #105, HH #303, CH #516, CHB #90)

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
• "Jesu dulcis: The Taste of Goodness " (Robert Kreutz) [GIA Publications]
• "Renaissance Alleluia" (arr. Gary Penkala) CNP Catalog #3079

• "Anima Christi (Calvert Shenk) CNP Catalog #5110
• "Gustate et videte"(Heinrich Isaac) [Chester]
• "Jesus Said unto the People" (John Stainer) [G. Schirmer]
• "O esca viatorum" (Heinrich Isaac) [GIA Publications]
• "O sacrum convivium" (Eugene Englert) CNP Catalog #5083
• "O Taste and See"(R. Evan Copley) [Augsburg]
• "O Taste and See"(John Goss) [Novello]
• "O Taste and See"(Ralph Vaughan Williams) [Oxford]
• "Schaffe in mir, Gott, ein reines Herz" (Heinrich Schütz)
• "Tantum ergo Sacramentum" (Christopher Bord) CNP Catalog #5099

• "Adagio cantabile" (Giuseppe Tartini)
• "Adoro te devote" (Sr. Teresine Fonder) [Twenty-Six Miniatures]
• "Agincourt Hymn" (John Dunstable)
• " Break Thou the Bread of Life" (Wilbur Held) [Organist's Companion, October 1980 - McAfee Music Corp]
• "Chorale Prelude on Holy, Holy, Holy" (Beatrice Miller) [Organist's Companion, May 1993 - McAfee Music Corp]
• "Christus der ist mein Leben" (Johann Pachelbel)
• "Duet and Trio on Hyfrydol" [Organist's Companion, August 1982 - McAfee Music Corp]
• "Echo Fantasia" (Jan Pietersoon Sweelinck)
• "Hambleton Suite (Tim Knight) CNP Catalog #6055
• "Holy, Holy, Holy" (Hugh Livingston) [Organist, May 1981]
• "Humbly I Adore Thee" (Myron Casner) [Parish Organist XI - Concordia]
• "Hyfrydol" (Lois Hill) [Organist's Companion, November 1999 - McAfee Music Corp]
• "Hymn Prelude on Nicæa" (Peter Pindar Stearns) [Eight Hymn Preludes for Ascension & Pentecost - Flammer]
• "Improvistation / Elevation" from Suite medievale (Jean Langlais)
• "Let Us Ever Walk with Jesus" (Theodore Beck)
• "Meditation on Adoro te devote" (Jack Goode) [Organist's Companion, June 1983 - McAfee Music Corp]
• "O Bread of Life from Heaven" (Jan Bender) [Organ Music for the Communion Service - Concordia 97-1395]
• "O Saving Victim" (Robert Hebble) [For the Masses - The Sacred Music Press]
• "Pange lingua" (Nicolas deGrigny) [Anthologia pro organo IV - Schott Frères]
• "Partita on Adoro te devote" (Anthony Giamanco) [Organist's Companion, May & September 2000 - McAfee Music Corp]
• "Partita on Nicæa" (Charles Callahan) [Morning Star Music Publ]
• "Partita on Nicæa" (Kathleen Scheide) [Organist's Companion, May 1996 - McAfee Music Corp]
• "Prelude in F Major" (Carl Nielson)
• "Prelude on Hyfrydol" (Iteke Prins) [Organist's Companion, March 2002 - McAfee Music Corp]
• "Prelude on Hyfrydol" (Ralph Vaughan Williams) [Three Preludes on Welsh Hymn Tunes - Galaxy Music Corp]
• "Prelude on Hyfrydol" (Healey Willan) [Ten Hymn Preludes, Set I - Peters 6011]
• "Recessional" (Charles Talmidge) [J. Fischer]
• "Sonata in g minor" (Don Ignazio Cirri)
• "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 Savio"r (Healey Willan) [Organ Music for the Communion Service - Concordia 97-1395]
• "Toccata and Variation on Hyfrydol" (Gordon Young) [American Organ Music, Vol 2 - Sacred Music Press]
• "Toccata on Duke Street" (Gilbert Martin)
• "Variations on Adoro te devote" (Dale Wood) [Music for Organ - The Sacred Music Press]
• "Variations on Nicæa" (Robin Rokey) [Organist's Companion, May 1999 - McAfee Music Corp]

Structure, Elements and Parts of the Mass: Breaking of the Bread (GIRM #83)

... During the breaking of the bread, the Lamb of God is, as a rule, sung by the choir or cantor with the congregation responding; otherwise, it is at least recited aloud. This invocation accompanies the breaking of the bread and, for this reason, may be repeated as many times as necessary until the conclusion of the rite. The final repetition concludes with the words: Grant us peace.

Commentary: What is clear is that a musical setting of the Agnus Dei accompanies the action of the breaking of the bread. The music should continue as long as the action. What is not entirely clear is how this is to happen.

The GIRM text notes that the invocations may be repeated as long as necessary, ending with: Grant us peace — absolutely no mention is made of added tropes. Herein lies a controversy. An old document of the U.S. bishops, Liturgical Music Today (1982), suggested that in large liturgies, when the Fraction Rite would take considerable time, "one should not hesitate to add tropes to the litany" [#20]. This document has been replaced by Sing to the Lord (2007), which likewise states, "When the Agnus Dei is sung repeatedly as a litany, Christological invocations with other texts may be used" [#188].

The situation is this: The GIRM is an official document from the Vatican, binding on everyone involved in liturgy, bishops included. The document, Sing to the Lord, is a set of guidelines issued by the U.S. bishops, and is not rubrically binding on the liturgy, even within the U.S. Further, I'm not sure where the bishops found the authority to alter liturgical texts, something strictly forbidden by Vatican documents ["The reprobated practice by which Priests, Deacons or the faithful here and there alter or vary at will the texts of the Sacred Liturgy that they are charged to pronounce, must cease." – Redemptionis sacramentum #59].

I would suggest that we sing the Agnus Dei as written in its three-part form. If large liturgies require extra time, the choir can sing an extension, perhaps a Renaissance setting of the Agnus Dei.