Music Suggestions
Holy Thursday of the Lord's Supper [The Evening Mass] (ABC)

Liturgical Music

Official texts

Introit:
1. Nos autem gloriari [Graduale Romanum, p.162]
2. Nos autem gloriari [Gregorian Missal, p.286]
3. Nos autem gloriari [Graduale simplex, p.129]
4. Nos autem gloriari (Gregorian chant) [Liber usualis, p.654]
5. Nos autem gloriari (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Simone Stella)
6. Let our glory be in the cross [Simple English Propers, p.93 (Adam Bartlett) CMAA]
7. We should glory in the cross [Simple Choral Gradual, p.76 (Richard Rice) CMAA]
8. Then Let Us Glory in the Cross [tune: Duguet] from Introit Hymns #21 (Christoph Tietze)
9. Mass Propers for Eastertide (Gary Penkala)
10. We Should Glory in the Cross (Thomas Buffer)
Gradual (Responsorial Psalm):
1. Oculi omnium [Graduale Romanum, p.343]
2. Oculi omnium [Gregorian Missal, p.287]
3. Oculi omnium (José Maurício Nunes Garcia, Charles Wood)
4. Dominus pascit me [Graduale simplex, p.131]
5. Exaltabo te [Graduale simplex, p.202]
Tract (Gospel Acclamation):
1. Ab ortu solis usque [Graduale Romanum, p.163]
2. Ab ortu solis usque [Gregorian Missal, p.288]
3. Ab ortu solis usque (William Byrd)
Antiphons during the Washing of Feet:
1. Postquam surrexit [Graduale Romanum, p.164] [Gregorian Missal, p.290]
2. Dominus Iesus [Graduale Romanum, p.165] [Gregorian Missal, p.290]
3. Domine, tu mihi [Graduale Romanum, p.165] [Gregorian Missal, p.291]
4. Si ego Dominus [Graduale Romanum, p.166] [Gregorian Missal, p.291]
5. In hoc cognoscent [Graduale Romanum, p.166] [Gregorian Missal, p.292]
6. Mandatum novum [Graduale Romanum, p.167] [Gregorian Missal, p.292]
7. Maneant in vobis [Graduale Romanum, p.167] [Gregorian Missal, p.293]
8. Mandatum novum (Aurelio Porfiri)
9. Maneant in vobis (Richard Rice)
10. Mandatum novum [Graduale simplex, p.132]
11. I Give You a New Commandment (John Sheppard)
12. A New Commandment Give I unto You (William Mundy, Thomas Tallis)
13. Antiphons: [Simple Choral Gradual, p.77-79 (Richard Rice) CMAA]
  1. The Lord Jesus...
  2. Lord, do you wash my feet...
  3. If I, your Lord and Teacher...
  4. Jesus said to his disciples...
  5. I give you a new commandment...
  6. Faith, hope and love...
Offertory:
1. Ubi caritas [Graduale Romanum, p.168]
2. Ubi caritas [Gregorian Missal, p.293]
3. Ubi caritas [Graduale simplex, p.133]
4. Ubi caritas et amor [CNP's Booklet of Chant 3]
5. Ubi caritas (Gregorian chant) [Liber usualis, p.664]
6. Ubi caritas (Maurice Duruflé)
7. Ubi caritas et amor (Luke Mayernik) [GIA Publications] with tenor solo
8. Ubi caritas et amor (Richard Proulx) [GIA Publications] uses handbells
9. Where true charity is dwelling [Simple English Propers, p.94 (Adam Bartlett) CMAA]
10. Where charity and love are found [Simple Choral Gradual, p.80 (Richard Rice) CMAA]
11. Mass Propers for Eastertide (Gary Penkala)
Communion:
1. Hoc corpus [Graduale Romanum, p.170]
2. Hoc corpus [Gregorian Missal, p.297]
3. Hoc corpus (Melchor Robledo)
4. Calicem salutaris [Graduale simplex, p.135]
5. This is my body [Simple English Propers, p.96 (Adam Bartlett) CMAA]
6. This body will be given up for you [Simple Choral Gradual, p.80 (Richard Rice) CMAA]
7. Mass Propers for Eastertide (Gary Penkala)
Procession with the Blessed Sacrament:
1. Pange lingua gloriosi Corporis mysterium [Graduale Romanum, p.170]
2. Pange lingua gloriosi Corporis mysterium [Gregorian Missal, p.298]
3. Pange lingua gloriosi Corporis mysterium [Graduale simplex, p.137]
4. Pange lingua gloriosi Corporis mysterium Chant Booklet, Volume 4 (ed. Chris Bord)
5. Pange lingua gloriosi (William Byrd, Tomás Luis de Victoria)
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)
Faith, Hope and Love (Alexander Peloquin) [GIA Publications]
Graduale Romanum [Solesmes edition]
Graduale simplex [Vatican edition]
Gregorian Missal [Solesmes edition]
Mass Propers (Gregorian chant) [Liber usualis p.654]
O sacrum convivium, omitting final verse (Colin Brumby)
Responsorial Psalms and Gospel Acclamations for Holy Week (Don Roy)
Tantum ergo: A Processional for Holy Thursday (arr. Gary Penkala)
The Lord Jesus Humbled Himself (Eugene Englert) text: Phil 2:6-11 [PMB #761]
We Should Glory in the Cross (Rev. Thomas Buffer)
We Should Glory in the Cross from Seven Roman Basilica Processionals (Gary Penkala)

