Music Suggestions
The Third Sunday of Lent (B)

Liturgical Music

Official texts

Introit:
1. Oculi mei [Graduale Romanum, p.96]
2. Oculi mei [Gregorian Missal, p.252]
3. Oculi mei [Graduale simplex, p.96]
4. Oculi mei (Estêvão Lopes Morago)
5. Dum sanctificatus fuero [Graduale Romanum, p.249]
6. Dum sanctificatus fuero [Gregorian Missal, p.391]
7. My eyes are forever turned toward the Lord [Simple English Propers, p.68 (Adam Bartlett) CMAA]
8. My eyes are ever fixed on the Lord [Simple Choral Gradual, p.54 (Richard Rice) CMAA]
9. When I vindicate my holiness [Simple English Propers, p.69 (Adam Bartlett) CMAA]
10. I will prove my holiness through you [Simple Choral Gradual, p.55 (Richard Rice) CMAA]
11. My Eyes Are Fixed on God [tune: Saint Bride] from Introit Hymns #17 (Christoph Tietze)
12. Lenten Introits for Choir and Congregation (Richard Rice)
13. Mass Propers for Lent (Gary Penkala)
Gradual (Responsorial Psalm):
1. Exsurge Domine [Graduale Romanum, p.96]
2. Exsurge Domine [Gregorian Missal, p.254]
3. Exsurge Domine (Alessandro Scarlatti)
4. Festina in adiutorium meum [Graduale simplex, p.97]
5. Miserere nostri Domine [Graduale simplex, p.98]
6. Miserere nostri Domine (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Ascanio Trombetti)
7. Common Psalms for Schools & Parishes (Thomas Cosley)
Tract (Gospel Acclamation):
1. Ad te levavi oculos meos [Graduale Romanum, p.97]
2. Ad te levavi oculos meos [Gregorian Missal, p.255]
3. Ad te levavi oculos meos (G.P. da Palestrina, Jeffrey Quick, Ascanio Trombetti)
4. Non in solo pane [Graduale simplex, p.99]
5. Qui confidunt in Domino [Graduale simplex, p.99]
6. Qui confidunt in Domino (Krystof Harant)
Offertory:
1. Iustitiae Domini [Graduale Romanum, p.309]
2. Iustitiae Domini [Gregorian Missal, p.256]
3. Iustitiae Domini (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Alessandro Scarlatti)
4. Frange esurienti [Graduale simplex, p.100]
5. The ordinances of the Lord are right [Simple English Propers, p.70 (Adam Bartlett) CMAA]
6. Sweeter are they than honey [Simple Choral Gradual, p.56 (Richard Rice) CMAA]
7. Mass Propers for Lent (Gary Penkala)
Communion:
1. (B/C) Passer invenit [Graduale Romanum, p.306]
2. (B/C) Passer invenit [Gregorian Missal, p.502]
3. Illuminatio mea [Graduale simplex, p.101]
4. The sparrow has found herself a home [Simple English Propers, p.71 (Adam Bartlett) CMAA]
5. The sparrow even finds a home [Simple Choral Gradual, p.58 (Richard Rice) CMAA]
6. Whoever drinks the water [Simple Choral Gradual, p.57 (Richard Rice) CMAA]
7. Mass Propers for Lent (Gary Penkala)
Mass settings:
1. Latin Chant Mass XVII (Adventus et Quadragesimae)
2. Mass of Saint Agnes (B. Andrew Mills)
3. Missa Deus Genitor alme (Harry McMurray)
4. Wondrous Love: A Mass for Lent (J. William Greene)

Other liturgical music

Chant Booklet, Volume 4 (ed. Chris Bord) with chant Mass for Lent
Common Psalms for Schools & Parishes (Thomas Cosley)
Communion Psalms for the Liturgical Seasons (Gary Penkala)
Graduale Romanum [Solesmes edition]
Graduale simplex [Vatican edition]
Gregorian Missal [Solesmes edition]
Search Me, Lord (Alex Hill)
How Lovely Is Your Dwelling Place (Randall DeBruyn) [OCP Publications]
Lord, You Have the Words; (Richard Proulx) [GIA Publications]
Mass Propers (Gregorian chant) [Liber usualis p.551-556]
Psalm 130 (Christopher Bord)
Universal Music for Morning Prayer (Gary Penkala)
Universal Music for Evening Prayer (Gary Penkala)
You Will Not Be Strangers Music for the Dismissal Rite (Alex Hill)

