Music Suggestions
Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time (B)

• A Mighty Fortress (WIII #575, HPSC #100, CBW #641, PMB #145)
• All My Hope on God Is Founded (CD #923, CHB #200)
• Fight the Good Fight (ICEL #187)
• God Is My Strong Salvation (HPSC #165, ICEL #208, CH #646, HH #302)
• God Is Our Fortress and Our Rock (WIII #575)
• Hope of the World (WIII #565)
• I Come with Joy to Meet My Lord (WIII #726, CBW #578)
• I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say (WIII #607, HPSC #192, ICEL #157, CH #453, AH #579)
• I Know That My Redeemer Lives (WIII #445, ICEL #160, PMB #744, CBW #56, CH #293)
• In Heavenly Love Abiding (ICEL #210)
• Lord of All Hopefulness (WIII #568, CH #524, HH #226, CHB #239)
• 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 God, Our Help in Ages Past (HPSC #241, WIII #579, ICEL #237, CBW #640, CH #457, PMB #128, HH #169, AH #624, CHB #249)
• O Son of God, in Galilee (WIII #748, CH #408)
• Tell Out, My Soul, the Greatness of the Lord (HPSC #311, CD #846, CBW #638, CHB #264)
• Thy Hand, O God, Has Guided (CD #924, CHB #188)
• We Gather Together (PMB #234, WIII #760, HPSC #344, CH #558)
• We Praise You, Father (WIII #680, HH #260, AH #620, CH #440)
• When the King Shall Come Again (WIII #355)
• Word of God, Come Down on Earth (CBW #559, WIII #513, HPSC #355, PMB #105, CH #654)
• Your Hands, O Lord, in Days of Old (WIII #750)

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.

• "Gloria in C" (Layton James) CNP Catalog #3131
• "Modal Mass" (Calvert Shenk) CNP Catalog #3115

• "Cantate Domino" (G.O Pitoni)
• "Confortamini" (Orlando di Lasso) [Concordia]
• "He Hath Done All Things Well" (Jan Bender) [Concordia]
• "O Splendor of God's Glory Bright" (John Reese) CNP Catalog #5085
• "Remember Your Love for Me, O God" (Eugene Englert) CNP Catalog #5030
• "Say to Them That Are of a Fearful Heart" (Everett Titcomb) [Carl Fischer Co.]
• "Sicut cervus desiderat" (G.P. da Palestrina) CNP Catalog #7090

