Music Suggestions
The Feast of the Presentation of the Lord

• Before All Creation (CH #653)
• Blest Are the Pure in Heart (CBW #719, CH #450, HH #257, HPSC #123, ICEL #182, CHB #208)
• Canticle of Simeon (CBW #728)
• Christ Is the World's Light (CBW #543, HPSC #130, WIII #543)
• God of Mercy, God of Grace (CH #636, HPSC #169)
• Hail to the Lord Who Comes (WIII #692, ICEL #37, CHB #44, HH #258)
• How Brightly Beams the Morning Star (CD #815, WIII #390, HH #55, CH #214, CHB #45)
• Immortal, Invisible, God Only Wise (PMB #118, WIII #512, ICEL #233, HH #193, CH #566, CHB #225)
• In His Temple Now Behold Him (ICEL #38, HPSC #196, HH #259)
• Lift Up Your Heads, Ye Mighty Gates! (AH #485, HH #19, HPSC #211, ICEL #7, WIII #363)
• Lord, Bid Your Servant Go in Peace (WIII #691, CH #439)
• O Lord of Light (CD #819, PMB #3)
• O Morning Star, How Fair and Bright (HPSC #256)
• O Word of God Incarnate (CH #657)
• Of the Father's Love Begotten (AH #331, CBW #470, CH #220, HH #44, HPSC #269, ICEL #25, WIII #398, CHB #28)
• Praise the Lord, Ye Heavens (WIII #529, ICEL #243, HPSC #282, PMB #662, CBW #656, CH #573, CHB #259)
• Thanks Be to God (WIII #526, CBW #678)
• The Lord Is King! Lift up Your Voice (CH #517, HPSC #326, CBW #422)
• The Only Son from Heaven (HH #51)

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.

• "May Christ Be Our Life" from Seven Roman Basilica Processionals (Gary Penkala) CNP Catalog #3073
• "Missa sanctorum angelorum" (Calvert Shenk) CNP Catalog #3120
• "Now, Master, You Can Dismiss Your Servant" (Canticle of Simeon) [Hymns, Psalms and Spiritual Canticles #513]
• "Nunc dimittis" (Canticle of Simeon) [Hymns, Psalms and Spiritual Canticles #514]
• "Universal Music for Morning Prayer" (Gary Penkala) CNP Catalog #3100
• "Universal Music for Evening Prayer" (Gary Penkala) CNP Catalog #3101

• "Alma redemptoris mater" (Palestrina/Angelini) CNP Catalog 7001
• "And He Shall Purify" from Messiah (G.F. Handel)
• "Brightest and Best of the Stars of the Morning" (Larkin)
• "Christ the Glory" (Lallouette) [GIA Publications]
• "Great Is the Lord" (Leo Sowerby) [H.W. Gray]
• "I Have Rejoiced" (Antonio Vivaldi) [Augsburg]
• "I Was Glad" (William Boyce) [Novello]
• "I Was Glad" (C. Hubert Parry) [Novello]
• "I Was Glad" (Daniel Pinkham) [AMP]
• "I Was Glad" (Henry Purcell) [Novello]
• "I Was Glad" (Leo Sowerby) [H.W. Gray]
• "In the Breaking of the Bread" (Austin Lovelace)
• "Jesus, Sun of Life, My Splendor" (G.F. Handel)
• "King of Glory" (Robert Powell) [GIA Publications]
• "Laetatus sum (M.A. Charpentier) [Concordia]
• "Laetatus sum (Claudio Monteverdir) [Mark Foster]
• "Lift Up Your Heads" from Messiah (G.F. Handel)
• "Lift Up Your Heads, O Ye Gates" (John Blow) [Novello]
• "Lift Up Your Heads, O Ye Gates" (William Croft) [Abingdon]
• "Lift Up Your Heads, O Ye Gates" (Orlando Gibbons) [Oxford]
• "Lift Up Your Heads, O Ye Gates" (Andreas Hammerschmidt) [Presser]
• "Lift Up Your Heads, O Ye Gates" (Healey Willan) [Concordia]
• "Lord of Life and King of Glory" (Grancini) [GIA Publications]
• "Ne timeas maria" (Tomas Luis de Victoria) [Broude]
• "Nunc dimittis" Music from Taizé (Jacques Berthier) [GIA Publications]
• "Nunc dimittis" (Sumison)
• "Nunc dimittis" (Thomas Tomkins) [Presser]
• "O Splendor of God's Glory Bright" (John Reese) CNP Catalog #5085
• "O Thou That Tellest" from Messiah (G.F. Handel)
• "Presentation of Christ in the Temple" (John Eccard) [Novello]
• "Song of Simeon" (Claude Goudimel) [Presser]
• "Te Deum laudamus" (Calvert Shenk) CNP Catalog #5107
• "The Glory of the Father" (Egil Hovland)
• "The Lord Is King" (Heinrich Schütz)
• "The Lord Is My Light and My Salvation" (Eugene Englert) [GIA Publications]
• "The Lord Is My Light and My Salvation" (Heinrich Schütz)) [Belwin]

