Music Suggestions
Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time (C)

• A Mighty Fortress (WIII #575, HPSC #100, CBW #641, PMB #145)
• All Creatures of Our God and King (WIII #520, HPSC #103, CBW #620, PMB #120, HH #186, AH #600, CH #555, CHB #198)
• Blest Are the Pure in Heart (CBW #719, CH #450, HH #257, HPSC #123, ICEL #182, CHB #208)
• Breathe on Me, Breath of God (HPSC #125, CBW #519, ICEL #123)
• Come Down, O Love Divine (WIII #472, HPSC #133, CBW #517, PMB #93, HH #140, AH #440, CH #498, CHB #92)
• Faith of Our Fathers (WIII #571, ICEL #186, HPSC #152, CH #634, PMB #149, CBW #603, AH #603, CHB #183)
• Gift of Finest Wheat (WIII #736, HPSC #360, PMB #665, CBW #570, CH #389)
• God Whose Purpose Is to Kindle (WIII #640)
• Humbly We Adore Thee [Adoro te devote] (PMB #675, CBW #587, CH #369)
• My Song Is Love Unknown (CH #258, HH #90, WIII #439, CHB #65)
• O Be Joyful in the Lord (HPSC #234, CD #905)
• O for A Heart to Praise My God (WIII #591)
• O How Glorious, Full of Wonder (HPSC #243)
• O Lord, You Know Our Weakness (PMB #47)
• Praise God from Whom All Blessing Flow (ICEL #166, CBW #622, AH #521, PMB #206)
• Rejoice, My Soul, and Bless the Lord (HPSC #286)
• Tell His Praise in Song and Story (HPSC #310)
• What Does the Lord Require? (WIII #624)

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.

• "Adoro te devote" (Gary Penkala) CNP Catalog #2010
•  Graduale Romanum [Solesmes edition] CNP Catalog #2100
•  Graduale Simplex [Vatican edition] CNP Catalog #2150
• "Mass of the Redemption" (Calvert Shenk) CNP Catalog #3125
• "Psalm 34" (Gary Penkala) CNP Catalog #1034-1
• "Serve God in Love" (Penkala) from Seven Roman Basilica Processionals CNP Catalog #3076
• "Spirit of Strength and Courage" (Penkala) from Seven Roman Basilica Processionals CNP Catalog #3078
• "Thaxted Acclamations" (Rev. Anthony Mancini) CNP Catalog #3142
• "You Will Not Be Strangers" (Alex Hill) CNP Catalog #3095

• "Cantique de Jean Racine" (Gabriel Fauré)
• "De profundis" (W.A. Mozart)
• "Direct, O Lord, Our Actions" (Norman Dello-Joio)
• "Domine non sum dignus" (Tomàs Luis da Victoria)
• "Estote fortes" (Luca Marenzio, ed. Andrea Angelini) CNP Catalog #7040
• "God Was in Jesus" (Johannes Herbst) [Boosey & Hawkes]
• "Hear My Prayer, O Lord" (Henry Purcell)
• "Humbly I Adore Thee" (J. David Hart) CNP Catalog #5019
• "In paradisum" (Michael Cox) CNP Catalog #5285
• "In spiritu humilitatis" (Calvert Shenk) CNP Catalog #5117
• "Iustorum animæ" (Colin Brumby) CNP Catalog #5130
• "O Domine Jesu Christe" (Ludovico da Viadana)
• "O How Glorious Is the Kingdom" (Harold Owen) CNP Catalog #5084
• "Tantum ergo sacramentum" (Christopher Bord) CNP Catalog #5099
• "The Lord Is Nigh" (Arthur Sullivan)
• "The Pharisee and the Publican" (Heinrich Schütz) [G. Schirmer]