• "A Mighty Fortress" (Murray Bradshaw) [Organist's Companion, September 1991 - McAfee Music Corp]
• "A Mighty Fortress" (Wilbur Held) [Hymn Preludes for the Autumn Festivals - Concordia 97-5360]
• "A Mighty Fortress" (Paul Manz) [Improvisations on Reformation Hymns - Morning Star Music Publ 10-803]
• "A Mighty Fortress" (David Polley) [Organist's Companion, September 1990 - McAfee Music Corp]
• "A Mighty Fortress Is Our God" (Samuel Scheidt) [Parish Organist, Part 1 - Concordia]
• "A Mighty Fortress Is Our God" (Russell Schulz-Widmar) [Organist's Companion, October 1980 - McAfee Music Corp]
• "Ach bleib mit deiner Gnade" (Max Reger) [Thirty Short Chorale Preludes - Peters 3980]
• "Butresses" from Gothic Suite (Gordon Young)
• "Chorale Prelude on Duke Street" (Robert J. Powell) [American Organ Music, Vol 2 - Sacred Music Press]
• "Christus, der ist mein Leben" (J.S. Bach) [Neumeister Collection - Yale University Press]
• "Christus, der ist mein Leben" (F.W. Marpurg) [Twenty-one Chorale Preludes - Augsburg] [Church Organist's Golden Treasury I - Oliver Ditson Co]
• "Christus, der ist mein Leben" (Johann Pachelbel) [Collected Works IV - Kalmus 3763] [Eighty Chorale Preludes - Peters 4448]
• "Christus, der ist mein Leben" (J.G. Walther) [Church Organist's Golden Treasury I - Oliver Ditson Co] [Eighty Chorale Preludes - Peters 4448]
• "Duke Street" (Mark Albrecht) [Organist's Companion, March 2002 - McAfee Music Corp]
• "Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott" (J.S. Bach) [Orgelwerke VI - Peters 245]
• "Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott" (Jan Bender) [Organist's Companion, October 1984 - McAfee Music Corp]
• "Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott" (Dieterich Buxtehude) [Church Organist's Golden Treasury I - Oliver Ditson Co] [Organist's Companion, October 1986 - McAfee Music Corp] [Organist's Companion, October 1986 - McAfee Music Corp]
• "Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott" (C.F. Engelbrecht) [Organist's Companion, September 2001 - McAfee Music Corp]
• "Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott" (J.N. Hanff) [Church Organist's Golden Treasury I - Oliver Ditson Co] [Organist's Companion, June 1983 - McAfee Music Corp]
• "Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott" (A.F. Hesse) [Organist's Companion, October 1988 - McAfee Music Corp]
• "Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott" (G.F. Kauffmann) [Organist's Companion, September 1997 - McAfee Music Corp]
• "Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott" (J.C. Kittel) [Church Organist's Golden Treasury I - Oliver Ditson Co]
• "Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott" (Carl Kuntze) [Organist's Companion, September 1989 - McAfee Music Corp]
• "Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott" (F.W. Marpurg) [Twenty-one Chorale Preludes - Augsburg] [Organist's Companion, September 1992 - McAfee Music Corp]
• "Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott" (Johann Pachelbel) [Eighty Chorale Preludes - Peters 4448] [Church Organist's Golden Treasury I - Oliver Ditson Co]
• "Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott" (Michael Praetorius) [Eighty Chorale Preludes - Peters 4448]
• "Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott" (Max Reger) [Thirty Chorale Preludes - Peters 3980]
• "Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott" (J.C.H. Rinck) [Organist's Companion, October 1985 & September 1996 - McAfee Music Corp]
• "Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott" (Wilhelm Rudnick) [Organist's Companion, October 1987 - McAfee Music Corp]
• "Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott" (David Schack) [Organist's Companion, October 1982 - McAfee Music Corp]
• "Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott" (J.G. Walther) [Eighty Chorale Preludes - Peters 4448] [Church Organist's Golden Treasury I - Oliver Ditson Co] [Seasonal Chorale Preludes for Manuals, Bk 2 - Oxford] [Organist's Companion, September 1993 & 1995 - McAfee Music Corp]
• "Fantasia in a minor" (J.S. Bach)
• "Fantasie über Ein feste Burg" (John Knowles Paine) [Collected Works - McAfee Music]
• "Festival Prelude on Ein feste Burg" (William Faulkes) [Novello]
• "God of Grace" (Paul Manz)
• "God the Father, Be Our Stay" (Paul Manz)
• "I Know That My Redeemer Lives" (Hugo Gehrke) [Parish Organist, Part 10: Funeral Music - Concordia]
• "I Know That My Redeemer Lives" (Charles Ore) [Eleven Compositions for Organ Bk 3 - Concordia 97-5702]
• "I Know That My Redeemer Lives" (Richard Wienhorst) [Parish Organist, Part 1 - Concordia]
• "In Heavenly Love Abiding" (G. Winston Cassler) [Organist's Companion, October 1983 - McAfee Music Corp]
• "Kremser" (George Lachenauer) [Organist's Companion, September 1998 - McAfee Music Corp]
• "Liebster Jesu" (George Lachenauer) [Organist's Companion, May 1996 - McAfee Music Corp]
• "Liebster Jesu" (David Polley) [Organist's Companion, June 1985 - McAfee Music Corp]
• "Liebster Jesu, wir sind hier" (J.S. Bach) [Orgelbüchlein] [Church Organist's Golden Treasury II - Oliver Ditson Co]