• "Ad offertorium" (Wesley /Schwarz) CNP Catalog #8020
• "But Who May Abide the Day of His Coming" from Messiah (G.F. Handel)
• "O Thou That Tellest" from Messiah (G.F. Handel)

• "Allein Gott in der Höh sei Ehr" (J.G. Walther)
• "Divinum mysterium" (Richard Purvis) [Leeds Music Corp]
• "Divinum mysterium" (Dorothy Howell Sheets) [Organist's Companion, November 1992 - McAfee Music Corp]
• "Fanfare" (Jean Mouret)
• "Fantasia and Fugue in g minor" (J.S. Bach)
• "God of Grace and God of Glory" (Paul Manz)
• "How Lovely Shines the Morning Star" (Jan Bender) [Parish Organist, Part 9: Wedding Music - Concordia]
• "How Lovely Shines the Morning Star" (Paul Manz) [Improvisations for the Christmas Season, Set III - Morning Star Music Publ 10-102]
• "How Lovely Shines the Morning Star" (Flor Peeters) [Thirty Chorale Preludes, Book 1 - Peters 6023]
• "How Lovely Shines the Morning Star" (Max Reger) [Chorale Preludes for the Church Year - Carl Fischer]
• "Immortal, Invisible" (Harold Rohlig) [Parish Organist XII - Concordia]
• "Lift Up Your Heads" (Ewald Weiss) [Parish Organist XII - Concordia]
• "Maestoso: Five Processionals" (Calvert Shenk) CNP Catalog #6030
• "Of the Father's Love Begotten" (Wilbur Held) [Six Carol Settings - Concordia 97-4985]
• "Of the Father's Love Begotten" (David N. Johnson) [Augsburg 11-841]
• "Psalm XIX" (Benedetto Marcello)
• "Suite for Worship on Truro and Duke Street" (G. Winston Cassler) [Organist's Companion, April 1985 - McAfee Music Corp]
• "Wie schön leuchet der Morgenstern" (Andreas Amrsdorff) [Church Organist's Golden Treasury III - Oliver Ditson Co]
• "Wie schön leuchet der Morgenstern" (J.C. Bach) [Eighty Chorale Preludes - Peters 4448]
• "Wie schön leuchet der Morgenstern" (J.S. Bach) [Church Organist's Golden Treasury III - Oliver Ditson Co]
• "Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern" from Five Chorale Preludes (Colin Brumby) CNP Catalog #6025
• "Wie schön leuchet der Morgenstern" (Dieterich Buxtehude) [Church Organist's Golden Treasury III - Oliver Ditson Co]
• "Wie schön leuchet der Morgenstern" (Victor Klauss) [Organist's Companion, November 1989 - McAfee Music Corp] [Organist's Companion, November 1997 - McAfee Music Corp]
• "Wie schön leuchet der Morgenstern" (Johann Pachelbel) [Church Organist's Golden Treasury III - Oliver Ditson Co]
• "Wie schön leuchet der Morgenstern" (Flor Peeters) [Thirty Chorale Preludes]
• "Wie schön leuchet der Morgenstern" (Max Reger) [Thirty Chorale Preludes - Peters 3980] [Joyce Jones Christmas Collection - Bradley Publ]
• "Wie schön leuchet der Morgenstern" (Stephen Rohde) [Organist's Companion, December 1985 - McAfee Music Corp]
• "Wie schön leuchet der Morgenstern" (Russell Schulz-Widmar) [Organist's Companion, December 1980 - McAfee Music Corp]