Hymns

Adoro te devote (ICEL #129/138, WIII #489, CH #370, CBW #587, CHB #291, AH #510, SMH #194)
An Upper Room (CD #879)
Ave verum Corpus (ICEL #131, WIII #730, HPSC #118,CHB #296, AH #514, SMH #231)
Lift High the Cross (WIII #704, HPSC #207, CD #847, PMB #56, HH #268, CBW #545, CH #542, AH #606, SMH #398)
Now My Tongue the Mystery Telling (HPSC #228, EH #199)
O Food of Exiles Lowly (WIII #729, CH #380, SMH #442)
Pange lingua gloriosi (ICEL #143, CH #361, AH #391, HPSC #275, CBW #584, CHB #303, SMH #488/9)
Praise We Christ's Immortal Body [Pange lingua] (PMB #674)
Sing, My Tongue, the Glorious Battle (AH #404, CBW #583, CH #364, HPSC #298, ICEL #145, WIII #437, CHB #69, EH #66)
The Lamb's High Banquet (ICEL #147, CBW #564)
Ubi caritas (CD #918, ICEL #60, CH #386, AH #390, CBW #575, CHB #309, SMH #582)
Weave a Song within the Silence [Pange lingua] (HH #250)
What Shall I Render to the Lord (HPSC #349)

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

Aquinas: Two Eucharistic Texts (Colin Brumby)
Ave verum corpus (William Byrd, Giacomo Carissimi, Christoph Dalitz, Gabriel Fauré, Mariano Garau, W.A. Mozart, Michael J. Oczko, Lorenzo Perosi, Josquin des Prez, Josef Rheinberger)
Beloved, Let Us Love One Another (Mark Siebert)
Faith, Hope and Love (Alexander Peloquin) [GIA Publications]
Godhead Here in Hiding (Msgr. Anthony Mancini)
I Give You a New Commandment (Harold Owen)
In Memory of You (Alexander Peloquin) [GIA Publications]
Mandatum novum do vobis (Gregorian chant) Proper Antiphon for Foot-Washing [Graduale Romanum, p.167; Graduale simplex, p. 132]
Nos autem gloriari (Gregorian chant) Proper Introit for Holy Thursday [Graduale Romanum, p.162; Graduale simplex, p.129; Liber usualis, p.654]
Now, My Tongue, the Mystery Telling, (arr. Alan Smith)
O sacrum convivium (Giovanni Croce, G.P. da Palestrina)
O sacrum convivium, omitting final verse (Colin Brumby)
O Thou, Who at Thy Eucharist (Temple Bevan) from The Oxford Easy Anthem Book, p.99
Pange lingua gloriosi (Gregorian chant) from Booklet of Chant, Volume 2
Tantum ergo sacramentum (Christopher Bord)
The Lord Is My Shepherd (Stephen DeCesare)
Therefore We, before Him Bending (James Morrison)
Two Settings of Tantum ergo sacramentum (Rene Vierne & Wendelin Knauschner)
Ubi caritas (Gregorian chant) Proper Offertory for Holy Thursday [Graduale Romanum, p.168; Graduale simplex, p. 133; Liber usualis, p.664]
Ubi caritas (Maurice Duruflé)
Ubi caritas et amor (Luke Mayernik) [GIA Publications] with tenor solo
Ubi caritas et amor (Richard Proulx) [GIA Publications] uses handbells
Verbum caro (G.P. da Palestrina)
We Should Glory (Thomas Buffer)