• "Liebster Jesu, wir sind hier" (Carl Kuntze) [Organist's Companion, January 1998 - McAfee Music Corp]
• "Liebster Jesu, wir sind hier" (Max Reger) [Thirty Chorale Preludes - Peters 3980]
• "Liebster Jesu, wir sind hier" (J.C.H. Rinck) [Organist's Companion, October 1984 - McAfee Music Corp]
• "Liebster Jesu, wir sind hier" (Randall Thompson) [24 Chorale Preludes, 4 Inventions & a Fugue - E.C. Schirmer]
• "Liebster Jesu, wir sind hier" (J.G. Walther) [Eighty Chorale Preludes - Peters 4448] [Church Organist's Golden Treasury II - Oliver Ditson Co] [Organist's Companion, May 1990 - McAfee Music Corp]
• "Lord of All Hopefulness" (Ronald Arnatt) [Parish Organist XII - Concordia]
• "Méditation" (Gabriel Dupont)
• "Meditation on Ein feste Burg" (Jean Drahmann) [Organist's Companion, September 1998 - 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 Cantata 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 God, Our Help in Ages Past" (Heinrich Fleischer) [Wedding Music, Part II - Concordia 97-1370]
• "O Saving Victim" (Robert Hebble) [For the Masses - The Sacred Music Press]
• "Our God, Our Help in Ages Past" (George T. Miles) [Parish Organist, Part 3 - Concordia]
• "Partita on Duke Street" (Donald Rotermund) [Concordia]
• "Partita on Saint Anne" (Paul Manz) [Concordia 97-5307]
• "Paspied on Kremser" (Bill Cain) [Organist's Companion, September 2000 - McAfee Music Corp]
• "Pastorale" (Domenico Zipoli)
• "Postlude on Kremser" (Dennis Johnson) [Organist's Companion, September 1991 - McAfee Music Corp]
• "Prelude and Chorale: Now Thank We All Our God" (G.F. Kauffmann) [Consoliere IV-4 - World Library Publ]
• "Prelude and Chorale on Duke Street" (David Schack) [Organist's Companion, April 1980 - McAfee Music Corp]
• "Prelude in the Viennese Classical Style on Mozart" (Randolph Currie) [Organist's Companion, September 2000 - McAfee Music Corp]
• "Prelude on Saint Anne" (Alfred Fedak) [Organist's Companion, June 1983 - McAfee Music Corp]
• "Prelude on Slane" (Gerre Hancock) [AGO 90th Anniversary Anthology of American Organ Music - Oxford]
• "Ricercare nel duodecimo tono" (Andrea Gabrieli)
• "Slane: A Partita for Organ" (Robert W. Jones) [Organist's Companion, January 1995 - McAfee Music Corp]
• "Suite du deuxieme ton" (L.N. Clerambault)
• "Suite for Worship on Slane" (Kevin Norris) [Organist's Companion, October 1981 - McAfee Music Corp]
• "Suite for Worship on Truro" and Duke Street (G.W. Cassler) [Organist's Companion, April 1985 - McAfee Music Corp]
• "The Kingsfold Trumpet" (Alfred Fedak) [Organist's Companion, August 1987 - McAfee Music Corp]
• "Three Variations on Kremser" (Michael Sullivan) [Organist's Companion, October 1985 - McAfee Music Corp]
• "Toccata on Duke Street" (Gilbert Martin) [The Sacred Organ Folio - Lorenz Publ Co]
• "Toccata on Saint Anne" (Gordon Young) [Five Toccatas - Flammer HF-5009]
• "Toccata-Chorale on Slane" (Alice Jordan) [Organist's Companion, February 1986 - McAfee Music Corp]
• "Toccata-Prelude on Saint Anne" (Garth Edmundson) [J. Fischer & Bros]
• "Variations on Duke Street"(Randolph Currie) [Organist's Companion, March 1996 - McAfee Music Corp]
• "Variations on Land of Rest" (John Ogasapian) [Organist's Companion, May 1990 - McAfee Music Corp]
• "Variations on Liebster Jesu" (J.C.H. Rinck)
• "Variations on Saint Anne" (James Konkel) [Organist's Companion, January 2001 - McAfee Music Corp]
• "Variations on Slane" (Robin Rokey) [Organist's Companion, January 2000 - McAfee Music Corp]
• "Variations on Slane" for Violin & Organ (Jan Bender)
• "Verso spirituali" (Antonio Valente)
• "Voluntary on Ein feste Burg" (Gordon Young)
• "Voluntary on Kremser" (Gordon Young)
• "We Gather Together" (Murray Bradshaw) [Organist's Companion, September 1992 - McAfee Music Corp]
• "We Gather Together" (Wilbur Held) [Hymn Preludes for the Autumn Festivals - Concordia 97-5360]
• "We Gather Together" (Lois Hill) [Organist's Companion, September 1999 - McAfee Music Corp]
• "We Gather Together" (Robin Rokey) [Organist's Companion, September 2001 - McAfee Music Corp]
• "We Gather Together" (Russell Schulz-Widmar) [Organist's Companion, October 1984 - McAfee Music Corp]

Offices and Ministries in the Mass (GIRM #103)

The schola cantorum or choir exercises its own liturgical function among the faithful. Its task is to ensure that the tasks proper to it, in keeping with the different types of chants, are carried out becomingly and to encourage active participation of the people in singing. What is said about the choir applies in a similar way to other musicians, especially the organist.

Commentary: The choir has a definite purpose at liturgy. Try not to approach the choir's role from a non-liturgical Protestant model wherein the choir offers "an anthem" at a particular point in the service. Rather, the documents primarily envision the choir evolving out of a Roman model, wherein a schola (a group of singers, often in unison) offered various chants of the Mass proper (Introit, Gradual, Offertory, Communion, etc.). Ideally, in addition to singing an anthem alone, the choir should alternate with the congregation in the Proper of the Mass and may even (particularly in the instances above) legitimately sing them in place of the congregation.