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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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