Music Suggestions
Twenty-fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time (B)
Hymns:
- Creator of the Earth and Skies (HH #86)
- Faith of Our Fathers (ICEL #186, CH #634, PMB #149, WIII #571, AH #603)
- Jesus, Lead the Way (WIII #611)
- Jesus, Lover of My Soul (AH #604)
- Lift High the Cross (WIII #704, CD #847, CH #542, PMB #56, HH #268, AH #606)
- My Song Is Love Unknown (CD #926, CH #258, HH #90, WIII #439)
- O Christ, Our Hope (ICEL #107, CH #509, HH #269)
- O God, beyond All Praising (WIII #541)
- O Spirit of the Living God (CH #640)
- Take Up Your Cross (WIII #634, ICEL #51, CH #651, PMB #44, HH #68, WIII #634, CD #927)
- Worship the Lord in the Beauty of Holiness (ICEL #247, HH #59)
- AH = The Adoremus Hymnal, Ignatius Press
- CD = Cantate Domino / Hymnal Supplement, GIA Publications, Inc.
- CH = The Collegeville Hymnal, The Liturgical Press
- HH = Hymnal of the Hours, GIA Publications, Inc.
- ICEL = ICEL Resource Collection, GIA Publications, Inc.
- PMB = People's Mass Book, World Library Publications, Inc.
- WIII = Worship, 3rd Edition, GIA Publications, Inc.
Liturgical Music:
- "Canticle of the Three Children" (A. Gregory Murray)
- "Modal Mass" (Calvert Shenk) CNP Catalog #3115
- "We Should Glory in the Cross" (Gary Penkala) from Seven Roman Basilica Processionals CNP Catalog #3077
Choral Music:
Organ Music:
- "Adagio" (Tommaso Albinoni)
- "Ciacone in F" (Johann Pachelbel)
- "Echo Fantasia" (J.P. Sweelinck)
- "Fantasia in b minor" (J.S. Bach)
- "Grave" (G.B. Martini)
- "Lift High the Cross" (Paul Manz, Charles Ore)
- "Toccata in g minor" (Pasquet)
- "Vitrail" (Henri Mulet)
Liturgical Hints & Ideas:
Catholic church music programs in the United States have strayed far from the ideal that is outlined for the Entrance Song in the rubrics of the Sacramentary (Roman Missal).
Paragraph 26 of the General Instruction of the Roman Missal reads: "The entrance song is sung alternately either by the choir and the congregation or by the cantor and the congregation; or it is sung entirely by the congregation or by the choir alone.
The antiphon and psalm of the Graduale Romanum or The Simple Gradual may be used..."
While most parishes opt for a standard hymn at the entrance, the rubrical preference for a psalm with antiphon may still be accommodated today.
There are many published responsorial psalm settings and it should be easy to find a version that matches the entrance psalm specified for each Sunday.
Here is today's specific entrance psalm, and some information about it:
Psalm 122
This is one of the Psalms of Ascent (Pss. 120-134), so called because they were sung by worshipers climbing Mount Zion to the religious festivals in the Temple.
Psalm 122 speaks of the "City of the Pilgrims."
Joy is apparent as "we go up to the house of the Lord."
The splendor of Jerusalem is not only its buildings, but its stature as a place of encounter: "To it the tribes go up, to give thanks to the name of the Lord."
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