Music Suggestions
Thirty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time (B)
Hymns:
- As a Chalice Cast of Gold (CH #443)
- Beloved, Let Us Love (WIII #601)
- Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee (CH #581, WIII #525)
- Love Consecrated the Humblest Act (PMB #144)
- Love Divine, All Loves Excelling (ICEL #152, WIII #588)
- Not for Tongues of Heaven's Angels (WIII #589)
- O Jesus King Most Wonderful (CH #534)
- Sing Praise to God Who Reigns Above (HH #203, ICEL #246, WIII #528)
- The Stars Declare His Glory (WIII #506)
- This Is My Commandment (WIII #603)
- Those Who Love and Those Who Labor (CH #481, WIII #632)
- 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:
Choral Music:
- "Complete Thy Work, O Lord" (Calvert Shenk) CNP Catalog #5012
- "This Is My Command to You" canon [PMB #729]
- "Ubi caritas" (Gregorian chant) from Booklet of Chant, Volume 3 CNP Catalog #2003 [or Liber usualis p.664, WIII #598, AH #390, ICEL #60]
- "Ubi caritas" (Maurice Duruflé)
- "You Shall Love the Lord Your God" (Eugene Englert) [World Library Publications]
Organ Music:
- "Cantabile" (Charles-Marie Widor)
- "Fugue II" (Felix Mendelssohn)
- "Prelude and Fugue in B-flat Major" (J.S. Bach)
- "Tuba Tune in D Major" (C.S. Lang)
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 38
This psalm has been titled both "Supplications of a Suffering Saint" and "Prayer of an Afflicted Sinner."
It is one of the seven Penitential Psalms (Pss. 6, 32, 38, 51, 102, 130, 143), designated such in the seventh century AD, that suitably express repentance.
The psalmist is afflicted with grave sickness and turns to the Lord for help.
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