Music Suggestions
Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time (B)

• All My Hope on God Is Founded (CD #923, CHB #200, CBW #667)
• Christ Is the World's Light (CBW #543, HPSC #130, WIII #543, CD #897, EH #258)
• Come, Let Us to the Lord Our God (ICEL #39, CH #243)
• Come, You Sinners, Poor and Needy (WIII #756)
• Eternal Light (HH #234, EH #478)
• Father of Mercy, God of Consolation (HPSC #155, ICEL #333, CH #409, CHB #216, EH #238)
• Great God of Mercy (WIII #746)
• Hear Our Entreaties, Lord (AH #366, CH #238, ICEL #254, PMB #48, WIII #414, CHB #293)
• I Sought the Lord (WIII #593)
• O for A Heart to Praise My God (WIII #591, EH #414)
• O Love of God, How Strong and True (HPSC #254, SMH #460)
• Our Father, We Have Wandered (WIII #755, HPSC #274, ICEL #255, CH #401)

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.

• Introit:
  1. Domine, in tua misericordia [Graduale Romanum, p.278]
  2. Domine, in tua misericordia [Gregorian Missal, p.457]
      
• Gradual (Responsorial Psalm):
  1. Ego dixit: Domine [Graduale Romanum, p.279]
  2. Ego dixit: Domine [Gregorian Missal, p.458]
      
• Alleluia (Gospel Acclamation):
  1. Verba mea [Graduale Romanum, p.280]
  2. Verba mea [Gregorian Missal, p.459]
      
• Offertory:
  1. Intende voci [Graduale Romanum, p.280]
  2. Intende voci [Gregorian Missal, p.459]
      
• Communion:
  1. Narrabo omnia mirabilia [Graduale Romanum, p.281]
  2. Narrabo omnia mirabilia [Gregorian Missal, p.460]
      
• Mass settings:
  1. "Modal Mass" (Calvert Shenk) CNP Catalog 3115

• "Gloria in C" (Layton James) CNP Catalog #3131
•  Graduale Romanum [Solesmes edition] CNP Catalog #2100
•  Graduale simplex [Vatican edition] CNP Catalog #2150
•  Gregorian Missal [Solesmes edition] CNP Catalog #2200

• "Attende Domine" (Gregorian chant) [Booklet of Chant, Volume 2] CNP Catalog #2002
• "God of Mercy" (Monteverdi/Hopson)
• "Maker of All, Be Thou My Guard" (F.J. Haydn) [Broude]
• "O quam suavis est" (Calvert Shenk) CNP Catalog #5127
• "Remember Your Love for Me, O Lord" (Eugene Englert) CNP Catalog #5030

• "Allegretto" (Louis Vierne)
• "Andante sostenuto" from Gothic Symphony (Charles-Marie Widor)
• "Christe eleison" (Andre Raison) from Messe du deuxieme ton
• "Herzlich tut mich verlangen" (J.G. Walther, D. Buxtehude, J. Pachelbel, J. Brahms, J. Kuhnau, F.W. Marpurg, Jan Bender)
• "Herzliebster Jesu" (J.S Bach, H. Walcha, J. Brahms, Charles Ore, Wilbur Held, Carl Schalk)
• "Meditation religieuse" (Henri Mulet)
• "O Haupt voll Blut und Wunden" (Max Reger) from Thirty Short Chorale Preludes [Peters]
• "Toccata sexta" (Georg Muffat) from Old Masters of the Organ [Kalmus]

Structure, Elements and Parts of the Mass: Entrance (GIRM #48)

The opening liturgical song is sung alternately either by the choir and the people or by the cantor and the people; or it is sung entirely by the people or by the choir alone. The antiphon and the psalm of the Graduale Romanum or The Simple Gradual may be used, or another liturgical song that is suited to this part of the Mass, the day or the season and that has a text approved by the Conference of Bishops. If there is no singing for the entrance, the antiphon in the Missal is recited either by the faithful, by some of them, or by a reader; otherwise, it is recited by the priest himself, who may also incorporate it into his introductory remarks (see n.31).

Commentary: Just as there are Scripture readings required by the Church for every Mass that is celebrated, there is also a prescribed Opening Liturgical Song! The two books listed in bold above contain these songs. Do we ever use them? Or are we stuck in the generation that would have us read from "The Velveteen Rabbit" instead of the Bible. To be fair, the rubrics do allow us to substitute other songs that are approved (this approval is only now being seriously invetigated by the U.S. bishops). But why must we always opt for the substitute (i.e. a hymn) over the antiphon and psalm specified? What we have accomplished since the 1970s is to have given the congregation "instant coffee" so exclusively that they no longer have any notion that "brewed coffee" even exists. How convenient!