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

• Before Thy Throne, O God, We Kneel (CH #600)
• Christ Is Made the Sure Foundation (WIII #617, HPSC #128, ICEL #183, CBW #542, CH #485, AH #561, CHB #209)
• Crown Him with Many Crowns (AH #481, CBW #549, CH #525, HPSC #145, ICEL #106, PMB #96, WIII #496, CHB #141)
• Draw Near and Take the Body of the Lord (CD #181, WIII #732, ICEL #132, CH #378)
• Festival Canticle: Worthy Is Christ (CH #265, WIII #458)
• Gift of Finest Wheat (WIII #736, HPSC #360, PMB #665, CBW #570, CH #389)
• Holy God, We Praise Thy Name (WIII #524, ICEL #134, HPSC #180, CBW #631, PMB #127, AH #461, CH #568, CHB #222)
• I Want to Walk As A Child of the Light (WIII #510)
• Lord, Whose Love in Humble Service (WIII #630, CH #606)
• O Jesus, Joy of Loving Hearts (WIII #605, ICEL #139, HH #249, CH #510)
• O Lord, I Am Not Worthy (CD #894, AH #512, CH #376)
• O Love, Who Drew from Jesus' Side (AH #562, CH #492)
• Praise, My Soul, the King of Heaven (WIII #530, HPSC #279, ICEL #242, CBW #650, PMB #123, AH #611, CHB #258, 513)
• Praise to the Lord (WIII #547, ICEL #245, HPSC #284, CH #592, PMB #122, CBW #653, AH #612, CHB #110)
• Sent Forth By God's Blessing (PMB #148)
• The Church of Christ in Every Age (WIII #626, CH #613)
• Those Who Love and Those Who Labor (WIII #632, CH #481)
• What Wondrous Love (WIII #600, ICEL #164, PMB #157, CD #822, HH #95, CH #530)
• When Jesus Came Preaching the Kingdom of God (WIII #614, CH #647)
• Worship the Lord in the Beauty of Holiness (ICEL #247)

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
• "Psalm 40" (Gary Penkala) CNP Catalog #1040-1
• "Psalm 69" (Gary Penkala) CNP Catalog #1069-1
• "Modal Mass" (Calvert Shenk) CNP Catalog #3115
• "You Will Not Be Strangers" (Alex Hill) CNP Catalog #3095

• "Cantique de Jean Racine" (Gabriel Fauré)
• "Cast Thy Burden" from Elijah (Felix Mendelssohn)
• "He That Shall Endure to the End" from Elijah (Felix Mendelssohn)
• "In spiritu humilitatis" (Calvert Shenk) CNP Catalog #5117
• "Like As a Father" (Luigi Cherubini)
• "Non nobis Domine" (William Byrd)
• "O Thou in Whose Presence My Soul Takes Delight" (Maxcine Posegate)
• "Prayer of Saint Francis" (Gary Penkala) CNP Catalog #5090
• "Save Me, O God" (William Boyce, Henry Purcell)
• "Thou Knowest, Lord, the Secrets of Our Hearts" (Henry Purcell) [Novello]