Organ Music

Lent ends on Holy Thursday before the celebration of the Paschal Triduum. The Roman Missal prohibits organ music (except to accompany singing) from tonight's Gloria through the Gloria at the Easter Vigil, although a laudable tradition holds that the organ should be silent during that time. The rubric does not speak about the time prior to the Holy Thursday Gloria; hence, a well-chosen organ prelude may be appropriate to set the mood for this evening's beginning of the Paschal Triduum. The organ may also be used to accompany a sturdy Entrance Hymn or Chant and the Gloria, before being turned off and not touched again until the Gloria of the Easter Vigil.

Ave verum from Two Chant Meditations for Organ (Kevin Waters SJ)
Lift High the Cross (Paul Manz) from Improvisations on Great Hymns of the Faith [Morning Star Music Publishers #10-839]
Lift High the Cross (Charles Ore) [Eleven Compositions for Organ Bk 3 - Concordia 97-5702]
Lift High the Cross (Lani Smith) [Organist, September 1982]
Meditation on Adoro te devote from Seven Preludes for the Church Year (Donna Robertson)
Prelude on Pange lingua (A.P.F. Boëly)
Prelude on Pange lingua (Donna Robertson)
Processional on Lift High the Cross (Donald Busarow) [Concordia 97-5442]
Processional on Lift High the Cross (Alice Jordan) [Organist's Companion, April 1985]
Schmücke dich, o liebe Seele (J.S. Bach) [Orgelwerke VII - Peters 246] [Church Organist's Golden Treasury III - Oliver Ditson Co]
Schmücke dich, o liebe Seele (Johannes Brahms) from Eleven Chorale Preludes
Schmücke dich, o liebe Seele (C.F. Engelbrecht) [Organist's Companion, January 2000]
Schmücke dich, o liebe Seele (Wilbur Held) [Organist's Companion, February 1983]
Schmücke dich, o liebe Seele (M.F.A. Koehler) [Organist's Companion, January 1999]
Schmücke dich, o liebe Seele (F.W. Marpurg) from Twenty-one Chorale Preludes [Augsburg]
Schmücke dich, o liebe Seele (Dennis Northway) [Organist's Companion, February 1986]
Schmücke dich, o liebe Seele (Max Reger) from Chorale Preludes for the Church Year
Schmücke dich, o liebe Seele (Peter Pindar Stearns) [Eight Meditations on Communion Hymns - Flammer]
Soul, Adorn Thyself with Gladness (Paul Manz) from Improvisations on Classic Chorales [Morning Star Music Publishers #10-843]
Soul, Adorn Thyself with Gladness (Max Reger) [Chorale Preludes for the Church Year - Carl Fischer]
Soul, Adorn Thyself with Gladness (G.P. Telemann) [Organ Music for the Communion Service - Concordia 97-1395]

Liturgical Hints & Ideas

The Mass of the Lord's Supper has two great themes: the institution of the Holy Eucharist (and the priesthood, which perpetuates this sacrifice) and the Mandatum, the command to "Love one another" exemplified in the Foot Washing. Music must revolve around these themes. There is an abundance of traditional music for today's liturgy: Pange lingua, Ubi caritas, Nos autem. Use these together with standard hymns and choral pieces to put this liturgy at the center of Catholic Eucharistic theology.

Music SuggestionsHoly Thursday of the Lord's Supper [The Evening Mass] (ABC)