Music Suggestions The Fourth Sunday of Lent [Laetare] (C)
Hymns:
- Christ Is the World's Light (CBW #543, HPSC #130, WIII #543, CD #923)
- Come unto Me, Ye Weary (HPSC #142)
- God, You Are Clothed in Light (HH #81)
- Lord Jesus, As We Turn from Sin (HPSC #213, CH #241)
- Lord Jesus, Have Pity on Us (CH #240)
- My Song Is Love Unknown (CH #258, HH #90, WIII #439, CHB #65)
- O Christ, You Are the Light of Day (HH #87)
- O Taste and See (HPSC #265, PMB #193)
- Our Father, We Have Wandered (WIII #755, HPSC #274, ICEL #255, CH #401)
- Praise to the Holiest in the Height (CBW #651, PMB #131, ICEL #50, HPSC #285, CBW #651, AH #615, CH #514, CHB #260)
- Take Up Your Cross (WIII #634, ICEL #51, HPSC #309, CD #927, PMB #44, HH #68, CBW #485, CH #651)
- Tell His Praise in Song and Story (HPSC #310)
- What Wondrous Love Is This? (WIII #600, ICEL #164, PMB #157, CD #822, HH #95, CH #530)
- 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.
Liturgical Music:
Choral Music:
- "Be in My Seeing;" (Wayne L. Wold) [Selah Publishing Co]
- "Behold the Lamb of God" from Messiah (G.F. Handel)
- "God So Loved the World" (John Stainer)
- "God Was in Jesus" (Johannes Herbst) [Boosey & Hawkes]
- "Greater Love Hath No Man" (John Ireland)
- "Gustate et videte" (Heinrich Isaac)
- "Humbly I Adore Thee" (J. David Hart) CNP Catalog #5019
- "Laetare Jerusalem" (Gregorian chant) Proper Introit for Lent IV [Liber usualis, p.559]
- "O God, Thou Faithful God" (Johannes Brahms)
- "O Savior of the World" (John Goss)
- "O Taste and See" (R. Evan Copley) [Augsburg]
- "O Taste and See" (Ralph Vaughan Williams) [Oxford]
- "Surely He Hath Borne Our Griefs" (R. Evan Copley)
- "Surely He Hath Borne Our Griefs" from Messiah (G.F. Handel)
- "Suscepit Israel" from Magnificat in D (J.S. Bach)
- "Tristis est anima mea" (G.B.Martini / ed. Andrea Angelini) CNP Catalog #7095
- "Wondrous Love" (arr. Paul Christiansen) [Augsburg]
Organ Music:
- "Christe, der du bist Tag und Licht" (Georg Boehm) from The Church Organist's Golden Treasury, Vol.1 [Oliver Ditson Co.]
- "Christus, der uns selig macht" (J.S. Bach) from Orgelbuchlein
- "Christus, der ist mein Leben" (Sigfid Karg-Elert)
- "Hymnus tempore quadragesimali" (Samuel Scheidt)
- "Kyrie/Christe/Kyrie" from Mass for the Parishes (François Couperin)
- "Meditation on Adoro te devote" (Alfred Fedak) [Selah Publishing Co]
- "Variations on Christe, der du bist Tag und Licht" (Georg Boehm)
Liturgical Hints & Ideas:
This is Laetare Sunday, a title derived from the opening text of the Latin proper Introit: "Laetare, Jerusalem..." (Rejoice, Jerusalem).
What an opportunity is missed if we musicians don't sing that lovely Gregorian Introit, with perhaps a note in a liturgy sheet explaining its connection with the title of the Sunday.
Of course, rose vestments should be worn, the organ should be played, and flowers (of a Lenten sort) should adorn the sanctuary.
Otherwise, this is just another Sunday in Lent.
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