• "A Mighty Fortress" (Murray Bradshaw) [Organist's Companion, September 1991 - McAfee Music Corp]
• "A Mighty Fortress" (Wilbur Held) [Hymn Preludes for the Autumn Festivals - Concordia 97-5360]
• "A Mighty Fortress" (Paul Manz) [Improvisations on Reformation Hymns - Morning Star Music Publ 10-803]
• "A Mighty Fortress" (David Polley) [Organist's Companion, September 1990 - McAfee Music Corp]
• "A Mighty Fortress" Is Our God (Samuel Scheidt) [Parish Organist, Part 1 - Concordia]
• "A Mighty Fortress" Is Our God (Russell Schulz-Widmar) [Organist's Companion, October 1980 - McAfee Music Corp]
• "Adoro te devote" (Sr. Teresine Fonder) [Twenty-Six Miniatures]
• "Allein zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ" (J.S. Bach, Johann Pachelbel)
• "Alleluya" (William Faulkes) [A Victorian Organ Album - Oxford]
• "Built on a Rock" (Paul Manz)
• "Chaconne for Flute or Violin and Organ" (André Campra, ed. Gary Penkala) CNP Catalog #6015
• "Chorale Fantasie on Lasst uns erfreuen" (Flor Peeters) [Novello]
• "Chorale Toccata on Lasst uns erfreuen" (R. Evan Copley) [H.W. Gray]
• "Come Down, O Love Divine" (Ronald Arnatt) [Parish Organist XI - Concordia]
• "Come Down, O Love Divine" (Wilbur Held) [Hymn Preludes for the Pentecost Season - Concordia 97-5517]
• "Concert Variations on Old Hundredth" (John Knowles Paine) [Collected Works - McAfee Music]
• "Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott" (J.S. Bach) [Orgelwerke VI - Peters 245]
• "Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott" (Jan Bender) [Organist's Companion, October 1984 - McAfee Music Corp]
• "Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott" (Dieterich Buxtehude) [Church Organist's Golden Treasury I - Oliver Ditson Co] [Organist's Companion, October 1986 - McAfee Music Corp] [Organist's Companion, October 1986 - McAfee Music Corp]
• "Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott" (C.F. Engelbrecht) [Organist's Companion, September 2001 - McAfee Music Corp]
• "Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott" (J.N. Hanff) [Church Organist's Golden Treasury I - Oliver Ditson Co] [Organist's Companion, June 1983 - McAfee Music Corp]
• "Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott" (A.F. Hesse) [Organist's Companion, October 1988 - McAfee Music Corp]
• "Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott" (G.F. Kauffmann) [Organist's Companion, September 1997 - McAfee Music Corp]
• "Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott" (J.C. Kittel) [Church Organist's Golden Treasury I - Oliver Ditson Co]
• "Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott" (Carl Kuntze) [Organist's Companion, September 1989 - McAfee Music Corp]
• "Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott" (F.W. Marpurg) [Twenty-one Chorale Preludes - Augsburg] [Organist's Companion, September 1992 - McAfee Music Corp]
• "Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott" (Johann Pachelbel) [Eighty Chorale Preludes - Peters 4448] [Church Organist's Golden Treasury I - Oliver Ditson Co]
• "Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott" (Michael Praetorius) [Eighty Chorale Preludes - Peters 4448]
• "Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott" (Max Reger) [Thirty Chorale Preludes - Peters 3980]
• "Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott" (J.C.H. Rinck) [Organist's Companion, October 1985 & September 1996 - McAfee Music Corp]
• "Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott" (Wilhelm Rudnick) [Organist's Companion, October 1987 - McAfee Music Corp]
• "Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott" (David Schack) [Organist's Companion, October 1982 - McAfee Music Corp]
• "Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott" (J.G. Walther) [Eighty Chorale Preludes - Peters 4448] [Church Organist's Golden Treasury I - Oliver Ditson Co] [Seasonal Chorale Preludes for Manuals, Bk 2 - Oxford] [Organist's Companion, September 1993 & 1995 - McAfee Music Corp]
• "Faith of Our Fathers" (Jack C. Goode) [Organist's Companion, October 1983 - McAfee Music Corp]
• "Faith of Our Fathers" (Burton Isaac)
• "Fantasie über Ein feste Burg" (John Knowles Paine) [Collected Works - McAfee Music]
• "Festival Prelude on Ein feste Burg" (William Faulkes) [Novello]
• "Five Versets on Old Hundredth" (Henri Carol) [Consoliere IV-4]
• "Herr Gott, dich loben wir" (J.S. Bach) [Orgelwerke VI - Peters 245]
• "Herr Gott, dich loben wir" (Johann Pachelebl) [Church Organist's Golden Treasury II - Oliver Ditson Co] [Eighty Chorale Preludes - Peters 4448]
• "Herr Gott, dich loben wir" (J.G. Walther) [Church Organist's Golden Treasury II - Oliver Ditson Co]
• "Humbly I Adore Thee" (Myron Casner) [Parish Organist XI - Concordia]
• "Hymn Prelude on Down Ampney" (Peter Pindar Stearns) [Eight Hymn Preludes for Ascension & Pentecost - Flammer]
• "Improvistaion / Elevation" from Suite medievale (Jean Langlais)
• "Intonation on Old Hundredth" (Jan Bender) [Organist's Companion, April 1984 - McAfee Music Corp]
• "Lasst uns erfreuen" (Lois Hill) [Organist's Companion, May 2001 - McAfee Music Corp]
• "Meditation on Adoro te devote" (Alfred Fedak) [Selah]
• "Meditation on Adoro te devote" (Jack Goode) [Organist's Companion, June 1983 - McAfee Music Corp]
• "Meditation on Ein feste Burg" (Jean Drahmann) [Organist's Companion, September 1998 - McAfee Music Corp]
• "Now Thank We All Our God" (Sigfrid Karg-Elert, Paul Manz)
• "Old Hundred" (Dudley Buck) [Organist's Companion, May 1996 - McAfee Music Corp]
• "Partita on Adoro te devote" (Anthony Giamanco) [Organist's Companion, May & September 2000 - McAfee Music Corp]
• "Partita on Old Hundredth" (David Gell) [Organist's Companion, March 2001 - McAfee Music Corp]
• "Partita on Old Hundredth" (Dennis Johnson) [Organist's Companion, June 1987 - McAfee Music Corp]
• "Partita on Old Hundredth" (Kathleen Scheide) [Organist's Companion, July 1997 - McAfee Music Corp]
• "Postlude on Lasst uns erfreuen" (Gordon Young) [Collage for Organ - Flammer HF-5011]
• "Praise God from Whom All Blessings Flow" (J.C. Bach) [Parish Organist, Part 3 - Concordia]
• "Praise God from Whom All Blessings Flow" (Paul Manz) [Improvisations on Hymns of Praise - Morning Star Music Publ 10-750]
• "Praise God from Whom All Blessings Flow" (Piet Post) [Triptych for Organ - Augsburg]
• "Prelude and Fugue in f-sharp minor" (Dieterich Buxtehude)
• "Prelude and Fugue in G Major" (Felix Mendelssohn)
• "Prelude on Brother James' Air" (Harold Darke)
• "Prelude on Lasst uns erfreuen" (Russell Schulz-Widmar) [Organist's Companion, June 1980 - McAfee Music Corp]
• "Prelude on Old Hundredth" (Healey Willan) [Ten Hymn Preludes, Set I - Peters 6011]
• "Prelude on Saint Catherine" (James F. Konkel) [Organist's Companion, September 1992 - McAfee Music Corp]
• "Psalm XIX" (Benedetto Marcello)
• "Recessional" (Charles Talmidge) [J. Fischer]
• "Reflection on Saint Catherine" (Alice Jordan) [Organist's Companion, October 1984 - McAfee Music Corp]
• "Rigaudon" (André Campra)
• "Saint Catherine" (David S. Harris) [Ten Hymn Preludes in Trio Style - Belwin-Mills]
• "Thee We Adore" (Daniel Burton) [Organist's Companion, March 1999 - McAfee Music Corp]
• "Thee We Adore, O Savior" (G. Winston Cassler) [This Is the Victory - Augsburg 11-9497]
• "Thee We Adore, O Savior" (Healey Willan) [Organ Music for the Communion Service - Concordia 97-1395]
• "Tiento di sexto tono" (de Soto)
• "Toccata on Old Hundredth" (Gordon Young) [Five Toccatas - Flammer HF-5009]
• "Variations on Adoro te devote" (Dale Wood) [Music for Organ - The Sacred Music Press]
• "Variations on Lasst uns erfreuen" (Thomas Bohlert) [Organist's Companion, June 1988 - McAfee Music Corp]
• "Variations on Old Hundredth" (Dorothy Sheets) [Organist's Companion, March 2000 - McAfee Music Corp]
• "Verset and Postlude on Old Hundredth" (Henri Carol) [Consoliere VII-3 - World Library Publ]
• "Voluntary" (Maurice Greene)
• "Voluntary on Ein feste Burg" (Gordon Young)
• "Voluntary on the Doxology: Old Hundredth" (Henry Purcell)
• "Wer nur den lieben Gott lässt walten" (J.S. Bach)