Hymns

All Who Believe and Are Baptized (CD #862)
Christ Is Made the Sure Foundation (WIII #617, HPSC #128, ICEL #183, CBW #542, CH #485, AH #561, CHB #209, SMH #255, EH #384)
Come and Let Us Drink of That New River (WIII #723, HH #123, CH #351)
Hail the Sign, the Cross of Jesus (HPSC #177)
Hear Our Entreaties, Lord (AH #366, CH #238, ICEL #254, PMB #48, WIII #414, CHB #293)
I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say (WIII #607, HPSC #192, ICEL #157, CH #453, AH #579, SMH #355, EH #424)
I Lift My Eyes to You, O Lord (Kathleen Pluth) from Hymns for the Liturgical Year
O God of Pity (HH #70)
Sole Hope of All the World (CH #247)
The Perfect Law of God (HPSC #327)
There's a Wideness in God's Mercy (WIII #595, ICEL #52, PMB #54, AH #613, CH #535, CHB #268, SMH #575, EH #304)
You Have Looked upon the Lowly (PMB #60)

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

EH = The Hymnal 1940 (Episcopal), used by many Anglican Use Roman Catholic parishes

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.

SMH = The Saint Michael Hymnal, Saint Boniface Church, Lafayette IN

WIII = Worship, 3rd Edition, GIA Publications, Inc.

Choral Music

Adoramus te Christe (Antonio Lotti)
Agnus Dei Missa brevis (Palestrina)
Attende Domine (John Osterhagen)
Ave verum corpus (William Byrd, Edward Elgar, W.A. Mozart)
Ave verum corpus (Gregorian chant) [Liber usualis, p.1856]
God So Loved the World from The Crucifixion (John Stainer)
How Lovely Are Thy Dwellings Fair (Colin Brumby)
How Lovely Is Thy Dwelling Place from A German Requiem (Johannes Brahms)
Kyrie eleison from Missa secunda (Hans Leo Hassler)
Miserere mei Domine (Calvert Shenk)
O God of Hosts, the Mighty Lord (John Broderip, Richard Partridge)
O How Amiable (Ralph Vaughan Williams)
O Lord, Increase My Faith (Orlando Gibbons)
O Lord, Thou Hast Searched Me (Carrie Nixon)
Quam dilecta (Camille Saint-Saens)
Sicut cervus (Palestrina/Angelini)
The Holy Ten Commandments (Joseph Haydn) [Mercury]
The Law of the Lord from Six Scriptural Anthems (Eugene Englert) [WLP]
Turn Thee to Me (William Boyce) [Oxford]

Organ Music

Rubrics indicate that the organ remain silent during Lent, except on Laetare Sunday or on other solemnities or festive days or at any time to accompany singing. Hence organ preludes and postludes should not be played (except on Laetare Sunday). Music for non-liturgical services might be chosen from the following:

Christe, du Lamm Gottes (J.S. Bach) from Orgelbüchlein
Ein Lammlein geht in tragt die Schuld (Johann Pachelbel) from 80 Chorale Preludes [C.F. Peters #4448]
Ein Lammlein geht in tragt die Schuld (J.G. Walther) from The Church Organist's Golden Treasury, Vol.1 [Oliver Ditson Co.]
Improvisation on Attende Domine (Robert Hebble) from For the Masses [The Sacred Music Press]
O Christ, Thou Lamb of God (Paul Manz) from Improvisations for the Lenten Season, Set 1 [Morning Star Music Publishers #10-300]
Stanzas from Attende Domine (Robert Kreutz) [Organist's Companion, June 1987]

Liturgical Hints & Ideas

Today's Gospel shows Christ's spontaneous anger at those who perverted his Father's temple. We, as liturgists, musicians and presiders, are offered a stern warning, lest we fall into the trap of sullying the "temple liturgy" with our own personal adaptations. The Mass ritual holds more authority than reader, musician or even priest!

Music SuggestionsThe Third Sunday of Lent (B)