Music Suggestions
Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time (B)

• Come, Let Us Join Our Cheerful Songs (CHB #210, ICEL #222, CH #560, HH #288, CD #851)
• Festival Canticle: Worthy Is Christ (CH #265, WIII #458)
• Holy God, We Praise Thy Name (WIII #524, ICEL #134, HPSC #180, CBW #631, PMB #127, AH #461, CH #568, CHB #222)
• Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence (AH #605, CBW #571, CH #377, HPSC #209, ICEL #137, PMB #657, WIII #523, CHB #120)
• O Food of Exiles Lowly (WIII #729, CH #380)
• O Jesus, Joy of Loving Hearts (WIII #605, ICEL #139, HH #249, CH #510)
• Sing Alleluia, Praise the Lord (WIII #554)
• Sing Praise to God Who Reigns Above (WIII #528, ICEL #246, HPSC #301, HH #203)
• The King of Love My Shepherd Is (WIII #609, ICEL #165, HPSC #324, AH #580, CH #460, CHB #265)
• To God with Gladness Sing (HPSC #335, WIII #2, CH #577)
• When in Our Music God Is Glorified (WIII #549, PMB #154, CH #583)

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]
• "Psalm 34" (Gary Penkala) CNP Catalog #1034-1
• "Psalm130" (Christopher Bord) CNP Catalog #1130-1
• "Renaisance Alleluia" (arr. Gary Penkala) CNP Catalog #3079

• "Anima Christi (Calvert Shenk) CNP Catalog #5110
• "Gustate et videte"(Heinrich Isaac) [Chester]
• "Keep Me Faithfully" (G.F. Handel)
• "O esca viatorum" (Heinrich Isaac) [GIA Publications]
• "O Taste and See"(R. Evan Copley) [Augsburg]
• "O Taste and See"(John Goss) [Novello]
• "O Taste and See"(Ralph Vaughan Williams) [Oxford]
• "Tantum ergo Sacramentum" (Christopher Bord) CNP Catalog #5099
• "Ubi caritas" (Gregorian chant) [Liber usualis p.664]
• "Verily, Verily, I Say unto You" (Thomas Tallis) [Oxford]

• "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]
• "Allegretto" (Louis Vierne)
• "God of Grace and God of Glory" (Wilbur Held)
• "Hambleton Suite (Tim Knight) CNP Catalog #6055
• "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]
• "Meditation / Communion from Suite medievale" (Jean Langlais)
• "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]
• "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]
• "Prelude & Fugue in a minor" (J.S. Bach)
• "Prelude and Varied Harmonization on Picardy" (Anthony Giamanco) [Organist's Companion, January 2001 - McAfee Music Corp]
• "Prelude on Engelberg" (Robert Hobby) [Three Hymns of Praise, Set 2 - Morning Star Music Publ]
• "Prelude on Holy God, We Praise Thy Name" (Wilbur Held)
• "Prelude on Picardy" (Peter Pindar Stearns) [Eight Meditations on Communion Hymns - Flammer]
• "Prelude on the Gregorian Song Pange lingua" (A.P.F. Boely) [Historical Organ Recitals III - G. Schirmer 1090 ]
• "Recessional" (Charles Talmidge) [J. Fischer]
• "Rigaudon" (André Campra)
• "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 septima" (Gottlieb Muffat)
• "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]

Structure, Elements and Parts of the Mass: Communion (GIRM #87-88)

An antiphon from the Graduale Romanum may also be used for the communion song, with or without the psalm, or an antiphon with psalm from the Graduale Simplex or another suitable liturgical song approved by the Conference of Bishops may be used.

If there is no singing, the communion antiphon in the Missal may be recited either by the faithful, or by a group of them, or by a reader. Otherwise the priest himself says it after he has received communion and before he gives communion to them.

After communion, the priest and people may spend some time praying silently. If desired, either a psalm or other canticle of praise or a hymn may be sung by the entire congregation.

Commentary: We must realize that while the GIRM mentions the possibility of a psalm, canticle, or hymn after communion (after having sung a psalm, canticle or hymn during communion), it does so with no vision of what we in the United States call a "Closing Song." There is no Closing Song in the rubrics of the Roman rite. In fact, it's not even mentioned as a possibility. Mass ends with "The Mass is ended, go in peace." "Thanks be to God."

If a Communion Hymn and a "Closing Hymn" are scheduled, don't even consider another congregational piece after communion. When a Communion Hymn and a Hymn after Communion are both to be sung (though I really see no good in this) at the very least eliminate the Closing Hymn and have an Organ Recessional.