The theology of the Eucharist is central to any understanding of liturgy, and quite topical in the Year of the Eucharist proclaimed by Pope John Paul II. The Catholic bishops of Pennsylvania have produced an excellent booklet called Questions and Answers on the Eucharist and have granted permission for us to reproduce excerpts here. Please contact the Communications Director for the Pennsylvania Catholic Conference for copies of the full booklet, or to obtain permission to reproduce excerpts. The mailing address and website are found at the end of this page.

Why is the Eucharist kept in the tabernacle?

With the passage of time, reverent reflection led the Church to enrich its Eucharistic devotion. Faith that Jesus is truly present in the sacrament led believers to worship Christ dwelling with us permanently in the sacrament. Wherever the sacrament is, there is Christ who is our Lord and our God; hence he is ever to be worshipped in this mystery. Such worship is expressed in many ways: in genuflections, in adoration of the Eucharist and in the many forms of Eucharistic devotion that faith has nourished.

The popularity of the feast of Corpus Christi (The Body and Blood of Christ), with its joyful hymns and public processions, encouraged further development of Eucharistic devotions. At times the Blessed Sacrament is removed from the tabernacle in which it is ordinarily kept and placed upon the altar for adoration. These periods of exposition are sometimes extended into holy hours. Enjoying particular popularity is the parish tradition of a Eucharistic day or days (e.g. Forty Hours devotion) with exposition of the Blessed Sacrament and a homily calling particular attention to this glorious, divine gift. At the conclusion of such devotions the congregation is blessed with the Eucharist. This blessing is known as Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament.

Why is it important to prepare myself to receive the Eucharist?

Recent polls indicate that a significant number of Catholics do not have a complete understanding of the Eucharist and specifically the real presence of Christ in the Blessed Sacrament. Whatever the cause of such misunderstanding of the faith, all who approach the table of the Lord need to recognize the significance of their action and the importance of their spiritual preparation. It sometimes becomes the task of older members of the family, especially parents, to review with the younger ones what is happening at Mass and who we receive in holy communion. Grandparents have in some instances a unique and privileged role as teachers of the faith in an age when the awareness of the real presence seems to be diminished.

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