• "Ash Grove" (G. Winston Cassler) [Organist's Companion, October 1980 - McAfee Music Corp]
• "Ash Grove" (Paul R. Otte) [Organist's Companion, October 1988 - McAfee Music Corp]
• "Chorale Improvisation on Neumark" (Paul Manz) [AGO 90th Anniversary Anthology of American Organ Music - Oxford]
• "Chorale Prelude on Diademata" (James Pethel) [The Sacred Organ Folio - Lorenz Publ Co]
• "Chorale Prelude on Lobe den Herren" (John Hebden Schaffner) [Organist's Companion, May 1999 - McAfee Music Corp]
• "Crown Him with Many Crowns" (Robert Crane) [Parish Organist XI - Concordia]
• "Crown Him with Many Crowns" (Wilbur Held) [Hymn Preludes for the Pentecost Season - Concordia 97-5517]
• "Fanfare on Lauda anima" (Robert Hughes) [Organist, January 1982]
• "Grosser Gott wir loben dich" (Max Reger) [Thirty Chorale Preludes - Peters 3980]
• "Holy God, We Praise Thy Name" (Heinrich Fleischer) [Parish Organist, Part 1 - Concordia]
• "Holy God, We Praise Thy Name" (Wilbur Held) [Hymn Preludes for the Pentecost Season - Concordia 97-5517]
• "Holy God, We Praise Thy Name" (Paul Manz) [Improvisations for Pentecost & Trinity Sunday - Morning Star Music Publ 10-500]
• "Hymn Prelude on Diademata" (Peter Pindar Stearns) [Eight Hymn Preludes for Ascension & Pentecost - Flammer]
• "Hymn Prelude on In Babilone" (Peter Pindar Stearns) [Eight Hymn Preludes for Ascension & Pentecost - Flammer]
• "Kommst du nun, Jesu, vom Himmel herunter" (J.S. Bach) [Orgelwerke VII - Peters 246] [Church Organist's Golden Treasury II - Oliver Ditson Co]
• "Lobe den Herren" (Max Reger) [Thirty Chorale Preludes - Peters 3980]
• "Lobe den Herren" (J.G. Walther) [Eighty Chorale Preludes - Peters 4448] [Church Organist's Golden Treasury II - Oliver Ditson Co] [Anthologia pro organo IV - Schott Frères]
• "Partita on Jesus I Shall Ne'er Forsake" (Johann Gottfried Walther)
• "Partita on Lobe den Herren" (Don Freudenberg) [Organist's Companion, June 1986 - McAfee Music Corp]
• "Postlude and Chorale on Grosser Gott" (Michael Sullivan) [Organist's Companion, May 1991 - McAfee Music Corp]
• "Postlude on In Babilone" (Gordon Young) [Collage for Organ - Flammer HF-5011]
• "Praise, My Soul, the King of Heaven" (J.L. Adam) [Parish Organist XI - Concordia]
• "Praise to the Lord" (Calvin Hampton) [Organist's Companion, October 1986 - McAfee Music Corp]
• "Praise to the Lord" (Paul Manz) [Five Improvisations for Wedding and General Use - Morning Star Music Publ 10-850]
• "Praise to the Lord" (Friederich Zipp) [Parish Organist XII - Concordia]
• "Prelude on Grosser Gott" (Michael Sullivan)
• "Prelude on Samanthra" (Rev. Brian K. Muzas) CNP Catalog #6028
• "Prelude on Wareham" (Healey Willan) [Ten Hymn Preludes for Organ, Set II - Peters]
• "Procession" (Russell Schulz-Widmar) [Organist's Companion, August 1980 - McAfee Music Corp]
• "Processional" (Martin Shaw)
• "Reflection on Wer nur den lieben Gott" (Alice Jordan) [Organist's Companion, August 1987 - McAfee Music Corp]
• "Ricercare" (G.P. da Palestrina)
• "Rosace" (Henri Mulet)
• "Sent Forth by God's Blessing" (Paul Otte) [Organist's Companion, October 1987 - McAfee Music Corp]
• "Toccata on Holy God, We Praise Thy Name" (Kevin Norris) [H.W. Gray]
• "Toccata on Lobe den Herren" (Gordon Young) [Five Toccatas - Flammer HF-5009]
• "Variations on In Babilone" (Raymond Haan) [Flammer]
• "Voluntary in A Major" (William Selby)
• "Was Gott tut das ist wohlgetan" (J.G. Walther)
• "Wer nur den lieben Gott lässt walten" (J.S. Bach) [Orgelbüchlein] [Orgelwerke VII - Peters 246]
• "Wer nur den lieben Gott lässt walten" (Georg Böhm) [Eighty Chorale Preludes - Peters 4448] [Church Organist's Golden Treasury III - Oliver Ditson Co]
• "Wer nur den lieben Gott lässt walten" (Don Freudenburg) [Organist's Companion, July 1999 - McAfee Music Corp]
• "Wer nur den lieben Gott lässt walten" (J.P. Kirnberger) [Organist's Companion, February 1985 - McAfee Music Corp]
• "Wer nur den lieben Gott lässt walten" (J.L. Krebs) [Church Organist's Golden Treasury III - Oliver Ditson Co]
• "Wer nur den lieben Gott lässt walten" (F.W. Marpurg) [Twenty-one Chorale Preludes - Augsburg]
• "Wer nur den lieben Gott lässt walten" (Max Reger) [Thirty Short Chorale Preludes - Peters 3980]
• "Wer nur den lieben Gott lässt walten" (J.G. Walther) [Church Organist's Golden Treasury III - Oliver Ditson Co]

The Different Forms of Celebration (GIRM #142)

... However, if no liturgical song is sung at the offering of the gifts, and the organ is not played, the priest is permitted to offer the formulas of blessing in the presentation of the bread and wine audibly, to which the people respond with the acclamation: Blessed be God for ever.

Commentary: The prayers of offering, derived from ancient Hebrew texts and beautiful as they are, are meant as "private prayers" by the priest as he readies the gifts for the sacrifice. The preference is for music here — perhaps singing by the choir or soloist, or even organ or instrumental music. This is not a communal, "congregational" moment, hence a hymn by the people is not the best musical option here.